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Type D and Type F activities
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Laurea in Lingue e culture per il turismo e il commercio internazionale - Enrollment from 2025/2026Type D and Type F Credits (CFUs D and F)
As part of the academic plans for each degree program, students must earn a specified number of credits from the Type D and F (CFUs D and F) categories.
CFUs D (student's choice activities)
CFUs D can be earned through various activities, including:
- Elective courses: non-mandatory courses within your plan of study, subject to the approval of the Chair of the Teaching Committee the course cannot be selected independently.
- Accredited activities: activities accredited by the Teaching Committee
- Language Proficiency: acquiring proficiency in languages different from or additional to the required ones.
- Internships or apprenticeships: practical work experience in relevant fields
- TALCs (Transversal Skills): skills gained through specific university programs.
The total number of CFUs D is calculated over the entire degree period (two or three years) and is not tied to a single academic year.
Transversal skills
Explore the learning pathways promoted by the University's Teaching and Learning Center for currently enrolled students that aim to develop transversal skills
Please note: TALC courses are only recognized as CFUs D.
Contamination Lab
The Contamination Lab Verona (CLab Verona) is an experiential learning program focused on innovation and business culture. It offers students the opportunity to collaborate in teams across different programmes and disciplines to solve challenges posed private companies and institutions. Completing this pathway earns students 6 CFUs D. Learn more about the CLab challenges here.
Important Notes:
- To be eligible for any credit-bearing learning activities, including electives, students must be enrolled in the academic year during which the activities are offered.
- GRADUATING SENIORS: Students who plan to graduate in the November or March/April sessions are advised NOT to undertake extracurricular activities in a new academic year (in which they are not enrolled), as these graduation sessions correspond to the previous academic year. Activities completed during an academic year in which students is not enrolled will not be credited with CFUs.
CFUs F (other training activities)
CFUs F typically relate to skills in computing and languages, internships and apprenticeships, and other educational activities accredited by the Teaching Committee.
The degree program in Languages and Cultures for Tourism and International Commerce recognizes the following:
- 3 CFUs for a third language (B1 level)
- 3 CFUs for computer skills
- 6 CFUs for a mandatory internship.
Computer skills can be acquired by:
- Passing the test in the University's computer labs.
- Attending and passing the final exams for courses offered by schools and centres accredited by AICA (Italian Association for Computer Science and Automatic Computing) or courses recognized by the Province and Region. Applications for the recognition of previously acquired computer skills are reviewed by the Commission for the Recognition of Computer Skills.
Internship are designed to provide students with direct, practical knowledge and experience relevant to their field of study, helping them acquire specific professional skills.
To discover all the teaching activities accredited by the foreign teaching college click here
French literature and culture 1 (2024/2025)
Teaching code
4S002900
Teacher
Coordinator
Credits
6
Also offered in courses:
- French literature of the course Bachelor’s degree in Humanities
- French Literature (i) of the course Bachelor’s degree in Humanities
Language
Italian
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
L-LIN/03 - FRENCH LITERATURE
Period
II semestre (Area Lingue e letterature straniere) dal Feb 17, 2025 al May 24, 2025.
Courses Single
Authorized
Learning objectives
This course introduces to some voices and aspects of modern and contemporary French literature in order to develop critical readings of relevant literary texts in relation to social, economic and artistic changes in the recent history of French culture. At the end of this course, students shall therefore acquire knowledge in French cultural history, along with the ability of applying such knowledge to critical readings of relevant literary texts concerning the identitarian, relational, historical, cultural, social and economical issues the course deals with.
Prerequisites and basic notions
Both recommended, obtaining the language certification and passing the French Language 1 exam are not mandatory requirements to access the exam.
