Admission requirements
1. Curricular requirements and evaluation
To profitably follow the 2nd cycle degree programme in Modern, Post-Colonial and Comparative Literatures, candidates must hold a 1st cycle degree or three-year university diploma or other suitable qualification obtained abroad.
Admission to the 2nd cycle degree programme is also subject to the possession of the following requirements:
a) A 1st cycle degree in one of the following classes, or other suitable qualification obtained abroad:
ex Italian Ministerial Decree no. 270: L-10, L-11, L-12, L-19, L-20 and L-36;
ex. Italian Ministerial Decree no. 509/99: class 3, 5, 11, 14, 15 and 18;
having acquired at least:
36 CFU (18 in the first language + 18 in the second language - or accredited level B2 certification) in two languages in the following subject areas (Modern Languages):
L-LIN/04 - French Language and Translation
L-LIN/07 - Spanish Language and Translation
L-LIN/09 - Portuguese and Brazilian Language and Translation
L-LIN/12 - English Language and Translation
L-LIN/14 - German Language and Translation
L-LIN/19 - Finno-Ugric Philology
L-LIN/21 - Slavistics
provided these are running in the academic year of registration in the 2nd cycle degree programme in Modern, Post-Colonial and Comparative Literatures;
24 CFU (12 in the first literature + 12 in the second literature) in two literatures in the following subject areas (Foreign Literature):
L-LIN/03 - French Literature
L-LIN/05 - Spanish Literature
L-LIN/06 - Hispanic American Languages and Literature
L-LIN/08 - Portuguese and Brazilian Literature
L-LIN/10 - English Literature
L-LIN/11 - Anglo-American Languages and Literature
L-LIN/13 - German Literature
L-LIN/19 - Finno-Ugric Philology
L-LIN/21 - Slavistics
provided these are running in the academic year of registration in the 2nd cycle degree programme in Modern, Post-Colonial and Comparative Literatures.
Students must select the curricular languages and literatures for which they meet the admission requirements.
Exception is made for literature in the same language (in the following groups: a. French Literature and French-speaking Literatures; b. Spanish Literature and Hispanic American Literatures; c. English Literature/Literature of English speaking countries and Anglo-American Literatures), in which students may freely choose the literature in the same languages even if in the 1st cycle degree they studied the relative European literature, or vice versa.
If no degree certificate and/or above-mentioned credits have been obtained, admission to the 2nd Cycle Degree Programme is subject to a preliminary assessment by a Board to ascertain the required knowledge and skills.
Students who do not have the required number of credits in the two chosen literatures and who do not possess a certification issued by a renowned institute or other certificates confirming the relative language proficiency, shall be required to sit a language test. The methods for the above test will be established on a case-by-case basis by the Board and promptly notified to those wishing to enrol in the 2nd cycle degree programme in Modern, Post-Colonial and Comparative Literatures.
If the Board considers the level of the student's knowledge and skills to be satisfactory, the student will be required to sit a test to assess their personal competencies as described below.
2. Assessment of personal competencies and skills
Admission to the 2nd Cycle Degree Programme is subject to the possession of the prescribed curricular requirements and to the passing of a test to assess personal competencies and skills; these will be deemed to be passed by candidates holding a final degree score of at least the minimum grade established annually by the Degree Programme Board.
Students with a foreign qualification which does not offer a final grade, or which cannot be converted into a score out of one hundred and ten, shall be invited for an interview (also by videoconference) to check their personal competencies and skills; alternatively they may submit a detailed curriculum of their university career to the Board.
The Board, appointed by the Degree Programme Board, will establish a calendar for the interviews to be held between September and December, which will be published on the University Portal.
The Board will allow the candidates whose personal competencies and skills are considered appropriate to register in the degree programme.
The Degree Programme Board assesses the possibility to exempt students from the assessment of personal competences and skills, provided they have meet the curricular requirements, in the following cases:
- withdrawal from studies,
- loss of student status,
- application to opt out of previous degree programme systems,
- possession of an academic qualification obtained from or learning activities carried out in foreign universities,
- transfer from another degree programme at the Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna;
- transfer from another university.
The assessment is based on the criteria set annually by the Degree Programme Board and published on the University Portal.
These criteria comply with the principles of coherence with the knowledge and skills required for admission to the programme and non-obsolescence of the professional knowledge and competences acquired.
A special Admissions session may be held for international students, with a Board appointed to assess the candidates' personal competencies and skills; this session will be compatible with the schedule established in the call for applications for study grants (which indicatively expires in May).
International students who pass the above-mentioned entrance exam are exonerated from the following assessment of their personal competencies and skills required for other students.
