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REGULATIONS FOR THE UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE IN
ARCHITECTURE SCIENCES
CLASS L-17 (ARCHITECTURE SCIENCES)

Learning Objectives

The Undergraduate Degree Course in Architecture Sciences represents the first step of the “3+2” path in Architecture offered by Sapienza’s Faculty of Architecture. It leads to the formation of a complete and innovative kind of professional architect, who can read, analyse and interpret the issues inherent to architecture, urban design and conservation, and can proceed to all around interventions in the processes of design and execution of modern architecture, as well as of re-development and conservation of buildings and existing settlements. As according to the learning objectives of the Class L-17, the Degree in Architecture Sciences seeks to educate and train an architect who can act as the link between customers, administration, firms and companies, entering the job market collaborating with private practices, design firms and institutions, construction firms, land management agencies, authorities and, once passed the Junior Architect Bar Exam, working independently.
The Undergraduate Degree includes units on the following: history of architecture, representation, mathematics, technical physics, architecture technology, construction sciences, conservation, urban design, valuation, design, interior design and law. The units are organized in lectures, laboratories, seminars and internships. In this way, the student will acquire theoretical, methodological and practical knowledge in a variety of scientific-disciplinary sectors, which make up the cultural and technical background of the architecture designer. He or she will deal with the issues inherent to architectural design, planning and conservation, their physical, energetic-environmental, economic and social impact; the aspects related to the structural, technical and economic feasibility, the calculations of building production costs; the national and European legislation, with reference to urban design, landscape and public works. Students will also improve their communication skills, especially for an international context, through classes with an English expert and a proficiency test in English, paying particular attention to technical language.

Entry Requirements

This Undergraduate Degree accepts a limited number of students (art.1 of L.264/99) indicated by the Study Course, decided by the Academic Area Committee, and approved by the Faculty Committee. Students are thus selected through an admission test, as according to current legislation, which takes place simultaneously on a national level, in the main Italian Universities.    There are entry requirements for the admission test; if these are not satisfied, the student will be assigned specifics Additional Learning Requirements (OFA) that must be satisfied by the end of the first year of the Degree, as according to the modalities described in the Call for Application (bando di ammisione).
The student must possess a high-school diploma or foreign equivalent. He or she must possess comprehension and communication skills, oral and written, in Italian; autonomous learning, thinking, analysis and synthesis skills; basic knowledge of maths, physics, history, geography and drawing.
During the first year, in the course of each unit, the student’s entry knowledge will be further verified, through the organisation of activities and exercises that will improve skills and knowledge, so that all students can attend classes with positive outcomes.

General Framework of the Programme

The three-year-programme will allow students to acquire the appropriate levels of knowledge and application of methods and experimentations, as according to the disciplinary contents of the three kinds of activities established for the Class L17. Students will gain the sufficient number of ECTSs in all disciplinary areas, so that they can carry on with Masters Degrees in the Class LM-4 which aim, by the end of their second year (thus five in total), at training Architects as according to European directives.  The programme is based on the integration of design, humanist and technical-scientific subjects.

Core formative activities (A) provide the student with the cultural and scientific knowledge needed to appropriately carry on with the other units in the Degree, with reference to technical language and comprehension of the architectural organism.  These are the units related to the representation of architecture and environment, to logical components and to mathematical, physical-technical and historical subjects.
Characterising subjects (B) focus on the abilities of design reading, interpretation and intervention in the fields of architecture, urban design and conservation, paying particular attention to the analysis of typological and constructive features of urban fabrics and historical buildings, and to the management of building, land and urban re-development interventions. These include the subjects related to architectural and urban design, theories and techniques for architectural conservation, for urban and landscape design; in addition to these, attention is also specifically paid to subjects related to the technology of architecture and construction, of analysis and structural design, and of architectural and urban valuation.
