DISTU Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

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Registration

Admission prerequisites

Language Choice

Filosofia politica e comunicazione – 17835

Geografia, salvaguardia di natura e ambiente, sviluppo sostenibile – 18463

Editoria digitale – 119945

Filologia e linguistica romanza – 14581

Glottologia – 13019

Storia dell’italiano letterario – 119892

Lingua e cultura italiana – 119946

Letteratura e cinema inglese I – 17140

Letteratura e cinema inglese II – 17141

Letteratura e cultura degli Stati Uniti d’ America I – 16388

Letteratura e cultura degli Stati Uniti d’ America II – 16389

Letteratura francese I – 13010

Letteratura francese II – 13041

Letteratura italiana – 119944

Letteratura spagnola – I 13014

Letteratura spagnola II – 13045

Letteratura tedesca I – 13015

Letteratura tedesca II – 13046

Letterature e culture dei paesi di lingua portoghese I – 13016

Letterature e culture dei paesi di lingua portoghese II – 13047

Letterature ispano-americane I – 13018

Letterature ispano-americane II – 13049

Lingua e letteratura araba I – 14786

Lingua e letteratura araba II – 14850

Lingua e letteratura russa I – 14792

Lingua e letteratura russa II – 14853

Lingua e traduzione francese I – 13002

Lingua e traduzione francese II – 13055

Lingua e traduzione inglese I – 13003

Lingua e traduzione inglese II – 13056

Lingua e traduzione portoghese e brasiliana I – 13008

Lingua e traduzione portoghese e brasiliana II – 13062

Lingua e traduzione spagnola I – 13006

Lingua e traduzione spagnola II – 13060

Lingua e traduzione tedesca I – 13007

Lingua e traduzione tedesca II – 13061

Linguistica applicata – 18460

Linguistica delle società – 15757

Pragmatica e argomentazione – 15755

Storia dell’arte contemporanea – 18175

Storia dell’arte medievale – 18172

Storia dell’arte moderna – 18173

Storia dell’arte nei paesi europei – 18174

Storia della filosofia – 17155

Storia medievale – 13081

Storia contemporanea – 18465

Storia e istituzioni degli Stati Uniti d’America – 119895

Tradizione e permanenza dei classici – 119893

The second year of the “Letteratura” and “Lingua e letteratura” and “Lingua e traduzione” exams may be selected as a choice exam only if you have already taken the first year as a curricular exam.

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“Other educational activities” are completion activities with respect to the course of examinations.

In the degree course in Languages and Cultures for International Communication – LM37 provide, in addition to the final examination (thesis), the following types:

1. Additional language skills (6 cfu)
2. Computer and telematics skills (8 cfu)
3. Training and orientation internships (6 cfu)
4. Other knowledge useful for job placement (6 cfu)

These activities, although placed within different years and semesters, can be initiated and carried out at any time during the university process. The outcomes do not end with a grade in thirtieths, but with a certificate of eligibility and, like the final exam, with the awarding of CFUs.

To achieve the required 14 CFUs in “other educational activities” (in addition to the final examination), two of the educational activities in the curriculum must be chosen.

PLEASE NOTE: It is not possible to count the same activity twice either within the same degree program or between the two degree programs of L11 and LM37.

1. Additional Language Knowledge

Credits related to Further Language Knowledge (6 cfu) can be acquired through the following activities:

1. Labs

The two workshops LISA+ (Laboratory for Writing and Revising Written Italian) and NLP (Natural Language Processing. Tools and techniques for transcription and language processing) are held in Semester II with weekly meetings for a limited number of places. For information, please contact the lecturers in charge of the courses Prof. Stefano Telve (telve@unitus.it; LISA+) and Prof. Diego Femia (NLP; d.femia@unitus.it).

1. Tandem

The Tandem project allows for an intercultural exchange with foreign students staying in Italy. It consists of 80 hours of conversation, 40 hours in the foreign language and 40 hours in Italian; the exchange is free. For information write to: tandem@unitus.it or to the teacher in charge of the project Prof. Roberta Giordano(roberta.giordano@unitus.it).

1. International certification

To be valid for recognition, international certification obtained from accredited certifying bodies must be C2 level (French, English, Portuguese, Spanish, German) or no lower than B2 level (Arabic, Russian).

PLEASE NOTE: The certification must have been issued by a certifying body and must not be older than two years from the date of application for recognition. The request for recognition of the relevant certification should be submitted through the GOMP portal, subject to the required opinion of the course chair, Prof. G. Fiordaliso.

1. Paper

It is possible to acquire the expected cfu in this area through work (mostly a written paper) agreed upon with the language lecturer.

1. It is possible to acquire these CFUs by taking part in activities organized by the lecturers of the Languages course of study, such as:

• Seminars
• Workshops
• Conferences
• Conferences
• Book presentations
• Other cultural events explicitly indicated by the course of study

Each initiative can be recognized according to the following scheme:

– 1 CFU for 1-day activity + report of at least 10,000 keystrokes

– 2 CFU for 2-day activity + report of at least 20,000 keystrokes

and proportionally, with a correspondence between number of cfu per days of activity/report.

For each activity, the student receives a certificate of participation from the lecturer who organized or suggested the event and sends the report to the same lecturer.

