Corso di laurea magistrale in
Lingue dell'Asia e dell'Africa
per la comunicazione e la cooperazione internazionale

Developing student's skills in the competence, i.e., description and analysis of Arabic language besides its performance, i.e., usage, both at the synchronic and diachronic level, and ability to make appropriate methodological judgments and choices in this regard. 

Developing student's learning skills and ability to make appropriate methodological judgments and choices when accessing the written literary production in Arabic, with particular reference to its diachronic dimension.

Knowledge of the general and distinctive linguistic features of Arabic; knowledge and understanding of Arabic literature, with particular reference to technical prose.

Translation skills, i.e., applying knowledge and understanding, as illustrated immediately above, in the process of translation from Classical Arabic into Italian (Classical Arabic being intended as the Arabic variety that represents a diachronically preceding phase of Modern Standard Arabic)

This course consists of two components. First component: text linguistics with particular reference to Classical sources. Second component: original sources in Arabic language concerning philosophy. All study materials, including original sources, provided by the teachers.

Text linguistics with particular reference to Classical sources: 42 hs. (Francesco Grande)

Texts of Arabic Medieval Philosophy: 12 hs. (Matteo di Giovanni)

Lessons in attendance, unless different learning modes are adopted during the academic year. 

The exam programme consists of the learning material and the textual corpus examined during this course in the aim of assessing students' ability to apply their knowledge and understanding related to Classical Arabic.

All materials and texts will be available through Moodle.

Non-attending students must contact the teacher to arrange a dedicated program.

The first and second year exams cannot be taken in one and same session.

STUDENTS WITH SPECIAL NEEDS

Students with special needs (disabled students and students with specific learning disability/SLD)
The University of Turin offers different kinds of services for students with temporary or permanent disabilities and provides technical and/or didactic support, and also specialized services, to students with specific learning disability (SLD).

Further information is available here.  

NATIVE SPEAKER'S LECTURES (LETTORATO)

First year (MA-level)

Attendance to the native speaker's lectures in Arabic is not mandatory but strongly recommended. However, students enrolled into the Corso di Laurea in Lingue dell'Asia e dell'Africa per la comunicazione e la cooperazione internazionale must successfully pass the oral exam held by the native-speaker lecturer (conversation based on his lecture programme) in addition to sit for the final exam. Students are kindly requested to contact the native-speaker lecturer for further information concerning lecture programmes and related exam modalities.

Second year (MA-level)

No native speaker's lectures are given. 

Additional study of an encyclopaedia lemma is required, related to the course contents. For this reason, the two exams related to the first and second year of this course cannot be held in one and same session.

The final mark of the exam is assigned through an oral test based on the course contents only.  The language lectorate needs to be successfully passed but does not contribute to the final mark