Related or Integrative Subjects (C)  allow the student to acquire practical knowledge in reading the urban landscape, in interior design, in legal matters, as well as cultural heritage, in order to guarantee a variety of sectors on the themes of design, construction, re-development, of city and land. The attached chart illustrates the study Manifesto for the three-year Degree 2018-2020, with the list of units and modules, the scientific-disciplinary sectors, the ECTSs and the related specific learning objectives. 

Career Prospects and Access to Masters Degrees

The Architecture Sciences graduate can work in private practices, in firms and public administration offices. They are linked to the productive sectors focused on design-construction, including the spheres of re-development and restoration of the building and urban heritage. Graduates can work as: Junior Architects (having passed the Bar Exams and having registered with the professional body); Technical Collaborator, in Architecture and Engineering private practices; Graduated Technician in Public Administrations (Technical Official and Technical Trainer); Firm Technician, in the realisation and management of constructions.
Graduates can collaborate with private practices, design firms and institutions, to design simple buildings, for surveys, investigations and diagnostics on the state of the existing settlement heritage;  with construction firms, for survey, technical investigations and construction sites management; with institutions that manage land (ministries, regional authorities, local authorities, economic and normative authorities), for investigations and surveys of settlement structures, with reference to general or practical planning (detailed plans, programmes of urban re-development and sustainable development, etc),  and for the technical-administrative management of interventions; and with regional authorities of cultural heritage and activities, authorities of environmental, architectural and archaeological heritage, for critical surveys, investigations and diagnostics on the architectural, environmental and landscape heritage, and for the technical-administrative management of interventions.
Designed in the European perspective of “3+2”, the Undergraduate Degree in Architecture Sciences – class L17 represents, furthermore, the ideal first step to carry on with further studies, with Masters Degrees in the class LM-4 which seek, by their end, to train Architects as according to European directives.  

AIMS AND BODIES
Art. 1 – AIMS
1. The Undergraduate Degree in Architecture Sciences (henceforth, “Degree Course”, “Course” or “Degree”) pertains to the Class L17 and, as per the D.M. 22 October 2004, n. 270 (already Class 4 of the Degrees in Sciences of Architecture and Construction Engineering, as per the D.M. 4 August 2000), is based upon the integration of humanistic, technical and artistic knowledge, in order to prepare the Architecture graduate.
2. The Degree refers to the Academic Area of Architecture and Landscape Sciences. The deliberative collective body, which manages the Course, is the Committee of the Academic Area of Architecture and Land Sciences (henceforth, CAD).
3. The following Departments are associated to the Degree: the Department of Architecture and Design, the Department of History, Design and Conservation of Architecture, the Department of Planning, Design, Technology of Architecture, the Department of Structural Engineering and Geotechnics. These ensure the coverage of lecturers for units, taking into account the sustainability of the Education Offer. The academic structure of reference of the Degree Course is the Department of History, Design and Conservation of Architecture (deliberation of the Faculty Committee, 16 January 2013). 
4. These Regulations, together with the University Regulations (UNIVERSITY REGULATIONS UNDER THE L. 240/2010 AND UNIVERSITY STATUTE - DR n. 3689 of 29 October 2012 and following adjustment), and with the Academic Area Regulations (approved by the CAD on 18 February 2013) regulate the organization of the Course, in the aspects not covered by the Regulations mentioned above.
5. The CAD, the Department of reference, the Faculty Committee and, later, the Academic Senate and the National University Council, approve the Academic System, with its learning objectives and the general framework of formative activities.
Art. 2 – DEGREE COURSE BODIES
1. The following are the Degree Course’s bodies: the Study Course Council, the President, the Quality Assessment Committee, the work group focused on Teaching and the work group focusing on Support and Tutoring and, as established by these Regulations, potential extra-ordinary Committees or work groups.
2. The Study Course Council is made up of a delegation of students equivalent to the 15% of lecturers, of all the lecturers teaching the Study Course, and of the staff with the same status, as according to the D.P.R. 382/80 and to the Law 341/90, working as substitute lecturers within the Study Course, and by those who work through a teaching contract.
