The course aims at providing a comprehensive sketch of the Slavic roots back to the Common Slavic period. Detail of the course subjects: Common Slavic features (social, anthropologic, linguistic); Common Slavic roots of some important Russian cultural and linguistic phenomena. The entry of the Slavs into Europe (9th century: Cyril & Methodius and their mission).
After the course students should:
1. understand the development of the historical and cultural processes;
2. understand the single features and phenomena in the frame of the general processes;
3. be able to critically evaluate, at a certain extent, the causal relations between the social and cultural phenomena treated in the course;
4. be able to set out clearly the contents of the course;
5. be able to apply their knowledge approaching cultural and historical issues other than those treated in the course.
In other words, they should have developed their competences according to Dublin descriptors.