The Faculty indicates the opportunity for students to develop their study plans according to the three particular profiles that appear first. These are competence or professional profiles structured consistently with respect to the three thematic areas, already mentioned above, in which the training offer is substantiated. Students who intend to build a different study plan must check compatibility with the general profile outlined above.
The assessment of comprehension, learning and critical analysis skills, oral and written argumentation, historiographical and bibliographical reconstruction, will take place, in the individual courses, through progressive methods and will find its appropriate conclusion in the final examination, which will normally be oral, but may also include the integrated use of written and multiple-choice questionnaires, or open-ended answers. The learning verification procedures will include: traditional oral interviews during the exam, presentation of papers at the seminar with critical discussion, commentary and criticism of philosophical texts, simulation of case-studies, drafting of short essays. The time reserved for personal study, as a rule, is equal to at least 50% of the total time commitment with the possibility of lower percentages for individual training activities with a high experimental or practical content.
The training course is guaranteed, first of all, by the use of the methodologically consolidated methods of philosophy, which include, in addition to the moment of the lesson by the teacher, interaction with students, the use of computer means, discussion in class, preparation of papers by students and their discussion in seminar form. Students will be helped to understand the different epistemological levels of the topics addressed, to interact in a public space for discussion and to elaborate arguments on an ethical, metaphysical and anthropological level that allow the formation of motivated and shared decisions. To this end, models of simulations of situations inspired by the functioning of ethics committees, discussion sessions regarding scientific experiments or the development of possible guidelines for research in the scientific or social-health fields may be used within specific training articulations of the course.
Within the individual courses, there will be moments of verification of learning and discussion of the results gradually earned. Students will also be helped to orient themselves in the field of the acquisition of scientific information and the reconstruction of the terms of the ethical, epistemological, hermeneutical and metaphysical debates present in philosophical thought and its history, also with reference to the issues that place the theme of the human person at the center, considered in its different aspects and in its different relationships. There will also be training opportunities through the presence of particularly qualified scholars in the field of philosophical, scientific and historiographical research, and opportunities for discussion with different theoretical perspectives and skills will be developed, so as to allow an articulated vision of the emerging issues in the field of philosophical reflection. Teaching support materials will be made available through the use of the internet and spaces will be set up for online interaction.
The duration of the graduate degree course is an additional two years after the three-year course of study.
To obtain the graduate degree in Philosophy, the student must have acquired at least 120 university credits. After passing the final degree examination, the student obtains a master's degree in Philosophy. 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.