Foundation Course

Online: the entire program can be accessed and completed via the Unimarconi platform which is available 24 hours a day.

The adopted e-learning model provides for assisted learning along the whole educational path, with access to specially developed educational materials available online and a repertoire of interactive educational activities. The utilization of the materials is mediated by computer and guided by tutors, technological and content experts who interact with the learners responding to their questions. The educational material consists mainly of asynchronous lectures that can be undertaken according to each learner’s schedule and availability, 24 hours a day.

Blended: the program is accessed online; furthermore, the students will have the possibility to spend a week in person in Rome in order to complete their preparation in Italian language and take the corresponding exam.

Blended learning is an approach to education that combines online educational materials and opportunities for interaction with traditional place-based classroom methods.

During the period spent in the Rome Campus, students will have the possibility to take part in academic and social initiatives like, for instance, seminars, laboratories, practical introductions to Italian culture and lifestyle and so on. Students will also have the opportunity to visit Rome, meet with their classmates and engage in networking activities.

This would also be a good occasion to get familiar with the Schools and Departments of Unimarconi.

The students will be hosted at the beautiful Unimarconi residence located in downtown Rome (at Piazza Cavour, very close to Vatican City), reserved for the university international guests.

Both the Foundation Course Humanities and the Foundation Course Science include 24 ECTS of Italian language classes, distributed over the whole year of study, whose aim is to bring all students to a B2 level in Italian, regardless of their starting level.

Online preparatory Italian language courses are also available through the Unimarconi platform, which all students can complete before starting classes.

In particular, students with absolutely no prior exposure to the Italian language are warmly recommended to attend this preparatory course to be better prepared for the FC Italian class. An attendance certificate will be released at the end of the preparatory course.

The lectures will be held exclusively online. Information and schedule will be sent to the accepted candidates.

Attendance of all online courses is mandatory and will be monitored through the Unimarconi platform.

Each course will end with a final exam. Only students who have attended at least 70% of the lectures of the course will be eligible to take the exam.

The exam consists of a written test and may include multiple choices or open questions. More information will be sent to the accepted candidates.

Students who do not pass all the exams by the end of the year (according to the enrolment date) can have an additional session, as long as they have reached the required attendance rate.

The additional session cannot replace the previous ones, meaning that students cannot decide to skip the ordinary sessions to take the exams directly later.

The additional session is the last one and students who miss it or do not pass all the exams by then will not have any further chances to take the exams.

Students who do not take the exam in the ordinary sessions by the end of the year (according to the enrolment date) cannot have access to the additional session and will be considered to have withdrawn.

Students that do not complete all the requested exams in the ordinary or additional sessions will not have completed the program. They might, however, enrol in the FC the subsequent year, paying again all the needed fees, and ask for a recognition of the exams successfully passed.

Italian Language Exam in Person

Students eligible to take the Italian language exam can decide to take it in presence at the Rome Unimarconi Campus, instead of using the online test.