Urban and Regional Tourist Trails
A.Y. 2024/2025
Learning objectives
This professional skills workshop aims to develop and strengthen specific cross-cutting skills. The abilities learned will help students through their education and enable them to acquire an initial toolkit of skills for a given professional field. These also include the general interpersonal and communication skills that are required for the world of work.
Expected learning outcomes
The professional skills workshop uses interactive and participative teaching methods to develop specific knowledge and skills in selected professional fields. This didactic approach aims to strengthen teamworking, knowledge sharing and problem-solving abilities, while also helping students to practically apply the skills and knowledge they have gained previously within a specific practical setting.
The workshop is open to a limited number of participants, enabling the organisation and monitoring of individual and group work so as to create the best possible opportunities for students to apply their knowledge and understanding gained.
Participants will gain an awareness of the workshop's underlying themes, giving them a grounding from which to form their own personal opinion on the topic at hand.
The workshop is open to a limited number of participants, enabling the organisation and monitoring of individual and group work so as to create the best possible opportunities for students to apply their knowledge and understanding gained.
Participants will gain an awareness of the workshop's underlying themes, giving them a grounding from which to form their own personal opinion on the topic at hand.
Lesson period: First week
Assessment methods: Giudizio di approvazione
Assessment result: superato/non superato
Single course
This course cannot be attended as a single course. Please check our list of single courses to find the ones available for enrolment.
Course syllabus and organization
Single session
Responsible
Lesson period
First week
Course syllabus
The workshop will be delivered from 17 to 21 February 2025 and will be tructured as follows:
1) introduction to the workshop;
2) the world of cultural tourism: museums, stakeholders and pathways. Prejudices and perceptions on the tour guide and their role;
3) cultural and tourism offer of Milan: examples, projects, simulations. Creation of a moodboard describing the world of cultural tourism from the student's point of view;
4) field trips: Gallerie d'Italia, Museo del Novecento, walking tour of Milan city centre;
5) choice of the museum and planning of a tour based on a specific target audience (adults, children, foreign tourists or companies). Creation of a moodboard to better illustrate the final project (in-class activity);
6) presentation of the tour to the class, including sketches, flyers and other related material, if any. All tours will then be commented by the other participants, so as to encourage critical thinking and improve argumentative and public speaking skills.
Calendar
MONDAY, 17 February: introduction to the workshop and brainstorming (4 hours, from 9.30 am to 1.30 pm, room T2)
TUESDAY, 18 February: museum visits: Gallerie d'Italia and Museo del Novecento (4 hours, from 9.30 am to 1.30 pm)
WEDNESDAY, 19 February: walking tour covering Piazza Duomo, Piazza Mercanti, San Maurizio al Monastero and Santa Maria delle Grazie (4 hours, from 9.30 am to 1.30 pm)
THURSDAY, 20 February: planning of the tour using the students' own device (4 hours, from 9.30 am to 1.30 pm, room T2)
FRIDAY, 21 February: presentation of the tours to the class and final assessment (4 hours, from 9.30 am to 1.30 pm, room T2)
1) introduction to the workshop;
2) the world of cultural tourism: museums, stakeholders and pathways. Prejudices and perceptions on the tour guide and their role;
3) cultural and tourism offer of Milan: examples, projects, simulations. Creation of a moodboard describing the world of cultural tourism from the student's point of view;
4) field trips: Gallerie d'Italia, Museo del Novecento, walking tour of Milan city centre;
5) choice of the museum and planning of a tour based on a specific target audience (adults, children, foreign tourists or companies). Creation of a moodboard to better illustrate the final project (in-class activity);
6) presentation of the tour to the class, including sketches, flyers and other related material, if any. All tours will then be commented by the other participants, so as to encourage critical thinking and improve argumentative and public speaking skills.
Calendar
MONDAY, 17 February: introduction to the workshop and brainstorming (4 hours, from 9.30 am to 1.30 pm, room T2)
TUESDAY, 18 February: museum visits: Gallerie d'Italia and Museo del Novecento (4 hours, from 9.30 am to 1.30 pm)
WEDNESDAY, 19 February: walking tour covering Piazza Duomo, Piazza Mercanti, San Maurizio al Monastero and Santa Maria delle Grazie (4 hours, from 9.30 am to 1.30 pm)
THURSDAY, 20 February: planning of the tour using the students' own device (4 hours, from 9.30 am to 1.30 pm, room T2)
FRIDAY, 21 February: presentation of the tours to the class and final assessment (4 hours, from 9.30 am to 1.30 pm, room T2)
Prerequisites for admission
There are no specific requirements to attend this workshop. Participants are only asked to give up the idea that guided tours are dull and boring. Passion for history and art is desirable, but not essential.
Teaching methods
The workshop will be delivered in-person and includes:
- frontal teaching;
- practical teaching;
- role-playing;
- field trips, including visits to a number of museums in Milan (you may have to pay a ticket to visit them) and possibly a walking tour;
- using your smartphone to take pictures and videos.
The workshop is structured in two parts, a theoretical part in the class and a practical part in the city.
- frontal teaching;
- practical teaching;
- role-playing;
- field trips, including visits to a number of museums in Milan (you may have to pay a ticket to visit them) and possibly a walking tour;
- using your smartphone to take pictures and videos.
The workshop is structured in two parts, a theoretical part in the class and a practical part in the city.
Teaching Resources
The study materials used in class (texts, slides, multimedia materials and reading list) will also be made available on the workshop website on myAriel.
Assessment methods and Criteria
Students will be assessed based on compliance with attendance requirements (min. 16 hours out of 20), participation in the workshop activities, and a final assignment, for which they will have to design and present a tour.
Assessment criteria will be active participation in class and out-of-class activities, as well as clarity and quality of the final project (proposal for a tour). The tour will have to be designed individually or in group, depending on the number
of students participating in the workshop.
Assessment criteria will be active participation in class and out-of-class activities, as well as clarity and quality of the final project (proposal for a tour). The tour will have to be designed individually or in group, depending on the number
of students participating in the workshop.
- University credits: 3
Professional training laboratories: 20 hours
Professor:
Delmiglio Chiara Anna
Professor(s)