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.

Academic calendar

Course calendar

The Academic Calendar sets out the degree programme lecture and exam timetables, as well as the relevant university closure dates..

Definition of lesson periods
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
Exam sessions
Session From To
Sessione d'esame invernale Jan 13, 2020 Feb 15, 2020
Sessione d'esame estiva (gli esami sono sospesi durante la sessione di laurea) Jun 3, 2020 Jul 25, 2020
Sessione d'esame autunnale Aug 24, 2020 Sep 19, 2020
Degree sessions
Session From To
Sessione di laurea estiva Jul 6, 2020 Jul 11, 2020
Sessione di laurea autunnale 19-20 Nov 2, 2020 Nov 7, 2020
Holidays
Period From To
Festa di Ognissanti Nov 1, 2019 Nov 1, 2019
Sospensione delle lezioni 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

Exam dates and rounds are managed by the relevant Culture and Civilisation Teaching and Student Services Unit.
To view all the exam sessions available, please use the Exam dashboard on ESSE3.
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Exam calendar

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Academic staff

B C D F G I M P S T Z

Bertagna Federica

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Borghetti Vincenzo

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Boscaini Maurizio

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Brunetti Simona

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Caleffi Paola Maria

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Calvi Lisanna

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Camurri Renato

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Carradore Marco

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Cavaleri Mattia

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Ceschi Andrea

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Cubico Serena

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Dalla Preda Mila

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Delfitto Denis

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Formiga Federica

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Franco Tiziana

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Gallo Claudio

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Gobbato Veronica

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Grossato Elisa

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Guaraldo Olivia

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Ienna Gerardo

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Magagnino Mario

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Menato Marco

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Migliorati Lorenzo

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Paini Anna Maria

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Pedrucci Giulia

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Possenti Ilaria

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Sandrini Giuseppe

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Sartori Riccardo

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Scandola Alberto

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Shamloo Soraya Elizabeth

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Soldani Arnaldo

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TaniStefano

Tani Stefano

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Zardini Alessandro

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Zorzi Margherita

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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 enrollment year.

2° Year  activated in the A.Y. 2020/2021

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
1 module to be chosen among the following
Foreign language B1 (CB test) (French, German, Spanish, Russian)
6
E
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activated in the A.Y. 2020/2021
ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
1 module to be chosen among the following
Foreign language B1 (CB test) (French, German, Spanish, Russian)
6
E
-
Modules Credits TAF SSD
Between the years: 1°- 2°- 3°
Between the years: 1°- 2°- 3°
Other activities
6
F
-

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.




S Placements in companies, public or private institutions and professional associations

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mMasterful

Type D and Type F activities

Semestrino 1A From 9/23/19 To 10/31/19
years Modules TAF Teacher
1° 2° 3° Lectures "Musiche/Culture/Civiltà" F Vincenzo Borghetti (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Laboratory of Theatrical Criticism F Simona Brunetti (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Worshop for cultral events F Not yet assigned
Semestrino 1B From 11/11/19 To 1/11/20
years Modules TAF Teacher
1° 2° 3° 1969 – 2019; a cinquant’anni dalla strage di piazza fontana F Renato Camurri (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Lectures "Musiche/Culture/Civiltà" F Vincenzo Borghetti (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Laboratory of Theatrical Criticism F Simona Brunetti (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Worshop for cultral events F Not yet assigned
Semestrino 2A From 2/17/20 To 3/28/20
years Modules TAF Teacher
1° 2° 3° Marchants of Culture. Editorial distribution and promotion F Federica Formiga (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Data elaboration laboratory F Maurizio Boscaini (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Laboratory of radio languages F Simona Brunetti (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Worshop for cultral events F Not yet assigned
1° 2° 3° The Role of Psychology in Human Resources: Professional interview F Riccardo Sartori (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Psychology and communication: Innovation and creativity processes in the workplace F Riccardo Sartori (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Sociology of Communication F Lorenzo Migliorati (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Sociology of Mass Communication (p) F Lorenzo Migliorati (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° History of comics F Claudio Gallo (Coordinator)
Semestrino 2B From 4/6/20 To 5/30/20
years Modules TAF Teacher
1° 2° 3° Data elaboration laboratory F Maurizio Boscaini (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Laboratory of radio languages F Simona Brunetti (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Worshop for cultral events F Not yet assigned
1° 2° 3° Creative Writing Laboratory F Veronica Gobbato (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Journalistic Writing Laboratory F Andrea Capuzzo (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° The Role of Psychology in Human Resources: Professional interview F Riccardo Sartori (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Psychology and communication: Innovation and creativity processes in the workplace F Riccardo Sartori (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Sociology of Communication F Lorenzo Migliorati (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Sociology of Mass Communication (p) F Lorenzo Migliorati (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° History of comics F Claudio Gallo (Coordinator)
List of courses with unassigned period
years Modules TAF Teacher
1° 2° 3° "Common world. 2022 Arendt Seminars F Olivia Guaraldo (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Theatre with wheels F Simona Brunetti (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Theatre with wheels - conferences F Simona Brunetti (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Univero’ 2019 F Tiziana Franco (Coordinator)

