The Course, at the crossroads of linguistic-literary, historical, historical-artistic and performing arts disciplines, offers a cultural profile expendable in teaching and various professional activities and is the natural continuation of the Bachelor of Arts degree.

The choice of one or the other curriculum, Modern Literature or Entertainment, orients the student towards Italianistics and medieval studies or the performing arts.

Theater, film and music workshops - with participation in live rehearsals; conferences, lectures, seminars; internships and professionalizing internships at libraries, theaters, foundations and cultural institutions.

Teacher in secondary school, official at libraries and archives, consultant and collaborator at publishing houses and press organs, collaborator at theaters and musical institutions, author of texts, university researcher.

In addition to the literary aspect, the course privileges that of entertainment, in view of the importance this creative field has assumed in modernity. The chronological span addressed ranges from the Middle Ages to the contemporary. 

The texts - literary, musical, spectacular, etc. - and thus philology are the basis of the studies. The linguistic aspect is not neglected even beyond literature while history and geography intervene to place the texts in space and time.

The study of other artistic expressions - performance in music, theater, film and television, and figurative - complements the study of literary texts.

The course promotes the development of autonomy of judgment, that is, a critical attitude indispensable both for appropriating a proper research attitude and for directing oneself toward a profession.

The headquarters of the School of Humanities and its related departments are located in the area around Via Balbi and Piazza della Nunziata. Some of these palazzi are historical palaces of the city of Genoa, known as 'Palazzi dei Rolli'.

For the distribution of the Departments see the acronyms:
DAFIST = Department of Antiquities, Philosophy and History
DIRAAS = Department of Italianistics, Romanistics, Antiquities, Arts and Entertainment
DLCM = Department of Modern Languages and Cultures

• via Balbi 2 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo): Chair, Aula Magna, classrooms number 1 to number 9, offices and offices of the DAFIST and DIRAAS teachers, Library
• via Balbi 4 (Palazzo Balbi Senarega): Humanities Student Desk, classrooms E, F, G, H, M, N, P, DAFIST teachers' offices and studios, DIRAAS, Library
• via Balbi 6 (Palazzo Balbi Raggio): classrooms I, Q, R, S, Library of the School of Humanities
• via Balbi 30: DAFIST teachers' studios
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• via delle Fontane 10: Teaching Centre, classrooms A to M and Aula Magna, LaLim Laboratory
• piazza Santa Sabina 2: DLCM offices and teachers' studios, Library

You can write to studenti.uma@unige.it to obtain information about:

• registrations and enrolments; transfers; course transitions
• recognitions from other careers
• admission to pathways leading to enrolment in master's degrees (Bridge careers)
• resumption of studies;
suspension and renunciation of studies
• request for certificates; request for duplicates
• enrolment in individual educational activities

You can write to sportello.lettere@unige.it to obtain information:

• general information on courses of study
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• about study plans
• on applying for a degree
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