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max 1 CFU

The Citizenship Training course 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 in the 3 cfu of the Other activities cod. 53417 or in the 3 cfu of the Laboratory activities of the Music and Performing Arts curriculum only 1 seminar module of 1 cfu to be chosen from the following:

• Marginals and Rights (DAFIST - ref. prof. Langella)
• Multiculturalism and Citizenship (DLCM - ref. prof. Pusillo)
• Religions in Public Space (DAFIST - ref. prof. Colagrossi)
• RAISE courses (one of your choice among all those offered by the University: https://unige.it/corsi-raise-cittadinanza)

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

2 CFUs

Introduced on the wave of the recognition of the Italian Sign Language (LIS) by the Italian State, these workshops aim to bring those who participate closer to the world of LIS; a world in which communication passes through a different channel from the one we usually associate with (spoken) languages: the visual-gestural channel.

Lecturer responsible: Danilo Monteverde

The course of study recognises 2 CFUs for the basic or intermediate level course, i.e. it is possible to apply for recognition in the other activities of only one module (basic or intermediate depending on your starting level) for a maximum of 2 CFUs.

More information on class schedules and classrooms will be published in due course on the "News" section of this website.

1 CFU

Lecturer: M. Stella Acerno

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

Educational methods:The seminar will be 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 activities 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.

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 - Genoa University Press 2022