University Of Salento

Master's Degree in CLASSICAL LITERATURE

Degree course in italian: LETTERE CLASSICHE
Degree course: CLASSICAL LITERATURE
Title: Master's Degree
MIUR Class: Classe delle lauree magistrali in Filologia, letterature e storia dell'antichità - LM-15 (DM270)
Length: 2 years
Credits: 120
Department: HUMANITIES
Website: https://www.studiumanistici.unisalento.it/guida-alla-didattica/lettere-classiche-lm15
Language: ITALIAN
Location: Lecce-
Academic year: 2025/2026
Type of access/Available places: Free access course
Career opportunities: 2.5.4.4.1 - Linguisti e filologi
2.5.4.4.2 - Revisori di testi
2.5.4.5.1 - Archivisti
2.5.4.5.2 - Bibliotecari
2.6.2.4.0 - Ricercatori e tecnici laureati nelle scienze dell'antichità, filologico-letterarie e storico-artistiche

Course description
Course modules

Course description

The Master's Degree in Classical Literature lasts two years, includes a single curriculum and involves the acquisition of 120 CFU.
In close continuity with the classical curriculum of the Degree in Literature (L-10), to whose skills it is linked, the course provides the student with advanced preparation in the fields of literary, philological and historical disciplines relating to the Greek and Latin world and for a historical period from the Archaic to the Late Ancient Age, including the Byzantine area and period.
In these areas, the development of a rigorous scientific and methodological competence is taken care of and the capacity for autonomous criticism and personal research is encouraged. To this end, the Course reduces the compulsory and more general courses to the bare minimum, offers more space for the student's choice in the sector of specialist, characterising and similar or integrative teachings (thirteen, including didactic and methodological disciplines), provides more practical training experiences through specialist laboratories and maintains the need for in-depth study in at least one modern European foreign language.

The entrance qualification is a three-year degree in Literature - classical curriculum (5L) or a three-year degree obtained in the humanities area which also includes the acquisition of the following CFU:
- 12 CFU in the SSD L-FIL-LET/02;
- 12 CFU in the SSD L-FIL-LET/04
- 6 CFU in the SSD L-ANT/02;
- 6 CFU in the SSD L-ANT/03;
- 6 CFU in the SSD L-LIN/03; L-LIN/04; L-LIN/05; L-LIN/07; L-LIN/10; L-LIN/12; L-LIN/13; L-LIN/14 or level B1 of the chosen foreign language;;
- 24 CFU in the SSD L-FIL-LET/05; L-FIL-LET/06; L-FIL-LET/07; L-FIL-LET/08; L-ANT/04; L-ANT/07; L-ANT/05; M-STO/09; L-OR/02,L-FIL-LET/10,L-FIL-LET/12.
Graduates with a four-year degree in Literature - classical major may also directly access the Master's Degree in Classical Literature, while graduates with a four-year degree obtained in the humanities will be required to convert the exams taken in the four-year period into CFU for the purposes of verifying the acquisition of the CFU indicated above. Each exam taken during a four-year degree is valued at 12 CFU.
In addition to possession of the curricular requirements, a personal preparation assessment is required, which focuses on the scientific-disciplinary sectors underlying the three-year course, including adequate knowledge of a European Union language other than Italian; the methods are defined in the Teaching Regulations of the Master's Degree Course.

Profile

Teacher

Functions

- teaching the Italian language and literature
- teaching history and civilization from ancient times to contemporary times
- teaching the Latin language and literature
- teaching the Greek language and literature

Skills

- knowing and mastering the Italian language and literature
- knowing and mastering the Latin language and literature
- knowing and mastering the Greek language and literature
- knowing and mastering ancient history
- methodological skills in teaching
- knowing and mastering the IT tools for producing and correcting texts
- knowing and mastering at least one modern foreign language and literature

Sbocco

Graduates who have sufficient credits in appropriate groups of sectors may, as provided for by current legislation, participate in the admission tests for training courses for secondary teaching:
- Public lower and upper secondary schools
- Private lower and upper secondary schools
- Italian cultural institutes
- Italian cultural institutes abroad
- Institutions and institutes for culture and promotion of the Italian language abroad

Please note. Access to teaching in Italian public schools is subject to the acquisition of credits in the scientific-disciplinary sectors provided for by the legislation and to the qualification to be obtained as established by the legislation.

The course ends with a final exam called the Degree Thesis. It offers the student the opportunity to demonstrate the research and critical analysis skills, autonomous and original development acquired during their master's degree course.
The final exam consists of a written discussion on a topic related to one of the courses followed by the master's student, discussion to be carried out under the guidance of a supervisor as well as in a critical and original way, in good Italian and with the aid of texts in the language. This Thesis is then discussed in the presence of the supervisor, in front of a co-supervisor and the members of the appropriate Commission for the achievement of the title of Master's Doctor.

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