t) Other activity and language skill

Degree course Literature - Vercelli (Binational Degree) - academic year 23/24

The Literature degree L-10 requires (in the third full-time year) that you successfully acquire a language qualification for 3 ECTS credits.

The methods provided for by the degree course Regulations (Art. 29 Foreign Language) are indicated here:

The foreign language test (English, or French, or German or Spanish) is compulsory and is worth 3 (three) credits. The grading methods and courses are normally entrusted to the teachers in charge of the English, French, German and Spanish Language and Translation courses, and take place according to methods agreed with the Humanities Course Council. It is also possible to present, with acknowledgment by the Course Chair (or delegate) and without subjecting the students to further tests, certificates starting from level B1 issued by the following institutions recognised by the Italian Ministry of Education: Alliance Française, Cambridge UCLES (University of Cambridge Local Examination Syndicate), Cervantes, City and Guilds International Pitman, ESB English Speaking Board, Goethe Institut, Trinity College. Anyone who has obtained a certificate from the listed institutes is invited to present it for approval (already in the first year or at the first available opportunity); the request for validation can be delivered to the secretariat together with the study plan.

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.

Study Days " Comparing theories and practices of narration " (3rd edition)

Title

Study Days "Comparing theories and practices of narration" (3rd edition)

Organiser

Organised by Stefania Sini and Franca Sinopoli (Sapienza dell'Università di Roma)

Any DIR area

Yes

Teacher representatives to contact for registration

Stefania Sini

Period [envisaged] of implementation

12 March 2024

Forecast hours involved: teacher-led activity/preparation and study; weekly or monthly distribution

minimum 3 hours for preparatory reading of texts; 6 hours participation; plus 3 hours for written analytical report

Il mestiere dell’Archivista, tra tradizione e innovazione

Titolo	Il mestiere dell’Archivista, tra tradizione e innovazione.
Organizzatore	Alice Borgna
Eventuale area DIR	---
Docenti referenti da contattare per iscriversi	Gianmario Cattaneo Francesca Michelone
Periodo [previsto] di svolgimento	Secondo semestre
Ore di impegno previste: attività col docente/preparazione e studio; distribuzione settimanale o mensile	8 ore di lezione, di cui: 3 + 3 ore di lezione frontale 2 ore di visita presso l’Archivio del giornale La Sesia
Modalità	In presenza
CFU assegnati	1
Eventuale vincolo di fattibilità	---
Descrizione	Tra le potenziali professioni del futuro laureato in Lettere, viene spesso menzionata la figura dell’assistente d’archivio o dell’archivista: ma che cosa sono gli archivi e cosa fanno i professionisti che lavorano al loro interno? Nella prima parte di questo laboratorio verrà fornita una panoramica sulla storia degli archivi, sulle varie tipologie di archivio e sul lavoro dell’archivista. Nella seconda parte verranno presentati gli archivi digitali e gli strumenti informatici utili all’archivista (ma non solo) per il suo lavoro. A lezioni introduttive di taglio teorico saranno affiancate esercitazioni sulla lettura dei documenti e sulla descrizione delle unità archivistiche tramite linguaggio digitale. Al termine del laboratorio gli studenti potranno interagire direttamente con un importante archivio del territorio, ovvero quello del giornale La Sesia.
Modalità della valutazione finale	Presenza e partecipazione attiva a tutti gli incontri; svolgimento delle attività assegnate in classe e a casa

Mode

Face-to-face, in English and in Italian

Credits assigned

Course subject to:

Minimum 5 partecipantes

Description

Study Day on different theories, methodologies and narrative experiences. 6 to 8 speakers are expected, including Matìas Martinez, University of Wuppertal, short-term visiting professor guest of Disum, Martin Koval, University of Buenos Aires (UBA), also a short-term visiting professor guest of Disum; Sara Sullam (Unimi English Literature and translator); Renato Gabrielli, playwright and teacher of dramaturgical writing (Paolo Grassi Theatre School and Luchino Visconti Cinema School, Milan). A discussion with colleagues from the Crimedim Interuniversity Centre and the Simnova Interuniversity Centre is planned. The definitive programme is being prepared.

