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 (Lingue e letterature straniere) | Sep 25, 2023 | Dec 22, 2023 |
Annuale (Lingue e letterature straniere) | Sep 25, 2023 | May 25, 2024 |
II semestre (Lingue e letterature straniere) | Feb 19, 2024 | May 25, 2024 |
Session | From | To |
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ESAMI LINGUE - sessione invernale | Jan 8, 2024 | Feb 10, 2024 |
ESAMI LINGUE - sessione estiva | May 27, 2024 | Jul 20, 2024 |
ESAMI LINGUE - sessione autunnale | Aug 26, 2024 | Sep 21, 2024 |
Session | From | To |
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LAUREE LINGUE - sessione autunnale (a.a. 2022-2023) | Nov 6, 2023 | Nov 11, 2023 |
LAUREE LINGUE - sessione straordinaria (a.a. 2022-2023) | Apr 2, 2024 | Apr 8, 2024 |
LAUREE LINGUE - sessione estiva (a.a. 2023-2024) | Jul 8, 2024 | Jul 13, 2024 |
Period | From | To |
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Festa di Ognissanti | Nov 1, 2023 | Nov 1, 2023 |
Festa dell'Immacolata | Dec 8, 2023 | Dec 8, 2023 |
LINGUE - Vacanze di Natale | Dec 23, 2023 | Jan 7, 2024 |
Vacanze di Pasqua | Mar 30, 2024 | Apr 1, 2024 |
Festa della Liberazione | Apr 25, 2024 | Apr 25, 2024 |
Festa del Lavoro | May 1, 2024 | May 1, 2024 |
Festa del Santo Patrono | May 21, 2024 | May 21, 2024 |
Festa della Repubblica | Jun 2, 2024 | Jun 2, 2024 |
Vacanze estive | Aug 12, 2024 | Aug 17, 2024 |
Exam calendar
Exam dates and rounds are managed by the relevant Foreign Languages and Literatures Teaching and Student Services Unit.
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Academic staff
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giacomo.morbiato@univr.itStudy 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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German literature and culture 1
German literature and culture 1
2° Year activated in the A.Y. 2024/2025
Modules | Credits | TAF | SSD |
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Anglophone literatures and cultures
English literature and culture 2
French literature and culture 2
German literature and culture 2
Spanish literature and culture 2
Anglophone literatures and cultures
English literature and culture 2
French literature and culture 2
German literature and culture 2
Spanish literature and culture 2
Geography of communication and international trade
Italian literature and culture
Modern and Contemporary Economic History
Theory and Techniques of communication
3° Year It will be activated in the A.Y. 2025/2026
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German literature and culture 1
German literature and culture 1
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Anglophone literatures and cultures
English literature and culture 2
French literature and culture 2
German literature and culture 2
Spanish literature and culture 2
Anglophone literatures and cultures
English literature and culture 2
French literature and culture 2
German literature and culture 2
Spanish literature and culture 2
Geography of communication and international trade
Italian literature and culture
Modern and Contemporary Economic History
Theory and Techniques of communication
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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.
English literature and culture 1 [CInt F-O] (2023/2024)
Teaching code
4S002903
Teacher
Coordinator
Credits
6
Language
English
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
L-LIN/10 - ENGLISH LITERATURE
Period
I semestre (Lingue e letterature straniere) dal Sep 25, 2023 al Dec 22, 2023.
Courses Single
Authorized
Learning objectives
The course, held in English, aims at introducing students to relevant aspects of English literature, from the Pre-Romantic to the contemporary period, through the reading of a selection of canonical texts. Primary notions about possible methodological approaches for the analysis of literary texts and genres will be imparted. Furthermore, the course will provide a sound knowledge of the English literature of the period (historical context, texts, genres, literary movements and authors) and stimulate abilities and skills for the critical analysis of texts, their discussion and analysis, in consideration of their historical, cultural, and context specificities. At the end of the course, students will be able to: - Analyse the literary texts of the syllabus discussing them in relation to their historical and cultural context; - Discuss the texts using an appropriate critical approach demonstrating the knowledge of the literary conventions of their time; - Express the acquired literary and critical knowledge demonstrating an adequate competence also in the English language.
Prerequisites and basic notions
The certification of "saperi minimi" is necessary to take the final exam.
