Corsi di Studio del Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza

Dear Students,

please read the following information carefully:

• In both Module I and Module II students have been granted the possibility to be evaluated in an extraordinary take-home exam session (as for Module I, the session took place on November 6, 2020; as for Module II, it will take place on December 4, 2020). The positive evaluations received by any student in the extraordinary take-home exam session of Module I and/or Module II will be considered valid for all the "appelli" until the next course unit on the Principles of Constitutional Law will take place, i.e. until the exam session of February 2022. Students have also been granted the possibility to be evaluated in Module II with the special modality of the "essay": the result of the essay, if positive, will be considered valid for all the "appelli" of the current Academic Year taking place at least 15 days after the final submission of the essay.
• The final result that a student will get in the course "Principles of Constitutional Law" will be calculated as the average of the partial results obtained in Module I and Module II. The student will have to formalize her/his final result on one of the days of the institutional "appelli": December 16, 2020; January 15 and 29, 2021; February 12, 2021.
• If a student wants to formalize her/his result on a given day of "appello" (for instance, on December 16), she/he has to sign up on the institutional platform, indicating whether she/he has been already positively evaluated in the extraordinary session of Module I and/or Module II (or in the essay of Module II)
  • If the student has been already positively evaluated in the preliminary session of both Modules (or in the preliminary session of Module I and also in the essay of Module II), on the day of the "appello" her/his result will be simply formalized based on the average of the two partial results.
  • If the student has been already positively evaluated in the preliminary session of only one Module (or only in the essay of Module II), on the day of the "appello" she/he is supposed to take the take-home exam on the other Module and, if this second evaluation is positive as well, her/his final result will be formalized based on the average of the two partial results. On the contrary, if the evaluation is negative and therefore the final grade is negative as well, she/he will have to sign up for one of the next "appelli" and the same rules will apply (meaning that she/he will have to retake the take-home exam on the Module that she/he did not pass).
  • If the student has not been already positively evaluated in the preliminary session of any Module (and neither in the essay of Module II), on the day of the "appello" she/he is supposed to take the take-home exam on both Module I and Module II and, if both evaluations are positive, her/his final result will be formalized based on the average of the two partial results. On the contrary, if one of the two evaluations is not positive (or if both are not positive), she/he will have to sign up for one of the next "appelli" and the same rules will apply (meaning that she/he will have to retake the take-home exam both for Module I and Module II).
• For those students who still have to take one of the two Modules or both of them on one of the official exam sessions (“appelli”), starting with December 16, 2020, the exam will be organized as follows:
  • questions will be presented in an online form (using Google Forms); students will be able to access the form only by using their institutional UniTo email account (@edu.unito.it); at midnight (12 am Turin time) on the day of the exam the link to the form will be posted under "Avvisi" on Campusnet; students will have to click on the link and access the form using their UniTo account, fill the form in and click on "submit" ("invia") to complete the exam; latest hour of submission is set at 9 p.m. (Turin time) of the day of the exam and any submission after 9 p.m. will not be considered; students will be able to submit their answers just one time, so that answers should be chosen carefully before submission;
  • the online form will include a first part presenting the questions of Module I and a second part presenting the questions of Module II Google Form; obviously, if a student has to be evaluated only in one Module, she/he should complete only the corresponding part of the Module, leaving the other part blank;
  • as far as the part concerning Module I Is concerned, it will consist of four open questions on the contents of Module I. The dimension of your answers, taken together, shall not exceed 1,600 words. All texts that exceed that dimension will not be evaluated. The answers should not be a “copy and paste” of the related parts of the file containing the arguments of Module I. On the contrary, they should contain a sufficient component of authorial input. Every form of plagiarism that exceeds 20 % of the submitted text will result in a fail;
  • as far as the part concerning Module II is concerned, the exam will consist of a set number of questions, both true-false/multiple-choice and short-answer, concerning all the materials uploaded on Moodle and the recordings of the virtual meetings (that are available on Moodle as well).

Regards,

Sergio Dellavalle and Riccardo Perona