Entrance Requirements

Language, Society and Communication is an International Master’s Degree which provides students with a high-quality academic education and professional skills in the field of language studies and international communication. The International Programme prepares students to become future experts in international relations and/or in text-editing, fluent in two languages of international communication.

Entrance Requirements

1. Curricular Requirements and their Evaluation

Candidates wishing to follow the Master’s degree programme in “Language, Society and Communication” must be graduates holding a three-year university diploma or degree, ‘Laurea’ (former Ministerial Decree 509/99 and former Ministerial Decree 270/04), or the former four-year university degree, or hold another equivalent educational qualification issued abroad.

The following requirements must also be fulfilled in order to qualify for access to the Master’s degree programme.

Candidates must have gained at least 48 university course credits overall during their first degree in the two modern languages they wish to take at Master level (24 credits in the first foreign language + 24 credits in the second language), in other words in two of the following scientific disciplinary sectors:

L-LIN/04 – French Language and Translation

L-LIN/06 – Spanish-American Language and Literature

L-LIN/07 – Spanish Language and Translation

L-LIN/11 – English and American Language and Literature

L-LIN/12 – English Language and Translation

L-LIN/14 – German Language and Translation

L-LIN/21 – Slavic studies

where these courses are available in the academic year of enrolment in the Master’s degree programme in "Language, Society and Communication".

It should be noted that the university credits in the following scientific disciplinary sectors:

L-LIN/06 - Spanish-American Language and Literature

and

L-LIN/11 – English and American Language and Literature

must have been gained exclusively in language and not literature courses.

Applicants fulfilling these requirements must present their study plan for language courses in the scientific disciplinary sectors L-LIN/06 and L-LIN/11 to a special Commission which will evaluate them. If they are approved, the applicant will be able to go forward with the admissions procedure concerning individual competence as described below.

A. Students holding an Italian Degree

Besides the curricular requirements described above, applicants may only be admitted to the Master’s degree programme if they satisfy the requirement of individual competence:

1) holding of a First Cycle Degree with a minimum final grade established annually by the School Bodies. The Study Course Board has established that applicants wishing to enroll must hold a First Cycle Degree with a grade equal to or higher than 105/110.

2) All students must show an adequate knowledge of the English language certified at level not lower than B2 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR). Students who do not study English can assess their knowledge of the English language by presenting a recognized Certificate – issued in the previous 24 months – among those listed below:

FCE grade C 
BEC Vantage 
IELTS 6.5 (with at least 6.5 in Listening)
TOEFL 80 (with at least 22 in Listening)

Certificates of higher levels are also accepted, and namely:

FCE grade A, B
CAE grade A, B, C
CPE grade A, B, C
BEC Higher
higher scores in IELTS and TOEFL.

Or by a sufficient mark in the Oxford Online Placement Test to be taken before enrolling in the Course. Information on this Test will be constantly updated and available on the Study Programme Website.

Foreign students holding an Italian Degree who are citizens of an anglophone country are not asked for the English Language Certificate even if they do not inted to study English within the LSC Programme.

B. Students holding a foreign Degree

Should the applicant hold an educational qualification from abroad for which it is not possible to define access requirements in terms of University credits, and/or a qualification which does not consist of a final grade or for which it is not possible to convert the grade or assessment into a grade out of 110, admission to the Master’s degree programme will be subject to a preliminary assessment by a Commission which will evaluate fulfilment of the curricular requirements and/or the suitability of individual competence, by means of an interview or by other means appropriate for evaluating the required level of knowledge and competence.

Applicants who have an educational qualification of this type from abroad should present a detailed curriculum of their University studies and can assess their competence in the English language by presenting a recognized Certificate of their knowledge of English (not lower than B2) – issued in the previous 24 months – among those listed here below:

FCE grade C 
BEC Vantage 
IELTS 6.5 (with at least 6.5 in Listening)
TOEFL 80 (with at least 22 in Listening)

Certificates of higher levels are also accepted, and namely:

FCE grade A, B
CAE grade A, B, C
CPE grade A, B, C
BEC Higher
higher scores in IELTS and TOEFL.

Students holding a Foreign Degree who are citizens of an anglophone country and/or possess a Degree issued by an Educational Institution of an anglophone country are not asked for the English Language Certificate even if they do not inted to study English within the LSC Programme.

The Commission, appointed by the Master’s Degree Course Board, will arrange an interview appointment directly with the applicant.

If the Commission considers the applicant’s level of knowledge and competence in the two languages that s/he wants to study to be sufficient, it will pass a motion of approval, which will enable the applicant to enrol on the course of study.

Applicants holding an educational qualification from abroad should send the relative documentation to the Commission.

The Study Course Board could envisage a specific session for international students, as well as a Commission for preliminary assessment, according to the schedule of the call for scholarships (whose deadline is usually due in May).

Besides this, both applicants holding an Italian Degree and applicants holding a Foreign Degree must undergo the Test of Individual Competence through a preliminary interview prior to the enrollment.

2. Assessment of individual competence

Applicants' individual competence will be tested through compulsory personal interviews carried out in one of the two foreign languages the applicant intends to study further, provided that it is not English.

The Study Course Board will appoint a specific Commission which will assess the applicants’ knowledge and competences, through individual interviews (also on a long-distance only if the applicant lives abroad). It will then express a pass judgement which will enable the applicant to enroll.

More information in the Call for Application.