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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
Russian literature and culture 2 (2024/2025)
Teaching code
4S002915
Teacher
Coordinator
Credits
9
Language
Russian
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
L-LIN/21 - SLAVIC STUDIES
Period
I semestre (Area Lingue e letterature straniere) dal Sep 23, 2024 al Dec 21, 2024.
Courses Single
Authorized
Learning objectives
At the end of the course students are expected to: 1) know the most important moments and the main peculiarities of the Russian History, as well as the essential elements of 20thcentury ; 2) apply the acquired knowledge to the analysis of the literary works presented during the classes, with the help of the provided critical references; 3) have the ability to formulate autonomous judgments about the main themes of the course, and to explain them in a correct and coherent form.
Prerequisites and basic notions
This exam cannot be taken before having passed the following exams: Russian culture and literature 1 and Russian language 1.
Program
The course is designed as a critical journey through 20th century Russian and Soviet history and culture, with an emphasis on the post-Soviet period. The course is also designed to encourage students to reflect on issues of urgent contemporary concern in the light of the large-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The course unfolds in the following subject:
1) A brief introduction to the history of the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia in the twentieth century.
2) Soviet Repressions and the GULAG: the struggle for memory in the Soviet and post-Soviet periods and the rewriting of history in contemporary Russia.
3) The intergenerational transmission of trauma in Soviet cinema of the 1980s.
4) Memory and dystopia in twentieth-century Russian literature.
5) The USSR as empire: the Soviet experience from a postcolonial perspective.
6) The Dynamics of Identity in Post-Soviet Literatures.
Literary texts:
1) E. Zamjatin; My / Noi
2) A. Achmatova; Requiem
3) V. Sorokin, Den’ Opričnika / La giornata di un opričkin
4) V. Šalamov; Šerri-brendi / Cherry-brandy, Utka / L’anatra, Gerkules /Ercole (Kolymskie rasskazy)
5) A. Nikitin, Victory Park
6) S. Aleksievič; Černobyl’skaja molitva / Una preghiera per Černobyl’
Other texts:
1) I. Flige, Il caso Sandormoch. La Russia e la persecuzione della memoria / I.A. Flige, Sandormoch: dramaturgija smyslov
Film:
Monanieba / Pentimento, regia di Tengiz Abuladze (1984).
Students are required to read the texts COMPLETELY for the exam.
Non-attending students are required to agree with the lecturer to read three critical essays related to the course topic.
Bibliography
Didactic methods
Teaching mode: frontal lessons, e-learning
Other materials will be provided on the course e-learning page.
Erasmus students are invited to contact the teacher at the beginning of the courses.
Tutoring activities for both attending and non-attending students will be scheduled during the course (see Moodle webpage).
Specific support and tutoring activities are available for inclusion and accessibility, with particular regard to the Language and Literature courses in the French, English, Russian, Spanish and German areas. The activities will take place from November 2024. More information will be available on the Department's webpage.
Learning assessment procedures
For attendings students (optional):
1) evaluation of the activities carried out during the classes (see Moodle page);
2) intermediate evaluation;
3) oral examination.
For non-attending students:
- oral examination.
Evaluation criteria
The assessment will consider the following criteria:
- Content accuracy and completeness
- Achievement of adequate analysis abilities
- Clarity in the exposition, arguing ability, and knowledge of the subject-specific lexicon.
Criteria for the composition of the final grade
For attending students (optional), the final mark, out of 30, will be the sum of the three parts of the examination (10/30 for the activities carried out during the classes, 10/30 for the in-progress test and 10/30 for the oral).
For non-attending students, the final mark (oral exam) is out of 30.
Exam language
Russo e italiano
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