UPDATED READING LIST FOR III YEAR ORAL EXAMS

ORAL EXAM FORMAT

LLM ,LCMM and those MLC students who enrolled at university before 2007.

Do an oral exam with a lettore as part of lettorato . You MUST choose a news story taken from the English newspapers in the week before the exam, and bring an article on it taken from both a quality broadsheet newspaper and a popular tabloid newspaper for purposes of comparative discussion. 

Bring the newspaper articles themselves as well as a photocopy of them. Do not download the articles from the internet.

L.L.M. students ( NOT M.L.C.) may choose one of the novels from the list below to read and comment on as preparation for  their oral exam :

·                     The Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes

·                     The Secret Scriptures, Sebastian Barry

·                     Ordinary Thunderstorms, William Boyd

·                     The Children’s Home, Charles Lambert

·                     The Children Act, Ian McEwan

·                     The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, Rachel Joyce

·                     Brooklyn, Colm Toìbin

THOSE STUDENTS WHO CHOOSE THIS KIND OF EXAMINATION MUST BRING THE NOVEL TO THE EXAM.