Final evaluation format

Written Report

Seminar "Factual narrative"

Title	The narrative reconstruction of 'the real'. The factual narrativein different socio-discursive fields: from journalism and history to medicine and the natural sciences. / La reposición narrativa de ‘lo real’. El relato factual en los diversos ámbitos socio-discursivos: del periodismo y la historia a la medicina y las ciencias naturales.
Organiser or visiting professor	The seminar will be held by Martin Koval, Universidad de Bueno Aires (UBA) short-term visiting professor
Any DIR area	Yes, will be requested
Teacher representatives to contact for registration	Stefania Sini
Period [envisaged] of implementation	13, 14, 15 March 2024
Forecast hours involved: teacher-led activity/preparation and study; weekly or monthly distribution	12 hours of teaching, plus homework tasks
Mode	Face-to-face, in English or Spanish as requested by students
Credits assigned	2
Course subject to:	Minimum 5 partecipantes
Description	Program del seminar (English) Program of the seminar (Spanish)
Final evaluation format	Oral test

Language education and teaching of Italian as a second language in multilingual schools

Title	Language education and teaching of Italian as a second language in multilingual schools
Organiser	---
Any DIR area	---
Teacher representatives to contact for registration	Stefania Ferrari
Period [envisaged] of implementation	annual
Forecast hours involved: teacher-led activity/preparation and study; weekly or monthly distribution	Minimum 25, maximum 150 hours
Mode	hybrid, face-to-face at IC Bellini, Novara
Credits assigned	From 1 to 6
Course subject to:	No
Description	The project is aimed at creating educational interventions in the classroom and in the Italian L2 laboratory dedicated to teaching Italian as a L2. Students have the opportunity to accompany class teachers and Italian L2 teachers involved in an action-research and educational experimentation process at the IC Bellini in Novara. In more detail, the activity can include: Participation in training courses aimed at teachers. Participation in Italian L2 class or laboratory activities Planning and testing of educational paths Documentation of educational paths Design and validation of language learning assessment tests Monitoring of learning
Final evaluation format	Documented records of project

Language TIPS – Training Lab

Title	Language TIPS – Training Lab
Teacher(s) to contact to register (belonging to the course council, this person deals with assignment of credits)	Stefania Ferrari, Miriam Ravetto
Organiser or visiting professor	---
Teacher representatives to contact for registration	Stefania Ferrari
Period [envisaged] of implementation	annual
Forecast hours involved: teacher-led activity/preparation and study; weekly or monthly distribution	75 hours
Mode	hybrid
Credits assigned	3
Course subject to:	No
Description	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 is dedicated to the development of pragmatic and international 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 building advanced language skills. The path includes both participation in a series of meetings dedicated to the theoretical-practical in-depth study of the proposed themes and the introduction to the use of tools for recording, transcription and annotation of spoken data and the conduct of field research oriented towards collaborative construction of a task-based corpus of spontaneous and elicited speech. The meetings involve not only students, but also university researchers and teachers from local schools.
Final evaluation format	Analytical selection of materials collected and/or developed

School of Writing – activity still to be defined

Title
Organiser
Any DIR area
Teacher representatives to contact for registration
Period [envisaged] of implementation
Forecast hours involved: teacher-led hours/preparation and study; weekly or monthly distribution
Mode
Credits assigned
Any feasibility restrictions
Description
Final evaluation format

Texts and contexts

Title	Texts and contexts
Organiser
Any DIR area	---
Teacher representatives to contact for registration	Alice Borgna Federico Favi Marcello Valente
Period [envisaged] of implementation	First - Second semester: November - May
Forecast hours involved: teacher-led activity/preparation and study; weekly or monthly distribution	e.g.: 10 hours over five months; a monthly meeting (November, December, March, April, May) of 2 hours each
Mode	In person
Credits assigned	1
Any feasibility restrictions	None
Description	Series of seminars on Antiquity
Final evaluation format	Report to send to one of the teacher representatives

The profession of an Archivist, from tradition to innovation

Title	The profession of an Archivist, from tradition to innovation
Organiser	Alice Borgna
Any DIR area	---
Teacher representatives to contact for registration	Gianmario Cattaneo Francesca Michelone
Period [envisaged] of implementation	Second semester
Forecast hours involved: teacher-led activity/preparation and study; weekly or monthly distribution	8 hours of lessons, including: 3 + 3 hours of frontal lessons 2-hour visit to the Archive of the La Sesia newspaper
Mode	In person
Credits assigned	1
Any feasibility restrictions	None
Description	Among the potential professions of the future Humanities graduate,the figure of the archive assistant or archivist is often mentioned: but what are archives and what do the professionals who work within them do? In the first part of this workshop. an overview of the history of archives, the various types of archives and the work of the archivist will be described. In the second part, digital archives and IT tools useful to the archivist (but not only) for this work will be presented. Introductory theoretical lessons will be accompanied by exercises on reading documents and describing archival units using digital language. At the end of the laboratory, students will be able to interact directly with an important local archive, namely that of the newspaper La Sesia.
Final evaluation format	Presence and active participation in all meetings; carrying out assigned activities in class and at home

