Oriental Languages and Cultures

General goals: advancement of the students’ linguistic skills and literary knowledge, through the reading of various prose and poetry texts belonging to different epochs. Specific goals: at the end of the course the student (1) improves his/her competence of the modern Persian language (spoken reception B2; written reception C1; overall spoken production B2; written production A2). Moreover he/she acquires sufficient knowledge of the Persian classical language and literature, as well as of history of the language, textual criticism, and principles of prosody and metrics; (2) is able to read, understand and analyze the texts of the classical Persian literature read during the course; (3) on the basis of the translation exercises carried out in class and at home, he/she is able to read and translate into Italian modern texts of different contents, both literary and non-literary; (4) has the necessary competence to read and understand, with the appropriate reference tools, texts of the Persian classical literature, discussing with others the interpretative issues; 5) can autonomously continue his studies also on the basis of instructions on how to plan research projects.