The Study Course Council has a decision-making power for the tasks related to the Study Course and prepares the material for the CAD’s deliberations. Temporary lecturers, who undertake formation activities through courses or academic units, participate in the Council without the right to vote.
3. The Study Course President is elected, with secret scrutiny, among the tenured lecturers which made up the Council, by the lecturers with the right to vote. The election is approved by the Faculty Committee. The President is in office for no more than three years, and can be re-elected for no more than one consecutive time. The election of the President is by absolute majority at the first convocation, by relative majority in the following convocations. 
5. Elections are announced by the oldest Full lecturer and, when the same in rank, by the oldest in age (Dean), thirty days before the expiry of the mandate. Elections are valid if there is the participation of the absolute majority of those with the right to vote.
6. The President’s duties include:
a) to summon the Council, having established the Agenda, to lead and moderate the discussion, and guarantee the respect of the Regulations;
b) to supervise and coordinate the other activities of the Study Course. In particular, the President proposes – in agreement with the referred Department and the Department(s) involved and the Academic Area of Sciences of Architecture and Landscape – the appointment of the teaching of the individual units;
c) to attend to the execution of the decisions, to monitor that what has been decided by the Study Course Council, by the CAD and by the Faculty Committee is respected, to write reports and circulate them to the other related academic bodies;
e) In case of absence or impossibility, the President is substituted by the Dean. If the hindrance lasts for more than six months, new elections take place.
7. The Councils ensure the quality of the formative activities, make proposals about the Academic System and, on a yearly basis, they identify the lecturers to whom to appoint the single units of the Study Course, taking into account the requirements for the sustainability of the Education Offer, in agreement with the Academic Area.
8. For the election of the Study Course President, the following members of the Council have a right to vote: all the lecturers,  stabilised lecturers, researchers, staff with the same status as according the current legislation, the delegation of students enrolled in the Study Course.
9. For all the other matters of competence of the Study Course Council, the following have a right to vote: all the lecturers, stabilised lecturers, researchers, staff with the same status as according the current legislation, and the delegation of students enrolled in the Study Course. The following can participate to the Study Course Council’s debate, without a right to vote: lecturers with teaching contracts linked to the Study Course, as well as the delegation of the technical-administrative staff and of collaborators and language experts.
10. For the Study Course Council sessions to be valid, it is necessary that the majority of those with the right to vote are present. To determine the majority, those who justified their absence are not taken into account, while lecturers on outplacement are considered. No session is valid unless the President (or the Dean in his/her place) is present.
11. The Quality Assessment Committee performs the routine monitoring of the programme, with particular reference to the progress of the students’ careers, their satisfaction and career opportunities, guiding the processes of planning, monitoring and control of the results.
The Committee supports the President and the Quality Manager in the activities of self-evaluation QA, in the elaboration of the yearly Rapporto di Riesame, it prepares the necessary operations for the cyclical Riesame, it evaluates regularly the surveys of the OPIS.
The Quality Assessment Committee is made up of at least six members: the President, the Quality Manager, two lecturers of the Study Course, a technical-administrative component and a delegation of students. The Quality Manager is suggested by the President and voted by the Study Course Council.
12. The work group focused on Teaching, established by these Regulations (art. 2, point 1), monitors the teaching progress of the Degree Course, analyses the students’ paperwork, included those related to the validation of ECTSs and other formative activities, organises and monitors the activities of the students accepted to the Excellence Pathway programme.
the work group focused on Teaching is made up of at least six lecturers of the Study Course, active representatives of the various SSDs of the programme, nominated by all the members of the Study Course Council; office lasts three years. The manager of the work group is suggested by the President and voted by the Study Course Council. 
13. The Quality Committee and the work group focused on Teaching help the President in all the operations of teaching monitoring, and of arrangement of various cultural and academic organisations, to be turned into proposals that will undergo first the approval of the Study Course Council, and then to the deliberation of the Academic Area and of the Faculty Committee. They establish the modalities and the operative criteria related to teaching, to the validation of formative activities and of internships; they prepare deliberations, potential modifications to the Manifesto, of Academic System or of regulations, to be subjected to the approval of the CAD. Furthermore, they help the President in the management of the Study Course website, and propose and organise seminars, workshops and cultural activities.
14. The work group focused on Support and Tutoring, established by these Regulations (art. 2, point 1) organizes and circulates information on the programme and on the functioning of student services; it promotes the students’ active participation to academic activities and defines the criteria and modalities of Tutoring.
The work group focused on Support and Tutoring is made up of at least three lecturers of the Study Course Council, nominated by all the members of the Study Course Council and lasts in office three years. The work group Manager is suggested by the President and voted by the Study Course Council.
17. The Study Course’s Bodies do not dispose of spending autonomy, but operate in the range of the finance objectives established by the Academic Area and by the Faculty Committee.
Art. 3 – SPECIFIC COMPETENCES OF THE STUDY COURSE COUNCIL
1. The Study Course Council, with the help of specific bodies (art. 2 of these Regulations), works on proposals to be subjected to the approval of the Academic Area, of the related Department and of associated Departments and of the Faculty, on the following subjects:
a) ) the teaching programmes, respecting the progression requirements established in the second part of these Regulations and of the Faculty’s Education Offer;
b) the experimentation of new teaching modalities, within the limits of the current legislation, and proposal of types of other formative activities and internships, to which to associate credits;
c) the experimentation of modalities to organize teaching activities aiming at innovation and qualitative improvement;

d) the specific Regulations of the Degree Course;
e) the yearly Manifesto of the Degree Course;
f) the evaluation of the results of teaching, of the organization and the functionality of the teaching services.
Furthermore, it presents proposals and opinions concerning:
• the activation of units established in the Academic System;
• distribution of teaching appointments, in agreement with lecturers, assistants and researchers;
• appointment of vacancies through substitutions, and nomination of experts to award contracts.
• improvement, enhancement and activation of teaching services;
• statuary modifications to the Degree Course Regulations
2. With the help of specific bodies that monitor and coordinate teaching (art. 2 of these Regulations), the Degree Course Council prepares and decides:
a) the Regulations specific to the Degree Course, which constitute the second part of these Regulations, respecting the teaching freedom, within the norms of the Statute, of the University Teaching Regulation, of the Faculty Regulations and these Regulations;
b) the coordination of the programmes of the courses, the articulation of their contents, with particular reference to the learning objectives, to the articulation of the teaching activity and the arrangement of the exams;
c) the monitoring of the Course’s programmes and of the procedures agreed in the process of maintenance and optimisation of Quality, as established by the Study Course Quality Committee;
d) the preparation and yearly diffusion (also via the Study Course website), within the deadlines and modalities established by the University, of the material and information related to the Degree Course, the current Academic System, the teaching Regulations and the Manifesto’s content, as well as the programmes and the curricula of the lecturers, the cultural activities, the formative activities and those related to the internships and the stages; 
e) the preparation and distribution (also via the Degree Course website) of information related to the formative activity, to the organisational procedures and to the arrangement of the classes’ timetable, the examinations dates, as well as lecturers’ office hours;
f) the assessment and approval of students’ individual study plans, of dissertation requests and student-related paperwork and the preparation of the related deliberations to be subjected to the CAD’s approval;
g) the preparation of the deliberations to be subjected to the CAD’s approval, with reference to recognition and validation processes, prepared by the Study Course Teaching Committee, according to the modalities established by these Regulations (part two of these Regulations), of exams and ECTSs obtained by students in other Degree Courses or in other Faculties (in Italy or abroad), or related to other certified formative activities.  
3. The Study Course Council fulfils the procedures concerning the Degree Course in all its manifestations, marked as mandatory and urgent as established by the University Regulations, National legislation or potential requests, modifications and integration which might intervene on a National or University level.
Art. 4 – OPERATING MODALITIES OF THE DEGREE COURSE COUNCIL
1. The Study Course Council is summoned ordinarily every three months and, extra-ordinarily, whenever it is needed. It can be summoned upon motivated request by at least one fifth of the members. The request must be put forward with a written notice at least seven days before the session, with the exception of proved urgency, through e-mail or fax.
2. Attendance is recorded at the beginning of each session, distinctly between those who have the right to vote (art. 2 comma 8 e 9), and other members (art. 2 comma 9).
4. During the session of the Degree Course Council, the President opens the discussion on the themes of the agenda and on decision proposals, or leaves a delegate to do it in his place. The Secretary notes the order of those who ask to speak and, according to this order, the President allows each to speak. The President can propose the decision to stop the requests to speak, establish a time limit for each contribution on the same theme, and prevent further discussions on an already settled theme.  The President can ask the Council to invert the agenda or to add particularly urgent, not originally scheduled themes (the latter proposal can also be formulated by ten members, but has to be approved by the Degree Course Council).
5. Proposals concerning the Regulations, the manner of discussion, the day’s agenda and the priority of a vote, have the priority and suspend the discussion on another subject. Afterwards, only one speaker in favour and only one against can speak.
6. The members that take part to the discussion can present written modifications to the decisions’ proposals, and explain them. However, it is not possible to propose modifications, under any form, to decisions already approved by the Degree Course Council.
7. Decisions are taken if the majority of voters is reached; in case of tie, the vote of the President decides. No one can vote about issues which concern them personally, or concern relatives until the fourth degree.
8. Vote takes place by raising the hand. If the President believes the result to be unclear, it is possible to proceed to roll call vote.
9. It is possible to proceed to roll call vote or to secret scrutiny in the cases established by the law or the Regulations. It is also possible upon request of the President or at least ten members.
10. Each session’s report is submitted to the office of the Degree Course Council, at least five days before the approval session and, however, max. two months after the date to which it refers. Potential corrections to the report must be presented in written form to the President, and have priority of discussion over other issues in the agenda.

 SPEFICIF NORMS
Art. 5 – PROGRAMME
1. The Undergraduate Degree in Architecture Sciences awards a degree in the Class L17, with a congruous number of ECTSs in all the disciplinary sectors, so that it is possible to carry on studying in all the Masters Degree courses which aim, by their conclusion, to train the Architect as according to European directives.
2. 1 ECTS corresponds to 25 hours of the student’s total work, including coursework and individual study, divided equally.
3. The programme establishes a limited number of ECTSs, which can be acquired through elective units offered by the Course, by the Faculty or other Faculty of the University. Students are not required to submit individual study plans. It is required that students communicate the chosen elective units, so that the work group focused on Teaching can assess their coherence with the Course’s Programme. The choice can be made only once per year, in the periods of time established in the Faculty’s Calendar.
4. The Degree’s Education Offer is summarised in the charts below.  
Art. 6 – LIST OF UNITS
1. The formative activities offered by the Degree Course, the list of units for each course year, their arrangement in modules, the ECTSs assigned to each and the learning objectives of each unit are described in the attached charts.
2. The formative activities actually activated and any potential update to the Attachment, are notified through:
• the Ministry’s Education Offer database;
• the Study Manifesto of the Faculty of Architecture;
• the Faculty’s website;
• the Degree’s website, on the Sapienza portal.

Art. 7 – ECTSS AND PROGRESSION REQUIREMENTS
1. The ECTSs assigned to each unit can be viewed in the charts of art. 6, of these Regulations.
2. There are the following Progression Requirements:
it is not possible to take the
-Design Studio II exam, unless the student has passed the Design Studio I exam
-Design Studio III exam, unless the student has passed the Design Studio II exam
-Mathematics II exam, unless the student has passed the Mathematics I exam
-Mechanics of Structures exam, unless the student has passed the Mathematics I exam
-Construction Sciences exam, unless the student has passed the Mechanics of Structure exam, and the Mathematics II exam
-Technology of Architecture II exam, unless the student has passed the Technology of Architecture I exam
-Territory and Landscape Planning, unless the student has passed the Urban Design and Territory Management exam.