Teaching code

4S02217

Credits

12

Language

Italian

The teaching is organized as follows:

I MODULO PARTE (I)

Credits

6

Period

Sem 1A

Academic staff

Paola Maria Caleffi

II MODULO PARTE (P)

Credits

6

Period

Sem 1B

Academic staff

Paola Maria Caleffi

Learning outcomes

The two-module course is aimed at increasing students’ metalinguistic awareness, which will allow them not only to analyse some of the distinctive features of the English language through the study of its origin and evolution, but also and foremost to acquire knowledge of, recognise and exploit the potential of language as a major means of communication. By the end of the course, students will have improved their ability to analyse language and the way in which it is and can be used in specific communicative contexts. I MODULE The module is aimed at providing an introduction to English linguistics, both in diachronic and in synchronic terms, in order to consolidate the students’ linguistic skills that are mostly relevant to the professional prospects related to a degree in Communication Studies. Diachronically, the module will outline the key stages of the history of the English language, with a focus on the evolution of the role of English as the language of global communication. From a synchronic perspective, the module will focus on aspects of the language at the phonological/phonetic and morphological levels. The peculiarities of the phonological/phonetic and morphological features related to the use of English as a lingua franca will be highlighted through a comparative analysis with major native varieties of English. II MODULE The aim of the module is to develop students’ ability to critically observe the use of language in specific communicative settings through an introduction to the discipline of discourse analysis. Adopting a critical discourse analysis approach, the main features and communication strategies of argumentative/persuasive texts will be investigated, with a special focus on linguistic choices. Specifically, the main rhetorical-discursive features of the language of politics, advertising, and journalism will be analysed. At the end of the module, students will be able to apply methods and contents typical of critical discourse analysis to examine and interpret with a higher degree of critical awareness linguistic and communication strategies adopted in the production of different texts belonging to different genres.

Program

The first Module will deal with the following topics:
1. History of the English language
- Origins
- Old English
- Middle English
- Modern English
- Present-Day English: English as the language of global communication (ENL, ESL, EFL, ELF).
2. Phonetics/Phonology
- The relationship between spelling and pronunciation in English
- The International Phonetic Alphabet and phonological transcription
- The phonological system of General British: vowel sounds; consonant sounds; the notion of “minimal pair”
- Main differences between General british and General American
- The pronunciation of the morphemes –s e –ed;
- Syllables and word accent
3. Morphology
- The morpheme: bound and free morphemes
- Monomorphemic words and complex words
- Function and content words
- Word classes
- Inflectional morphology and word formation processes:
- derivation with affixation
- conversion
- compounding
- blending
- truncation
- abbreviation (acronyms and initialisms)

Texts:
Facchinetti, Roberta (2016). English Phonetics and Morphology. A reader for first year university students. 3rd edition. Verona: Quiedit.
Svartvik, Jan and Leech, Geoffrey (2006). English. One tongue, many voices. Basingstoke/New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Chapters: 1-5, 7 (pp.124-132), 8, 10-12.
Galloway, Nicola and Heath Rose (2015). Introducing Global Englishes. New York: Routledge. Chapters: 1, 3, 7, 10.