Workshop of Medieval Philosophy by Dragos Calma

Title	Workshop of Medieval Philosophy by Dragos Calma (with Silvia Fazzo and participation of Clelia Attanasio, University of Strasbourg)
Visiting Teacher	Dragos Calma, University College Dublin, Associate Professor, (CV)
Any DIR area	---
Teacher representatives to contact for registration	Silvia FAZZO
Period [envisaged] of implementation	4-18 december 2023
Forecast hours involved: teacher-led activity/preparation and study; weekly or monthly distribution	15/60 - 15 frontal hours in two weeks and individual study
Mode	In person in Vercelli and online
Credits assigned	3
Any feasibility restrictions	---
Description	Intensive workshop on medieval philosophy, to reinforce and deepen the History of Medieval Philosophy course. The laboratory selects, processes and delves into some of Professor Calma's specialty topics,following in their sequence the volume of history of medieval philosophy by Pasquale Porro in use among students so as to be of direct use also in the in-depth study of the exam subject. The professor, based in Dublin and the former winner of an ERC project, speaks fluent Italian.
Final evaluation format	Written or oral report and final interview.

Theatre in Language Workshop - Tillit

Contact: Prof. Marco Pustianaz (first and second semester, from October to June)

Description	CFU
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: English (coordinator Marco Pustianaz) French (coordinator Laurence Audéoud) Spanish (coordinator Carlos Jiménez) German (coordinator Michaela Reinhardt) 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

Description

CFU

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:

English (coordinator Marco Pustianaz)
French (coordinator Laurence Audéoud)
Spanish (coordinator Carlos Jiménez)
German (coordinator Michaela Reinhardt)

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

Themes, sources and resources for the history of medieval art - activity not yet operationally defined

Final evaluation format
Title
Organiser
Any DIR area
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Period [envisaged] of implementation
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Any feasibility restrictions
Description

Workshop of recognition, filing and cataloguing of the works of art - activity not yet operationally defined

Final evaluation format
Title
Organiser
Any DIR area
Teacher representatives to contact for registration
Period [envisaged] of implementation
Forecast hours involved: teacher-led hours/preparation and study; weekly or monthly distribution
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Any feasibility restrictions
Description

Seminar on lexicography and history of Italian and English lexicography

Title	Seminar on lexicography and history of Italian and English lexicography
Teacher/contact person/supervisors of activity (belonging to CDSM, the person who requests assignment of ECTS credits	Ludovica MACONI (for students L10 and LM14)
Any organiser or visiting teaching
Teacher(s) to contact for registration	Ludovica MACONI (for students L10 and LM14)
Any DIR area	----
Period [envisaged] of implementation	4 and 5 april 2024
Forecast hours involved: teacher-led activity/preparation and study; weekly or monthly distribution	8 hours of seminar on 4 and 5 April + 1 hour of online activity with the teacher on 8 April at 5.30-6.30 pm to plan the exercises (there will be the possibility of a second online meeting for students absent on 8 April) + 25 hours of individual work to carry out the assigned tasks.
Mode	In-person seminar. An Italian lexicography exercise will then be assigned (on digital lexicography projects), to be carried out independently at home and to be delivered to the organising teacher.
Credits assigned	2
Any feasibility restrictions	---
Description	The speakers will talk about themes and projects of lexicography and history of Italian and English lexicography. The lessons of the speakers from the Italian linguistic area (Claudio Marazzini, Yorick Gomez Gane, Ludovica Maconi) will look at politics and ideology in dictionaries, Italian-isms in Catalan and English (with presentation of the project and filings for the IOM, Observatory of Italian-isms in the world), the preparation of the progressive electronic edition of Panzini's Modern Dictionary (underway in our Department with the UPO2022 research project).
Final evaluation format	To obtain the 2 credits you must attend all the seminar conferences in person (full day on 4 April, 10am-5.30pm; half day on 5 April, 10am-1pm); follow the teacher's online training hour, during which the Italian lexicography exercise will be assigned (the necessary material will be sent via email and the tools will be made available online); the exercise must obtain a positive evaluation from the teacher (pass or fail, no grade). The exercise can also be carried out and delivered in the months following the seminar, but work should be completed by the end of September 2024.

Last modified 23 January 2024