Skip to main content- The Summer School of Ukrainian Language and Culture is a natural continuation of the objectives of the Department of Languages and Literature, Communication, Education and Society (DILL) in the University of Udine. The project enhances the teaching of the languages of Central and Eastern Europe to which Friuli is the gateway. The teaching of these languages and cultures, in fact, was conceived as a distinctive element of the University of Udine ever since its foundation and, in the light of recent events, is being reconfirmed as a strategic choice for understanding the present.
- The proposal of a Summer School of Ukrainian Language and Culture is intended to be a useful complement to curricular teaching, since Ukrainian is currently not among the languages taught at the University of Udine and learning the language and culture of this country requires specific tools and knowledge, not reducible to those that can be borrowed from other languages in the area. Furthermore, the culturological and geopolitical slant that is intended to be given to the school responds to the need to understand the teaching of languages and cultures not as the acquisition of theoretical notions detached from the present, but on the contrary as authentic cultural mediation whose content is immediately applicable in the various contexts of contemporary life and society.
- The course presents an interdisciplinary approach to Ukrainian culture, as it will not limit itself to the linguistic and literary aspects but shall also address areas usually neglected in traditional teaching such as economics and geopolitics. Moreover, traditional teaching will be flanked by the Teams platform that allows students to delve into specifical grammatical topics and independently check the skills acquired, leaving the morning classes to spontaneous interaction with the lecturer.
- The school is open to students of both bachelor’s and master's degrees, primarily from the degree courses of Foreign Languages and Literatures and Cultural Mediation (L11, L12, LM37, LM94) as well as to students from partner universities of München, Kraków and Ljubljana.