The second Module will deal with the following topics:
1. The notion of “discourse”:
- formalist approach
- functionalist approach
2. The notion of “genre”
3. Multimodal discourse
4. Peruasive discourse
5. Critical discourse analysis as a methodological approach to analyse communication strategies in persuasive discourse
6. The use of rhetoric and representational strategies in persuasive discourse
7. Distinctive features of political discourse, with a focus on political speeches
8. Distinctive features of advertising discourse, with a focus on advertisements
9. Distinctive features of journalistic discourse, with a focus on news reports and editorials

Texts:
Machin, David and Mayr, Andrea (2012). How to do critical discourse analysis. LA/London/New Delhi/Singapore/Washington DC: SAGE. Introduction and Chapters 2, 4, 6, 7, 8.
Goddard, Angela (2002). The Language of Advertising. London: Routledge. Units 1, 2, 3, 5, 7.
Charteris-Black, Jonathan (2014). Analysing Political Speeches. Rhetoric, Discourse and Metaphor. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Chapters: 1 (pp. 3-15), 2 (pp. 39-53), 4, 5.
Richardson, John E. (2007). Analysing Newspapers. An Approach from Critical Discourse Analysis. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Chapters: 1 (pp. 1-2 e pp. 6-14), 2 (pp. 21-27 e pp. 37-39), 3, 6 (pp. 149-165).

Further bibliographical references for both modules will be provided during the course. Students must also use the teacher’s slides as learning material. The slides will be uploaded on Moodle at the end of every week.

For both Modules, the programmes are the same for attendees and non-attendees.

Bibliography

Reference texts
Author Title Publishing house Year ISBN Notes
Richardson, J.E. Analysing Newspapers. An Approach from Critical Discourse Analysis Palgrave Macmillan 2007
Charteris-Black, J. Analysing Political Speeches. Rhetoric, Discourse and Metaphor Palgrave Macmillan 2014
Svartvik, J. and Leech, G. English. One tongue, many voices Palgrave Macmillan 2006
Facchinetti, Roberta English Phonetics and Morphology. A Reader for First Year University Students (Edizione 3) QuiEdit 2016 9788864642314
Machin, D. and Mayr, A. How to do Critical Discourse Analysis SAGE 2012
Galloway, N. and Rose, H. Introducing Global English Routledge 2015 978-0-415-83531-2
Goddard, A. The language of advertising Routledge 2002
Facchinetti, R. English Phonetics and Morphology. A reader for first year university students (Edizione 3) QuiEdit 2016

Examination Methods

PREREQUISITE: Students must have obtained a B2-level certificate of proficiency in English to be allowed to sit the exam.

The exam will be in English, it will be written, and will refer to BOTH modules. The exam paper will include open-ended and multiple choice questions, as well as practical exercises. It will be divided into two parts, one for the first module, and the other for the second. Before the end of the course, a mock exam will be uploaded on Moodle. The mock exam will also be carried out and corrected during the last class. The exam is designed to assess both the knowledge and understanding of the theoretical contents of both modules, and the ability to apply the theoretical knowledge acquired to concrete situations of language in use.

The final exam is the same for both attendees and non-attendees.

Students with disabilities or specific learning disorders (SLD), who intend to request the adaptation of the exam, must follow the instructions given HERE

Career prospects


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Graduation

Documents

Title Info File
File pdf Tesi di laurea: vademecum per docenti e studenti pdf, it, 263 KB, 09/02/22

List of thesis proposals

theses proposals Research area
Laureandi Scienze della Comunicazione: vademecum Various topics

Gestione carriere


Linguistic training CLA


Student mentoring


Student login and resources


Modalità e sedi di frequenza

La frequenza non è obbligatoria.

Maggiori dettagli in merito all'obbligo di frequenza vengono riportati nel Regolamento del corso di studio disponibile alla voce Regolamenti nel menu Il Corso. Anche se il regolamento non prevede un obbligo specifico, verifica le indicazioni previste dal singolo docente per ciascun insegnamento o per eventuali laboratori e/o tirocinio.

È consentita l'iscrizione a tempo parziale. Per saperne di più consulta la pagina Possibilità di iscrizione Part time.

Le sedi di svolgimento delle lezioni e degli esami sono le seguenti: