CLEEuROPEAN LITERARY CuLTuRES

Professor Anna Soncini, CLE Coordinator

Università di Bologna Dipartimento di Lingue, Letterature e Culture ModerneVia Cartoleria, 5 - 40124 Bologna - ItaliaTelephone + 39 051 2097125E-mail annapaola.soncini@unibo.it

Lucia Manservisi, CLE Secretary

Telephone + 39 051 2097230E-mail lucia.manservisi@unibo.it

www.cle.unibo.it

CLEEuROPEAN LITERARYCuLTuRES

CLEEuROPEAN

LITERARYCuLTuRES

Master’s Programme (Laurea Magistrale)

WHAT IS CLE MASTER?

CLE is a Master’s programme devoted to improving the quality of European higher education and strengthening intercultural communication.

The programme encourages and supports:

Cooperation as well as student, scholar and staff exchange among European and non-European universities

The worldwide promotion of the image of the European Union asa space of academic excellence

The sustainable development of higher education in third-party countries

Communication between university and cultural institutions and enterprises

(Museums, Publishers, Foundations) as well as public and private companies

(including business consortia and chambers of commerce).

Better career opportunities for its graduates and access to the international workforce

EUROPEAN LITERARY CULTURES

The CLE Master in European Literary Culturesis a high-level programme designed for European and non-European students and aimed at providing them with excellent T-shaped skills in:

“Literature does not exist in a vacuum. [...] Language is the main means of human communication. If an animal’s nervous system does not transmit sensations and stimuli, the animal atrophies. If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.”

E. Pound,ABC of Reading, 1934

WHAT IS CLE MASTER?

at least three European languages (English – mandatory, two other languages among French, Italian and Greek)

at least three domains of European Culture and Thought (Literature, Art, Cultural History, Ethics and Aesthetics, Science of Language)

For further information and the latest programme updates and related activities

visit CLE Master’s web page

www.cle.unibo.it

also financed by

AIMS

EUROPEAN LITERARY CULTURES

The CLE Master’s programme teaches students how to manage the manifold aspects of the European scene, offering them a multicultural education along three main methodological lines:

Cultural education in at least three domains of European thought, ranging from literature, to history and language sciences. High Level linguistic education in at least three European languages, complementing in-class learning with on-site practice in at least two countries of the consortium.

Dynamic education thanks to its programme of international exchange. The CLE Master’s programme wants to train dynamic and critical experts in the humanities, with a good awareness of country-specific problems and the ability to make competent decisions, relying on their rich cultural baggage.

Skill-based education intended to prepare the students to meet the needs of the job market. The CLE Master’s program offers several complementary activities (additional language and multicultural courses, seminars with international scholars and professionals) aiming to improve at best its students’ skills and to promote their employability. Therefore, the CLE Master also includes a one week workshop studied to implement its students’ competencies and creativity as well as their knowledge of the job market.

CuLTuRAL ANd LINguISTIC EduCATION

dYNAMIC EduCATION

SKILL-BASEd EduCATION

CAREERS

The main career perspectives for CLE Master’s graduates are:

Doctoral research in any PhD programme with a focus on Europeanliteratures or cultures. The best CLE graduates will be encouraged to pursue their education within the Doctorat d’Études Supérieures Européennes (D.E.S.E), «Les Littératures de l’Europe unie».For this purpose, the CLE Master Programme will hold an Alumni Day – Research CLE for its graduates who have entered this or another subject-related PhD Program. Their papers are then published in a collective volume (peer review).www2.lingue.unibo.it/dese

A career in the European cultural institutions or in any local institutions involving a cultural programme (conception and organisation of international exhibits; management of cultural exchange programmes; development of cultural contents in various types of associations).Therefore, the CLE Master Programme encourages student contact and collaboration with several local institutions such as Linguistic and Cultural Centers, Foundations, Museums and Publishers

A career in the private sector, requiring book-related skills (translations, philological editions) or multicultural skills (cultural and linguistic mediation, social responsibility agenda), journalism, literary criticism, radio or tv broadcasting, copyediting, public relations.For this reason, the CLE Master Programme includes several occasionsfor its students to meet, discuss and collaborate with professionals of these various sectors.

PROgRAMME ANd STudENTS’ MOBILITY

EUROPEAN LITERARY CULTURES

CLE students are required to study in two or three universities of the consortium. This will allow them to:

- achieve an international education

- develop a research project

- obtain two or three diplomas

The CLE Master is a two-year full-time academic programme.

At the end of the two-year programme, after defending their Master’s thesis before an international committee, CLE students receive two or three diplomas issued by all the universities of the consortium where they spent at least one semester.

The language in which the courses are offered may vary according to the University providing them.

CLE students are requiredto move to a different University on their third semester.

There are three possible mobility plans

PROgRAMME ANd STudENTS’ MOBILITY

Semester 1 + Semester 2UNIVERSITÉ

non-européenne

Semester 3UNIVERSITÉeuropéenne

Semester 3UNIVERSITÉ

non-européenne

Semester 4UNIVERSITÉeuropéenne

Semester 4UNIVERSITÉeuropéenne

Semester 4UNIVERSITÉeuropéenne

Semester 1 + Semester 2UNIVERSITÉeuropéenne

Semester 3UNIVERSITÉeuropéenne