Enrolment procedures and deadlines

The Prospectus illustrates enrolment procedures and provides useful administrative information on the Degree Courses at the University of Parma:

• Prospectus

For the enrolment procedure, please refer to the information published on the University website:

• Enrolling at the University of Parma

The specific deadlines for enrolment, transfers and transitions are published on the following page of the Department website:

• Deadlines for enrolments, transitions and transfers (only in Italian)

Access to the course requires a First-cycle degree or a four-year degree. Graduates in Classes 18 (formerly M.D. 509/1999) and 19 (ex M.D. 270/2004), from any Italian university, are in any case considered eligible for admission, provided they possess a B1-level in the language(s) for which the B2 examination is envisaged in the Second-cycle degree course programme of study (see details further down the page).

In order to be admitted to the Second-cycle degree course, a student who does not hold a class 18 or 19 degree must, in addition to fulfilling the language requirement referred to above, have completed 60 ECTS credits as indicated below:

• 30 ECTS credits freely chosen from within the M-PED/01, M-PED/02, M-PED/03, M-PED/04 sectors;
• 6 ECTS credits from the field of psychology within all the M-PSI sectors;
• 24 ECTS credits freely chosen from at least two of the following sectors:
  SPS/07, SPS/08, SPS/12, M-DEA/01, M-FIL/03, M-FIL/04, M-FIL/05, M-FIL/06, M-GGR/01, M-GGR/02, SECS-P/01, SECS-P/02, M-STO/04, L-ART/03, L-ART/05, L-ART/06, L-ART/07, L-FIL-LET/10, L-FIL-LET/11, IUS/01, IUS/07, IUS/17, MED/39, MED/43.

Those who do not meet the requirements can pre-enrol for the Second-cyce degree by the prescribed deadline and acquire the missing credits through individual examinations taken from the First-cycle degree programme. As soon as the missing credits are achieved, the enrolment will become effective. In any case, the debt must be cleared by 31 March or the pre-enrolment will be forfeited.

Knowledge at B1 level of one of the foreign languages included in the programme of study, achieved during previous studies or attested by appropriate certification, is required. It is advisable to ask your university for proof of the level of the examination as soon as possible, if not already indicated in the documentation, as the issue of such proof may take time. In the absence of proof of the level, we will not be able to consider it as a valid entry qualification and the B1 language exam will be counted among the credits to be recovered for access.

It is also required to possess the ability to understand informative/argumentative written texts in Italian on philosophical, geographical, pedagogical, psychological and sociological topics. To this end, at the beginning of the Course, an access requirement check will be carried out, the procedures for which will be laid down in the Course Regulations.

It is specified that in any case these are not training debts in terms of credits, but only supplementary support activities to improve the ability to analyse and understand the proposed texts.

Admission to the course requires the ability to understand informative/argumentative written texts in Italian on philosophical, geographical, pedagogical, psychological and sociological subjects. To this end, a verification of entry requirements will be carried out during the first year of the course.

Students who have passed the First-cycle degree examination with a score of 90/110 or higher are deemed to meet the entry requirements and consequently do not have to take the examination. Those who have passed the First-cycle degree examination with a score of less than 90/110 will have to take the test to prove that they meet the above requirements.

The test essentially consists of an interview during which the student will be asked to read and comment on short written texts in Italian on sociological, philosophical, psychological, pedagogical and geographical topics.

Students who, during the interview, do not demonstrate good reading comprehension and/or do not adequately comment on the texts, will have to do a special supplementary activity. The integrative activity will be open to all students who see fit to take advantage of it, particularly those from other universities or from non-pedagogical degrees.

The interview schedule will be published on the Home Page of the Course website and sent to the institutional e-mail address.