t) Other activity and language skill
Degree course Literature - Vercelli (Binational Degree) - academic year 24/25
The Literature degree L-10 requires (in the third full-time year) that you successfully acquire a language qualification for 3 ECTS credits.
Those in possession of one of the English language proficiency certifications accepted by the University of Eastern Piedmont may request its recognition in order to be exempt from the English Placement Test, uploading the certification during matriculation by the deadline.
If the certification is at least B2 level, students can ask the CDS for its validation for English Language teaching recognition, remembering that certifications have a limited validity in time.
For the relevant regulatory framework, see this page.
Bachelor’s degree in Humanities L-10
Academic credits recognised as “Other University Activity”, art. 10 subsection 5 lett. d
The "Further activities" are envisaged in the third year of the course, for a total of 3 credits.
It is possible to bring forward the "Further activities" to the second year.
The Course Council may approve the credits relating to each activity, upon request from the referring teacher, who certifies the correct and completed performance of activity by the student.
These activities can be replaced with an internship/internship for 75 hours (3 credits), or with other activities included in the programme (Modern History Workshops, History of Medieval Art, History of Modern Art).
The complete list of "Further training activities" (seminars, workshops, etc.) will be available soon.
Sources and methods for the study of history
| Title | Sources and methods for the study of history |
| eventual organiser or external lecturer | |
| Any DIR area | yes |
| Teacher representatives to contact for registration | Marcello Valente |
| Period [envisaged] of implementation | Second semester, between March and June |
| Planned hours of commitment: teacher activity/preparation and study; weekly or monthly distribution | 16 hours of lectures and seminars + 59 hours of individual work |
| Mode | in presence |
| Credits assigned | 3 |
| Course subject to: | Nobody |
| Description | Lectures of two hours each, distributed according to a timetable to be defined, which will focus on a common theme, exclusion/emargination in history, declined by each lecturer in the context of his or her own relevant historical period. The aim is to offer students a diachronic perspective with a methodological slant on a specific theme examined in different historical periods. Teachers involved: Marcello Valente, Eleonora Destefanis, Vittorio Tigrino, Simone Bellezza. Visiting professors from other Italian or foreign universities may be involved |
| Final evaluation format | Class participation and final report to be sent to the lecturer |
Conference Deconstructing the racial imagination in Italy (1930-2020)
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Title |
Conference Deconstructing the racial imagination in Italy (1930-2020) – Vercelli, UPO, main hall of the Sant'Andrea Complex, 21-22 November 2024 |
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Referent teacher(s) responsible for the activity (belonging to the CDS, he/she is the one who requests the assignment of the CFU) |
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| Any DIR area | ------ |
| Teacher representatives to contact for registration | Cecilia Gibellini |
| Period [envisaged] of implementation |
21 - 22 november 2024 |
| Forecast hours involved: teacher-led activity/preparation and study; weekly or monthly distribution |
minimum 8 hours of participation in the Conference work; 6-8 hours to write the report |
| Mode |
in presence (during the conference), independent study (for drafting the report) |
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Credits assigned |
2 |
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Course subject to: |
Nobody |
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Description |
The Conference is part of the initiatives promoted by the research project 'IRIDE: Italian Racial Imaginary Deconstructed: Afro-Italianness from the colony to the present', promoted by the 'UPO 2022 Research Call', aimed at studying the construction and deconstruction of the racial imaginary Italian in the period 1930-2020, through the analysis of literary, cultural and media productions. In particular, the project aims to examine the historical, cultural and political formation of the category of "Afro-Italianness within the Italian imagination. The Conference stands out for its transnational and interdisciplinary approach, with interventions of a historical, theoretical, literary, cinematographic and visual arts nature; includes moments of active discussion, through discussions, talks with the director Elia Moutamid (whose film Maka will be screened on the evening of 21 November), with the writer Gabriella Ghermandi, and the workshop on Afro-Italianity and the anti-racist future conducted by Marilena Delli . |
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Final evaluation format |
Participants will have to follow at least two of the half days (mornings or afternoons) of the Conference, and produce a summary report (10,000 characters) on the activities in which they will have participated (which may also include the film and the dialogue with the director, the conversation with the writer, the laboratory), even choosing to focus on one or more topics that have particularly interested them. |
