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6051 - Italian Studies and European Literary Cultures

Professional profiles

professional profile

CULTURE MANAGEMENT EXPERT

Function in a professionalcontext

Culture management experts acquire, assess and guarantee the preservationof artefacts of social, historical, cultural and artistic significance,including through promotional activities.

The professional figure of the Expert:

- is involved in the organisation of institutions and culturalactivities (events, museums, exhibitions) and curates their promotion;

- elaborates and coordinates linguistic-cultural projects,activities and research as part of language and integration policies, includingon a European and international level.

To obtain more autonomy, higher levels of responsibility in theirjobs and learn to master the methods and instruments that support theiractivity, graduates can be asked to acquire additional competencies by takingpost-degree vocational courses, first or second level M.A. courses and internships.

Skills associated with thefunction

- specific knowledge, abilities and skills in social and humanitiesareas;

- ability to select and promote high-level cultural activities,including those relating to the specific social and cultural context in whichthey operate;

- transversal competencies involving communication and relationshipskills and organisational, management and planning skills, according to thelevel of autonomy and responsibility, the organisation and working methodsadopted and the main interlocutors (colleagues, other professionals andclients/users);

- ability to operate in international contexts and understand themulticultural aspects of European and extra-European cultures.

Career Opportunities

Bodies, companies, public and private institutions and third sectororganisations (including Foundations) that conserve, valorise and promotecultural, artistic, literary and linguistic heritage, organise public eventsand cultural activities.

Graduates with sufficient credits in appropriate subject groups,will be able to take entrance exams to training programmes to teach, inaccordance with the applicable legislation.

EDITOR

Function in a professionalcontext

Editors apply their linguistic, literary and cultural knowledge to createand review text before it is published (paper, audio-visual, multimedia).

Editor professional profile:

- performs various activities in the traditional and onlinepublishing world related to text editing (e.g. team management, preliminaryresearch, promotion of initiatives, etc.);

- writes informative and advertising texts on goods and services,which are printed or broadcasted on the radio, television or via othercommunication media;

- writes professionally for the journalism, publishing and advertisingsector;

- offers consulting services for the creation of manuals, guides,technical appendixes, promotional sheets, informative text, instructionbooklets for consumer goods, artisanal, industrial and commercial machines,products and equipment.

To obtain more autonomy, higher levels of responsibility in theirjobs and learn to master the methods and instruments that support theiractivities, graduates can be asked to acquire additional competencies by takingpost-degree vocational courses, first or second level M.A. courses andinternships.

Skills associated with thefunction

- specific knowledge, abilities and skills in social and humanitiesareas;

- special communication abilities and learning skills in one or moreprofessional sectors;

- self-learning and continuous professional updating abilities;

- transversal competencies involving relationship, management andplanning skills, according to the level of autonomy and responsibility, theorganisation and working methods adopted and the main interlocutors(colleagues, other professionals and clients/users).

Career Opportunities

- Companies in the publishing, journalism, advertising andprofessional writing, editorial and journalistic sectors, in Italy and abroad,including online/web publishing.

Graduates with sufficient credits in appropriate subject groups,will be able to take entrance exams to training programmes to teach, inaccordance with the applicable legislation.

LEXICOGRAPHER

Function in a professionalcontext

Lexicographers conduct research and studies on grammar andterminology and analyse the interaction between language and ITC.

Lexicographer professional profile:

- coordinates projects and activities in the lexicography andgrammar study sector;

- collaborates in the writing of dictionaries and lexicographyworks, vocabularies and linguistic manuals, carrying out specialist studies andresearches, compiling entries and headwords;

- operates in the linguistic-information technology sector, withparticular reference to the processing, elaboration and communication ofempiric data.

To obtain more autonomy, higher levels of responsibility in theirjobs and learn to master the methods and instruments that support theiractivities, graduates can be asked to acquire additional competencies throughinternships.

Skills associated with thefunction

- specific knowledge, abilities and skills in linguistic, social andhumanities areas;

- specialisation and learning skills in one or more professionalsectors;

- adequate transversal competencies involving communication andrelationship skills, organisational, management planning skills, according tothe level of autonomy and responsibility, the organisation and working methodsadopted and the main interlocutors (colleagues, other professionals andclients/users).

Career Opportunities

- public, private and third sector companies who producedictionaries, manuals, electronic resources in the traditional and onlinepublishing sector;

- companies specialised in automated language processing.

Graduates with sufficient credits in appropriate subject groups,will be able to take entrance exams to training programmes to teach, inaccordance with the applicable legislation.

Writer/Essayist

Function in a professionalcontext

Writers/Essayists conceive, write and offer the public professionalcreative and argumentative work.

Writer/Essayist professional profile:

- produces content as an independent writer for paper-based, on-lineand any other media publishing sector;

- writes original content for traditional and on-line publishingcompanies, in Italy and abroad, targeting general or specific audiences (forexample, first and second level primary and secondary school teachers andstudents; university lecturers and students; users and experts in variouscultural fields; international communicators and mediators).

To obtain more autonomy, higher levels of responsibility in theirjobs and learn to master the methods and instruments that support theiractivities, graduates can be asked to acquire additional competencies throughpost-degree vocational courses.

Skills associated with thefunction

- knowledge of the needs of the world of culture in all itsdifferent articulations, in Italy and abroad;

- ability to write in a clear, precise and persuasive manner, andcommunicate with professionalism and originality;

- ability to formulate simple and complex text, from newspaperarticles to short essays, books and multi-volume works.

Career Opportunities

As self-employed professionals, Writers/Essayists offer their workto publishing companies, companies in the editorial sector, newspapers andmagazines, institutions and bodies who need to communicate with the public viapaper-based, audio-visual, television, electronic and multimedia content and othermeans of communication.

Graduates with sufficient credits in appropriate subject groups,will be able to take entrance exams to training programmes to teach, inaccordance with the applicable legislation.

Continuing to study

It gives access to third cycle studies (Dottorato di ricerca/Scuole di specializzazione) and master universitario di secondo livello.