GUIDES TO THE UNIVERSITY

Università Bocconi offers its students supplementary activities designed to enhance their cultural understanding and complement the degree program requirements.

Positive participation in the activities does not provide any credit nor extra points for the student's CV, but allows students to obtain a certificate of participation.

The supplementary activities are divided in two large groups: 

• supplementary activities  for which  students must sign up using the you@B student Diary; 
• supplementary activity which do not require that students sign up through the yoU@B Diary (in this case students must sign up to the service offering the activity, without use of the student Diary).

Supplementary activities include:

• research seminars organized by the Library www.unibocconi.eu/library
• personal development and self-management skills courses organized by Counseling and Self-Empowerment (ex CESDIA) http://www.unibocconi.eu/counseling  
• interdisciplinary courses which form part of the Sapere a Tutto Campo program www.unibocconi.eu/interdisciplinarycourses  
• language and culture courses organized by the Language Centre www.unibocconi.eu/languagecentre
• IT courses organized by the SEDIN (www.unibocconi.eu/sedin)

The full range of supplementary activities for 2015-2016 is published in September (before the start dates of any activity initiative choice); more detailed information including programs and calendars will be released on the websites of the services which offer these activities.

For students enrolled in CLMG program participation in supplementary activities is optional and is ruled by general instructions, as follows:

• sign-up application procedure: through the yoU@B student diary in the Sign up for various activities box about one month before the courses start..
• assigning courses: for each study program sign-up applications are accepted in the order of chronological sign-ups received. Students who are admitted/not admitted to attend these activities will receive a personal online message sent to their yoU@B student Diary;
• attendance: obligatory for at least 75% of the teaching sessions, as established by the instructors, in order to obtain the certificate of participation; online courses as well, if offered, have mechanisms for registering attendance.
• evaluation: is carried out by instructors according to the assessment methods discussed in class (teacher can require a final written report) but is subordinate to the compulsory 75% attendance and to the active participation in class;
• period of study: courses are held during teaching periods and on specific dates which will be finalized before the sign-up period begins;
• duration: is depending on the activity chosen; the minimum duration is 8 hours.

For positive participation in the initiatives, certified by the professor, students obtain a certificate of participation. This certificate is not recognized in terms of credit points nor additional points in the student’s curriculum.