The computer skills test is a testto be prepared independently. Find all the information about test dates and materials to prepare on Teams.

Teams code: ec1icx9

To book the test, simply write an email to daniele.porello@unige.it with the subject line "Computer Skills Test" and then log onto the Teams channel at the time of the test.

Normally one trial per month is organized; dates are announced on Teams at the beginning of each month. If you have special needs, please contact the instructor.

Trial Instructions

The test is conducted indistance mode on Teams. The test has a maximum total duration of two hours (one and a half hours for the first level, half an hour for the second) in which you are required to solve some short exercises with your computer.

On the Teams channel, find a sample of the proposed exercises to prepare you for the test.

At the end of the test, you will send the result of the exercises (i.e., some files that you will have processed) in a compressed folder via email to daniele.porello@unige.it or to the same teacher via Teams chat, specifying: last name, first name, freshman number, number of credits of the test, code of "other activities" required by your curriculum for the computer skills test.
The subject line of the email should be: "Computer Skills Test-Surname-Name".
It is important that you specify all the information requested, because you will need it to produce the certificate for credit.

Program

The two levels are independent, and can be taken separately.

Discover the program

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max 2 CFU
(for the basic course, the advanced course or both)

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 a maximum of 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 one's starting level).

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

1 or 2 CFUs depending on the type of participation

Lecturers: Anna Maria Stagno, Denise Bezzina, Valentina Ruzzin, with the support of Matteo Tacca (post-doctoral fellow) and Adele Repetto (PhD student)

Start: annual seminar cycle, tentative start December 2025

Schedule:The seminars take place on a weekly basis according to an established schedule, published in the second half of October.

In-person mode (distance only for working students). To enrol send an email to the anna.stagno@unige.it mailbox from September 2025, taking care to indicate as subject "SEMPER ENROLLMENT" and to specify surname, matriculation, course of study, curriculum, year of course.

Participation in 6 meetings, with the drafting of at least 4 reading sheets on the proposed bibliography, allows the acquisition of 1 CFU (for a total of 25 hours). Participation in the entire cycle and the writing of an individual paper permits the acquisition of 2 CFUs.

The Permanent Seminar of Local History is a well-established experience (started in 1992-1993) that has the explicit aim of integrating teaching and research activities with a strong focus on the dimension of local analysis. It wants to offer an opportunity for dialogue around objects of common interest that characterise the work of those who practice historical investigations today, starting from documentary sources as well as from the field. The seminars normally take place on Mondays according to an established schedule, published in the second half of October. The cycle of meetings also includes the possibility for participants to carry out individual research exercises. By the end of February, students engaged in this exercise will prepare a personal study proposal, which will be articulated with a summary and bibliographical apparatus (also from source and topic proposals provided by the lecturers). Starting in February, part of the meetings will be devoted to the discussion of these individual research paths. The seminar is open to students and doctoral students from the Universities of Genoa and Eastern Piedmont, and is organised by the environmental history strands of the University of Genoa's doctorates and the Historical Sciences curriculum of the Doctorate in Ecology of Cultural and Institutional Systems of the University of Eastern Piedmont, with the collaboration of the research group of the Laboratory of Archaeology and Environmental History (LASA- Unige) and the G. Casalis Inter-University Centre for Territorial History (Uniupo-Unige-Unito).

Each year the seminar focuses on a specific theme. The theme for the 2025/2026 academic year will be defined in the last meetings of the 2024-2025 cycle.

1 CFU

Lecturer: Matteo Caponi

Start: the Workshop will be held in November-December 2025.

Meeting schedule: dates and times will be announced soon.

Duration: 5 meetings of 3 hours each, for a total of 15 hours, in addition to the self-study required to write a final paper. 

For further information and to enrol: send an email to matteo.caponi@unige.it, specifying the course of study and year of the course.

Contents
The workshop aims to provide students with the tools to write their Master's thesis, starting with the main research methodologies and the collection of sources up to the drafting and revision of the text. The following topics will be covered:

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1. What a dissertation is and what it is for; how to choose a dissertation topic; the dissertation paper as an argumentative text.
2. The use of the vocabulary and argumentative style proper to the discipline of historiography.
3. The retrieval of sources and bibliography (research in archives and libraries; databases and online digital resources).
4. The organisation of a structured text (abstract, subdivision into chapters and paragraphs).
5. The critical apparatus and editorial standards.

