Among the aims that the program aims to achieve:

– Analytical understanding of a text;

– Decomposition and recomposition of its structure;

– Free imitation of classical models;

– Compliance with rules and criteria useful in the construction of an essay.

By studying participated in a manual, key strategies are proposed for the development of reading and writing. Another side of the course is devoted to the recognition of tricks and secrets masterfully adopted in a systematic and consistent treatment of values that are the basis of writing.

The study of any manual of Italian high school.

In relation to the student discipline you will have to show possession:

– The mastery of basic skills;

– Understanding of the basic concepts of the discipline;

– The ability to use knowledge and concepts to reason according to the logic of the discipline.

The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it

In Blended Learning UniUrb platform.

Teaching

The teaching is structured through lectures of a participatory nature (students are asked to reflect and dialogue, together with the teacher, on specific aspects of the discipline, also through laboratory exercises in the classroom) as well as seminar sessions.

Attendance

No compulsory attendance.

Course books

Piro, Francesco, Manuale di educazione al pensiero critico : comprendere e argomentare, prefazione di Tullio De Marco, Napoli, Editoriale scientifica, 2015, 276 pp. [ISBN 978-88-6342-776-9]

Calvino, Italo, Perché leggere i classici, Mondadori, Milano, 2017 (o altra edizione) 151 pp. [ISBN 978-88-04-68298-1]

Assessment

Written test aimed at ascertaining the knowledge, the ability to use them and the critical concepts of the discipline. The evaluation criteria used for the tests are:

– relevance and effectiveness of the answers in relation to the contents of the program;

– level of response articulation;

– adequacy of the disciplinary language used.

The preparation of an individual report, such as development and in-depth analysis of the activities carried out in the classroom, constitutes an element of evaluation.

Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)

Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.

To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.

Teaching

The teaching is structured through lectures of a participatory nature (students are asked to reflect and dialogue, together with the teacher, on specific aspects of the discipline, also through laboratory exercises in the classroom) as well as seminar sessions.

Attendance

No compulsory attendance.

Course books

Piro, Francesco, Manuale di educazione al pensiero critico : comprendere e argomentare, prefazione di Tullio De Marco, Napoli, Editoriale scientifica, 2015, 276 pp. [ISBN 978-88-6342-776-9]

Calvino, Italo, Perché leggere i classici, Mondadori, Milano, 2017 (o altra edizione) 151 pp. [ISBN 978-88-04-68298-1]

Idem, Six memos for the next millenium, Cambridge (Massachusetts), Harvard University Press, 1988, 124 pp. [ISBN: 978-06-7481-040-2]

Assessment

Written test aimed at ascertaining the knowledge, the ability to use them and the critical concepts of the discipline. The evaluation criteria used for the tests are:

– relevance and effectiveness of the answers in relation to the contents of the program;

– level of response articulation;

– adequacy of the disciplinary language used.

Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)

Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.

To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.

Poe, Edgar Allan, La filosofia della composizione, a cura di Luigi Lunari (testo inglese a fronte), Milano, La vita felice, 2012, 61 pp. [ISBN 978-88-7799-441-7]