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3 CFU

To have the 3 CFU recognised, you have the following options:

1. Include the module ‘B2 ENGLISH LANGUAGE’ (code 108657) in your study plan, with the option to attend a 50-hour classroom-based course, and pass the final examination set by the module’s lecturer;
2. Include the B2 ENGLISH LANGUAGE module (code 108657) in your study plan, but attend the self-study online course offered by the University’s Language Skills Development Unit (CLAT) and pass the final test. For the purposes of academic credit recognition, you must submit the documentation confirming that you have passed the final test to the lecturer in charge of course code 108657.
   Information regarding access to the online course is made available each year around mid-October on Aulaweb under ‘Notices and useful documents for students – MODERN LITERATURE AND PERFORMING ARTS’.
   Information regarding the final test and the procedure for issuing the proficiency certificate is available here: https://clat.unige.it/TestENB2 
3. If you hold a B2-level certificate or higher issued by bodies recognised by UniGe, confirming that you have passed the relevant assessment, you may submit it to the lecturer responsible for course code 108657 for the purposes of career recognition, provided that you have not previously used it to apply for the award of university credits.

3 CFU

To have the 3 CFU recognised, you have the following options:

1. Include the module ‘FOREIGN LANGUAGE PROficiency’ (code 118908) in your study plan; complete, via self-study, the online course of your choice (French or German) offered by the University’s Language Skills Development Unit (CLAT); and pass the final test. As regards Spanish, there is no B2-level online course available at the University, but you may sit the equivalent-level test in the same way as for French and German.
   
   Information on accessing the online courses is made available each year around mid-October on Aulaweb under ‘Notices and useful documents for students – MODERN LITERATURE AND PERFORMING ARTS’.
   
   To sit the test, you will need to contact the lecturer in charge:
   Prof. Giaufret for the French test
   Ms Sanfelic for the Spanish test
   Prof. Gerdes for the German test
   The B2 test will be held at the same time as the B1 test, in accordance with the timetable set by the Humanities Degree Programmes, namely:
   - a date in early January
   - a date in early May
   - a date in the first half of June
   - a date in the first half of September
   The test consists of a computer-based examination.
   The lecturer responsible for the final exam will also ensure that the result is recorded in your academic record.
    
2. If you hold a B2-level certificate or higher issued by bodies recognised by UniGe, you may submit it to the lecturer responsible for the B2 test in French/Spanish/German for the purposes of academic recognition, provided you have not already used it previously to apply for the award of university credits.

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 CFU
(1 CFU for the basic course, 1 CFU for the intermediate course, 2 CFU for both)

Introduced in the wake of the Italian State’s recognition of Italian Sign Language (LIS) and Tactile Italian Sign Language (LISt), this course aims to introduce participants to the world of LIS and LISt; a world in which communication takes place through a channel different from the one we usually associate with (spoken) languages: the visual/tactile-gestural channel. 

Course coordinator: Danilo Monteverde

Further information on timetables and lecture theatres will be published in due course in 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 iF-Lab Permanent Theatre Workshop, organised at the Il Falcone Interdepartmental Centre, entitles participants to 2 CFU.

Info: ilfalcone@unige.it - Contact: Dr Angela Zinno (angela.zinno@unige.it)