Training Objectives
At the end of the course the student will be able to:

• Operate a selection of sources, identifying their typology and hierarchy (documentary; primary printed; secondary; digital);
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• Write an abstract of the thesis project and derive keywords;
• Create an index, with an indicative division into chapters;
• Apply appropriate editorial criteria (make footnotes correctly and know how to cite sources);
• Edit the bibliography and sitography;

Students are expected to attend and actively participate.

Reference texts
Fabio Rossi, How to write a dissertation today. Guida pratica per tesi, tesine e altri elaborati, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2025.

Assessment methods
Drafting of a final paper including title, abstract, keywords, provisional index and bibliography of the thesis project.

1 CFU

Lecturers: Marco Natalizi

Start and Timetable: to be determined

Duration: 6 meetings of 2 hours each are scheduled, in addition to the self-study required for the presentation of a final paper.

For further information and to register: prof. Marco Natalizi marco.natalizi@unige.it

Contents
. The aim of this workshop is to propose to the students of the three-year course in History a path of in-depth study and seminar discussion on the political and social history of the USSR up to the collapse of the Berlin Wall, in order to refine their critical approach to the various historical sources and to develop a good mastery of the historiographical debate. The workshop focuses on the history of the USSR/Russia, but the events of the Soviet regime will be contextualised in a broader framework, through the study of the ways in which the Kremlin's international challenges have influenced its domestic agenda.
After an extensive introduction reflecting on the idea of 'Greater Russia', the major phases of the Soviet twentieth century will be analysed, with a stronger focus on the years 1928-1953.
The impact of the Stalin regime on the Soviet Union in economic and political terms, but also in social and cultural terms, the real scope and limits of Kruščëv's 'thaw', and finally the main features of the last years of the USSR will be examined.

Methodology
. The meetings will combine the analysis of primary sources, which concern crucial aspects of the topic addressed, with an in-depth historiographical discussion.

Bibliography
O. Chlevnjuk, Stalin. Biography of a Dictator, Mondadori, Milan, 2016.
E. Cinnella, 1917. La Russia verso l'abisso, Della Porta Editori, Pisa, 2012.
E. Cinnella, Stalin's Russia: the formation of the totalitarian regime, Pisa, Della Porta Editori, 2021.
S. Fitzpatrick, Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2000. 
A. Graziosi, The USSR of Lenin and Stalin. Storia dell'Unione Sovietica, 1914-1915, il Mulino, Bologna, 2007
A. Graziosi, L'URSS dal trionfo al degrado: storia dell'Unione Sovietica, 1945-1991, il Mulino, Bologna, 2007.
R.A. Medvedev, The rise and fall of Nikita Chruščëv, Editori Riuniti, Rome, 1982.
S. Bialer, I successori di Stalin, Milan, Garzanti, 1985.

Documents
The sources to be analysed will be proposed in the course of the workshop.
For a framing of the general issues, A. Graziosi, Archivalist Revolution and Soviet Historiography, in "Contemporanea", 2005, no. 1.

Mutualisation of the Bachelor's Degree Course in Conservation of Cultural Heritage

1 or 2 CFUs depending on the type of participation

Lecturers: Anna Maria Stagno, with the support of Drs. Laura Moro, Laura Gago Chorén, Ylenia Paciotti, Eltjana Shkreli and Giorgia Frangioni 

Period: 1st semester

Start: will be announced later

Time: will be agreed with students

Methods: in presence. To enrol send an email to the mailbox anna.stagno@unige.it starting from 1st September, taking care to indicate as subject "ASTRALAB ENROLLMENT" and to specify surname, matriculation, course of study, curriculum, year of course. A presentation of the Lab's activities is planned for September.

At the AstraLab - Laboratory of Archaeology and Rural and Landscape History of DAFIST  it is possible to carry out practical activities related to the ongoing research and projects on environmental and rural archaeology and history and landscape in the European mountains. Sources and methods of rural and landscape history and archaeology will be explored through educational outings, seminars and workshop activities. The surface reconnaissance (lasting one day) will alternate with workshop activities dedicated to the analysis of current and historical cartography on a GIS platform, re-elaboration of documentation and excavation and reconnaissance data, analysis of finds, consultation of archives of field surveys and private archives in the LASA and the LASA library.

