The Faculty of Linguistic Sciences and Foreign Literatures at Università Cattolica offers training that combines a passion for the languages and cultures of foreign countries with the acquisition of business, tourism, communication and international relations skills. A project that considers the rapid and intense changes in the global context in the cultural, social and professional spheres.
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Giovanni Gobber
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Every language is a culture. [...] The real loss could lie in monoculture - whatever it may be -, in the loss in itself of a cultural pluralism, since only pluralism is the bearer of comparison, of fruitful dialectics, of cultural creativity, of civil richness immanent in the field of linguistic formation.
Sergio Cigada, First Dean of the Faculty of Linguistic Sciences and Foreign Literatures
In the academic year 1991-92, the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures was established at Università Cattolica. Thus an innovative project took shape, a project that would be taken up in many Italian universities: it provides that language learning and the study of linguistic and literary sciences are integrated by disciplines that investigate various areas – business, tourist flows, international relations, mass-media, audiovisual and digital communication – promoting an effective specialisation of linguistic and cultural skills. The need to reaffirm the scientific profile – both theoretical and applied – of the courses taught motivated the change of name, which since the academic year 2002-03 has been Faculty of Linguistic Sciences and Foreign Literatures.
The educational project has developed in harmony with an ancient and always vital tradition, which aims at the integral development of the person both in education and in life: the identity of Università Cattolica is constitutive of our Faculty and its degree programmes, in which teaching and cultural and scientific training are oriented towards the training of professionals capable of intervening effectively in work contexts where qualified competence is required in the field of languages and in the management of intercultural dynamics.
The constant evolution of the world of work, with the development of new sectors and new professional profiles, is closely followed by the Faculty, which is always ready to adapt its educational offer (both in terms of the content of the courses and the general organisation of the degree programmes) to the needs of companies, organisations and institutions, in which future graduates will be called to work.
Multilingualism and an international perspective are constitutive of the very nature of the Faculty. From the outset, it has been oriented towards dialogue and scientific and educational comparison at an international level, even before the Italian university environment, and, urged by the European institutions, it has always promoted the mobility of students and professors and lecturers.
Provincialism is incompatible with a Faculty that teaches how to learn and know languages and cultures: also for this reason, the Faculty promotes awareness of the immense heritage contained in the Italian language, which for the vast majority of our students is theit first language. Indeed, you don't learn other languages if you don't know your own in depth.
The Faculty offers:
- a high-level language training guaranteed by a professional teaching team: this constitutes the backbone of the Faculty and takes the form of in-depth practical learning of two foreign languages, with particular attention to the linguistic and cultural specificities of the various countries;
- the possibility of choosing from the following languages: English, French, German, Russian, Spanish. Chinese and Arabic languages are offered for the interfaculty degree programme in Scienze linguistiche per le relazioni internazionali; Arabic is also offered for all profiles of the undergraduate programme and for all profiles of the graduate degree in Scienze linguistiche; Chinese is also offered for the profile in Lingue per l’impresa of the undergraduate degree programme and for all profiles of the graduate degree programme in Scienze linguistiche, following on from the undergraduate degree;
- different profiles that integrate linguistic and literary skills with knowledge in specific areas: from the literary to the publishing and cultural fields; from marketing and business management to new international institutions and agencies; from activities related to tourism to those related to communication management and creative and media production. As evidenced by the periodic surveys conducted among the University graduates, these profiles ensure rapid integration into the world of work.
I believe that the contemporary university, while it has the duty to contribute to the advancement of the sciences and to follow the methodology required by each of them, must never put in second place what is required for the recognition of its primacy, namely man, the human person, the world of spirituality.
Father Agostino Gemelli, Founder of Università Cattolica
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