Art. 8 – OPTIONAL ACTIVITIES
1. Within the units activated at Sapienza, students can choose activities for a total of 12 ECTSs.
2. Taking into account the Education Offer’s sustainability, the Faculty might activate elective units coherent with the Degree Course Programme, with reference to the yearly upgrade of the Education Offer.
3. Students can choose between units from other Undergraduate Degrees and Single-Cycle Degrees, activated in the Faculty, which present declaratories different from the mandatory units of the Undergraduate Degree in Architecture Sciences. 
Art. 9 – ADMISSIONS 
1. Admissions to this Undergraduate Degree are limited to a number of students out of a national contingent. Students are thus selected through an admission test, as according to current legislation, which takes place simultaneously on a national level, in the main Italian Universities.    2. There are entry requirements for the admission test; if these are not satisfied, the student will be assigned specifics Additional Learning Requirements (OFA) that must be satisfied by the end of the first year of the Degree.
 Art. 10 – TRANSFER FROM A DIFFERENT DEGREE COURE, FROM A DIFFERENT UNIVERSITY AND CAREER ABBREVIATION
1. Since access to the Degree is restricted to a number of students out of on a national contingent, students who wish to transfer from other Courses or Universities must pass the national admission test, according to the modalities and within the deadlines established by current legislation, unless an admission test for the same Degree Class has been passed for the previous Degree Course.
2. Students who have acquired ECTSs at other Universities or Study Courses, can, when they enrol, submit the Career Abbreviation request, as according to the modalities established by the Sapienza General Manifesto – Undergraduate and Postgraduate Students Regulations, with reference to current academic year. According to the career reconfiguration, the Degree Course established the year the student should enrol to.
3. The number of places available to enrol to the following years depends on the restricted number; the yearly call for application to the admission test (bando) highlights the available places. If there are no places available, it will not be possible to complete the transfer.

Art. 11 – VALIDATION OF ECTSs ACQUIRED IN OTHER FACULTIES/UNIVERSITIES
1. Concerning the validation of exams passed in other Degree Courses in the Faculty of Architecture, within previous Academic Systems, in relation to the transfer to the Undergraduate Degree in Architecture Sciences, Academic System ex D.M. 270/04, the work group focused on Teaching elaborates the conversion’s criteria and modalities for individual units, it examines (according to such criteria) the paperwork and subjects it to the CAD’s approval. r2. The forms to request the recognition of passed exams, and for career abbreviation, will be available on the Faculty’s website, in the University’s Study Courses catalogue.
3. The modalities for the recognition of ECTSs acquired in other Universities are established by the work group focused on Teaching, and refer to what is established in the University Teaching Regulations and in the current legislation.
4. We will seek to ensure that the maximum possible number of ECTSs is recognized, through a careful evaluation of the previous study plan.
5. Exams passed in EU or non-EU Universities linked to Sapienza’s Faculty of Architecture through agreements and projects are validated as according to the modalities established by the agreements.
Following authorization from the Study Course Council, students can spend a study period abroad within the context of the Erasmus project. As according to the University Regulations, in case of studies, exams and awards obtained abroad, the Study Course examines on a case by case basis the programme, in order to award ECTSs in the correct scientific-disciplinary sectors.
Art. 12 – TEACHING AND ASSESSMENT METHODS
1. Teaching is conventional in nature, and will unfold through lectures, laboratories, specialized seminars and midterm examinations. Formative activities unfold through single-subject units, integrated courses, made up of units from one or more scientific-disciplinary sectors, and laboratories, usually made up of more teaching units.
2. Teaching activities are organized in semesters.
3. The Study Course organises the distribution of more parallel units for each formative activity established in the Programme according to the number of students, in order to guarantee more efficiency.
4. The exam (or proficiency test) verifies the achievement of each formative activity’s learning objectives, as according to the Manifesto.