Program
“The stately Homes of England, / How beautiful they stand! / Amidst their tall ancestral trees, / O'er all the pleasant land”, wrote the Romantic poet Felicia Hemans in the early 19th century. The course aims at discussing how the country house has become a symbol of a certain type of Englishness which, in the twentieth century, made it become the fulcrum of social, national and, in general, identity crises in novels that are actually very different from each other. We will begin by examining how Pointz Hall in Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf (1941) is the site of a reflection on what it means to be British in the context of the Second World War. The country house is at the centre of the social, political and, above all, psychological dynamics of L. P. Hartley's Bildungsroman The Go-Between (1953), set in the Edwardian age. Finally, Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day (1989) thematises and problematizes, with its unreliable narrator, Mr Stevens, the butler of Darlington Hall, the feeling of mythologizing nostalgia for the English aristocracy.
Bibliography
Didactic methods
Attending students: The course will be held in English and the lectures will allow for opportunities to discuss the students' independent reflections and sharing of the same. Additional material will be published on the dedicated e-learning platform.
Non-attending students: For non-attending students, the programme remains the one indicated on this web page and the material on the dedicated e-learning platform. The essays (section B, see below) which are indicated as optional for attending students are compulsory for non-attending students.
A) Primary texts (they must be read in English in the unabridged version)
- Virginia Woolf , Between the Acts (recommended edition: Oxford World's Classics, edited by Frank Kermode, 1992, and later)
- L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between (recommended edition: Penguin, 2000, edited by Douglas Brooks-Davies, or later)
- Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day (recommended edition: Faber and Faber, 1999 or later)
B) Critical texts
- Marlowe A. Miller, 2018. “Through the Arch: The Country House and the Tradition of English Tyranny in Woolf's Between the Acts”, in Virginia Woolf and Heritage, ed. Jane de Gay et al., 67-72. Clemson University Press.
-Schröder, Leena Kore, 2006. “'The Lovely Wreckage of the Past': Virginia Woolf and the English Country House”. English Journal of the English Association 55 (213): 255-80 (OPTIONAL).
- Moan, Margaret A., 1973. “Setting and Structure: An Approach to Hartley's The Go-Between”. Critique: Studies in Modern Fiction 15.2: 27-36.
- Pissarello, Giulia. 1984. L'esorcizzazione del male: The Go-Between di LP Hartley, Pacini. (OPTIONAL)
- Ekelund, BG. 2005. "Misrecognizing History: Complicitous Genres in Kazuo Ishiguro's Remains of the Day"; Independent Fiction Review, 32 (1): 70-90.
- Tamaya, Meera. 1992. “Ishiguro's Remains of the Day: The Empire Strikes Back,” Modern Language Studies, 2 (2): 45-56. (OPTIONAL)
C) History of literature manual (mandatory): Paul Poplawski, English Literature in Context, 2nd Edition, Cambridge University Press, 2017, from chapter 4 to chapter 8 included.
Learning assessment procedures
Since the lectures are in English, the exam will consist of an oral discussion in English on the topics of the course and on the texts in the programme (parts A, B, C).
Evaluation criteria
The exam will aim to verify:
- knowledge of the history of English literature (the parts in the programme)
- analytical and argumentative ability in relation to the texts in the programme
- depth and breadth of preparation
- ability to connect the various topics of the programme on the basis of critical texts
Criteria for the composition of the final grade
Calculation of the average of the grades assigned according to the criteria indicated in the previous section
Exam language
English
Type D and Type F activities
Soft skills
Find out more about the Soft Skills courses for Univr students provided by the University's Teaching and Learning Centre: https://talc.univr.it/it/competenze-trasversali
Contamination Lab
The Contamination Lab Verona (CLab Verona) is an experiential course with modules on innovation and enterprise culture that offers the opportunity to work in teams with students from all areas to solve challenges set by companies and organisations. Upon completion of a CLab, students will be entitled to receive 6 CFU D (type credit).
Find out more: https://www.univr.it/clabverona
PLEASE NOTE: In order to be admitted to any teaching activities, including those of your choice, you must be enrolled in the academic year in which the activities in question are offered. Students who are about to graduate in the March-April sessions are therefore advised NOT to undertake extracurricular activities in the new academic year in which they are not enrolled, as these graduation sessions are valid for students enrolled in the previous academic year. Therefore, students who undertake an activity in an academic year in which they are not enrolled will not be granted CFU credits.
To discover all the teaching activities accredited by the foreign teaching college click here
Career prospects
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Gestione carriere
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
Assegnazione tutore
Attività accreditate D/F
Calendario didattico dettagliato
Cambio lingua curriculare
Competenze informatiche
Competenze linguistiche (prima e seconda lingua)
Competenze linguistiche in triennale (terza lingua CFU F)
Compilazione del piano didattico
Corso di Lingua catalana a.a. 2024-25
Corso di Lingua portoghese
Erasmus+ e altre esperienze all'estero
Linguistic training CLA
Presentazione dei corsi di studio e Open day
Graduation
Saperi minimi
Internships and apprenticeships - Foreign Languages and Literatures
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