• Knowledge and understanding
Students must prove an historical-comparative knowledge of the evolution from Latin to Romance varieties that, regardless of whether they are national languages, official languages or dialects, get equal dignity, differentiated only by communication needs. They also have to know the dynamics of transmission of Medieval Romance Literature texts and be able to decode a critical edition.
• Applying knowledge and understanding
Students must prove that they have acquired the awareness of convergences and divergences between the Romance varieties related to a single mother tongue, Vulgar Latin. They will also have to know the main phonetic, morphological, syntactic and semantic characteristics that explain the evolution from Latin to Romance languages, and apply them to decode critical editions of medieval texts.
• Making judgements
At the end of the course of study, students will be able to clearly assess, beyond their own prejudices and their own cultural history, the productivity of linguistic richness, that does not mortify national languages. They will also have to understand how only the use of a rigorous philological method allows us to read medieval texts today.
• Communication skills
Students will show that they can manage the specialized language of the discipline, both linguistic and philological.
• Learning skills
Students will be able to grasp the complex dynamic of similarity and diversity of Romance languages among themselves and with respect to Latin, both in a diachronic and in a synchronic perspective. In this way it will be easier to them to acquire the knowledge of Romance languages, also through the analysis of critical editions of medieval texts in an historical perspective.