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The course of study includes the obligation to acquire CFUs by performingOther Activities that are closely related to your university course and useful for your placement in the world of work.

You can enter the code for Other Activities in your syllabus indifferently in your first or second year.

N.B.The Other Activities can be carried outat any time during the two years but you can only request their recognition provided that you have entered the corresponding code in your study plan. If you have not entered it, you will still be able to carry out activities that are useful for earning Other Credits.To submit documentation you will have to wait until the following academic year, when you enter the code for the educational activity in your plan.

Recognized activities

To acquire the single mandatory CFU you can choose from:

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  • the attendance of one of the Laboratories offered, which can be consulted at the link https://corsi.unige.it/corsi/8467/studenti-laboratori
  • the participation, certified with a certificate, in conferences and seminars (recognized as creditable by the Course).
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  • you can also choose to add the CFU of other activities to the 3 CFU of Internships, bringing the latter from 75 to 100 hours.

The following will not be recognized:

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  • attestations of attendance in language or computer courses obtained prior to enrollment or pre-enrollment in the Course
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  • activities performed by the applicant in the form of paid professional services. If relevant to the subject matter of the Course, they may be recognized only after the submission of specific documentation proving the performance of the activity itself outside working hours and salary agreements
  • professional activities related to the protection, conservation, dissemination and enhancement of cultural heritage (carried out by figures such as restorers, registered appraisers, gallery owners and antiquarians, artisans)
  • activities far from the training purposes of the Course, such as volunteer and assistance activities
  • activities carried out independently where it is not possible to verify, on the basis of an attendance record, the actual number of hours devoted

We recommend that you turn in documentation proving the completion ofother activities at least three months prior to the scheduled date for thesis discussion. Incomplete or incorrectly completed paperwork (e.g.: lack of matriculation year and code to which internships and other activities refer in the study plan) will not be processed.

N.B. Only credits accrued from the date of enrollment or pre-enrollment in the Course are recognized useful for the purpose of achieving the required CFUs. Accordingly, excess CFUs from internships or other activities carried out previously will not be recognized.

Proposals Other activities

Find the list of Laboratories offered by the Course of Study at the page dedicated to Laboratories

Find the list of Laboratories offered by the Course of Study at the page dedicated to Laboratories

1 CFU

The course Citizenship Training is aimed at all students enrolled in the University's undergraduate, master's, single-cycle master's and PhD courses, regardless of the proposing department or the course they are enrolled in. The aim of the course is to promote the development of active and responsible citizenship through the acquisition of personal and social, entrepreneurial and digital skills.

The Course of Study recognises among other curricular activities a seminar module of your choice from those listed below:

  • Marginals and Rights cod. 106493 (DAFIST - ref. prof. Langella) - 1 CFU
  • Religions in Public Space cod. 111338 (DAFIST - ref. prof. Colagrossi) - 1 CFU
  • Multiculturalism and citizenship cod. 106458 (DLCM - ref. prof. Pusillo) - 1 CFU
  • Citizenship, volunteering and soft skills cod. 106502 (DIMES - didattica.dimes@unige.it) - 1 CFU
  • Citizenship and rights in the age of globalisation cod. 103762 (DIGI - didattica.ddg@unige.it) - 1 CFU
  • Artificial Intelligence and Administrative Activity - RAISE Liguria cod. 113505 (DISFOR - formazione.raise@unige.it) - 1 CFU

NOTE PLEASE NOTE: the offer of activated modules may vary from year to year, it is necessary to wait for the annual notice with the list of the modules offered in the current academic year.

1 CFU

The course Citizenship Training is aimed at all students enrolled in the University's undergraduate, master's, single-cycle master's and PhD courses, regardless of the proposing department or the course they are enrolled in. The aim of the course is to promote the development of active and responsible citizenship through the acquisition of personal and social, entrepreneurial and digital skills.

The Course of Study recognises among other curricular activities a seminar module of your choice from those listed below:

  • Marginals and Rights cod. 106493 (DAFIST - ref. prof. Langella) - 1 CFU
  • Religions in Public Space cod. 111338 (DAFIST - ref. prof. Colagrossi) - 1 CFU
  • Multiculturalism and citizenship cod. 106458 (DLCM - ref. prof. Pusillo) - 1 CFU
  • Citizenship, volunteering and soft skills cod. 106502 (DIMES - didattica.dimes@unige.it) - 1 CFU
  • Citizenship and rights in the age of globalisation cod. 103762 (DIGI - didattica.ddg@unige.it) - 1 CFU
  • Artificial Intelligence and Administrative Activity - RAISE Liguria cod. 113505 (DISFOR - formazione.raise@unige.it) - 1 CFU

NOTE PLEASE NOTE: the offer of activated modules may vary from year to year, it is necessary to wait for the annual notice with the list of the modules offered in the current academic year.

1 CFU

Lecturer: M. Stella Acerno

Period of performance: second semester starting in February 2026 and finishing by May 2026.

Learning methods: the seminar is held in presence and online for a total of 26 hours divided into 12 lectures, unless otherwise arranged by the teaching structures. With the use of
slides, videos and materials made available by the lecturer
. The classrosroom methodology is envisaged; including workshop activity on education for individual and global awareness: of oneself, of others and of the planet with interactive participation
of students.

