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Type D and Type F activities
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Laurea in Lettere - Enrollment from 2025/2026SOFT 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- or F-type credits).
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 December and 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.
| years | Modules | TAF | Teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1° 2° 3° | FAI Activities | F |
Edoardo Bianchi
(Coordinator)
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| 1° 2° 3° | Series of conferences Don Nicola Mazza University College | F |
Alessandra Zangrandi
(Coordinator)
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| 1° 2° 3° | Science communication | F |
Luca Ciancio
(Coordinator)
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| 1° 2° 3° | Course of history and art of the C.T.G. | F |
Marco Stoffella
(Coordinator)
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| 1° 2° 3° | Intercomprehension laboratory between the Romance languages | F |
Alessandra Zangrandi
(Coordinator)
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| 1° 2° 3° | Laboratory to introduce the study of Ancient Greek | F |
Dino Piovan
(Coordinator)
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| 1° 2° 3° | Books and writings of the Greek world | F |
Paolo Scattolin
(Coordinator)
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| 1° 2° 3° | San Giorgio di Valpolicella. New studies on the pieve | F |
Fabio Coden
(Coordinator)
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| 1° 2° 3° | C.R.E.S. Seminars | F |
Fabio Forner
(Coordinator)
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| 1° 2° 3° | University and DSA - Methods and strategies for tackling study and university studies | F |
Chiara Melloni
(Coordinator)
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| 1° 2° 3° | Webinars on history of linguistics and semiotics | F |
Paola Cotticelli
(Coordinator)
|
History of the Republic of Venice (p) (2023/2024)
Teaching code
4S02122
Teacher
Coordinator
Credits
6
Also offered in courses:
- History of the Republic of Venice (p) of the course Bachelor’s degree in Cultural Heritage
Language
Italian
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
M-STO/02 - MODERN HISTORY
Period
CuCi 1 A, CuCi 1 B
Courses Single
Authorized
Learning objectives
The goal of the course is to provide the main coordinates of the history of the city of Venice and the territories subject to it between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries, to include the history of the Republic in the political, diplomatic and international economic dynamics, to focus on some issues relating to the cultural dimension (learned and popular) including the role of Venice as a center of processing of religious dissent, to highlight the political particularities of the Venetian experience in a perspective of comparison with other Italian and European realities.
Prerequisites and basic notions
A basic knowledge of the European history of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age is sufficient for admission to the course.
Program
Course Content:
• The political and administrative organization of the Venetian state
• The patriciate (structure and composition, social role)
• The economy (markets and merchants, the economy of city and of the mainland, the merchant fleet)
• The administration of justice in Venice and in the territories of the State
• Society and ways of life (daily life, consumption, food, diseases and cures, beliefs etc.)
• Venice in the international context
• Religion (the ecclesiastical organization and folk religion. The inquisition and heresy).
• Publishing and book trade
• Public opinion and its control (newspapers and journals, ridotti and coffee-houses, ambassadors, State Inquisitors, forbidden books etc.)
• Culture (the arts and sciences, academies, the printing press, popular culture)
• Spaces and times of daily life
• Myth and anti-myth of Venice
Bibliography
Didactic methods
The lessons will have a hybrid structure. The first part of the course, which will be mainly based on lectures, will then be flanked by seminar lectures that will allow direct analysis of the sources, their discussion and visits to archives so that it will be possible to become directly aware of historiographic practice relating to the Venetian Republic
Learning assessment procedures
The examination will take place in oral form. Students must demonstrate that they have understood the structures of Venetian history, that they are able to correctly place problems and events, and that they know the most relevant themes of the historiographic debate. The evaluation shall be assigned in 30/30. The examination test will be the same for attending and not attending students.
Evaluation criteria
Knowledge of the history of the Venetian Republic and of the chosen book, exposition skills, critical reading skills and participation in the seminar activity will be assessed.
Criteria for the composition of the final grade
The grade will be an expression of the skills demonstrated during the final interview, both in relation to knowledge of the general history of Venice and to monographic in-depth stu
Exam language
Italiano