Program
The course will provide a theoretical-critical framework of the particularly complex relationship between literature and epidemics, focusing initially on some traités de peste published in France at the end of the 16th century (Jean Cassal; Ambroise Paré) and, subsequently, on two authors representative of the corpus of Littérature du sida (Guy Hocquenghem; René de Ceccatty). The imaginary and prejudices that emerge following epidemics such as the plague in the 16th century and AIDS in the 20th century will be investigated, as well as the profound social, political and literary repercussions. The focus of study will be some Renaissance treatises on littérature médicale and two contemporary novels, whose vocabulary, literary strategies and main themes will be analyzed. Particular attention will be paid to the historical context and to a series of topoi, including disease as divine punishment, the impuissance of the medical community, writing as an instrument of salvation, which characterize the texts examined and which put the authors-witnesses of the epidemic into direct dialogue throughout the centuries. A detailed program, with a list of literary texts and other study materials, as well as specific indications for preparing for the exam, will be provided at the beginning and during the course. A) The plague and medical literature in the 16th century Texts: A. PARÉ, Traicte de la Peste, de la petite Verolle & Rougeolle ; avec une brief description de la Lepre, A Paris, Par Gabriel Buon, 1580 (Gallica) ; O. POUPARD, Conseil divin touching la maladie Divine, & Peste en la ville de la Rochelle, A la Rochelle, Chez Jean Portau, 1583 (Gallica) ; J. CASSAL, Traicte' de la Peste, Avec une Methode servant pour la congnoissance d'icelle, ensemble une exhortation pour consoler ceux qui seront detenus de quellques grandes maladies, & principallement de la contagion, A Lyon, Par Benoist Rigaud, 1589 (Gallica). Texts critiques : B. HOBART, La peste à la Renaissance : l'imaginaire d'un fléau dans la littérature au XVIe siècle, Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2020 ; A. LE BERRE, Le traité de peste de la Renaissance, un objet littéraire?, Le Verger – bouquet XXVIII, June 2024; W. MARX, What literature we learn from the epidemic, Fabula. Atelier de théorie littéraire, April 2020, https://www.fabula.org/atelier.php?Ce_que_la_litterature_fait_a_l_epidemie; V. MONTAGNE, Médecine et rhétorique à la Renaissance. Le cas du traité de peste en langue vernaculaire, Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2017 ; V. MONTAGNE, Le discours didascalique sur la plague dans les traités médicaux de la Renaissance: rationaliser et/ou inquiéter, « Réforme, Humanisme, Renaissance », no. 70, 2010, pp. 103-112. B) La littérature du sida Textes: G. HOCQUENGHEM, Ève, Paris, Albin Michel, 1987; R. DE CECCATTY, L'accompagnement, Paris, Gallimard, 1994. Texts critiques: R. CHAMBERS, AIDS and the culture of accompaniment in France, « French Cultural Studies », vol. 9, 1998 ; M. FOURNIER, La Veuve nue, ou du mandate de représentation dans L'Accompagnement de René de Ceccatty, « Postures », no. 2, online, pp. 15-34; M. GRMEK, Histoire du sida, Paris, Payot, 1989; Illness and separation. Itineraries of writing pathology in literature, edited by AM Babbi and A. Marchiori, Verona, Cierre Grafica, 2013; B. MARSHALL, Guy Hocquenghem: Beyond Gay Identity, Durham, Duke University Press, 1997; S. SONTAG, AIDS and its metaphors, Turin, Einaudi, 1989; C. VOISSET-VEYSSEYRE, Guy Hocquenghem : la révolte (1946-1988), Paris, Éditions du Sextant, 2015 ; F. WASSERFALLEN, Ève ou le miroir des révélations, « Equinoxe », no. 5, 1991. On the French novel of the twentieth century: S. TERONI, The French novel of the twentieth century, Rome-Bari, Laterza, 1997.
Bibliography
Didactic methods
In-person lessons. The supporting teaching materials will be uploaded to the teaching Moodle platform. For any other information regarding the course, the teacher is available via email or during office hours.
Learning assessment procedures
The evaluation will take place through an oral assessment of the knowledge relating to the Course.
Evaluation criteria
The following will be assessed: the quality of the oral expression in French, the clarity and coherence of the argumentation, the completeness of the information and the ability to critically deepen the knowledge acquired.
Criteria for the composition of the final grade
In thirtieths.
Exam language
Italiano
