The course explores the vast and diversified corpus of the canon of Western tradition through a selection of works that continue to influence contemporary life. The course’s goals are to stimulate students to learn to read the world in a critical and plural way. As a theoreticalpractical ancillary, and yet basic, course in the curriculum of the B.A. in Social and Cultural Communication, it fulfills a general formative role in the preparation of future professionals in the area of media and cultural relations by acquainting them with the cultural framework they will
be working in.

The course aims to stimulate critical competence in reading and interpreting texts, understood in the broad semiotic sense, by promoting the awareness of interdisciplinary relations and historical, social, political, literary and cultural contextualization, and by developing argumentative skills and written expression.