Description
This project intends to focus on the experiences of teaching Italian culture, history and literature so as to shape a pilot study whose findings can be generalized to modern/foreign language studies overall. The three staff members participating in the project will give lectures and/or seminars and meet both other staff members of the three universities and students with whom can organise exchanges of ideas. The Department of Italian Language and Literature of Eötvös Loránd University and the Department of Romance and Classical Languages of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Iceland and Italian Studies at the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages of the University of Oslo will carry on cooperation as a result of the project. Staff members and students can benefit from the exchanges of experiences on methodologies, teaching materials, and most recent research provided by the project.
Summary of project results
The project was intended to be a continuation of the Internationalizing Higher Education in Humanities: A Comparison of Italian Studies in Hungary, Iceland and Norway (2009), a study of the implementation of higher education systems, by looking beyond the national borders. The question of need analyses, quality assurance, teaching technologies, cultural studies were focused on in our previous project carried out at the beginning of the reform of higher education in our countries. Modern language studies and namely Italian studies had a key position in the project.The recent project focused on the experiences of teaching Italian culture, history, language and literature. The staff members gave lectures and seminars and met both other staff members of the three universities and students and exchanged ideas. The target groups were: the Department of Italian Language and Literature of Eötvös Loránd University, the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages (ILOS) of the Faculty of Arts, University of Oslo and the Department of Romance and Classical Languages of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Iceland. Staff members and also students could benefit from the exchanges of experiences on methodologies, teaching materials, and on most recent research.
Summary of bilateral results
Partners gave lectures, seminars on the topics of their fields, linguistics, history, Migration literature, the history of Italian theatre, the plays by Luigi Pirandello, Italian culture and history during Fascism, methodology of teaching Italian as a foreign language, Modern and Contemporary history, the writings of Curzio Malaparte, Italian past tenses, etc. The partnership achieved the goals of introducing one another to the latest professional achievements they have and also to meet students and colleagues and disseminate their results. On the occasion of the two open lectures given in Reykjavik and in Oslo the dissemination of the results was also achieved for a greater public. Information about the project has been uploaded on the website of the Italian department of Eötvös Loránd University. Relations among the three universities have been strengthened and the participants are looking forward to maintaining relationship, sharing results of their teaching and research. (Also through publications, meetings). I myself have met all the colleagues coming from the two donor universities and assisted to most of their lectures and seminars, exchanged ideas, experiences with them, whereas they assisted to my lectures, seminars in their institutions.