Courses in English and classes to teachers The turning point of the Northern European Unibo – BBC

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Courses in English and classes to teachers
The turning point of the Northern European Unibo

the University is planning new international degrees for 2017-2018. Meanwhile vara laboratories of self-entrepreneurship and creativity for students and happenings training for new teachers

BOLOGNA – New degrees in English, including the highly anticipated Medicine. Packages of courses for students to increase their “soft skills” and face more fierce the world of work. Lessons to new teachers that they may learn how to teach better and maybe emulate John Keating of ” Dead Poets Society ‘. Are the three pillars around which the innovations in teaching Alma Mater. In recent months, the pro-rector for teaching Enrico Sangiorgi has worked to identify areas from which to give new impetus to the formation Unibo license plate. On the one hand by listening to requests coming from companies, and on the other by accepting the new, technological and others, offered to those teaches.

THE NEW DEGREES INTERNATIONAL – Let’s start with new degree courses. The academic year about to begin will actually have only one course in addition, the MSc in Industrial Product Design, which gives continuity to the successful triennial held in baptism by giants of Bologna and Ima Coesia, which has produced the first graduates in July. Overall, therefore, the University of Bologna offers 210 undergraduate programs, of which 61 international, a rich dish for those who in these days is deciding where to enroll. The important news will come in the next academic year. “Right now they are proposals, which we will bring to the discussion of the organs – says Sangiorgi – if all goes well we will be able to enter four new degree programs, all international, in the plan of training for the years 2017-2018 to be presented to January”. The first is the course of Medicine and Surgery in English. The Bolognese school is being discussed, while in Milan this year were the first graduates doctor, who can then also be offered on the foreign market. “But not just for the English translation of the traditional course – says Sangiorgi – there will also be experiments in education that provide the student in front of the sick, in the laboratory and in the classroom in times like today no longer scanned. The student first learns what he’s like the human body, then as you get sick and then heals as: there will be experiments in which three moments merge, according to an Anglo-Saxon and northern European approach. ” Starting in 2017 could also international master’s degrees in the motor vehicle engineering, “we are studying with Ducati,” says Sangiorgi, in Digital humanities, “the use of digital technologies in the world of humanism” and Wellness in Rimini. “The latter part of the project of rationalization of Sport Sciences was presented in July alderman regional Patrizio Bianchi – says the vice-rector for teaching – in Rimini give you the wellness vocation and rehabilitation, while at Bologna that the agony» .

PACKAGES FOR STUDENTS – News for students and teachers, the academic year will start already at the entrance, where there will not be closed numbers in more than 94 of 209 courses of last year. “There is some debate in letters that goes on for a couple of years, but if we do not have will not put more stakes,” assures Sangiorgi. Students can count, from January onwards, about free courses packages, either with the aim of increasing “what are called soft skills, but I prefer to call soft skills,” says the vice-rector. “We are required by employers – continues – and so we’re working from winter last year. Progressively we will offer them to all students. Will be about 10% of the courses required for graduation and will offer 12 to 18 credits. ” The first packages are those of Italian, “to use properly a complex language like ours,” Information literacy, the Employability, self-entrepreneurship, foreign languages, “we start to Forli experiencing the Chinese, Arabic and Portuguese -brasiliano “, and Creativity.

LESSONS TEACHERS – The latest innovation, training for teachers. “In November, we will make a happening than a few days dedicated to the approximately 80 new professors of the University – Sangiorgi concludes -. We will give them some foundation on modern teaching, these psycho-pedagogical tools to maximize the attention in the classroom. No one teaches how to teach, and in the name of teaching evaluation is important. ”

Marina Amaduzzi