CLE EuropEan

LitErary CuLturEs
Masters programme (Laurea Magistrale)

ErasMus MunDus

WHat is CLE ErasMus MunDus?

EUROPEAN LITERARY CULTURES

Erasmus Mundus is a Masters programme devoted to improving the quality of European higher education and strengthening intercultural communication. The programme encourages and supports:
cooperation and peoples exchange among European and non-European universities the promotion of the image of the European Union as a space of academic excellence worldwide the sustainable development of higher education in third-party countries better careers for its students.

WHat is CLE ErasMus MunDus? The Erasmus Mundus CLE Master in European Literary Cultures is a high-level programme designed for European and non-European students and aimed at providing them with excellent skills in:
at least three European languages
(English mandatory, two other languages among French, Italian and Greek)

at least three domains of European thought

(Literature, Cultural History, Science of Language)

For more information about the programme and for the latest updates www.cle.unibo.it

Literature does not exist in a vacuum. [...] Language is the main means of human communication. If an animals nervous system does not transmit sensations and stimuli, the animal atrophies. If a nations literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
E. Pound, ABC of Reading, 1934

aiMs The Erasmus Mundus CLE Masters programme teaches his 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. Linguistic education of high-level 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 Masters 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.

EUROPEAN LITERARY CULTURES

CuLturaL EDuCation

LinguistiC EDuCation

DynaMiC EDuCation

CarEErs The main perspective careers for CLE Masters graduates are:
Teaching career in higher education. Doctoral research in any PhD programme with a focus on European literatures or cultures. The best CLE graduates will be encouraged to pursue their education within the Doctorat dtudes Suprieures Europennes (D.E.S.E), Les Littratures de lEurope unie http://www.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; managing of cultural exchange programmes; development of cultural contents in various types of associations). A career in the private sector, requiring book-related skills (translations, philological editions), journalism, literary criticism, radio or tv broadcasting, copyediting, public relations.

prograMME anD stuDEnts MoBiLity

EUROPEAN LITERARY CULTURES

The CLE Master is a two-year full-time academic programme. Erasmus Mundus students (both European and non-European) can apply for a scholarship to support their education in at least two countries of the consortium. At the end of the two-year programme, after defending their Masters 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 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

prograMME anD stuDEnts MoBiLity

CLE students are required to move to a different University on their third semester. There are three possible mobility plans
Semester 1 + Semester 2 UNIVERSITY 1

Semester 3 UNIVERSITY 2

Semester 3 UNIVERSITY 2

Semester 3 UNIVERSITY 2

Semester 4 UNIVERSITY 1

Semester 4 UNIVERSITY 2

Semester 4 UNIVERSITY 3

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Four scholarships are offered each year to professors and scholars from non-European universities in order to support a research period abroad (maximum three months). The selection is based essentially on the applicants linguistic, cultural and academic excellence. The appointed scholars will be put in contact with CLE students and should encourage exchange and debate among them.

WHat is

ErasMus MunDus?
Erasmus Mundus a label of excellence

Erasmus Mundus is a Masters programme devoted to improving the quality of European higher education and strengthening intercultural communication. The programme encourages and supports cooperation and peoples exchange among European and non-European institutions.

ERASMUS MUNDUS PROGRAMME

CLE EuropEan
www.cle.unibo.it

professor anna soncini, CLE Coordinator Universit di Bologna Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere Moderne Via Cartoleria, 5 - 40124 Bologna - Italia Telephone + 39 051 2097125 E-mail soncini@lingue.unibo.it Lucia Manservisi, CLE secretary Telephone + 39 051 2097230 E-mail lucia.manservisi@unibo.it

LitErary CuLturEs