Participation in 25 hours of workshop activities or 15 hours of workshop activities and the writing of a paper on the work carried out allow 1 CFU to be acquired.

maintained by the Master's Degree Course in Archaeology: Profession and Knowledge (ArcheoPeS)

1 or 2 CFU depending on the type of participation

Period: 2nd semester

Lecturer: Anna Maria Stagno, with the support of José Abellan Santisteban (assignee), Nathan Brenu (assignee), Lucia Vanacore (assignee)

Start and Timetable: will be agreed with participants.

Where: at DAFIST

For further information and registration, please contact the lecturer.

1 CFU

Docente: Mariano Martini 

Duration: 16 hours of lectures plus individual study 

Cycles of meetings:8 meetings are proposed (subject to availability of teaching calendar and classrooms) 

For further information and to register: Prof. Mariano Martini mariano.martini@unige.it

Training Activities Planned
The workshop aims to reinforce the educational offer of the History degree course and is aimed at students who wish to study in depth certain aspects of the history of medicine in the period between the 16th and 19th centuries, with particular reference to the history of hygiene and public health.

The cycle of meetings will be structured as follows: outlines of the history of medicine; history of hygiene and public health; history of epidemiology; biographical profiles of eminent personalities in the field of medical history.  

Manner of conducting teaching activities and learning assessments
. Lectures will be held in person with the projection of slides and other supporting teaching material and classroom discussion of the topics covered. The lecturer will agree with the participants on the preparation of thematic project works on the basis of the topics dealt with; these works will have to be discussed at the end of the cycle of meetings with a presentation in the classroom, after delivery of the written text to the lecturer. The preparation of the project work and final discussion will be assessed by the lecturer. 

Final written work (project work): minimum 20,000 characters  

Project work discussion method: colloquium with PPT presentation 

1 CFU

Lecturers: Paolo Calcagno, with the support of Francesca Ferrando (research fellow)

Start and Timetable: to be defined

Duration: 10 hours of lectures plus 15 hours of individual study 

For more information and to enrol: dott.ssa Francesca Ferrando 3110977@studenti.unige.it 

The workshop, reserved for female students of the three-year degree in History, aims to provide the fundamental analytical tools to contextualise the legal, economic and social position of women in the modern age. The course will be divided into four meetings of two hours each during which the participants will tackle the various themes through the analysis of documentary sources produced above all in the Genoese sphere. 

The topics covered will be: the dotal institution, female labour, gender violence, the role of women in the welfare field. 

A final test will be held at the end of the workshop: each participant will have the choice of transcribing and commenting on a document provided by the lecturer or answering three questions in written form.

2 CFUs

Lecturer: Giuseppe Rocca

Start: to be determined

Time:to be determined

Duration: 36 hours in presence plus 14 hours of autonomous commitment

For more information and to register: Prof. Giuseppe Rocca giurocca@lingue.unige.it

The following topics are proposed, to be covered in meetings of two hours each, twice a week (for a total of 30-36 hours):

1. The general concept of 'region' and its adjectives
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2. The literature on the 'region' in classical antiquity
3. The literature on the 'region' in the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance
4. The scientific analysis of the 'region' and 'regionalisation' in the second half of the 18th century
5. The scientific analysis of the 'region' and 'regionalisation' in the 20th century
6. Regionalism in its various modes throughout history
7. Political-administrative regionalism, with particular regard to Italy from the Risorgimento to the present
8. A recent form of regionalism: economic regionalism
9. Political-administrative regionalisation in Roman times and the early Middle Ages
10. Symbolic and functional regional analysis: long-term urbanisation processes in Europe
11. Chrono-spatial reading of Liguria in its internal diversities and affinities, analysed through bibliographic, statistical and cartographic, iconic and literary sources
12. Eventual didactic outing focused on direct observation of the landscapes and places that developed in the late Middle Ages and in the modern age, which still today contribute to identifying the identity of a historical region, as in the case of Oltregiogo

A written or oral examination is scheduled at the end of the workshop.

The degree of learning achieved by the student during the final examination is considered to be:
- praiseworthy, excellent or very good if the student reveals conceptual mastery, clarity of presentation and demonstrates a thorough understanding of the topics covered in the workshop;
- good or satisfactory, if the student shows correct but not always appropriate language, revealing a lack of understanding of the topics covered;
- sufficient, if the student shows expressive modes that are not appropriate and clear, revealing an overall approximate preparation.

2 CFUs

Lecturer: Valentina Ruzzin, with the support of Leila Leoni (PhD student)

Start: to be defined

Time: to be defined

Duration: 25 hours in presence plus individual study

For more information and to register: Prof. Valentina Ruzzin valentina.ruzzin@unige.it