Educational objectives This course aims to provide students with a critically informed and structured understanding of the history of theatre and live performance in the Western world, from antiquity to the contemporary era. The curriculum is designed to guide students toward a conscious and context-aware understanding of theatrical languages, with particular attention to the interrelations between artistic, cultural, organizational, and institutional dimensions.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Knowledge and understanding:
Acquisition of basic methodological tools for the historical study of theatre and performance.
Understanding of dramaturgical and performative forms from a historical and critical perspective.
Applying knowledge and understanding:
Ability to analyze plays, documents, and theatrical phenomena using appropriate historical and theoretical categories.
Application of acquired knowledge to the analysis of theatrical production, aesthetics, and organizational contexts.
Making judgements:
Development of independent critical thinking in interpreting plays and theatrical practices within their respective cultural and historical frameworks.
Ability to evaluate the interplay between artistic, institutional, and socio-political factors in theatre.
Communication skills:
Ability to effectively present content, methods, and issues related to theatre history using appropriate terminology, both in written and oral form.
Capacity to clearly and coherently articulate historical-theatrical analyses.
Learning skills:
Development of skills necessary for further academic studies in performing arts and related disciplines.
Ability to pursue autonomous learning, even when engaging with complex or interdisciplinary materials.
Specific Learning Goals
By the end of the course, students will be able to:
Identify and describe the key periods, authors, texts, and practices in the history of Western theatre.
Recognize and interpret major dramaturgical forms, with particular focus on the relationship between written text and staged performance.
Use historical, documentary, and theoretical sources to reconstruct and analyze theatrical phenomena.
Understand the organizational, legislative, and production-related dynamics of theatre across different historical contexts.
Situate theatrical events and figures within coherent historical and cultural frameworks, with attention to aesthetic and institutional transformations.
Develop a critical and well-documented approach to the study of live performance.
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Educational objectives At the end of the course, the student will have a comprehensive understanding of the history of cinema. They will be able to navigate through styles, movements, and periods, developing critical skills useful for understanding the historical, technological, and economic reasons behind the establishment of cinema as both an industry and a medium of cultural expression.
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Educational objectives Students must acquire in-depth knowledge of the main authors and the most significant issues of modern Italian literature; they must be able to understand, analyze and interpret literary texts in prose and verse; they must be able to formulate a critical judgment in an informed manner and be able to communicate the results of their study in a clear and coherent way to an audience of specialists and non-specialists; finally, they must achieve an autonomous study method.
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Educational objectives At the end of the module, the students will have acquired the conceptual, methodological and cultural framework for: a) understanding the specific features of opera, which differentiate it from other theatrical forms and genres, with or without music; b) analyzing the constitutive components of opera, in turn verbal, musical and visual, as well as their interaction.
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Educational objectives At the end of the module, students will have acquired the methods and tools necessary for studying music theatre as part of history, understanding how it contributes to the ideology, society and culture of any given period, and analyzing and interpreting the functions and meanings of music theatre as a means for constructing social and cultural identity.
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Educational objectives At the end of the module, the students will have acquired the conceptual, methodological and cultural framework for: a) understanding the specific features of opera, which differentiate it from other theatrical forms and genres, with or without music; b) analyzing the constitutive components of opera, in turn verbal, musical and visual, as well as their interaction.
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Educational objectives The course pursues the following objectives: a) the development of a theoretical lexicon of communication; b) the acquisition of analytical tools for interpreting modern narratives, their historical evolution, and modes of reception; c) the conception and composition of a critical paper focused on selected topics addressed during the course.
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Educational objectives The course includes the study of the English language at B1 level applied to the enhancement of the technical vocabulary of the performing arts and the seventh art.
This English language course is of the ESP - English for Special Purposes type and is created specifically for this degree course, therefore grammatical topics are combined with lexical topics specifically concerning theater and cinema.
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Educational objectives The credits in "Other Training Activities" (workshops and internships) are an essential component in the training path: these activities allow you to acquire and deepen skills directly related to the world of work, which integrate those provided in the other courses. It is important to plan them in advance, since the CFU of laboratories and internships are necessary to obtain the qualification, both for the three-year degree in "Theatre, cinema, media" (8 cfu)
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Educational objectives
The final exam includes preparation and discussion of a written paper or through digital support in front of a specific commission, on a topic approved by a teacher of a discipline included in the study plan.
Starting from the end of the second year of the course, the student can choose the supervisor from among the teachers of any scientific disciplinary sector present in the curriculum of studies. You will finalize the topic of the final exam with the approval of the supervisor and also discuss the methods of preparation.
To be admitted to the discussion of the final exam, which leads to the acquisition of 10 credits, the student must have obtained 170 credits.
The procedures for carrying out the final exam are set out in the university's academic regulations.
The final exam includes the preparation and discussion of a written paper or on digital support in front of a specific commission, on a topic approved by a teacher of the discipline included in the study plan.
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Educational objectives In the STUDENT'S CHOICE COURSES you can enter the remaining exams that you were unable to select...or you can enter those outside the faculty
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