5. With reference to the teaching laboratories and the units with integrated and coordinated units, which must be attended as a unified unit, each lecturer responsible for a course and unit participates in the collective assessment of the student’s advancement, following procedures established by the lecturers themselves. The assessment, which consists of the synthesis of the evaluations of each lecturer, will take the form of a single unified exam.
6. The examinations can be articulated in more than one moment of assessment or partial judgments.
7. The Examination Committees must be made up of at least two members, of which at least one tenured. Experts in the subject, approved by the unit director’s Department, can be part of the Committee upon motivated proposal of the unit director, approved by the Faculty. The office lasts one academic year.
8. The Committees have thirty points available to assess the student’s advancement. To pass the exam, the student must obtain at least eighteen points. Lode (Honours) can be awarded with the unanimous approval of the present examiners. 
9. All formative activities (courses, laboratories and integrative courses), included in the attached list, have a final vote, with the exception of the proficiency test in foreign language and other formative activities as according to the art. 10 comma 5 lett. D ex DM 270/04.
Art. 13 – FOREIGN LANGUAGE
1. The Course includes the study of a foreign language, with particular reference to architecture’s technical language, with a variety of teaching modalities. The assessment of the student’s knowledge and skills in the foreign language consists of a proficiency test, which is linked to 3 ECTSs.
Art. 14 – OTHER FORMATIVE ACTIVITIES
1. For students enrolled in the first year for the first time, starting from the academic year 2018-19, the rules for the acquisition of 1 ECTS related to other formative activities are established with reference to the Education Offer below (choosing between a, b, c):
a. internship activated in the Faculty;
b. practical specializations of the Faculty;
c. workshop, seminars (obtaining ECTSs either structured by the Faculty or certified by Institutions and Italian and foreign Universities, which might require validation).
2. For students enrolled in the first year for the first time, starting from the academic year 2011-12, and until the academic year 2017-18,  the rules for the acquisition of 2 ECTSs related to other formative activities are established with reference to the Education Offer below (choosing between a, b, c):
a. internship activated in the Faculty;
b. practical specializations of the Faculty;
c. workshop, seminars (obtaining ECTSs either structured by the Faculty or obtained and certified by Institutions and Italian and foreign Universities, which might require validation).
3. For the validation of ECTSs, the following will be accepted: certifications of IT skills, of a second language, of participation to stages or internships, or other formative activities described in detail and supported by certifications which prove a minimum work of 50 hours.
Art. 15 – EXCELLENCE PATHWAY
1. The Excellence Pathway in Architecture Sciences seeks to enhance the formation of those exemplary students who are interested in pursuing further cultural activities. The Excellence Pathway is an integrative pathway to the Study Course, and it consists of additional learning activities to those of the Study Course, to be completed during the second and third year. 
2. The admission procedure to the Excellence Pathway takes place through a comparative selection of titles, announced yearly by the Rector and assessed by a Committee of lecturers of the CAD.
2. Students admitted to the Excellence Pathway will be involved with two types of activities. The first are programmed by the teaching structure of reference, and consist of in-depth disciplinary and interdisciplinary studies, seminars and internships; the second are agreed with reference to their cultural and scientific vocations. Overall, these activities entail a maximum of 100 hours of work for the student, and they do not result in ECTSs.
3. At the end of the academic year, tutors will assess the activities of students admitted to the Excellence Pathway. In the case of a negative evaluation, the Study Course Council can establish that the student might not progress to the following year of the Pathway. In order to progress in the Excellence Pathway, the student must complete all the coursework of the Pathway, as well as acquire all the ECTSs of the second year, and possess a weighted average not inferior to 27/30.
4. When graduating, the student who has successfully completed an Excellence Pathway will receive a certificate from the Faculty Presidency, which will be recorded on the student’s curriculum, with the modalities established for other kind of certificates.
5. The Excellence Pathway’s tutors are chosen within the group work focused on Teaching, and voted by Study Course Council.
