- Docente: Elena Dagrada
- Credits: 6
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Drama, Art and Music Studies (cod. 5821)
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from Feb 18, 2025 to Mar 21, 2025
Learning outcomes
By the end of the laboratory the student: knows the main research methodologies in the respective field of study; acquires an in-depth knowledge of the structure and organization of an argumentative text; is able to collect and organize primary and secondary sources, and to write a bibliography; knows how to apply appropriate editorial criteria in the finalization of the text.
Course contents
The workshop is intended for students who wish to prepare a thesis in the cinematographic field. It will address the following issues: what is a thesis; the choice of a topic; the bibliographical and filmographic research; the sources; the organization of the text and the table of contents; argumentative writing; citations and notes; drafting.
Readings/Bibliography
The reading of the following books is mandatory:
-Umberto Eco, Come si fa una tesi di laurea, Milano, La nave di Teseo, 2019.
-Paolo Caneppele, Denis Lotti, La Documentazione Cinematografica ovvero Le fonti storic0-cinematografiche. Manuale per studiosi, studenti, appassionati, Bologna, Persiani, 2014.
Other texts will be mentioned during the workshop.
Teaching methods
This is a 30-hour workshop.
Attendance is mandatory for at least 80% of the workshop sessions.
In order to sign up for the workshop, please write an e-mail to academic tutor Vanja Baltić (vanja.baltic2@unibo.it) by January 31 2025, stating your SURNAME, NAME, STUDENT NUMBER and E-MAIL ADDRESS.
Active participation to the workshop sessions is highly recommended. Student attendance will be verified by means of online questionnaires or signatures in the workshop register. The students who can’t attend the workshop sessions must contact professor Elena Dagrada in order to devise a personalised learning program and exam.
Students with SLD or temporary or permanent disabilities: please, get in touch as soon as possible with the relevant University office (https://site.unibo.it/studenti-con-disabilita-e-dsa/en) and with the lecturer in order to seek together the most effective strategies for following the lessons and/or preparing for the exam.
Assessment methods
In order to pass the exam, the student must obtain a “qualified” mark.
It is highly recommended that the students attend at least 80% of the workshop sessions.
The students who can’t attend the workshop sessions must contact professor Dagrada in order to devise a personalised learning program and exam.
The exam consists in the submission of a written essay of thirty pages maximum.
The topic of the written essay should be discussed in advance with professor Dagrada or with academic tutor. The written essay must be submitted via e-mail at least ten days before the exam session.
The written essay must clearly state: topic, methodology, research procedures and sources. Great care must be devoted to making citations and footnote/endnote references, and to compiling the bibliography, according to the formatting rules listed in the University's thesis guidelines document ("Norme redazionali per prova finale DAMS").
Students with SLD or temporary or permanent disabilities: please, contact the relevant University office (https://site.unibo.it/studenti-con-disabilita-e-dsa/en) well in advance: the office will propose some adjustments, which must in any case be submitted 15 days in advance to the lecturer, who will assess the appropriateness of these adjustments in relation to the teaching objectives.
Teaching tools
Practical exercises (e.g., compiling bibliographies and filmographies).
Office hours
See the website of Elena Dagrada