6 Humanities Degree Programs in Italy

The Foundation Year is a nine-month, full immersion preparatory course in Italian for international students willing to enroll in a BA taught in Italian at #UNIPAVIA. The Foundation Year is aimed at students who do not meet the minimum requirement – 12 years of schooling – to access the Italian higher education system.

The course offers a multidisciplinary path in which solid humanistic skills and computational practices are integrated in an innovative perspective, totally inserted in the scenarios outlined by the digital transition. The course intends to enhance a plurality of transversal skills in line with a change in society in which digital processes assume an increasingly central role, not only in the sphere of economy and business, but also in those of culture and research

This innovative English-taught master's degree in Environmental Humanities is a gateway to understanding the vital role of the humanities in analysing the relationship between humans and the environment, addressing significant issues such as climate change, migration, and cultural diversity.

The two-year MA program in Mobility Studies at the University of Padua is driven by the assumption that the Humanities can play a crucial role in facing and understanding mobility in present society. This is something different than offering a focus uniquely on the circulation of people, objects, and ideas in given historical and geographical frameworks. The MA program in Mobility Studies offers a broader approach. It aims at providing students with a selection of specific tools in historical, geographical, anthropological and philological studies, in order to challenge the traditional understanding of human actions, in time and space. “Challenging forces” such as colonization, migration, exile, tourism are seen as factors that shape cultural identities and not only as phenomena of contamination of given cultures. Students will be immersed in an engaging process through which people, texts, images, artifacts, commodities, ideas are moved, translated, transformed, adapted and negotiated by different social actors, sometime in distant spatial contexts, in the past and in the present. The global and local scenarios call for new experts, trained in historical and cultural studies, but ready for political and social action today.

The Foundation Course is a study program, taught in English and primarily aimed at candidates who do not possess the minimum schooling requirements outlined in current legislation for enrolment at Italian universities. Attendance of the Foundation Course is mandatory and students must accumulate all the credits provided by the course in order to obtain the final qualification. The modules available within the Foundation Course are taught in English and a certificate of knowledge of the English language at a B2 level is required.

Acquisition and consolidation of knowledge of the three foreign languages ​​of study; consolidation of written and oral skills in the Italian language; acquisition of the fundamental knowledge necessary for interlingual and intercultural mediation. Translation of written texts relating to entrepreneurial, institutional and cultural tertiary activities, also with the support of computer programs. Introduction to dialogic interpreting, for oral linguistic mediation in the entrepreneurial, institutional and cultural tertiary sectors.