Master's Degree in Language Sciences

The Master’s Degree Programme develops advanced linguistic and cultural understanding of the chosen foreign language and the ability to interact with multidisciplinary and multicultural research groups. According to the chosen programme, students will be able to examine in depth: the historic-diachronic evolution of the chosen language (philological/informatic methods for the interpretation and editing of texts); the themes and didactic tools for teaching italian as a foreign language and foreign languages to italians; linguistic tools for the analysis of obstacles to language and the linguistic acquisition in cases of deafness; the formal analysis of language; languages, culture and literature of different phases of their development.

Languages that are active for this programme:
Albanese, Czech, French, English, Italian Sign Language (LIS), Modern Greek, Polish, Portuguese/Brazilian, Romanian, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish, German.

Joint/Double degree available:

• Joint Master’s Degree in English and American Studies

Curricula available:

• English Linguistics
• Language Sciences

About the Degree Programme

Requirements and application

Level of qualification

Master's degree programme

Teaching Language

• English Linguistics (Double Degree);
• Language Sciences (fully taught in English).

Occupational profiles

Second-cycle graduates may hold positions of high responsibility in linguistic education, international cooperation and international institutions, public utility services related to cross-cultural communication.

Access to further studies

Professional Master’s Programmes (1st level and 2nd level) and PhD programmes.