Humanities
- Austria
- Belgium
- England
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- Holland
- Poland
- Romania
- Spain
What is the objective of the course? What is it?
What does it train you for?
What does it train you for?
The objective of the Bachelor's Degree is to train graduates with literary, linguistic, philological, historical, and geographical knowledge to be used with full critical mastery in the interpretation of texts, in their various typologies.
It offers a humanistic education that enhances the ability to find and critically use texts and the information they contain, contextualizing them in space and time in order to acquire skills to invest in the world of education, research, and the cultural industry.
The course is divided into three curricula: 'classical', 'modern', 'Italian studies'.
What do you learn?
All three curricula share the goal of transmitting a core of essential knowledge, from Italian literature to Latin literature, from the methods of linguistic analysis and formal analysis of texts to the techniques of philology, from geography, in its fundamental declinations, to history in its different temporal frames, from antiquity to contemporaneity.
Those who choose the classical curriculum will deal more particularly with the study of ancient (Greco-Latin) societies and cultures, and thus with Greek literature, Greek and Roman history, classical philology, and Greco-Roman archaeology.
Those who choose the modern curriculum will be engaged first and foremost in the study of the problems of the Italian literary and cultural tradition, with a strong investment in Italian literature and the tradition of texts through the principles of Romance philology.
Those who choose the curriculum in 'Italian studies' will face the study of literatures, in Italy and Europe, over a long time span, from Latin antiquity to contemporary times; and will have to become familiar with the problems of art history, music history and film history in a constant comparison between Italy and Europe.
Students will then be able to specify the profile of their curriculum, adapting it better to their inclinations, through the choice, in a rich range of opportunities, of some optional courses.
What can you do with it?
Traditionally, the Bachelor's Degree in Humanities (Lettere) has had as its fundamental training mission that of preparing future teachers of literary subjects in the secondary school.
In the current university system, the Bachelor's Degree does not give direct access to competitive examinations or qualifying courses, for which the higher degree of the Master’s Degree (Laurea Magistrale) is required, which is also a necessary step for access to the third level of university education, namely the Doctoral Degree.
Within this frame of reference, therefore, the Humanities graduate will achieve a complete basic humanities education to continue in the chain of university education (within the educational offerings of the University of Palermo: 'Classic Studies' and ' Italian Studies' as prosecutions immediately in line with the three curricula, but also 'Philosophical and Historical Studies' and ' History, Anthropology and Geography').
However, the course also offers the possibility of acquiring a professional profile suitable to carry out activities in the field of cultural heritage, information and communication, publishing; and also to face the new professional frontier of Digital Humanities.