Studying at the University of Verona
Academic calendar
Il calendario accademico riporta le scadenze, gli adempimenti e i periodi rilevanti per la componente studentesca, personale docente e personale dell'Università. Sono inoltre indicate le festività e le chiusure ufficiali dell'Ateneo.
L’anno accademico inizia il 1° ottobre e termina il 30 settembre dell'anno successivo.
Course calendar
The Academic Calendar sets out the degree programme lecture and exam timetables, as well as the relevant university closure dates. For further information, please get in touch with Operational unit: Foreign Languages and Literatures Teaching and Student Services Unit
| Period | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| I semestre | Oct 1, 2013 | Jan 11, 2014 |
| II semestre | Feb 24, 2014 | May 31, 2014 |
| Session | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Lingue - sessione invernale | Jan 13, 2014 | Feb 22, 2014 |
| Lingue - sessione estiva | Jun 3, 2014 | Jul 26, 2014 |
| lingue - sessione autunnale | Sep 1, 2014 | Sep 29, 2014 |
| Session | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Lingue - sessione invernale | Mar 31, 2014 | Apr 2, 2014 |
| Lingue - sessione estiva | Jul 9, 2014 | Jul 11, 2014 |
| Period | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Vacanze di Pasqua | Apr 17, 2014 | Apr 22, 2014 |
| Festa della Liberazione | Apr 25, 2014 | Apr 25, 2014 |
| Festa dei lavoratori | May 1, 2014 | May 1, 2014 |
| Festa del S. Patrono S. Zeno | May 21, 2014 | May 21, 2014 |
| Festa della Repubblica | Jun 2, 2014 | Jun 2, 2014 |
Exam calendar
The exam roll calls are centrally administered by the operational unit
Foreign Languages and Literatures Teaching and Student Services Unit
Exam Session Calendar and Roll call enrolment sistema ESSE3
.If you forget your password to the online services, please contact the technical office in your Faculty.
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Academic staff
Alber Birgit
birgit.alber@univr.it +39 045 802 8490
Gallo Valentina
valentina.gallo@univr.it
Ligas Pierluigi
pierluigi.ligas@univr.it +39 045 802 8408
Locher Elmar
elmar.locher@univr.it +39 045802 8311
Zaccarello Michelangelo
michelangelo.zaccarello@univr.it +39 045 802 8330
Study Plan
The Study Plan includes all modules, teaching and learning activities that each student will need to undertake during their time at the University. Please select your Study Plan based on your enrolment year.
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Basis of Business Law
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Urban, commercial and transportation geography
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1° Anno
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Basis of Business Law
2° Anno
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Urban, commercial and transportation geography
3° Anno
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Legend | Type of training activity (TTA)
TAF (Type of Educational Activity) All courses and activities are classified into different types of educational activities, indicated by a letter.
English II [CInt] (2013/2014)
Teaching code
4S00850
Teacher
Coordinatore
Credits
9
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
L-LIN/12 - LANGUAGE AND TRANSLATION - ENGLISH
Language of instruction
English
Period
II semestre dal Feb 24, 2014 al May 31, 2014.
Learning outcomes
English II CINT (2013/2014)
Prof. Zanfei - a. a. 2013-2014
Teaching language: English
EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES
This course aims at introducing the student to multimodal analysis and its application to multimodal texts in contemporary English.
Program
SYLLABUS
From the English II e-learning website material and the book “Multimodal Persuasion and Ideology across media” by Anna Zanfei (or alternatively from the book "Introduction to Multimodal Analysis" by David Machin) the following topics:
Resources for meaning making, modes and media, multimodal composite texts and videos; layout, salience, information value, framing; salience in verbal texts, information value in spoken texts and digital compositions; spoken English and written English, multimodal linguistics, cooperative principle in conversational turns; remediation and meaning making; multimodal analysis of networks of remediation; social actors, social actions and the alignment of the viewer/reader with the author's point of view; multimodal analysis of advertisement and corporate video TV commercials; multimodal analysis of webpages dedicated to tourism and travel, recontexualization of social practices into discourses; recontextualization in promotional texts, legitimation as a multimodal process, systemic functional linguistics and metafunctions; attributive, designative adjectives and intensifiers; textual metafunction: comparison and opposition in travel journalism; modality in promotional journalism; repetition and verbal foregrounding in political public speech and in journalistic interviews; modality in promotional tourism; interpersonal metafunction; supermodernity and its textscapes, linguistic registers, the power of words to trigger visual images: verbal text and its intermodal translation.
From the book “Contemporary Narrative, Textual Production, Multimodality and Multiliteracies" by Fiona J. Doloughan the following topics:
- From Chapter 1: Mode, medium, multimodality, resources for meaning making.
- From Chapter 2: intermodal translation, the power of words in triggering images and their cinematic interpretation: the Introduction to Great Expectations in words and images
- From Chapter 6: foreignization and domestication, places and non-places, and the cultural filter in relation to the industry of travel and tourism.
Examination Methods
EXAMS METHOD
Prerequisites: Lingua Inglese 1 (English Language 1); English B2 level.
The exam consists of a written test and a multimodal analysis based on the topics of the syllabus.
Tipologia di Attività formativa D e F
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Graduation
List of theses and work experience proposals
| theses proposals | Research area |
|---|---|
| Letteratura russa | Various topics |
| Letteratura russa | Various topics |
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