Winter school of the '900 Sconfinati Polo. History's gaze on contemporary migrations
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Title |
Winter school of the '900 Sconfinati Polo. History's gaze on contemporary migrations |
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Referent teacher(s) responsible for the activity (belonging to the CDS, he/she is the one who requests the assignment of the CFU) |
Simone Attilio Bellezza |
| Any DIR area | ------ |
| Teacher representatives to contact for registration | Simone Attilio Bellezza |
| Period [envisaged] of implementation |
5-7 november 2024 |
| Forecast hours involved: teacher-led activity/preparation and study; weekly or monthly distribution |
Three days full time |
| Mode |
In attendance, at the Polo del '900 in Turin |
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Credits assigned |
3 |
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Course subject to: |
Nobody |
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Description |
These are three days of laboratory activities focused on in-depth historical analysis of the migrations of the 20th and 21st centuries. A schedule of 24 workshops held by university professors, researchers, field workers, activists, writers. The program aims to offer insights and perspectives on a variety of contemporary migratory phenomena, which differ from each other by type, causes, geographical area and historical period. The in-depth analysis will focus both on specific migratory routes and movements, and on more transversal dimensions: the gender dimension, the climate issue, the legal dimension, health, narratives, languages. |
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Final evaluation format |
Participants will have to produce a summary report (10,000 characters) on the work done during the Winter School. |
Italian Lexicography Workshop. Preparing jpg files and checking the electronic lemmary for the UPO2022 MIT@PANZINI online project
| Title | Italian Lexicography Workshop. Preparing jpg files and checking the electronic lemmary for the UPO2022 MIT@PANZINI online project |
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External organizer or teacher |
Ludovica Maconi |
| Any DIR area | ------ |
| Teacher representatives to contact for registration | Ludovica Maconi (for students L10) |
| Period [envisaged] of implementation |
Free period of study, chosen by the student, but by December 2024: 25 hours of work from home |
| Forecast hours involved: teacher-led activity/preparation and study; weekly or monthly distribution |
1 hour of online activity with the teacher to plan the activity + 25 hours of individual work from home |
| Mode |
The student must contact the teacher to schedule the hour of online training (via Google Meet), followed by 25 hours of material collection for the UPO2022 MIT@PANZINIonline research project |
| Credits assigned |
From 1 to 3 CFU based on working hours |
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Course subject to: |
The activity is aimed at L10 students who have passed the History of the Italian language exams with a grade of 30 or 30 cum laude. L10 students who have not yet taken the History of the Italian language exam, but who have completed the Italian and English lexicography seminar (4-5 April 2024) and submitted the required exercise can also participate. It is also possible to participate in the activity for 50 or 75 hours, corresponding respectively to 2 and 3 CFU |
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Description |
Image collection and filing work for the preparation of the progressive electronic edition of Alfredo Panzini's Modern Dictionary. The student will have to carry out one of the following activities:
All the instructions for carrying out this task will be provided by the teacher in the initial training hour (two hours for those who will work on the project for 75 hours, also taking care of the philological part of revising the electronic lemmary with markings of the scope of use, limited to a or two alphabetical sections). |
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Final evaluation format |
To achieve 1 or 2 CFU (eligibility without grade) the material must be delivered in compliance with the criteria indicated by the teacher.
To achieve 3 CFU (eligibility without grade), a proof of revision of the electronic lemmarium must also be submitted, limited to one or two alphabetical sections. |
Theatre in Language Workshop - Tillit
Contact: Prof. Marco Pustianaz (first and second semester, from October to June)
| Description | CFU |
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Practical workshop with elements of improvisation for each of the four languages; group work, both instructor-led and independently. Creation of final show. The theatre workshop in a foreign language is offered in the following languages:
It is necessary to contact the coordinator of the mandatory language chosen by October, to allow the formation of groups, or by writing to tillit.disum@uniupo.it |
6 CFU |
Workshop of recognition, filing and cataloguing of the works of art - activity not yet operationally defined
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Last modified 4 November 2024