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t) Other Activity and language skills

Degree course Foreign Languages, Cultures, Tourism - (Double degree) - academic year 23/24

Activity “Credits reserved by University to Activity pursuant to Art. 10, subsection 5, letter d.”

As part of the Other Training activities, in addition to the credits envisaged in the study plan, the student can be awarded credits for suitably certified professional skills and abilities. The recognition of the activities attended occurs following the presentation by the student of the certified documentation of the activity carried out.

Activity 2023/2024

INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS Authorship and Spiritual Prose in the Golden Age’ (Vercelli, 13-14/06/2024)

Contacts: Prof. Andrea Baldissera and Prof. Matteo Mancinelli

Description CFU

The International Conference ‘Autoría y prosa espiritual en el Siglo de Oro. Procesos de escritura y reescritura en la ascética y mística de los siglos XVI-XVII’ will be held on 13 and 14 June 2024 in Meeting Room 2 of Palazzo Tartara. Professors Andrea Baldissera (UPO), Francisco J. Escobar Borrego (Un. Sevilla), Marta Fabbri (UniFE), Enrico Lodi (UniPV), Matteo Mancinelli (UPO), Juan Antonio Marcos (Un. Pontificia Comillas), Sofia Morabito (UniPI), Laura Rodríguez Fernández (UniFE), Marcial Rubio Árquez (UniCH), Paolo Tanganelli (UniFE), Valeria Tocco (UniPI), Luca Zaghen (UniMC).

In order to be awarded 2 CFU, students of Modern Foreign Languages and Languages, Cultures, Tourism will have to attend the whole conference as auditors and produce a paper on two speeches of their choice. This paper will be assessed by the organisers of the event, Professors Andrea Baldissera and Matteo Mancinelli.

 2 CFU

 

Workshops and seminars

WORKSHOP: INTRODUCTION TO QUEER AND GENDER STUDIES

Contact: Prof. Marco Pustianaz (early first semester)

Description CFU

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

6 CFU

 

WORKSHOP: THEATRE IN LANGUAGE (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 led by instructors and independently. Creation of final show.

The theatre workshop in a foreign language is offered in the following languages:

It is essential to contact the coordinator of the language chosen by the end of October to allow the formation of the groups (coordinator Marco Pustianaz), or by writing to tillit.disum@uniupo.it

6 CFU

 

WORKSHOP: HISTORY OF THE SPANISH LANGUAGE

Contact: Prof. Andrea Baldissera (first semester)

Description CFU

The Royal Spanish Academy and its role in the history of the Spanish language.

More informationSyllabus

6 CFU

 

WORKSHOP: HISTORY OF THE FRENCH LANGUAGE

 Cobtact: Prof. Maurizio Busca (second semester)

Description CFU

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.

More informationSyllabus

6 CFU

 

WORKSHOP: HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Contact: Prof.ssa Elisabetta Lonati (first semester - only III year of course in LSM)

Description CFU

Historical introduction and linguistic change from Old English to Late Modern English: periodisation, historical-cultural changes, linguistic variation and social stratification; regional varieties. The salient characteristics of Old English (around 449-1100), Middle English (around 1100-1500), Early and Late Modern English (1500-1800): linguistic particularities (graphic, phonological, lexical, morphosyntactic); external influences (Latin, Romance languages, other languages); standardisation processes.

More information: Syllabus

6 CFU

 

WORKSHOP: CRITICAL AND ACADEMIC WRITING - THE ESSAY

Contact: Prof.ssa Stefania Sini (first semester, starts 12 October)

Description CFU

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

More information: Syllabus

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

6 CFU

 

COMPARISON OF THEORIES AND PRACTICES OF NARRATIVE" DAY 

Contact: Prof.ssa Stefania Sini

Description CFU

(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

1 CFU

 

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

Final evaluation format

Oral test

 

SEMINAR ON LEXICOGRAPHY AND HISTORY OF ITALIAN AND ENGLISH LEXICOGRAPHY (MASTER'S) 

Contacts: Prof.ssa Elisabetta Lonati and Prof.ssa Ludovica Maconi

Description CFU

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.

2 CFU

 

LANGUAGE EDUCATION AND TEACHING OF ITALIAN AS L2 IN MULTILINGUAL SCHOOLS

Contact: Prof.ssa Stefania Sini

 

Description CFU
Training internship, 150 hours (6 credits) Short internship, 50/75 hours (2/3 credits) Activities pursuant to art 10, 25/75 hours (1/3 credits)
Students will be able to accompany class teachers and Italian L2 teachers involved in an action research and educational experimentation project at the IC Bellini of Novara. Specifically, the internship may include:
Participation in Italian L2 class or laboratory activities
Design and testing of educational pathways Documentation of educational paths
Design and validation of language learning assessment tests Monitoring of learning Monitoring the impact of trials
30 hours.
Up to 6 credits

 

TRANSLATION PROJECT GERMAN-ITALIAN/ITALIAN-GERMAN IN COLLABORATION WITH THE "LENE THUN" FOUNDATION

Contact: Prof.ssa Miriam Ravetto

Description CFU

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.

2 CFU

 

Language TIPS – TRAINING WORKSHOP

Contacts: Prof.ssa Stefania Ferrari and Prof.ssa Miriam Ravetto

Description CFU

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)

 

3 CFU

 

CONVERSATION IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

Contact: Prof.ssa Stefania Ferrari

Description CFU

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)

3 CFU

 

INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION WORKSHOP

Contact: Prof.ssa Stefania Ferrari

Description CFU

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

3 CFU

 

International and national congresses, conferences and workshops

Participation in conferences organised by DISUM or within the UNIVERSITY, subject to final report and written evaluation by the teacher, will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis and considered for the purposes of acquiring credits in "OTHER" activities pursuant to Art. 10, for up to a maximum of 3 credits. 

 

E-TANDEM GERMAN-ITALIAN (part of TAPP, The Trans-Atlantic & Pacific Project, North Dakota University)

Contact: Prof. Miriam Ravetto (First - Second semester)

Description CFU
  • 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.

2 CFU

 

BIBLIOLAB MODULE: BIBLIOGRAPHICAL LITERACY AND SOURCE MANAGEMENT

Contact: Prof. Miriam Ravetto (First - Second semester)

Description CFU

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

3 CFU

 

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.

Contact: Prof. Sini, Dott. Martín Ignacio Koval

Description CFU

On March 13, 14, 152024 Visiting Scholar Dr. Martín Ignacio Koval (CONICET/UNAJ, Argentina) will hold in Vercelli at the Department of Humanities the Seminar "The Factual Narrative" for a total of 12 hours in presence (classrooms and times to be defined).

The seminar will be held in English or Spanish depending on the preference of the participants.

Full participation in the seminar allows the attribution of 2 cfu.

2 CFU

 

 

Last modified 14 May 2024