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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sem. 1A | Sep 23, 2019 | Oct 31, 2019 |
| Sem. 1B | Nov 11, 2019 | Jan 11, 2020 |
| Sem. 2A | Feb 17, 2020 | Mar 28, 2020 |
| Sem. 2B | Apr 6, 2020 | May 30, 2020 |
| Session | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Sessione d'esame invernale | Jan 13, 2020 | Feb 15, 2020 |
| Sessione d'esame estiva | Jun 3, 2020 | Jul 25, 2020 |
| Sessione d'esame autunnale | Aug 24, 2020 | Sep 19, 2020 |
| Session | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Sessione di laurea estiva | Jul 6, 2020 | Jul 11, 2020 |
| Sessione di laurea autunnale | Nov 2, 2020 | Nov 6, 2020 |
| Sessione di laurea invernale | Apr 7, 2021 | Apr 13, 2021 |
| Period | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Festa di Ognissanti | Nov 1, 2019 | Nov 1, 2019 |
| Chiusura Ateneo | Nov 2, 2019 | Nov 2, 2019 |
| Festa dell'Immacolata | Dec 8, 2019 | Dec 8, 2019 |
| Vacanze di Natale | Dec 23, 2019 | Jan 6, 2020 |
| Vacanze di Pasqua | Apr 10, 2020 | Apr 14, 2020 |
| Festa della liberazione | Apr 25, 2020 | Apr 25, 2020 |
| Festa del lavoro | May 1, 2020 | May 1, 2020 |
| Sospensione delle lezioni | May 2, 2020 | May 2, 2020 |
| Festa del Santo Patrono | May 21, 2020 | May 21, 2020 |
| Sospensione delle lezioni | May 22, 2020 | May 23, 2020 |
| Festa della Repubblica | Jun 2, 2020 | Jun 2, 2020 |
| Vacanze estive | Aug 10, 2020 | Aug 15, 2020 |
Exam calendar
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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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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.
Sociology of Symbolic Systems (2019/2020)
Teaching code
4S00817
Teacher
Coordinatore
Credits
9
Language
Italian
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
SPS/08 - SOCIOLOGY OF CULTURE AND COMMUNICATION
Period
Sem. 1A, Sem. 1B
Learning outcomes
Knowledge and understanding The course aims to give students the cognitive tools to understand the social, cultural and political dynamics that have marked the transition to reflective modernity. 2. More properly, the course aims to focus on how the most relevant changes related to the macro level (institutional level) are reflected in the biographies of individual life, interpersonal and gender relations and the interrelation between individual-society (macro level). Applying knowledge and understanding 1. At the end of the course of study the student will be able to use sociological knowledge (theories, paradigms of reference and empirical data) to design or coordinate educational services in socio-cultural contexts with high levels of complexity, 2. More properly, the student will be able to use sociological knowledge in the light of the most relevant processes of de-institutionalization and privatization of individual life biographies.
Program
Course programme:
A)First part: in the first part of the course, the topic of political, cultural and economic environments will be deepened from the text of A. Giddens, which highlights how the current dynamics of modernity, in particular the breakdown of the systems processes social impact on the concept of trust, risk, safety and danger. Take shape new social configurations (reflexive modernity and ciange modern osicial imaginaries.).
Topics covered:
- introduction to processes fo globalization
- modernity / post-modernity: radicalization of processes
- the limits of a reading of modernity only as capitalist development
- how trust and risk environments change from the transition from traditional society to modern society
- the dark side of modernity: bureaucracy and totalitarianism
- the moral order of modernity: rationality, ethics of responsibility and work, civic engagement, the birth of the public and private sphere
B) Second part: the second part of the course will address the issue of reflexive modernity from specific perspectives of economism and privatism.