For registration and information: info.cedu@libero.it

PRESENTATION
The seminar deals with and explores human rights issues in their various aspects and disciplinary areas.
Starting with definitions of the concept of human rights, the origins, development and contemporary trends concerning civil and political, social, economic and cultural rights are analysed. In-depth studies are devoted to education and the relationship between literature, film and human rights.

FORMATIONAL OBJECTIVES AND LEARNING OUTCOMES
The objective of the seminar is to provide students with tools of understanding for the analysis and study of human rights from a historical and social, legal and cultural point of view.
Broaden knowledge about contemporary trends and the debate on the protection of rights on a global scale, acquire skills on human rights education. Deepen the relationship between different cultures and the universalism of human rights.

MODE OF ASSESSMENT
At the end of the seminar there will be an oral interview or the writing of a short written paper on the topics analysed.

PROGRAMME
The seminar explores aspects related to the following content:

- Definitions and foundations of human rights.
- The view of the equality of human beings in history.
- The three revolutions and their historical and legal implications.
- Human rights in the new contemporary society.
- Subjects of law in the international community from 1600 to 1900.
- The Four Freedoms Speech of F. Delano Roosevelt.
- From the League of Nations to the UN.
- The Nuremberg and Tokyo Trials.
- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
- International human rights instruments.
- The main human rights NGOs. The work of Amnesty International.
- The European Union and the protection of human rights.
- Human rights education.
- Cinema, literature and human rights.
- The new paradigm in education.
- The GAIA Project for individual and global awareness education.

To be arranged: meetings with teachers, experts and/or members of human rights NGOs.

DOCENT
M. Stella Acerno, president of CEDU Centro per l'Educazione ai Diritti Umani (Centre for Human Rights Education), a non-profit organisation registered in the regional Single National Register of the Third Sector. Former teacher of literary subjects and history
at State Institutes of Higher Education. Press and communications contact person for Amnesty International Italy, Liguria Constituency.

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Recommended readings for further study:
Norberto Bobbio: The age of rights Giulio Einaudi Editore. 1990 - 2014
Giuseppe Giliberti Historical introduction to human rights G. Giappichelli Editore. 2012
Stella Acerno (ed.) But what rights? What we know and what we don't want to know about human rights Fratelli Frilli Editori 2013
Stella Acerno The in-security of the sustainable society - Genova University Press 2022

1 CFU

Lecturer: M. Stella Acerno

Period of performance: second semester starting in February 2026 and finishing by May 2026.

Learning methods: the seminar is held in presence and online for a total of 26 hours divided into 12 lectures, unless otherwise arranged by the teaching structures. With the use of
slides, videos and materials made available by the lecturer
. The classrosroom methodology is envisaged; including workshop activity on education for individual and global awareness: of oneself, of others and of the planet with interactive participation
of students.

For registration and information: info.cedu@libero.it

PRESENTATION
The seminar deals with and explores human rights issues in their various aspects and disciplinary areas.
Starting with definitions of the concept of human rights, the origins, development and contemporary trends concerning civil and political, social, economic and cultural rights are analysed. In-depth studies are devoted to education and the relationship between literature, film and human rights.

FORMATIONAL OBJECTIVES AND LEARNING OUTCOMES
The objective of the seminar is to provide students with tools of understanding for the analysis and study of human rights from a historical and social, legal and cultural point of view.
Broaden knowledge about contemporary trends and the debate on the protection of rights on a global scale, acquire skills on human rights education. Deepen the relationship between different cultures and the universalism of human rights.

MODE OF ASSESSMENT
At the end of the seminar there will be an oral interview or the writing of a short written paper on the topics analysed.

PROGRAMME
The seminar explores aspects related to the following content:

- Definitions and foundations of human rights.
- The view of the equality of human beings in history.
- The three revolutions and their historical and legal implications.
- Human rights in the new contemporary society.
- Subjects of law in the international community from 1600 to 1900.
- The Four Freedoms Speech of F. Delano Roosevelt.
- From the League of Nations to the UN.
- The Nuremberg and Tokyo Trials.
- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
- International human rights instruments.
- The main human rights NGOs. The work of Amnesty International.
- The European Union and the protection of human rights.
- Human rights education.
- Cinema, literature and human rights.
- The new paradigm in education.
- The GAIA Project for individual and global awareness education.

To be arranged: meetings with teachers, experts and/or members of human rights NGOs.

DOCENT
M. Stella Acerno, president of CEDU Centro per l'Educazione ai Diritti Umani (Centre for Human Rights Education), a non-profit organisation registered in the regional Single National Register of the Third Sector. Former teacher of literary subjects and history
at State Institutes of Higher Education. Press and communications contact person for Amnesty International Italy, Liguria Constituency.

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Recommended readings for further study:
Norberto Bobbio: The age of rights Giulio Einaudi Editore. 1990 - 2014
Giuseppe Giliberti Historical introduction to human rights G. Giappichelli Editore. 2012
Stella Acerno (ed.) But what rights? What we know and what we don't want to know about human rights Fratelli Frilli Editori 2013
Stella Acerno The in-security of the sustainable society - Genova University Press 2022

CFU Recognition

To apply for recognition of other credits you must submit the Internship/Internships and Other Activities Committee contact professor, at least three months before the final discussion, the specific form with a paper record stating:

  • the activity performed and/or the competence acquired
  • the duration of the activity

You may also submit a self-certification regarding the duration of the training activities. In this case, the Commission, proceeding with spot checks, may ask you later for formal documentation.