Learn Arts and Culture: Literature Courses

Practica el inglés mientras disfrutas lo mejor de la literatura.
Aprender a analizar obras literarias, y cómo entenderlas e interpretarlas en un contexto histórico, cultural y social.
Las áreas de enfoque incluyen:
- Literatura mundial, mujeres en literatura, literatura y derechos humanos.

Practice English while enjoying the best of world literature.
Learn to analyse literary works, and how to understand and interpret them in a historical, cultural and social context.

Focus areas include:
- World literature, women in literature, literature and human rights and literature in hist

If you are interested in sharing your poetry/creative writing with a group or one-on-one, I offer this opportunity. I give critical productive feedback on your writing and facilitate group workshops in which discussions on one another's writing take place.

Esaminando i testi e i generi musicali adottati dai cantautori francesi dal primo Novecento ad oggigiorno, questo corso propone un'introduzione alla musica francese e un primo approccio a vari temi della storia e della cultura francese.

Exploring the lyrics and musical genres of early twentieth-century to contemporary French authors, this course aims to introduce students to French music and to familiarise them with various themes of French history and culture.

Imparate l'inglese guardando la TV americana, canadese e inglese. Imparate a riconoscere le differenze negli accenti anglosassoni attraverso il mondo e nel gergo locale usato nei paesi anglosassoni.

Learn English by watching American, Canadian, and British television series. Learn to recognize and differentiate English accents from around the world and different varieties of English slang. You will be able to speak like a British or American local after this course!

Un panorama della letteratura inglese e americana scritta in o avendo come soggetto principale l'Italia; un viaggio letterario che parte nel tardo Settecento con i poeti Romantici quali John Keats e Lord Byron e che arriva al primo Novecento con James Joyce e Ernest Hemingway.

This course will explore the writings of British and American ex-pats during time spent in Italy. This literary voyage will begin in the late 18th century, with the Romantic poets (Johns Keats and Lord Byron) and will dock in the early 20th century experiences of James Joyce and Ernest Hemingway.

Aprende por qué hay personas que dicen "vistes" en vez de "viste". A que no sabes que ese NO es un error. ¿Por qué seguimos usando la "h"? ¿Por qué tenemos acentos tan diferentes? ¿Miguel Hidalgo seseaba al hablar? ¿Qué vicisitudes enfrentó Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz por ser poco recatada?

Western Philosophy, since its inception, has largely ignored the medium by which it is communicated: its literature. This course examines the relation between linguistic ability and philosophical acuity through a number of texts, from ancient to modern.