Studying at the University of Verona
Here you can find information on the organisational aspects of the Programme, lecture timetables, learning activities and useful contact details for your time at the University, from enrolment to graduation.
Academic calendar
The academic calendar shows the deadlines and scheduled events that are relevant to students, teaching and technical-administrative staff of the University. Public holidays and University closures are also indicated. The academic year normally begins on 1 October each year and ends on 30 September of the following year.
Course calendar
The Academic Calendar sets out the degree programme lecture and exam timetables, as well as the relevant university closure dates..
Period | From | To |
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I SEMESTRE | Oct 3, 2016 | Jan 21, 2017 |
II SEMESTRE | Feb 27, 2017 | Jun 10, 2017 |
Session | From | To |
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Lingue - SESSIONE INVERNALE | Jan 23, 2017 | Feb 25, 2017 |
Lingue - SESSIONE ESTIVA | Jun 12, 2017 | Jul 29, 2017 |
Lingue - SESSIONE AUTUNNALE | Aug 21, 2017 | Sep 23, 2017 |
Session | From | To |
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Lingue - Sessione di laurea invernale | Apr 3, 2017 | Apr 8, 2017 |
Lingue - Sessione di laurea estiva | Jul 10, 2017 | Jul 15, 2017 |
Lingue - Sessione di laurea autunnale | Dec 18, 2017 | Dec 21, 2017 |
Lingue - sessione di laurea invernale | Mar 23, 2018 | Mar 29, 2018 |
Period | From | To |
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FESTA DI OGNISSANTI | Nov 1, 2016 | Nov 1, 2016 |
FESTA DELL'IMMACOLATA CONCEZIONE | Dec 8, 2016 | Dec 8, 2016 |
Vacanze Natalizie | Dec 23, 2016 | Jan 7, 2017 |
Vacanze Pasquali | Apr 14, 2017 | Apr 18, 2017 |
Festa della Liberazione | Apr 25, 2017 | Apr 25, 2017 |
Festa dei Lavoratori | May 1, 2017 | May 1, 2017 |
FESTA DEL SANTO PATRONO SAN ZENO | May 21, 2017 | May 21, 2017 |
Festa della Repubblica | Jun 2, 2017 | Jun 2, 2017 |
Vacanze Estive | Aug 14, 2017 | Aug 19, 2017 |
Description | Period | From | To |
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ANNUALE | ANNUALE | Oct 3, 2016 | Jun 10, 2017 |
Exam calendar
Exam dates and rounds are managed by the relevant Foreign Languages and Literatures Teaching and Student Services Unit.
To view all the exam sessions available, please use the Exam dashboard on ESSE3.
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Academic staff
Hernandez Arocha Hector Eutimio

Tincani Chiara
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 enrollment year.
1° Year
Modules | Credits | TAF | SSD |
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1st foreign language
2nd foreign language
1st foreign literature and culture
German literature and culture 1
2nd foreign literature and culture
German literature and culture 1
2° Year activated in the A.Y. 2017/2018
Modules | Credits | TAF | SSD |
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Italian literature and culture
Geography of communication and international trade
Modern and Contemporary Economic History
Theory and Techniques of communication
1st foreign language
2nd foreign language
First language foreign literature and culture or a related course
English literature and culture 2
German literature and culture 2
Spanish literature and culture 2
Second language foreign literature and culture or a related course
English literature and culture 2
German literature and culture 2
Spanish literature and culture 2
3° Year activated in the A.Y. 2018/2019
Modules | Credits | TAF | SSD |
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Comparative and European Public law
Principles of international marketing
1st foreign language
2nd foreign language
Modules | Credits | TAF | SSD |
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1st foreign language
2nd foreign language
1st foreign literature and culture
German literature and culture 1
2nd foreign literature and culture
German literature and culture 1
Modules | Credits | TAF | SSD |
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Italian literature and culture
Geography of communication and international trade
Modern and Contemporary Economic History
Theory and Techniques of communication
1st foreign language
2nd foreign language
First language foreign literature and culture or a related course
English literature and culture 2
German literature and culture 2
Spanish literature and culture 2
Second language foreign literature and culture or a related course
English literature and culture 2
German literature and culture 2
Spanish literature and culture 2
Modules | Credits | TAF | SSD |
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Comparative and European Public law
Principles of international marketing
1st foreign language
2nd foreign language
Modules | Credits | TAF | SSD |
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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.
