Humanities

The undergraduate programme in Humanities prepares students for a cultural and professional profile of high versatility in all sectors where strong argumentative and discursive skills are required, particularly in the field of teaching, publishing, communication, entertainment, cultural heritage preservation and enhancement. To this end, it provides students with a solid basic training in the traditionally fundamental sectors of humanistic culture (philological-literary, linguistic, historical, cultural, artistic), suitably combining it with new knowledge in the areas of communication and contemporary expressiveness, in the perspective of a constant dialogue between ancient and modern and a fruitful interaction between different disciplines and methodologies.
Moreover, the educational offer of the undergraduate degree programme in Humanities provides students with a very flexible curriculum, thus giving them the opportunity to build a largely personalized study plan, responding to certain cultural interests and the employment opportunities they pursue. On one hand, students will be able to include in the plan a whole series of specific courses of the classical area if they are especially attracted by ancient civilization and perhaps intend to continue their university education by enrolling in a graduate programme in Classics, also in view of teaching Greek and Latin at the Classical Lyceum (as well as Literary Subjects and Latin in Lyceums, Technical Institutes and Middle School). On the other hand, students will have the opportunity to develop a study plan with a stronger emphasis on modern culture, if they are keen to deepen their knowledge of the various aspects of modern culture, from the Middle Ages to the present day, with the prospect of enrolling in the graduate programme in Modern Philology, also in order to possibly obtain the qualification to teach literary subjects (and Latin) in high schools, technical institutes and middle schools. Finally, if students intend to privilege the historical-social dimension, they will be able to give adequate space in their plan to the teachings of the historical area and, by accessing the graduate programme in Modern Philology (Historical specialization), they will acquire the necessary ECTS to obtain the qualification to teach literary subjects (and Latin) in high schools and secondary schools of first and second degree. What's more, the multiplicity of cultural and occupational profiles included in the degree programme in Humanities further makes it possible to outline different disciplinary aggregations, depending on the field of humanistic knowledge and professional skills to which a central educational role is to be assigned. In particular, in the field of modern literature, there is a philological-literary, a historical, a critical-editorial profile and finally an artistic-theatrical profile.
However, it is precisely the singular richness and variety of the educational proposals offered by the degree programme in Literature that may cause some disorientation for students, especially at the beginning. Therefore, to help them to better orient themselves in the wide range of courses provided, conceiving, according to his inclination, an organic, coherent and effective study plan, we provide a series of useful suggestions. This is a first arrangement of the educational offer, streamlined and refined, from time to time, on the basis of the individual cultural profiles that we have imagined and the related professional destinations: starting from this or that model, it will then be much easier for students to define the study plan, selecting, based on their aptitudes, from coherent groups of subjects. Among other things, by following our indications, the validity of which we guarantee, students will be able to automatically submit their study plan, typing it directly electronically, without having to go through the prior scrutiny and approval of the competent Teaching Commission.