Specialised Communication

These courses are onsite for learners admitted to B1.

The Language for Specific Purposes (LSP) courses are open to everyone who studies or works in the respective areas of interest (healthcare or law and economics) at the University of Bologna:

• International students at the University of Bologna who attend first and second-cycle degree programmes, single cycle degrees, PhDs, specialisation school courses, Professional Master’s, and Post-graduate vocational training programmes as well as individual course units.
• Personnel involved in teaching, research or administration at the University of Bologna. 

If there are places available, you can also attend provided:

• You are on an international exchange at the University of Bologna and on a study programme such as Erasmus+, Erasmus Mundus, Overseas, etc., or if you work as a visiting fellow.
• You come from institutions with special agreements (conventions with specific bodies, programmes for refugees etc.) with the University of Bologna.

It’s possible to attend more than one course at the same time and in the same semester: LSP course and/or in Italian language for international learners and/or in Academic Italian.

In Bologna, the Language Centre offers semester courses in Specialised Communication. These are both onsite and for learners admitted to B1.

Intensive Course in Specialised Communication for Healthcare (LSP course)

The aim of the course is to develop communicative competency for healthcare. Healthcare topics are tackled via the analysis of interactions, the comprehension and production of written texts and conversations, the analysis of grammatical structures and specific lexis as well as practical exercises. The teaching materials derive from manuals of specialised Italian, websites, healthcare newspapers and articles, podcasts and TV programmes.

This course is recommended for students at B1 level or above, and, in particular, for those of you who will do a traineeship in medical facilities. Students from veterinary medicine, dentistry, nursing and pharmacy are also admitted. Admission from other degree courses will be assessed by the teacher on a case-by-case basis.

The healthcare intensive course consists of 40 hours of face-to-face lectures and 10 hours of project work.

How to apply

To enrol in this course you need to:

• Take the online test for Italian courses for international students. To find out how and when, please consult the timeline for Italian language intensive courses.
• Send your application to LSP course to cla.italianospecial@unibo.it by January 14th, 2025, at 5pm

In your application, it is important to indicate your university study programme as well as any language certifications you have.

As long as you apply by the deadline, you will receive an email with instructions on how to do the admission interview that will take place in presence on January 15th, 2025, at 4:30pm.

Course starts: January 20th 2025.

Course ends: January 31st 2025.

Course timetable: every day (Mon. – Fri.) from 11:30 am to 4 pm

Course in Specialised Communication for Economics and Law

The aim of the course is to develop linguistic and communicative competencies in Economics and Law. The course tackles specific topics via the comprehension and production of oral and written texts, the analysis of grammatical structures and lexis specific to the field as well as practical exercises. The teaching materials derive from manuals of specialised Italian, websites, trade newspapers and magazines, TV and radio programmes and podcasts.

This course is recommended for students at least at B1-level who study Law, Economics, International Relations, Political and Social Sciences.

How to apply

To enrol in this course you need to:

• Take the online test for Italian courses for international students. To find out how and when, please consult the timeline for Italian language semester courses.
• Send your application to cla.italianospecial@unibo.it by February 14th, 2025 at 12 PM.
  

In your application it is important to indicate your university course as well as any language certifications you have.

As long as you apply by the deadline you will receive an email with instructions on how to do the admission interview that will take place online on February 17th, 2025, at 11 AM

Course timetable: Monday and Wednesday 11 am-1 pm

Course starts: March 3rd 2025

Course ends: May 27th 2025

Typically, the first course is free while subsequent courses have an enrolment fee, but some students are required to pay for the first course as well, as outlined below.

For the first course there is no enrolment fee (€ 0,00) for:

• for students on international exchanges at the University of Bologna (study programmes such as Erasmus+, Erasmus Mundus, Overseas, etc.)
• for students at the University of Bologna on first and second-cycle degree programmes, single cycle degrees, PhDs, specialisation school courses, and individual course units.

Courses with an enrolment fee of € 210,00:

• from the first course for students on Professional Master’s Programmes or Post-graduate vocational training programmes at the University of Bologna
• from the first course for participants from affiliated institutions (Conservatory etc)
• from the first course for people who work at the University of Bologna (teaching staff, research fellows, tutors, IT specialists, administrative staff and visiting fellows etc)
• from the second course for students on international exchanges at the University of Bologna on study programmes like Erasmus+, Erasmus Mundus, Overseas etc.
• from the second course for students at the University of Bologna on first and second-cycle degree programmes, single cycle degrees, PhDs, specialisation school courses, and individual course units.

Courses with an enrolment fee of € 150,00:

• from the third course (if taken in the same academic year) for everyone who works and studies at the University of Bologna either permanently or temporarily with no exceptions.
• from the second course for students who are fully exempt from University fees due to ISEE
• from the second course (if taken in the same academic year) for students on Professional Master’s or Post-graduate vocational training programmes at the University of Bologna
• from the second course for participants from affiliated institutions (Conservatory etc.)
• from the second course (if taken in the same academic year) for people who work at the University of Bologna (teaching staff, research fellows, tutors, IT specialists, visiting fellows etc).

You can only ask for the enrolment fee to be refunded for matters connected to the Language Centre administration (for example, the cancellation of a course)

To check whether CFU are recognised, you need to contact the Student Office for your course of studies and ask if it is possible to recognise free credits for the course.

Anyone on international exchange programmes can receive the 5 European Credit Transfer System (ECTS) credits. The final course evaluation is "idonea/o" (pass) o "non idonea/o" (fail): there are no grades. In order to receive the 5 ECTS credits you must have the minimum attendance (70% of the lessons) as well as pass the final test(s). You can receive another 5 ECTS credits for a second or third course if the course is at a higher level (for example, 5 ECTS credits for an A2 course and 5 ECTS credits for a B1 course) or for a different type of course (Academic Italian or Specialised Communication). The Student Office records the course on your study plan.

At the end of the course you can request a certificate.

• Contact for Italian for Healthcare and Italian for Economics and Law cla.italianospecial@unibo.it