Anglophone literatures and cultures (2017/2018)
Teaching code
4S002911
Teacher
Coordinator
Credits
9
Language
English
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
L-LIN/10 - ENGLISH LITERATURE
Period
Semester 1 dal Oct 2, 2017 al Jan 20, 2018.
Learning outcomes
The course provides students with an introduction to postcolonial studies and literature. We will use postcolonial theory to engage critically with representative Anglophone texts from Africa, the Caribbean, and Australia. Particular emphasis will be laid on the relationship between literary texts and their historical, socio-cultural, and linguistic contexts, within a specific methodological and theoretical framework.
Upon the completion of this course, students will be able to:
- read postcolonial literary texts closely, with focused attention to language, content, and form, and analyze the relationship between literary texts and the particular historical, social, and cultural contexts that produced them;
- demonstrate independent critical thinking in their analysis of literary texts
- demonstrate an ability to structure ideas and arguments in a logical, sustained, and persuasive way, and to support them with precise and relevant examples
Program
“Colonial stories, postcolonial perspectives”
The analysis of texts in the syllabus will consider the consequences of British colonial invasion and imperial dominance on (formerly) colonized countries and people, and will investigate the dynamics of construction/deconstruction/transformation of identity, as well as the way in which identity is rethought, in a postcolonial perspective, as a fluid and changing concept. We will focus on the basic definitions of such concepts as “diaspora”, “cultural heritage”, “nation”, “Orientalism”, “otherness” and will discuss the topics of belonging, displacement, point of view, physical and mental colonisation. Students will be guided through the investigation and interpretations of these issues as they are expressed in the literary texts, and they will be taught to critically reconsider the imperial assumptions stratified in the history of colonialism and will observe the emergence in the contemporary world of new postcolonial perspectives on a historical past that is still somehow very actual.
Bibliografia:
A) Primary Texts:
- Kate Grenville, The Secret River
- Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
- Jamaica Kincaid, A Small Place
B) Critical texts:
- S. Kossew, “Voicing the “Great Australian Silence”: Kate Grenville’s Narrative of Settlement in The Secret River”, Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 42, 2, 2007, pp. 7-18
- E. Mirmotahari, “History as Project and Source in Achebe’s Things Fall Apart”, Postcolonial Studies, 2011 Dec; 14 (4): 373-385
- C. McLeod, “Constructing a Nation: Jamaica Kincaid’s A Small Place”, Small Axe, 12, 1, 2008, pp. 77-92
C) Handbook:
- J. McLeod, Beginning Postcolonialism (ch. 1 “From ‘Commonwealth’ to ‘postcolonial’”; ch. 2 “Reading colonial discourses”; ch. 3 “Nationalist representations”; ch. 4 “The nation in question”; ch. 7 “Diaspora identities”)
ADDITIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR NON ATTENDING STUDENTS
- Herrero, Dolores, Crossing The Secret River: From Victim to Perpetrator, or the Silent/Dark Side of the Australian Settlement, Atlantis, 2014, vol:36, pp. 87 -105
- Watts, Jarica Linn, 'He Does Not Understand Our Customs': Narrating Orality and Empire in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 2010 Feb; 46 (1): 65-75.
- Suzanne Gauch, A Small Place: Some Perspectives on the Ordinary, Callaloo, Vol. 25, No. 3 (Summer, 2002), pp. 910-919
The course will be taught by means of lectures to be held in English
Author | Title | Publishing house | Year | ISBN | Notes |
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Jamaica Kincaid | A Small Place (Edizione 1) | 1981 | |||
S. Gauch | A Small Place: some perspectives on the ordinary (Edizione 1) | 2002 | Solo per non frequentanti | ||
John McLeod | Beginning Postcolonialism (Edizione 1) | 2000 | |||
C. McLeod | Constructing a Nation: J. Kincaid's A Small Place (Edizione 1) | 2008 | |||
Dolores Herrero | Crossing the Secret River (Edizione 1) | 2014 | Solo per non frequentanti | ||
J.L. Watts | He does not understand our Customs (Edizione 1) | 2010 | Solo per non frequentanti | ||
E. Mirmotahari | History as Project and Source in Achebe's Things Fall Apart (Edizione 1) | 2011 | |||
Kate Grenville | The Secret River (Edizione 1) | 2005 | |||
chinua achebe | things fall apart (Edizione 1) | 1958 | |||
sue kossew | voicing the great australian silence (Edizione 1) | 2007 |
Examination Methods
Oral exam in English at the end of the course.
