t) Other Activity and language skills

The workshop sets out to present an introductory framework of the cultural, artistic and political debates linked to the development of the feminist movement and LBGTQ+ activism from the 1970s to today, and their persistence and transformation in contemporary, national and international scenarios, through the choice of texts and audiovisual materials proposed by the teacher and collected by the students themselves during the seminar. There will be talks by visiting experts

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The workshop traces the history of the French language from its origins to the present day. The salient characteristics of the different states of the language will be illustrated and, at the same time, the main cultural, social and political events or phenomena that influenced its evolution will be highlighted.

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Introductory workshop on writing and editing a critical essay, and on literary criticism and theory.

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The 30-hour workshop will take place from October to December, with a 4-hour weekly meeting every other week.

Calendar of sessions:

1. 1. Thursday 12 October, 12.30-16.30;
2. 2. Thursday 26 October, 12.30-16.30;
3. 3. Thursday 9 November, 12.30-16.30;
4. 4. Thursday 23 November, 12.30-16.30;
5. 5. Thursday 7 December, 12.30-16.30;
6. 6. Thursday 21 December, 12.30-16.30;
7. 7. Thursday 11 January, 12.30-16.30;
8. 8. Thursday 25 January, 12.30-14.30.

Location: aula Beretta 1 Ala conventuale Sant'Andrea

(3rd edition) will take place on Tuesday 12 March from 9.30am to 6.30pm with talks by 6 speakers (including Matías Martínez, University of Wuppertal, Martin Koval, Universidad de Buenos Aires and others) and 6 hours of overall work, whose programme is under construction. For the preliminary reading of the texts (minimum 3 hours), total participation (6 hours) plus an analytical written report (3 hours): 1 credit

Vercelli: 4 and 5 April 2024

On April 4, a full day, four speeches will take place on specific themes with the participation of external speakers. The two speeches by Elisabetta Lonati and Ludovica Maconi will take place on the morning of April 5th.

For the award of 2 credits (Master's degree), in-person participation is required, as well as the drafting of an in-depth report (approximately 3000 words) on one of the topics covered. 

Further details on the programme and poster are available on the Mediacentre.

The activity emerged from an educational and scientific cooperation agreement between the “Lene Thun” Onlus Foundation (Bolzano) and the Department of Humanities.

Interested students will be required to participate in a series of lessons by Dr. Eva Stückel, aimed at strengthening translation skills. During these lessons, translation work will be performed from Italian to German (and vice versa) of informative and promotional texts that the Foundation needs for the communication and promotion of its activities at the Italian and German hospitals where it operates. Students must continue and complete the translation work individually. The translations will then be reviewed and discussed in group meetings and subsequently transmitted to the Foundation. Students will also be involved in translating continuously updated pages of the site (e.g. the newsletter).

2 ECTS credits for participation in the series of lessons and the submission of translations.

The Language TIPS (Task, Interaction and Pragmatics at School) project aims to encourage interaction between university teaching, research, training and teaching on the topic of language learning. In particular, the project focuses on the theme of development of pragmatic and interactional skills in the mother tongue, second or foreign language, an area which does not yet find sufficient space in teaching practice and which appears to be poorly investigated by research, despite its key role in developing language skills. The initiative includes participation in a series of meetings dedicated both to theoretical-practical in-depth study of the proposed themes and to the introduction of the use of tools for recording, transcription and annotation of spoken data, as well as the collaborative processing of a corpus and teaching materials. The meetings involve not only students, but also university researchers and teachers from local schools. Interested students should contact Prof. Ferrari (stefania.ferrari@uniupo.it)

The initiative aims to offer the opportunity to students of Foreign Language Teaching on Bachelor’s and Master's degree courses to carry out an action-research experience aimed at experimenting with some task-based tools for the evaluation and teaching of spoken skills in a foreign language. The initiative involves the collaborative planning, implementation and documentation of short cycles of foreign language lessons in person or online, in collaboration with local schools. Interested students should contact Prof. Ferrari (stefania.ferrari@uniupo.it)

The workshop introduces students to the topic of intercultural communication in educational and professional contexts, offering the tools to describe and investigate its main features and to design teaching or training interventions. The workshop is open both to students interested in teaching or professions requiring interaction with different cultures and to international students wishing to reflect on their experience of contact with the language, culture and pragmatics of Italian. The workshop will be conducted in English

• Prof. Miriam Ravetto, Department of Humanities, UPO.
• Gerald Bernhard, Ruhr-Universität Bochum.

The project involves participation in various conversation sessions (lasting 40/45 minutes) which will take place half in German and half in Italian. The topics of the first three sessions will be freely chosen by the participants, while for subsequent interactions specific conversation topics will be defined also on the basis of topics addressed during the lecture lessons. The project also includes an introductory session, a final meeting and a series of short meetings to monitor progress of the activity. Interested parties should contact Prof. Ravetto by mid-November.

Complete course (7 modules) with final certificate.
Complete programme (DIR).