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.

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Laurea in Scienze dell'educazione - Enrollment from 2025/2026

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.

CURRICULUM TIPO:

1° Year 

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
A course to be chosen among the following
6
B
M-STO/02
Foreign language (B1 level)

2° Year   activated in the A.Y. 2018/2019

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
A course to be chosen among the following
A course to be chosen among the following
A course to be chosen among the following
Training (-)
12
F
-

3° Year   activated in the A.Y. 2019/2020

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
A course to be chosen among the following
Final exam (-)
6
E
-
ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
A course to be chosen among the following
6
B
M-STO/02
Foreign language (B1 level)
activated in the A.Y. 2018/2019
ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
A course to be chosen among the following
A course to be chosen among the following
A course to be chosen among the following
Training (-)
12
F
-
activated in the A.Y. 2019/2020
ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
A course to be chosen among the following
Final exam (-)
6
E
-
Modules Credits TAF SSD
Between the years: 1°- 2°- 3°

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Teaching code

4S00742

Credits

9

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

M-DEA/01 - DEMOLOGY, ETHNOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY

Period

Sem. IIA, Sem. IIB

Learning outcomes

Knowledge and understanding

At the end of the course the student should:
- have a basic knowledge of the fundamentals of socio-cultural anthropology in the various fields of political and economical anthropology, of social inequalities and of the contemporary globalized world needed to understand human variation from a social and cultural viewpoint;
- have a basic knowledge of the main theoretical arguments in the socio-cultural anthropology field and the more common forms of racism in the contemporary world in order to plan, perform and assess educational projects with an inclusivity and inter-cultural dialogue perspective.

Applying knowledge and understanding

At the end of the course, the student should be able to:
- promote cultural decentralization and consequently affective, cognitive, relational and social autonomies;
- implement the acquired anthropological knowledge in order to intervene in situations of marginalization and integration difficulties, also by recognizing and assessing different family up-bringing models and different cultural styles of understanding;
- use strategies to oppose various forms of racism in different educational and/or social contexts.

Making judgements

At the end of the course, the student will have acquired:
- the capacity to question the socio-cultural variation of models and educational processes;
- the capacity to critically analyze, outline and implement educational interventions with an inclusivity and inter-cultural dialogue perspective.

Communication skills

At the end of the course, the student should be able to:
- consciously and critically use specific terms relating to socio-cultural diversity;
- inform of his/her own educational choices and know how to constructively compare his/her own decisions with other people's views.

Learning skills

At the end of the course, the student should be able to:
- recognize various educational background models and different learning styles and adopt suitable educational strategies;
- consider himself/herself to be within a permanent learning trend in terms of the fluidity of socio-cultural processes in contemporary education contexts.

Program

Requirements
No particular requirements needed.

Content
The course content regards:
- introduction to the conceptual methods and tools of basic socio-cultural anthropology (especially the concepts of culture and society);
- the fundamentals of socio-cultural anthropology in the various fields of political and economical anthropology, of social inequalities and of the contemporary globalized world;
- the fundamentals of socio-cultural anthropology in the study of the various forms of present-day racism.
- the fundamentals of anthropology of migrations

Teaching methods
Lectures in which numerous ethnographic examples (also taken from the professional educational contexts) will be presented to support the teaching/learning of the discipline's basic concepts

Texts
E. A. Schultz and R. H. Lavenda, 2015, Antropologia culturale, Zanichelli, Bologna (only the third Italian edition).
- only chapters 1-2-3-7-8-9-10 -12-14
- in chapter 10, only the two paragraphs on pages 256-257
- in chapter 14, ignore the paragraphs from page 413 to page 424

B. Riccio (ed.), 2014, Antropologia e migrazioni, Rome, CISU.
- only chapters 1-2-6-9-10-11-12-17-19

B. Sorgoni (ed.), 2011, Etnografia dell'accoglienza. Rifugiati e richiedenti asilo a Ravenna, Rome, CISU.

Riccio, B., 2007, "Toubab" e "vu cumprà". Transnazionalità e rappresentazioni nelle migrazioni senegalesi in Italia, Padova: CLEUP.

Reference texts
Author Title Publishing house Year ISBN Notes
E. A. Schultz e R. H. Lavenda Antropologia culturale (Edizione 3) Zanichelli 2015 978-88-08-15131-5
B. Riccio (a cura di) Antropologia e migrazioni CISU 2014 978-88-7975-590-0
B. Sorgoni (a cura di) Etnografia dell'accoglienza. Rifugiati e richiedenti asilo a Ravenna (Edizione 1) CISU 2011 978-88-7975-526-9
Riccio, B. "Toubab" e "vu cumprà". Transnazionalità e rappresentazioni nelle migrazioni senegalesi in Italia (Edizione 1) CLEUP 2007 978-88-6129-064-8

Examination Methods

Learning assessment method
The assessment method will be NO different for attending and non-attending students.
Learning levels will be assessed by a written examination.
The student must be able to demonstrate:
- to have understood the important elements of the discipline's main theoretical arguments;
- to be able to express their own reasoning in a precise manner and in a limited amount of time, identifying and selecting the essential elements;
- to be able to critically analyze and connect the ethnographic examples studied to the theory.

Results
The results of the examination will be given on a scale of thirty.
The written examination will contain 6 open questions to which a maximum of 5 points will be attributed to each answer.



Students with disabilities or specific learning disorders (SLD), who intend to request the adaptation of the exam, must follow the instructions given HERE