The degree course in Geology aims at providing students with an adequate command of general scientific methods and contents, as well as with the acquisition of specific professional skills. Educational activities include:
- courses and/or modules divided into lectures, theoretical and practical exercises, laboratory practice, field practice. Each of these activities is awarded with a sufficient number of credits;
- seminars, group work, technical visits and internships in public or private external facilities: institutions, laboratories, companies, offices, construction sites; - Stays at other Italian and foreign universities, in accordance to international agreements too. The first part of the course is common to all enrolled students, while the second part provides a variety of curricula. Consistently with the educational objectives of the course, such an educational programme aims at training and developing manifold competences and skills for the profession and/or for doctoral education in the same scientific area. The course aims in particular at providing specific knowledge in the field of analysis, interpretation and three-dimensional modelling of the geological setting of the region and of the adjacent marine areas; it also provides for advanced training in the study and definition of models forecasts of geological phenomena capable of predicting danger/risk conditions(eruptions, landslides and hydrogeological instability, earthquakes), and also for the acquisition of basic skills for the analysis and modelling of Geo-environmental systems and processes, for the assessment and management of geo-resources for the assessment and prevention of deterioration of cultural heritage, for the evaluation and monitoring of volcanic activity.
