LABORATORIES

The objective of the laboratory training activities is to enrich the student's knowledge and skills through the acquisition of further practical experience and soft skills.
NOTE: 1 CFU = 1 ECTS

At the end of the course the student will have acquired the ability to promote their own skills and theoretical and practical management skills.

No prerequisites are required.

The programme is divided into various laboratory activities and in-depth analyses of the internship, also relating to the preparation of the final thesis, and the acquisition of transversal skills.
Note: this programme is dedicated to students who need to acquire B2 language skills (=3 ECTS). The total of 9 CFU must be achieved by attending the activities in both points 1 and 2.

The student can choose between different options:

1. 6 ECTS credits to be chosen from:
a) extracurricular internship (6 ECTS credits) of 150 hours of professional training aimed at facilitating professional choices and employability in the transition phase from university to the world of work through training in a productive environment and direct knowledge of the job. This also includes training courses organised by conservation institutions and documentation centres for their employees. This option must be agreed in advance with the degree course coordinator (paola.degni@unive.it)

b) two workshops of your choice (each worth 3 ECTS = 50 hours):
archival description workshop (Prof. Marco Lanzini)
manuscript cataloguing laboratory (Prof. Paola Degni)
cataloguing of ancient and modern books laboratory (Prof. Angela Munari, Querini Stampalia)

c) attendance for 3 ECTS of the Archive Online Academy + 1 laboratory of your choice for 3 ECTS (point b).
The total number of hours of attendance for the online courses for 3 ECTS is 30 hours (lectures and/or workshops), at the end of which a paper is required that summarises the main topics covered.
Information and programme: https://www.archive-venice.org/course/archive-on-line-academy-2025-2026/
In order to receive a certificate of attendance for this course, students must send the course coordinator paola.degni@unive.it suitable certificates of attendance and successful completion of the online activities collected in a single PDF.

c) attendance for 3 ECTS credits to be chosen from:
- activities of the Contamination Lab, Ca'Foscari
Information: https://www.unive.it/pag/44584
- activities of the Competency Centre ‘Emotional Competences and Individual Development’, Ca'Foscari
Information: https://www.unive.it/pag/30757/
The activity in this programme should NOT be recorded as a free-choice exam, an exam in excess of the required number of exams, or a substitute activity for an internship. The student will be required to send certification of attendance/passing of the activity to stage.areaumanistica@campusumanistico@unive.it.

No examination texts are pro

For the choice of activity and subsequent recognition of CFUs you are asked to follow the following procedure:

1. download the attached form (https://drive.google.com/file/d/10joVkTKeckr99MX-fhSnqlBg_3lX3EWK/view?usp=drive_link ) and place a tick next to the chosen option.
For options 1a and 1b it is necessary to briefly indicate the proposed activity or work placement (location and content). The form with the date and signature of the student must be submitted before the start of the activities to the College of Education contact person for approval: Prof. Paola Degni (paola.degni@unive.it);

2. at the end of the activities, the form to be signed for the recognition of credits must be sent to the College contact person together with the relevant certification (certificate of attendance for the Archive Online Academy activity + paper; declaration of the institution or body where the activity proposed by the student or the work placement took place; screenshot of the exam grade);

3. after signing, the student sends the documentation in a single pdf file to the office: stage.areaumanistica@unive.it

written and oral

The examination will be evaluated according to the following parameters:
the student's ability to convey the knowledge acquired in a personal and critical manner, demonstrating the use of language appropriate to the subject matter and the mastery of the expressive medium will be evaluated with marks ranging from excellent to good (30L-27); a mnemonic knowledge of the subject matter, together with the ability to synthesise and analyse articulated in a correct but not always appropriate language, will lead to fair marks (26-24); formative gaps and/or inappropriate language - albeit in a context of minimal knowledge of the examination material - will lead to marks that do not exceed sufficiency (23-18); formative gaps, inappropriate language, lack of orientation within the bibliographical materials offered during the course will be assessed negatively.

No teaching methods are provided.