Before the semester of each academic year begins, the course council establishes the schedule of activities that can be recognized as Additional Language Skills.

1. Computer and Telematics Skills

Credits related to Computer and Telematics Skills (6 cfu) can be acquired through the following activity:

1. (a) Computer and Telematics Skills.

Special laboratory activities are planned each year within the teaching of Digital Publishing. For information, please contact the teacher in charge of the teaching (see the “Active teaching” page.

1. (b) LISA+ and NLP Labs.

See previous item.

1. Curricular or orientation internships.

See on the Curricular Internships page[go to link].

DISSERTATION – MISSING EXAMS

MANDATORY FULFILLMENTS FOR DISSERTATIONS

Procedure related to the LM37 dissertation

Assignment of the thesis

Once the thesis topic has been agreed upon with the thesis supervisor, the student must deliver to the teaching office [Mon.-Fri., 10 a.m.-12 p.m.] the appropriate form, available online, signed by the thesis supervisor and co-rapporteur.

To obtain the thesis assignment the student must have passed the first year of the first foreign language. The thesis cannot be discussed until at least nine months have elapsed since the date of the assignment.

However, it is the supervisor who determines, within this minimum time interval, when a thesis is ready for discussion.

Choice of discipline and thesis advisor and rules regarding the chapter and language discussion part

A student may choose as the thesis discipline any discipline included in his or her plan of study, and as the thesis supervisor a faculty member whose teaching he or she has supervised. The choice of a supervisor from outside the department is possible only if the department

there are no faculty members in the thesis discipline (and related fields).

If the thesis advisor does not belong to the Distu Department, the thesis form must always be approved and endorsed by the course chairperson, under penalty of inadmissibility of the application for thesis assignment.

However, the final written and oral examination must include at least one part in the first foreign language chosen by the undergraduate in his or her course of study; or, in theses in foreign language and translation, foreign language and culture or foreign literature, in the language

subject of the thesis.

Graduate support (including out-of-course):

Graduate students out of course Classes LM37, 42S and 43S are invited to contact the Teaching Secretariat

Thesis work

After the thesis assignment, the student must regularly update the supervisor on the development of his or her work and present him or her with the progressively elaborated texts, usually one chapter at a time.

Credits awarded from the final examination

The credits awarded by the final examination are 20.

Size

The thesis must be between a minimum of 240,000 characters and a maximum of 400,000 characters.

Deadline for delivery of the thesis

No later than the fortieth day before the beginning of the graduation session, it must be delivered:

– to the Single Student Secretariat the graduation application;

-to the thesis advisor and co-rapporteur a hard copy of the thesis and an abstract.

– If neither the advisor nor the co-rapporteur is a faculty member from the language area in whose language at least one chapter of the thesis is to be written, the linguistic correctness of that chapter will be evaluated by a faculty member from the relevant language area, who will be a member of the graduate committee. Of the acceptance of this assignment by the language lecturer the graduate student will give notice in the completion of the thesis assignment form.

No exams for more than 10 cfu should still be due by this deadline.

For the delivery of the thesis to the Library, please consult the WEB address

Deadlines for delivery of the university transcript

The university transcript must be delivered to the Single Student Secretariat no later than the 20th day before the beginning of the graduation session (so by no later than this date you must have taken all exams)

Deadlines for delivery of the presentation CD

Any CD used for the thesis presentation must be delivered to the IT office no later than the seventh day prior to the start of the graduation session.

Possible formats are as follows: pdf, ppt and standard movies in windows environment.

-The CD must contain the following data:

-First and last name;

-Degree class and freshman standing.

-Thesis title

Admission to the graduate examination

Admission to the graduate examination is subject to:

Upon successful verification by the single secretary’s office of the regularity and completeness of the course of study;

On delivery to the single secretary’s office, by the 20th day prior to the session, of the transcript.

Scoring by the committee

The score that the committee assigns must express not only the quality of the thesis, but also the discussion that the candidate has sustained.

The committee must award 1 point to current graduate students; 1 point to students who have earned at least 25 percent praise.

In addition, by provision of the Academic Senate, for students who have participated in Erasmus mobility programs for study or internship, the score awarded in the graduation session is increased by an additional 1 point.

It can then award a score between 0 to 6 points, plus honors.

Effective date of these rules

The established rules take effect from the 2013-2014 summer session.

Graduation applications that were not followed by admission to the graduation examination should be resubmitted, without the need to pay the graduation fee a second time.

Thesis submission

Thesis template (editable)

Disability Facilitation – Dissertation

It will be the responsibility of the student who prepares the thesis with a thesis advisor from another Department to scrupulously comply with the thesis template and the rules of all kinds established for theses at DISTU for the LM37 course, and to bring for verification to the Chair of the LM37 degree program, for these formal aspects, the complete draft of the thesis, by the deadline for submission of the application for graduation, i.e., by the fortieth day before the graduation session

GRADUATION SESSIONS

During graduation sessions and subsequent celebrations, in the indoor and outdoor spaces of San Carlo, we ask:

– not to litter the facility with confetti and the like;

– not to leave food, bottles, glasses and similar trash outside the designated bins;

– avoid shouting, chanting and the like so as not to disrupt the normal activity of the university.

Thank you for your understanding and cooperation