2nd cycle graduates in Classic Studies should possess advanced competences enabling them:
a) To read ad translate consciously classical texts, through their direct and consolidated competences in Greek and Latin languages;
b) To place them in their context, applying the methodologies of Literary analysis, and of linguistic-philological and historical-archaeological sciences, examining sources in a critical and autonomous way;
c) to interpret, also through the appropriate use of knowledge and skills related to other disciplinary areas, the fortune and the reception of antiquity in the medieval, modern and contemporary age;
d) to use with full command the computer tools for the humanistic area as well as one European Union language
For this purpose the course enables the student to use the knowledge they have already acquired, specializing them through an appropriate coverage of content and developing their attitude for analysis and research, respectively, on philology and classical literatures, on the history and civilization of the ancient Mediterranean, on classical, medieval and modern philology and literature, and finally, on diachronic linguistics.
The course duration is two years: in the first year, students will study in depth and mature critical knowledge with respect to the fundamental disciplines of philology, linguistics, literature, history and archeology; in the second year they may complete their training in a stronger interdisciplinary perspective and engage in the writing of the dissertation for the final test.