Course units and programme of study

The list of course units in the Programme of Study represents the set of training activities that can be envisaged for each of the years of which the degree course consists and changes according to the year in which the student enrols. Free or restricted-choice' subjects are optional learning activities that students may include in their Programme of Study according to the choice criteria specified on this page; the remaining subjects are compulsory for all students.
The Programme of Study must be submitted online by the student for each year using the ESSE3 system (see dedicated section).
Students are allowed to submit their own Programme of Study with options other than those presented on this page (and available in ESSE3), as long as it is consistent with achieving the course's educational objectives. In that case, the plan must be submitted to the Degree Course Committee for approval.

A student who, for work, health or personal reasons, is unable to devote himself/herself to full-time studies may register or enrol in regular years of degree courses as a PART-TIME STUDENT

To take the compulsory second-year exams, the student must have passed the following first-year exams:

1) Principles and fundamentals of social service;

2) Public law for welfare;

3) Family and Juvenile Law.

To be eligible to take the mandatory third-year exams, the student must have passed the following second-year exams:

1) Administrative law and social service planning;

2) Social service methods and techniques 1;

3) Social Policy;

To enter Internship 2 (of the third year), it is necessary to have taken the examination of Methods and Techniques of Social Service 1 and passed Internship I.

To take the second-year examinations, the student must have passed the following first-year examinations:

1. Principles and fundamentals of social work
2. Public law for welfare
3. Family and juvenile law

In order to take the third-year examinations, the student must have passed the following second-year examinations:

1. Administrative law and planning of social services
2. Social service methods and techniques 1 
3. Social policies 
4. Internship 1

To gain access to Internship 1 (in the second year), the student must have taken the Principles and fundamentals of social work examination.

To gain access to Internship 2 (in the third year), the student must have taken the Social Service Methods and Techniques 1 examination.

A student who has not passed Internship 1 but has passed the compulsory examination of Methods and Techniques 1 may attend lectures in Methods and Techniques 2 but may not take the examination of Methods and Techniques 2 until he or she has passed Internship 1.

Class attendance is mandatory, for at least 2/3 of the teaching activity, limited to the following subjects:

Year I:

    Family and Juvenile Law;
    Developmental Psychology;
    General Sociology;
    Principles and fundamentals of Social Work.

Year II:

    Social Policy;
    Psychodynamics of Family Relations;
    Methods and techniques of Social Service 1;
    Social service criminal law;
    Laboratory of methodology applied to social service I.

 Year III:

    Methods and techniques of Social Service 2;
    Laboratory of Applied Methodology in Social Service II.

Attendance is a necessary condition for admission to the examinations of the aforementioned subjects.

For A.Y. 2020/2021 - 2021/2022 and all previous cohorts Class attendance is mandatory, for 2/3 of the teaching activity, limited to the following subjects:

Year I:

    Family and Juvenile Law;
    Developmental Psychology;
    General Sociology;
    Principles and fundamentals of Social Work;

Year II:

    Social Policy;
    Psychodynamics of Family Relations;
    Methods and techniques of Social Service 1;
    Criminal Law;
    Laboratory of methodology applied to social service I.

Year III:

    Social Psychology;
    Sociology of Deviance;
    Methods and techniques of social service 2;
    Laboratory of Applied Methodology in Social Service II.

Attendance certificate is a necessary condition for admission to the examinations of the aforementioned subjects.

For any problems with programme of study (e.g. registration with exams taken elsewhere, inability to complete the programme) and student careers (e.g. curricular activities that do not appear) please contact the Student Registry Office (Strada del Prato 4/1A). E-mail: segreteria.giurisprudenza@unipr.it  .

For advice on filling in online, please contact the Quality Assurance Office (Via Università, 7). E-mail: giurisp.didattica@unipr.it

>> Programmes of study for previous academic years

E' possibile cercare gli insegnamenti e i relativi programmi anche:

1) nella pagina del Docente titolare dell'insegnamento: https://personale.unipr.it/ (inserire il nome del Docente e avviare la ricerca);

2) al link: Corsi di studio e offerta formativa | Università di Parma (unipr.it)

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3) nella guida dello studente relativa al proprio anno di immatricolazione