Courses, Introductory Courses, and exams

Campus Novoli

Lectures and exams are held in Buildings D4, D5, D6 (via delle Pandette), and D15 (piazza Ugo di Toscana) of Campus Novoli. Please find here indications on how to reach Campus Novoli, and find here a map of the campus.

Courses

Introductory courses

Two introductory courses one in mathematics, one in statistics, have been held from Sept. 9 to Sept. 13, 2024.

Lectures for first semester courses

The lectures of first semester courses will begin on Sept. 16, will end on Dec. 11, 2024 (the course History of Economic Thought is an exception: please see below in this page). The timetable for these lectures is available here: Select Orario studenti, then Laurea Magistrale, then Economics and Development, then first/second year, and finally the curriculum. This is another useful website about class schedule and room occupation.

Please take into account that

on Sept. 20, no lecture will be held in building D6;
on Oct. 3, no lecture will be held in rooms D6/018 and D6/118;
on Dec. 3, no lecture will be held in room D6/018.

Lectures of second semester courses

The lectures of second semester courses will begin on Feb. 24, will end on May 30, 2025 (the course International Conflict Transformation is an exception: please see below in this page). The timetable for these lectures is available here: Select Orario studenti, then Laurea Magistrale, then Economics and Development, then first/second year, and finally the curriculum. This is another useful website about class schedule and room occupation.

List of courses

Please find here the list of courses, with indication of first semester courses and second semester courses

Courses held at Syracuse University Florence

The courses History of Economic Thought and International Conflict Transformation are part of an agreement between the MSc in Economics and Development and Syracuse University in Florence (SUF) and they will be held in SUF’s premises, located in piazza Savonarola 15. Students from the MSC Economics and Development interested in these courses will attend them together with SUF’s students and will have access to all of SUF’s facilities, including the library and intercultural students’ activities. Please click here for information of these courses, here for more information about SUF.

PEP courses

The research NGO called Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP), jointly with the University of Firenze, offers four online courses on subjects of interest for students of the curriculum Development Economics, to be held between February and May 2025. Each student can enroll in one course only, which can be included in the student’s study plan among the optional courses. Applications are due by December 2, 2024.

More information on PEP courses is available here.

Moodle

Moodle is an e-learning online platform in which instructors are suggested to upload teaching material for their courses, and students can retrieve such material. Please notice that Moodle cannot be used to register to take an exam (see below in this page how to register to take an exam).

In order to access the moodle page of a course you are interested in, please

reach the Moodle home page at https://e-l.unifi.it/ and click on Login at the top right of the screen
insert your username and password
insert the name of the course you are interested in and click on “cerca”
If you are asked an access key in order to see the moodle page of the course, then contact the course instructor in order to receive the access key.

Please find here the list of courses of the MSc Economics and Development for which a moodle page exists.

Please find here a detailed guide on using Moodle.

Exams

Exams for first semester courses

For each first semester course, there will be six dates to take the exam between December 2024 and September 2025:

one in December 2024;
three in January-February 2025;
one in June 2025;
one in August-September 2025.

Please find here the precise dates of all exams.

In order to take an exam, please enter SoL/GCS (a website about your career as a student, for instance it includes all your personal academic records) from here, using your immatriculation number at Unifi and your personal password at Unifi, or CIE, or SPID. This document may be helpful to use SoL/GCS.

Exams for second semester courses

For each second semester course, there will be six dates to take the exam between June 2025 and February 2026:

three in June-July 2025;
one in August-September 2025;
two in January-February 2026.