Study Plan A.Y. 2026/27

Course attendance is recommended but not mandatory.

The unit of measurement of the work required of the student for the completion of each training activity is the UFC (Universitary Formative Credit). Each credit corresponds to 25 hours of work on the part of the student, part of which is assisted activity and part of which is autonomous activity.

The distribution of the student's hourly commitment for each formative credit between assisted teaching activities and individual study is broken down as follows:

With reference to the individual CFU:

Formative activity	Assisted learning	Individual study
Classroom lessons	8	17
Classroom exercises and internal laboratory	16	9
External laboratory and field activity	18	7
Internship Activities and Final Examination	0	25

The type of teaching methods adopted are varied: classroom lectures, numerical and practical exercises in the classroom and in equipped indoor laboratories; outdoor laboratories: field exercises.

Assessment of learning

The assessment of the students' performance is carried out by means of examinations, which may include both a written and an oral test; the lecturer may, during the course of the course, provide for forms of assessment on the topics covered.

The examinations must always be individual and take place under conditions that guarantee the depth, objectivity and fairness of the assessment in relation to the teaching or activity followed and to what is explicitly required for the test. The exam will result in a grade expressed in thirtieths.

In the case of single courses divided into several modules, the examination will consist of a single final exam.

Verification of knowledge of the English language will consist of a written test followed by an interview.

The verification of the results of internships, placements and study periods abroad will be carried out through the presentation of a written report of the activities carried out, which will be approved first by the internal and external tutors and then by the Interclass Council.

Student-choice activities

The activities chosen by the student serve to complete and enrich the knowledge acquired in the course of his/her training. With regard to the student's free-choice training activities, the school offers a number of courses, which together constitute a single examination.

If the student intends to make use of other educational activities (offered by UNIBA), he/she must make a request to the CISG Board, which will assess whether they are consistent with the educational project of the CdS, as prescribed by Art. 10 of DM 270/2004. These activities must in any case have contents that cannot be found in any of the institutional activities envisaged in the official study plan of the degree course attended by the student. The request, after approval by the Council, will be sent to the student secretariat for formal registration.

Activities carried out as part of the Conscious Orientation and the PLS (Piano Lauree Scientifiche) project, implemented by the Department of Earth and Geoenvironmental Sciences, may also be recognised as optional activities; these activities may be recorded in the student's career as early as the end of the second semester of the first year, in accordance with the procedures identified by the Academic Senate.

In this regard, the credits obtained by the student will be recognised for the activities carried out for the acquisition of transversal skills which have been approved by the Board of Directors of the University of Bari Aldo Moro and which constitute one of the actions formally included in the Three-Year Planning Project presented by the University of Bari Aldo Moro and financed by the Ministry, as they will be provided by the Departmental/Didactic structures of the same university and codified by the same. On the homepage of the University of Bari Aldo Moro at the link: https://www.uniba.it/didattica/altri-corsi/competenze-trasversali the catalogue of courses and workshops within the Uniba4Future - Transversal Skills project has been published.

Credits acquired as a result of successful examinations for courses in addition to those that can be counted towards the completion of the course leading to the qualification remain recorded in the student's career and may give rise to subsequent recognition in accordance with the regulations in force. Assessments obtained for these additional courses do not, however, count towards the average marks for profit examinations.

Recommended elective courses of 4 CFU, to be activated on request if not active in other study courses:

Microfossils and ocean exploration (GEO/01)
Vertebrate diversity through time (GEO/01 + BIO/06)
Quaternary Geology and climatic changes (GEO/02)
Marine Geology and Geomorphology (GEO/02 + GEO/04)
Regional Geology (Alpine-Apennines-Tyrrhenian-Adriatic system) (GEO/03)
Karst processes and hazards (GEO/05)
Analysis and mitigation of natural and anthropogenic disasters (GEO/05 + GEO/08)
Crystal Chemistry of minerals (GEO/06)
Planetary Mineralogy (GEO/06)
Sedimentary ore deposits (GEO/07)
Volcanoes and economic geology (GEO/08)
Introduction to archaeometry (GEO/09)
Georesources and sustainability (GEO/09 + SECS-P/13)
Weather and climate extremes (GEO/12)

Propaedeuticities

Students are strongly advised to sit examinations and tests in accordance with the course sequence as indicated in the official study plan. However, students will not be able to take third-year examinations unless they have passed all first-year examinations.

Course organisation

The course of study is organised in semesters. For the first year the first semester begins the first week of October and ends the first half of January; for the second and third years the first semester begins the last week of September and ends just before the start of the Christmas holidays. The second semester begins at the beginning of March and ends in the first half of June. The exact start and end dates of each semester will be published on the degree course website from year to year. Between the first and second semester, three profit exams for all courses will be available to current students. A further three appeals will be held in June and July and two in September. For out-of-course students only, there will be appeals every month, except for August. The Interclass Council will decide at the beginning of each semester for a possible short suspension of teaching activities in order to carry out examinations and/or extraordinary appeals for current students.

The majority of teaching involves classroom lectures, classroom exercises and both internal (classroom) and external (field) laboratory. The indoor and outdoor laboratory and classroom exercises are an integral part of the courses. Their attendance is a prerequisite for taking the relevant examination.

The timetable for lectures, exercises and laboratories is within the 8.30 a.m. to 8.00 p.m. slot from Monday to Friday, unless otherwise required. The Department of Earth and Geoenvironmental Sciences, in agreement with the Course Council, contributes towards the costs of external laboratories and the geological campaign within the limits of the funding received annually. At the beginning of each semester, the Council devotes a meeting to this topic. The geological campaign is compulsory: it consists of external laboratory activities lasting several days and entitles the student to the credits allocated to it through the submission and approval of a written report accompanied by a geological map and sections.