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 30, 2019 | Jan 11, 2020 |
| II semestre (Lingue e letterature straniere) | Feb 17, 2020 | May 30, 2020 |
| Session | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| ESAMI LINGUE - sessione invernale | Jan 13, 2020 | Feb 15, 2020 |
| ESAMI LINGUE - sessione estiva | Jun 3, 2020 | Jul 25, 2020 |
| ESAMI LINGUE - sessione autunnale | Aug 24, 2020 | Sep 19, 2020 |
| Session | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| LAUREE LINGUE - sessione autunnale (a.a. 2018/19) | Nov 4, 2019 | Nov 9, 2019 |
| LAUREE LINGUE - sessione straordinaria (a.a. 2018/19) | Mar 30, 2020 | Apr 4, 2020 |
| LAUREE LINGUE - sessione estiva (a.a. 2019/20) | Jul 6, 2020 | Jul 11, 2020 |
| LAUREE LINGUE - sessione autunnale (a.a. 2019/20) | Nov 2, 2020 | Nov 7, 2020 |
| LAUREE LINGUE - sessione straordinaria (a.a. 2019/20) | Apr 7, 2021 | Apr 13, 2021 |
| Period | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Festa Ognissanti (Lingue) | Nov 1, 2019 | Nov 1, 2019 |
| Sospensione delle lezioni | Nov 2, 2019 | Nov 2, 2019 |
| Vacanze di Natale (Lingue) | Dec 23, 2019 | Jan 6, 2020 |
| Vacanze di Pasqua (Lingue) | Apr 10, 2020 | Apr 14, 2020 |
| Festa della Liberazione (Lingue) | Apr 25, 2020 | Apr 25, 2020 |
| Festa del Lavoro (Lingue) | May 1, 2020 | May 1, 2020 |
| Sospensione delle lezioni | May 2, 2020 | May 2, 2020 |
| Festa del Santo Patrono (Lingue) | May 21, 2020 | May 21, 2020 |
| Sospensione delle lezioni | May 22, 2020 | May 23, 2020 |
| Festa della Repubblica (Lingue) | Jun 2, 2020 | Jun 2, 2020 |
| Vacanze estive (Lingue) | Aug 10, 2020 | Aug 15, 2020 |
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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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 enrolment year.
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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.
Introduction to Digital Humanities (2019/2020)
Teaching code
4S008106
Teacher
Coordinatore
Credits
6
Language
Italian
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
INF/01 - INFORMATICS
Period
I semestre (Lingue e letterature straniere) dal Sep 30, 2019 al Jan 11, 2020.
Learning outcomes
The course aims to present students with knowledge on the tools and techniques at the foundation of Digital Humanities, in particular about digital scholarly editions and computational analysis of texts. At the end of the course students: - will know the main phases of the realization of a digital scholarly edition, and will acquire the practical skills to encode humanistic texts; - will know the main tasks for the automatic processing of written text, and will be able to use some of the main tools that support them; - will know the main methodologies and tools for the computational analysis of texts, and will be able to apply them to textual examples to be analyzed.
Program
Introduction to Digital Humanities
Introduction to Computer Science: Information Theory, Algorithms and Languages, Computer architecture
Internet & Web
Web page creation: HTML & CSS
XML Metalanguage
Digital Humanities and Philology: Digital Scholarly Edition [Dr. Anna Cappellotto]
TEI and text encoding
OCR: Optical Character Recognition [Dr. Stefano Bazzaco]
RegEx: Regular Expressions and their usage
Natural Language Processing
Distant reading: Introduction and usage of Voyant
Sentiment Analysis for Distant Reading [Dr. Simone Rebora]
Stylometry [Dr. Simone Rebora]
Materials and resources will be given out during the course to support the lessons, and will be uploaded on the course's Moodle page.
In addition to the suggested textbook, the following resources are recommended as supplementary materials:
- Topic: Digital Humanities and Philology: Digital Scholarly Edition
Patrick Sahle, “What is a Scholarly Digital Edition?”, in E. Pierazzo & M. Driscoll (eds), Digital Scholarly Editing: Theories and Practices, Open Book Publishers 2016, pp. 19-40
URL: https://www.openbookpublishers.com/htmlreader/978-1-78374-238-7/ch2.xhtml
- Topic: TEI and text encoding
Open access video course "Digital Scholarly Editions" on the #dariahTeach teaching and training platform
URL: https://teach.dariah.eu/course/view.php?id=32
- Topic: OCR: Optical Character Recognition
David A. Smith, Ryan Cordell, A Research Agenda for Historical and Multilingual Optical Character Recognition, NULab – Northeastern University, 2018
URL: https://repository.library.northeastern.edu/downloads/neu:m043p093w?datastream_id=content
- Topic: Topic modelling & Stylometry
Fabio Ciotti. 2017. “Modelli e metodi computazionali per la critica letteraria: lo stato dell’arte.” In B. Alfonzetti, T. Cancro, V. Di Iasio, E. Pietrobon (a cura di). L’Italianistica oggi: ricerca e didattica. Roma: Adi editore, pp. 1-11.
URL: http://www.italianisti.it/upload/userfiles/files/Ciotti.pdf
For those interested in further exploring the topics of the course:
INFORMATICA UMANISTICA 2/ED
Marco Lazzari
McGraw-Hill, 2014
ISBN: 9788838668555
https://univr.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma990003784900205791&context=L&vid=39UVR_INST:39UVR_VU1&search_scope=Aleph_SP&tab=Aleph_slot&lang=it
| Author | Title | Publishing house | Year | ISBN | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Francesca Tomasi | Metodologie informatiche e discipline umanistiche (Edizione 1) | Carocci | 2008 | 9788843043033 |
Examination Methods
Attendance and student contribution to class is strongly encouraged.
There is no difference in the program, materials and examination between attending and non-attending students
UPDATE: The exam is computer-based, and consists in filling a Moodle quiz. For more details, Please check the "Modalità d'esame" document on the course's home-page on Moodle.
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Corso di Lingua catalana a.a. 2022-23
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Saperi minimi
Graduation
Stage e tirocini
Nel piano didattico della laurea triennale in Lingue e letterature per l’editoria e i media digitali (L11 ED-DH) è previsto un tirocinio/stage obbligatorio (CFU 6).
Le attività di stage sono finalizzate a far acquisire allo studente una conoscenza diretta in settori di particolare interesse per l’inserimento nel mondo del lavoro e per l’acquisizione di abilità professionali specifiche.
Le attività di stage sono svolte sotto la diretta responsabilità di un singolo docente presso studi professionali, enti della pubblica amministrazione, aziende accreditate dall’Ateneo veronese.
I crediti maturati in seguito ad attività di stage saranno attribuiti secondo quanto disposto nel dettaglio dal “Regolamento d’Ateneo per il riconoscimento dei crediti maturati negli stage universitari” vigente.
- Tutte le informazioni in merito agli stage per futuri studenti sono disponibili alla pagina Stage e tirocini.
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- Tutte le informazioni in merito agli stage per le aziende sono disponili alla pagina Stage e tirocini per azienze.
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