Topics covered:
-the new social imaginaries: the rediscovery of feelings, ethics of self-realization, privatism, civic disengagemen and economy as an objectified reality
- changes in intimate and family relationships: privatization and de-institutionalization of the family, new family forms and new forms of parenting
- the commodification of intimate life
- the risk society: privatization of social risks
| Author | Title | Publishing house | Year | ISBN | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S. Sasken | Espulsioni | Il Mulino | 2015 | ||
| Paola Di Nicola | Famiglia: sostantivo plurale. Nuovi orizzonti e vecchi problemi (Edizione 2) | Franco Angeli | 2017 | 9788891759672 | |
| C. Taylor | Il disagio della modernità | Laterza | 2011 | ||
| R. Castel | Incertezze crescenti | Editrice socialmente | 2015 | ||
| Antony Giddens | Le conseguenze della modernità (Edizione 1) | Il Mulino | 1994 | ||
| S. Moller Okin | Le donne e la giustizia (Edizione 1999) | Dedalo | 1999 | ||
| A. Russel Hochschild | Per amore o per denaro | Il MUlino | 2006 |
Examination Methods
Teaching methods: lectures and group work (debate) on the issues.
Evaluation methods for attending students. There are two written tests: one at the end of the general part and a second one at the end of the course.
- First test: three open questions on the most relevant dynamics of change identified by A. Giddens and C. Taylor
- Second test: critical analysis of a newspaper article (weekly or monthly) that summarizes a socially relevant process or problem, in order to demonstrate independence of judgment with respect to the topics proposed and developed within the course.
At the end of each test the teacher proposes a grade and then a final grade given by the average of the two individual assessments: the student can accept the final grade proposed or ask to make an oral integration.
Assessment methods for non-attending students: Oral exam.
In the oral assessment the following knowledge and skills will be certified:
- knowledge of the most relevant dynamics of reflective modernity;
- ability to stand in the different perspectives of analysis (the micro level of interpersonal relationships, the meso level of relationships between groups, the macro level of social imaginary,) to thematize the social changes in progress (to demonstrate to have understood the prospects for analysis)
- ability to develop autonomy of judgment with respect to the themes proposed and developed within the course, keeping in mind the different theories and perspectives.
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Adempimenti amministrativi domanda di laurea Luglio 2022 - a.a. 2021/2022
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Adempimenti amministrativi domanda di laurea Novembre 2022 - a.a. 2021/2022
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List of theses and work experience proposals
| theses proposals | Research area |
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| Tesi - Contatto intergruppi online | PSYCHOLOGY - PSYCHOLOGY |
| Tesi - progetto ULISSE | PSYCHOLOGY - PSYCHOLOGY |
| Tesi - Contatto intergruppi online | Psychology - Psychology, Applied |
| Tesi - progetto ULISSE | Psychology - Psychology, Applied |
| Psicoanalisi | Psychology - Psychology, Psychoanalysis |
| Tesi - Contatto intergruppi online | Psychology - Psychology, Social |
| Tesi - progetto ULISSE | Psychology - Psychology, Social |
| Stage | Research area |
|---|---|
| Tirocinio - contatto intergruppi online | PSYCHOLOGY - PSYCHOLOGY |
| Tirocinio - progetto ULISSE | PSYCHOLOGY - PSYCHOLOGY |
| Tirocinio - contatto intergruppi online | Psychology - Psychology, Applied |
| Tirocinio - progetto ULISSE | Psychology - Psychology, Applied |
| Tirocinio - contatto intergruppi online | Psychology - Psychology, Social |
| Tirocinio - progetto ULISSE | Psychology - Psychology, Social |
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Practical information for students
Stage e Tirocini
Per le altre attività formative (crediti F) sono previsti 9 cfu (pari a 225 ore) da acquisire solamente attraverso l’attività di tirocinio obbligatoria, a sua volta suddivisa in:- tirocinio indiretto (1 cfu: 25 ore di frequenza obbligatoria in università per il 75%) in preparazione dell’attività formativa sul campo;
- tirocinio diretto (8 cfu), da svolgersi presso enti convenzionati.
Il tirocinio indiretto consiste in un accompagnamento iniziale delle/degli studenti da parte dei tutor attraverso un percorso di formazione della durata di 25 ore.
La finalità di questo percorso è quella di preparare le/gli studenti alla particolare forma di apprendimento costituita dal tirocinio, dotandoli di conoscenze e strumenti adeguati a osservare, comprendere e rielaborare criticamente l’esperienza di tirocinio nei servizi educativi e ad affrontare il tirocinio negli enti con metodo e consapevolezza.
Il percorso, da attuare in gruppi da 20-25 persone sotto la supervisione di un tutor proveniente dal mondo professionale di educatori e pedagogisti, risponde alle esigenze costantemente espresse sia dalle/dagli studenti stessi sia dalle parti sociali che dai referenti degli enti convenzionati.
