In conformity and coherent with the learning objectives of the three-year Degree Course, students must acquire specific knowledge concerning the scientific approach with the literary text and a good opportunity in the use of the tools of criticism (encyclopedias, bibliographic guides, stories of literature and of criticism) to be applied in the reflection and analysis of the proposed author's texts.
Among the knowledge it is appropriate that the student, at the end of the lessons, shows mastery in the language of the literature, style and narrative techniques related to the series of critical reading experiences offered. It is also opportune that the student proves to know how to orientate between the coeval and thematically related texts with those proposed; that is informed on the most relevant criticisms applied to the exegesis of the author's text and on the sources that contributed to its construction, as well as on the "history of mentality" contextual to the literary production itself. It is also necessary that the knowledge of the development, in a diachronic sense, of the personalities and the criticisms and historiography applied to the Italian literature is also ripe.
Among the skills it is desirable that the student consolidate a role as far as possible autonomous in the exegesis and in the judgment of the literary text; in a critical way in the critical panorama, coming to mature, in light of the methods learned, a personal attitude to the choice and reading of a series of related thematic texts.
Therefore, the autonomy of judgment must be considered the communicative ability that is persuasive both to the oral presentation of the acquired critical positions and acquired, as well as to the production of a short written essay: the dissemination of critical thinking at any level, even compared to the simple three-year thesis.
The exercise on the literary text is the tool to confer: the progressive refinement of the argumentative skills, the critical spirit and the autonomy of judgment, whose mastery makes the student ready to face, given the possession of the right requirements, a possible Master's Degree Program.