The exam will assess the knowledge of texts on the syllabus and the capacity to critically discuss the problematic issues they deal with. In particular students will have to demonstrate:
- knowledge of the major tenets of postcolonial theory;
- knowledge of texts and contexts (to know the history of colonization and decolonization of the main former British colonies, and to be able to read primary texts within their historical, geographical and political framework)
- capacity to critically comment literary texts (to be able to discuss and analyse literary texts in a thoughtful manner and with the aid of critical works);
- knowledge of the critical debate on texts (to know and be able to use theoretical tools)
- ability to express the critical interpretations of texts in clear and effective manners.
Students will have to bring their own primary texts at the exam.
The programme will be valid for two academic years (i.e. until February 2020)
Students are admitted to the exam ONLY after passing English Language 1 and English Literature 1.
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There you will find information, resources and services useful during your time at the University (Student’s exam record, your study plan on ESSE3, Distance Learning courses, university email account, office forms, administrative procedures, etc.). You can log into MyUnivr with your GIA login details: only in this way will you be able to receive notification of all the notices from your teachers and your secretariat via email and also via the Univr app.
Attendance and location
Attendance is not mandatory.
More detailed information on attendance requirements, please refer to the “Regolamento del corso di studio”, available under the “Regolamenti” section in “Il Corso”. While the Student Handbook does not require mandatory attendance, it is recommended to confirm specific attendance policies with your professors for each course, lab, or practical training.
Part time enrolment is an option. For more information, visit the Possibilità di iscrizione Part time.
Classrooms and exam locations are:
Classes and exams are held at the following locations:
- Polo Zanotto (close to the Foreign Languages and Literatures building)>
- Polo Santa Marta
Student Career Management
Student login and resources
Tutor for Final Paper
Accredited Activities for CFUs D and F
Detailed Academic Calendar
Curricular Language Change
Computer Skills
Language Skills (first and second language)
Language skills in the Bachelor’s programme (third language CFU F)
https://www.univr.it/en/our-services/-/servizi/student-career-management-foreign-languages-and-literatures/language-skills-in-the-bachelors-programme-third-language-cfu-f-foreign-languages-and-literatures
Preparation of the study plan
Catalan Language Literacy - Academic Year 2024-25
Portuguese language course
Erasmus+ and other study abroad experiences
Linguistic training CLA
Course Orientation and Open day
Graduation
Threshold knowledge and Integrative Learning Requirements
Internships and apprenticeships
Internships and apprenticeships
A mandatory internship period (6 CFUs) within business organizations is included in the study plan for the Bachelor’s degree in Languages and Cultures for Tourism and International Commerce (L12).
The internship is designed to provide students with practical experience in areas relevant to their future professional careers and to help them acquire specific professional skills.
Internship activities are conducted under the direct supervision of an individual lecturer and take place at professional firms, public administration offices, and companies accredited by the University of Verona.
Credits earned through internship activities will be awarded in accordance with the detailed provisions of the current “Regolamento d’Ateneo per il riconoscimento dei crediti maturati negli stage universitari” (University Regulations for the Recognition of Credits Accrued in University Internships).
- Information for prospective students about internships can be found at Stage e tirocini.
- Information for enrolled students is available on MyUnivr - come fare per - stage e tirocini.
- Information for companies regarding internships can be found at Stage e tirocini per azienze.
For more details, please visit the following link https://www.univr.it/it/i-nostri-servizi/gestione-carriere-studenti-lingue-e-letterature-straniere/stage-e-tirocini-lingue-e-letterature-straniere