Art. 16 – FINAL TEST
1.The final test is individual, and consists of the preparation, writing and presentation of a (planning, theoretical or experimental) composition that demonstrates the fully developed skills acquired during the Undergraduate Degree, within the context of the disciplinary contents of the Study Course. It can also take the form of a critical re-reading of one’s own formative progress (curricular dissertation, portfolio). It is an original composition, about themes agreed with the supervisor and relevant, for contents and methods, to the Study Course.
2. The dissertation can be part of a larger work carried out in group and presented by more graduating students together, as long as the individual elaboration represents a significant, autonomous and discernible part, so that an independent assessment is possible.
3. The dissertation must be supervised by one or more lecturers, if the work is interdisciplinary or is concerned with more than one theme.
4. The collaboration of external experts as co-supervisors is allowed.
5. The dissertation’s theme can also arise out of and develop in the coursework of one of the units of the Course, or in one of the workshops proposed by the Study Course, or in the context of an internship. For its completion, a total of 6 ECTSs will be recognized, corresponding to 150 hours of work.
6. For issues related to the modalities of admission and to the composition of the Graduation Committee, see the Faculty Regulations.
Art. 17 – RULES FOR PORGRESSION TO FOLLOWING YEARS
Students can enrol in the third year having acquired at least 70 ECTSs in the first two years.
Art. 18 – ATTENDANCE
1. Attendance is considered as necessary for a successful development of the student’s formation during the three years; it is therefore strongly recommended, but it is mandatory only for the Laboratories. Unit directors employ appropriate methods to verify attendance.
2. As established in the University Regulations with relation to part-time students, the student’s reduced study plan must be approved by the Study Course Council in advance.
Art. 19 –INTEGRATIVE TESTS
1. The work group focused on the Study Course’s Teaching can require the student to take integrative tests for exams he or she has already passed, when these have been passed more than six years ago and their cultural content is considered now as outdated.
Art. 20 – SUPPORT AND TUTORING
1. Tutoring aims at supporting and helping students throughout their studies, making them actively participate in the formative process, removing the obstacles to a productive attendance to classes, also through activities related to the individual’s needs and preferences.
2. The following lecturers are involved with Support and Tutoring activities: Annamaria Pau, Rossana Mancini, Anna Del Monaco, Daniela De Leo, Carola Clemente, Serena Baiani, Leonardo Baglioni.
3. All lecturers are involved with further activities of academic tutoring, according to modalities established by the Study Course and the Faculty, ensuring the continuity, during the whole formative process, of the relationship between lecturer and student.
Art. 21 – TEACHING STAFF
1. The list of lecturers, including their qualification and scientific-disciplinary sector, can be found in the Teaching Programme document, prepared by the Faculty.
2.Tenured lecturers cover the units related to the scientific-disciplinary sector they pertain to, within the limit of the minimum number of credits established in the art.1, comma 9, of the DD.MM, 16 March 2007.
3. The contact lecturers for the Study Course are: Serena Baiani, Leonardo Baglioni, Flaminia Bardati, Alessandra Capanna, Carola Clemente, Daniela De Leo, Marco Fasolo, Alfonso Giancotti, Susanna Pasquali.
Art. 22 – VALIDITY OF THESE REGULATIONS
1. These Regulations apply to all the students enrolled to the Study Course, from the academic year 2018-19, and will be valid until the emanation of new Regulations.
2. Any issues related to the Regulations’ interpretation or application, due to the succession of Regulations in time, will be examined by the Study Course Council.
3. For anything not established in these Regulations that is concerned with academic and teaching activities, not exclusive to the University’s competence, see the University Teaching Regulations.
4. Students enrolled in previous Academic Systems can request the validation of acquired ECTSs and continue their studies in the current Academic System. All their previous academic activities will be examined by the work group focused on Teaching and subjected to the approval of the CAD, upon specific request by the student. The student must also present the official programmes of the exams he or she has passed. This also applies to students enrolled in academic years preceding the Undergraduate Degree in Architecture Sciences at University of Rome ‘Sapienza’, who intend to modify their study plan in accordance with these Regulations.