The Bachelor's Degree in Humanities (Lettere, L-10) is one of the oldest at UniSalento and offers a solid grounding in the humanities. Students choose from three tracks.
1) Classical: education on the origins of European civilisation in the philological-literary and historical-archaeological fields, focusing on the Greek and Roman world, with insights into the ancient Near East and the European Middle Ages. It includes at least one EU language, the ancient languages and their methodologies, as a foundation for further classical studies.
2) Modern: education in literary, linguistic, historical and geographical studies, focusing on European civilisation from its Latin roots to the contemporary age. It develops philological and literary-critical approaches and the ability to access texts in Latin, in the vernacular and in at least one European language, in view of further studies in modern literature, linguistics and history.
3) Contemporary: historical-geographical, linguistic and literary education based on linguistics, Italian literature, geography and history, with a strengthening of modern languages and literatures (French and English). It retains a reference to Greek and Roman civilisation and opens up to interdisciplinary perspectives; it includes applied activities (translation, digital humanities, library science, workshops) and prepares students both for further study and for careers in publishing, cultural communication, journalism and heritage enhancement.