Supplementary Activities
The Language Center organizes free courses for Bocconi students, specifically
- Language and culture courses
- Introductory language courses
- Courses to prepare international certifications, for both curricular and extracurricular languages
- Workshops for enhancing students' academic and professional skills in English (Soft Skills Workshops)
- A short online course to learn the basics of Italian language (Italian Survival Course)
Enrollment
Courses are open to a limited number of Bocconi students of all Programs, University specialized Masters, SDA Masters and PhDs, except for the "Italian Survival Course" online, that is open to first-year students (BSc, MSc, Masters) and Double Degree Incoming students with unlimited places available.
Students can enroll only through you@B Diary, on the “sign-up for various activities” box. Before signing up, it is advised that students read carefully the courses’ complete calendar in order to avoid possible overlaps with other lessons and activities.
Please note that students can cancel their registration only through the student’s yoU@B Student Diary within (and not after) the deadline indicated for the registration. Any other type of cancellation request from courses is not allowed.
It is not possible to admit students who have not completed the registration accordingly.
Available seats
Details for each course are published online in the corresponding page (“Course details and calendar”). Enrollment will be confirmed through a message in the yoU@B Diary a few days before the courses start.
Attending and obtaining the open badge
Courses do not grant any credit or additional points for graduation. There is no exam at the end of the courses.
Students who attend at least 75% of the academic hours of the course * receive an Open Badge of Attendance about 30 days after the end of the course.
Presences are recorded through the Attendance procedure at the beginning of each lesson. The code is valid for 10 minutes, at the end of this period the attendance is not considered. Students are not allowed to leave the class before it ends. An improper conduct is punished according to the Università Bocconi honor code.
*Exception: the Italian Survival Course (online asynchronous mode) does not provide for the attendance registration and therefore the final Open Badge of attendance is not provided either.
Blacklist
If a student does not attend at least 25% of the academic hours of the course*, he/she will be blacklisted. This will result in the exclusion from the extracurricular courses organized by the Language Center in the current semester and the following one.
Being blacklisted twice leads to be permanently excluded from Language Center supplementary activities.
*Exception: there is no blacklist for the "Italian Survival Course".