With reference to the training course, it is structured in such a way as to allow the student to develop in the first part, i.e. in the first year of the course, pedagogical skills related to special educational intervention and the helping relationship, psychological skills focused on the individual and social aspects of personality and deviance, neuropsychiatric skills, historical skills concerning marginality and philosophy of the person. In the second part, i.e. in the second year of the course, the student builds and develops methodological skills in group management, atypical developmental psychology, historical skills related to special education, sociology of inequalities and differences, as well as social legislation for marginality and disability.
The teaching methods envisaged will be of different types: frontal lectures in the classroom; reflection work in small or large groups, role playing, cooperative learning, research groups on specific topics, image teaching, case studies, seminars with privileged witnesses, e-learning.
The forms of verification envisaged will be the following: oral exams or written tests; practical laboratory tests; practical-operational simulations aimed at verifying learning; research papers, final written thesis; professional internship experiences with periodic external and internal checks; role playing in small groups; extended group work to reflect on practical operational experience lived or seen.
The duration of the graduate degree is an additional two years after the three-year course of study. At least 120 university credits must be acquired to obtain the graduate degree. Each exam is awarded a certain number of credits, the same for all students and a grade (expressed in thirtieths) that varies according to the level of preparation.