The final exam will be composed of three parts: the first part implies the writing of a paper in English (10.000 to 15.000 types) on a topic that was previously decided with the instructor. The paper must be turned in one week before the oral examination.
The second part of the examination consists of an optional class presentation (10 min. ca.) about the content of each student's paper.
The third part consists of an oral exam which will be in English. the oral will start from the paper and will be composed of 3-5 questions on the primary texts, on the critical bibliography, and on the combined approaches of traditional literary criticism and war literature. The final exam will assess: the student's knowledge of the primary texts, of their formal structure and symbolic language; the knowledge of the critical and methodological texts, as well as the student's ability to effectively employ and apply these approaches; the student's ability to integrate the different critical perspectives and subject areas of the course; the student's ability of elaborate personal insights into the fields and texts examined in class.
The grading scale goes from 1 to 30 cum laude (excellent). The exam is graded: excellent 30 cum laude-30; very good (27-29); good (24-26), fair (21 -23), sufficient (18-22), insufficient (17 or below).