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.

Study Plan

A.A. 2024/2025 A.A. 2023/2024 A.A. 2022/2023 A.A. 2021/2022 A.A. 2020/2021 A.A. 2019/2020

This information is intended exclusively for students already enrolled in this course.
If you are a new student interested in enrolling, you can find information about the course of study on the course page:

Laurea in Lingue e letterature per l'editoria e i media digitali - Enrollment from 2025/2026

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.

CURRICULUM TIPO:

1° Year 

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
1st foreign language
9
A
L-LIN/12
9
A
L-LIN/04
9
A
L-LIN/14
9
A
L-LIN/21
9
A
L-LIN/07
2nd foreign language
9
B
L-LIN/12
9
B
L-LIN/04
9
B
L-LIN/14
9
B
L-LIN/21
9
B
L-LIN/07
1st foreign literature
9
B
L-LIN/10
9
B
L-LIN/03
9
B
L-LIN/13
9
B
L-LIN/21
9
B
L-LIN/05
2nd foreign literature
9
B
L-LIN/10
9
B
L-LIN/03
9
B
L-LIN/13
9
B
L-LIN/21
9
B
L-LIN/05
6
C
INF/01
3
F
INF/01
6
A
L-FIL-LET/10
3rd foreign language B1 level
3
F
-
6
D
-

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

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
1st foreign language
9
B
L-LIN/12
9
B
L-LIN/04
9
B
L-LIN/14
9
B
L-LIN/21
9
B
L-LIN/07
2nd foreign language
9
B
L-LIN/12
9
B
L-LIN/04
9
B
L-LIN/14
9
B
L-LIN/21
9
B
L-LIN/07
1st foreign literature
9
B
L-LIN/10
9
B
L-LIN/03
9
B
L-LIN/13
9
B
L-LIN/21
9
B
L-LIN/05
2nd foreign literature
9
B
L-LIN/10
9
B
L-LIN/03
9
B
L-LIN/13
9
B
L-LIN/21
9
B
L-LIN/05
6
A
L-LIN/01
6
A
L-FIL-LET/13
Philology related to 1st or 2nd foreign language
6
B
L-FIL-LET/15
6
B
L-FIL-LET/09
6
B
L-LIN/21
6
C
INF/01
3
F
INF/01

3° Year   activated in the A.Y. 2021/2022

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
1st foreign language
9
B
L-LIN/12
9
B
L-LIN/04
9
B
L-LIN/14
9
B
L-LIN/21
9
B
L-LIN/07
2nd foreign language
9
B
L-LIN/12
9
B
L-LIN/04
9
B
L-LIN/14
9
B
L-LIN/21
9
B
L-LIN/07
6
A
SPS/08
6
C
M-STO/08
6
C
INF/01
3
F
INF/01
6
D
-
Training
6
F
-
Final exam
6
E
-
ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
1st foreign language
9
A
L-LIN/12
9
A
L-LIN/04
9
A
L-LIN/14
9
A
L-LIN/21
9
A
L-LIN/07
2nd foreign language
9
B
L-LIN/12
9
B
L-LIN/04
9
B
L-LIN/14
9
B
L-LIN/21
9
B
L-LIN/07
1st foreign literature
9
B
L-LIN/10
9
B
L-LIN/03
9
B
L-LIN/13
9
B
L-LIN/21
9
B
L-LIN/05
2nd foreign literature
9
B
L-LIN/10
9
B
L-LIN/03
9
B
L-LIN/13
9
B
L-LIN/21
9
B
L-LIN/05
6
C
INF/01
3
F
INF/01
6
A
L-FIL-LET/10
3rd foreign language B1 level
3
F
-
6
D
-
activated in the A.Y. 2020/2021
ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
1st foreign language
9
B
L-LIN/12
9
B
L-LIN/04
9
B
L-LIN/14
9
B
L-LIN/21
9
B
L-LIN/07
2nd foreign language
9
B
L-LIN/12
9
B
L-LIN/04
9
B
L-LIN/14
9
B
L-LIN/21
9
B
L-LIN/07
1st foreign literature
9
B
L-LIN/10
9
B
L-LIN/03
9
B
L-LIN/13
9
B
L-LIN/21
9
B
L-LIN/05
2nd foreign literature
9
B
L-LIN/10
9
B
L-LIN/03
9
B
L-LIN/13
9
B
L-LIN/21
9
B
L-LIN/05
6
A
L-LIN/01
6
A
L-FIL-LET/13
Philology related to 1st or 2nd foreign language
6
B
L-FIL-LET/15
6
B
L-FIL-LET/09
6
B
L-LIN/21
6
C
INF/01
3
F
INF/01
activated in the A.Y. 2021/2022
ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
1st foreign language
9
B
L-LIN/12
9
B
L-LIN/04
9
B
L-LIN/14
9
B
L-LIN/21
9
B
L-LIN/07
2nd foreign language
9
B
L-LIN/12
9
B
L-LIN/04
9
B
L-LIN/14
9
B
L-LIN/21
9
B
L-LIN/07
6
A
SPS/08
6
C
M-STO/08
6
C
INF/01
3
F
INF/01
6
D
-
Training
6
F
-
Final exam
6
E
-

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.

A Basic activities
B Characterizing activities
C Related or complementary activities
D Activities to be chosen by the student
E Final examination
F Other training activities
S Placements in companies, public or private institutions and professional associations

Introduction to Digital Humanities  (2019/2020)

Teaching code

4S008106

Teacher

Marco Rospocher

Coordinator

Marco Rospocher

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.

Lessons timetable MoodleMoodle Seminars 0

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

Reference texts
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.

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