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3 CFU

To obtain the recognition of the 3 CFU you have the following options:

1. Insert the B2 ENGLISH LANGUAGE course cod.
2. Insert B2 ENGLISH LANGUAGE cod. 108657 into the study plan, but attend the self-study online course offered by the University's Language Skills Development Sector (CLAT) and pass the final test. For career recognition purposes, you will have to forward the certificate of proficiency issued by CLAT to the teacher in charge of teaching code 108657.
   Information on access to the online course is made available every year around mid-October on the Aulaweb "Notices and useful documents for students - MODERN LANGUAGES AND SPECTACLE".
   Information on the final test and how to obtain the level certificate is available here: https://clat.unige.it/TestENB2 
3. If you have a B2 level or higher certification issued by bodies recognised by UniGe or by an appropriate public and/or private institute, in Italy or abroad, with a certificate of passing the relevant test, you can send it to the teacher in charge of teaching cod. 108657 for the purposes of career recognition, provided that you have not previously used it to request the award of university CFUs.

3 CFUs

To obtain recognition of the 3 CFUs you have the following options:

1. Insert the FOREIGN LANGUAGE LANGUAGE course cod. 118908, attend, in self-study, the online course of your choice between French and German offered by the University's Language Skills Development Sector (CLAT) and pass the final test. As far as Spanish is concerned, there is no B2 level online course available at the University, but it is possible to take the test at the same level, in the same way as for French and German.
   
   For career recognition purposes, you will have to forward the certificate of aptitude issued by the teacher responsible for the final test to the President of the Examination Board associated with teaching code no. Gerdes for the German test
   The B2 test will be given at the same time as the B1 test, according to the timetable established by the humanities departments, i.e.
   - one date at the beginning of January
   - one date at the beginning of May
   - one date in the first half of June
   - one date in the first half of September
   The test consists of a computer-based examination.
    
2. If you have a B2 level or higher certification issued by bodies recognised by UniGe or by an appropriate public and/or private institute, in Italy or abroad, with proof of passing the relevant test, you can send it to the President of the Examination Commission associated with cod. 118908 for the purposes of career recognition, provided that you have not previously used it to request the award of university CFUs.

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 programmes, 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 CFUs of the Other Activities only 1 seminar module of 1 CFU to be chosen from the following:

• Marginal Issues and Rights (DAFIST - ref. prof.ssa Langella)
• Multiculturalism and citizenship (DLCM - ref. prof. Pusillo)
• Religions in Public Space (DAFIST - ref. prof.ssa 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.

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

Introduced in the wake of the recognition of the Italian Sign Language (LIS) and the Tactile LIS (LISt) by the Italian State, this course aims to bring those who participate in it closer to the world of LIS and LISt; a world in which communication passes through a different channel from the one we usually associate with (spoken) languages: the visual/tactile/textual channel. 

Lecturer in charge: Danilo Monteverde

The Course of Study recognises 2 CFUs for the basic level course or for the intermediate level course, i.e. it is possible to apply for recognition in the other activities of 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 CFU

Lecturer: M. Stella Acerno

Period: starts on 3 March 2026 in Lecture Room E of the Didactic Pole in Via delle Fontane from 17.00 to 19.00;
continues every Tuesday in Lecture Room E Didactic Pole from 17.00 to 19.00 for a total of twelve meetings.

Teaching methods:the seminar takes place in presence and online for a total of 26 hours divided into 12 lessons, 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; the workshop activity on education to individual and global awareness: of oneself, of others and of the planet with interactive participation of the students is included.

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

PRESENTATION
The seminar deals with and explores human rights issues in the various aspects and disciplinary fields that characterise them.
Beginning with the 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, cinema and human rights.

FORMATIONAL OBJECTIVES AND LEARNING OUTCOMES
The aim 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 perspective.
To broaden knowledge on contemporary trends and the debate on the protection of rights on a global scale, to acquire skills on human rights education. To 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 contents:
- Definitions and foundations of human rights.
- The vision of 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.
- F. Delano Roosevelt's Four Freedoms Speech.
- From the League of Nations to the UN.
- The Nuremberg and Tokyo Trials.
- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
- International instruments for the protection of human rights.
- 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 education for individual and global awareness.

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

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

Recommended readings for further study:
Norberto Bobbio: L'età dei diritti 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 do not want to know about human rights Fratelli Frilli Editori 2013
Stella Acerno The in-security of sustainable society - Genoa University Press 2022

Participation in the Permanent Theatrical Workshop organised at the Falcone Interdepartmental Centre entitles you to the recognition of 2 CFUs, for a total of 96 hours of teaching.