Modern humanities

A) Knowledge and understanding - Students will be able to demonstrate having acquired a theoretical, and methodological knowledge of advanced level on the linguistic subjects presented and discussed during the course, with the support of textbooks and/or bibliographic resources of advanced scientific level also in languages other than Italian. B) Applying knowledge and understanding - Students will be able to apply autonomously and critically the acquired knowledge to the linguistic phenomena outlined during the course; they will possess adequate skills to describe and analyze texts, processes and linguistic structures, and to support arguments and answer to scientific questions, even of relatively complex scope, and in relation to the specific linguistic areas investigated by adopting original points of view and producing innovative results. C) Making judgements - Students will be able to express autonomously critical opinions even on complex linguistic topics; they will be able to independently identify the most appropriate tools for description and analysis of phenomena relating to the written and oral linguistic data investigated. D) Communication skills - Students will be able to clearly present hypotheses and linguistic facts, even of complex nature, concerning the linguistic areas outlined in the course, discussing and effectively arguing the conclusions presented both at a theoretical, methodological and applied level. E) Learning skills - Students will acquire the necessary skills to continue their linguistic studies independently, being capable of managing recent international scientific bibliography and having the ability to identify and use state of the art linguistic analysis tools and applied resources.