A new opportunity for all students taking AP Italian Language and Culture!
Practice your Italian through MOOCs offered by the University of Naples Federico II.
The oldest lay university in the world has joined edX with a portfolio of over 30 MOOCs, available on federicaX. Improve your listening and reading skills through lectures on keystones in Italian culture by top ranking scholars.
A preliminary list of such courses may include:
- Dante tra poesia e Scienza: Understand poetry and science in Dante’s Comedy, to bring man closer to «that love that moves the sun and the stars».
- L’Italiano nel mondo: Learn how the Italian language has evolved in everyday speech, and in its other uses and functions. Examples and references to diverse verbal communication styles enable you to test out your own linguistic competence and understand the differences between spoken and written language and forms of communication.
- La costruzione dell’Italia: A voyage into the making of modern Italy, through periods of great conflict and great success, a reflection on the history that has made Italy what it is today.
- Comprendere la filosofia: A journey through the history of philosophy, past and present, with the guidance of one of the leading figures in contemporary philosophy.
- Dialetti in Italia: A fascinating look at dialects in Italy, their history, evolution and use in everyday life as well as cinema and literature.
- L’innovazione sociale per il patrimonio culturale: Learn how to regenerate the cultural heritage through repurposing projects in the country with the highest wordwide concentration of Unesco selected sites.
- La povertà nella società contemporanea: A sociological analysis of poverty to identify strategies to combat the problem in diverse social contexts.