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Info 2023/2024
- Bachelor degree course
- Duration and credits
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- 3
- Years
- 180
- CFU
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- L-10
- HUMANITIES
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- Free access
- GENOVA
- Italian
- Frontale
- From 0 to 3000 euros per year. Find out if you are entitled to scholarships and exemptions
- Student exchange
- SIMONA MORANDO
- To learn more about the Course visit the dedicated section
- Degree programme table a.y. 2023/2024
- Degree programme plan 2023/2024
- Degree regulations 2023/2024
Info 2022/2023
- Bachelor degree course
- Duration and credits
-
- 3
- Years
- 180
- CFU
-
- L-10
- HUMANITIES
-
- Free access
- GENOVA
- Italian
- Frontale
- From 0 to 3000 euros per year. Find out if you are entitled to scholarships and exemptions
- Student exchange
- SIMONA MORANDO
- To learn more about the Course visit the dedicated section
- Degree programme table a.y. 2022/2023
- Degree programme plan 2022/2023
- Degree regulations 2022/2023
Info 2021/2022
- Bachelor degree course
- Duration and credits
-
- 3
- Years
- 180
- CFU
-
- L-10
- HUMANITIES
-
- Free access
- GENOVA
- Italian
- Frontale
- From 0 to 3000 euros per year. Find out if you are entitled to scholarships and exemptions
- Student exchange
- SIMONA MORANDO
- To learn more about the Course visit the dedicated section
- Degree programme table a.y. 2021/2022
- Degree programme plan 2021/2022
- Degree regulations 2021/2022
Info 2020/2021
- Bachelor degree course
- Duration and credits
-
- 3
- Years
- 180
- CFU
-
- L-10
- HUMANITIES
-
- Free access
- GENOVA
- Italian
- Frontale
- From 0 to 3000 euros per year. Find out if you are entitled to scholarships and exemptions
- Student exchange
- MARCO BERISSO
- To learn more about the Course visit the dedicated section
- Degree programme table a.y. 2020/2021
- Degree programme plan 2020/2021
- Degree regulations 2020/2021
Info 2019/2020
- Bachelor degree course
- Duration and credits
-
- 3
- Years
- 180
- CFU
-
- L-10
- HUMANITIES
-
- Free access
- GENOVA
- Italian
- Frontale
- From 0 to 3000 euros per year. Find out if you are entitled to scholarships and exemptions
- Student exchange
- MARCO BERISSO
- To learn more about the Course visit the dedicated section
- Degree programme table a.y. 2019/2020
- Degree programme plan 2019/2020
- Degree regulations 2019/2020
Info 2018/2019
- Bachelor degree course
- Duration and credits
-
- 3
- Years
- 180
- CFU
-
- L-10
- HUMANITIES
-
- Free access
- GENOVA
- Italian
- Frontale
- From 0 to 3000 euros per year. Find out if you are entitled to scholarships and exemptions
- Student exchange
- MARCO BERISSO
- To learn more about the Course visit the dedicated section
- Degree programme table a.y. 2018/2019
- Degree programme plan 2018/2019
- Degree regulations 2018/2019
Info 2017/2018
- Duration and credits
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- 3
- Years
- 180
- CFU
-
- L-10
- HUMANITIES
-
- Free access
- GENOVA
- Italian
- Frontale
- From 0 to 3000 euros per year. Find out if you are entitled to scholarships and exemptions
- Student exchange
- FRANCESCA GAZZANO
- To learn more about the Course visit the dedicated section
- Degree programme table a.y. 2017/2018
- Degree programme plan 2017/2018
- Degree regulations 2017/2018
Info 2016/2017
- Duration and credits
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- 3
- Years
- 180
- CFU
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- L-10
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- Free access
- GENOVA
- Italian
- Traditional
- From 0 to 3000 euros per year. Find out if you are entitled to scholarships and exemptions
- Student exchange
- FRANCESCA GAZZANO
- To learn more about the Course visit the dedicated section
- Degree programme table a.y. 2016/2017
- Degree programme plan 2016/2017
- Degree regulations 2016/2017
The course in brief
Presentation
Focused on the analysis of literary texts from antiquity to the contemporary age, it is divided into three curricula: Classical, Modern, and Music and Performance. Depending on the curriculum, interest is directed more towards Greek and Latin literatures; Italian literature per se and in relation to foreign literatures; and the relationship between literature, music, theater, cinema and new media.
Learning by doing
"Doing" means reading texts on one's own, or in the seminar and laboratory mode, translating them, interpreting them, comparing them with the writings of scholars who have focused on them. It means formulating and testing hypotheses in constant dialogue with the lecturer.
Studying literary texts means dealing with complexity, honing critical skills, being able to communicate in written and oral form arduous content, recognizing different languages from different eras.
Professional outlets
The study of literary texts, properly framed and interpreted, leads to the acquisition of critical skills and transversal skills (analysis, synthesis, expressive faculties) particularly in demand in the world of work, from the cultural industry to the world of education.
What you will learn
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letteratura italiana
analisi e interpretazione dei testi più significativi della letteratura italiana
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filologia italiana
perché una stessa poesia di Dante ha un testo diverso a seconda dei manoscritti? Come lavorava Ariosto?
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formazione e storia della lingua italiana
nel passaggio dal latino al volgare e la sua evoluzione nelle realizzazioni letterarie e pratiche
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letteratura greca
lineamenti essenziali, figure e generi più rilevanti della civiltà letteraria della Grecia antica
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letteratura latina
analisi approfondita di storia, temi e testi
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critica del testo
come ricostruire le opere antiche nella forma più vicina all'originale, attraverso lo studio di codici e varianti
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storia del teatro e dello spettacolo
lezioni, immagini e video, incontri con gli artisti e visione di spettacoli per approfondire i concetti di 'teatro' e 'spettacolo'
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storia moderna
un percorso tematico attraverso i secoli, dall'epoca delle grandi esplorazioni fino al periodo della Restaurazione
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storia, teoria e critica del cinema
per sviluppare la capacità di analizzare i paradigmi stilistici che ne definiscono l'estetica
Did you know that.
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I laboratori contribuiscono alla formazione degli studenti e permettono esperienze di tipo professionalizzante
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Il corso partecipa al Progetto matricole
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Anche chi non ha studiato le lingue classiche può impararle grazie ai lettorati e ai laboratori
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Il corso dà accesso dal curriculum classico alla LM in Scienze dell'antichità, dal curriculum moderno e di musica e spettacolo alla LM in Letterature e moderne e spettacolo
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Dai tre curricula si accede anche alla LM in Informazione ed editoria
Contents
The course is based on a wide-ranging knowledge of what classical, medieval, modern and contemporary culture has produced, of which direct knowledge of the texts is essential, valuing the cultural and linguistic history of the country in which one lives.
A wide emphasis is placed on historical-geographical disciplines and linguistics, and the study of literary texts is framed within a historical framework that does not neglect the importance of philosophical culture, figurative arts and music and performing arts, cultural anthropology and foreign literatures.
The bachelor's degree graduate will be expected to demonstrate argumentative skills and general culture even beyond the specific areas, both for the purpose of further study in master's degrees and as an educational asset that allows for employment outlets in the cultural industry.
Coordinator

Welcome to the website of the three-year Bachelor of Arts program! Those who choose literary studies, know that these have always had a privilege: they allow you to deepen your knowledge of the best of the images that humanity, in its history, has transmitted of itself, through culture, literature, art in all its forms.
Where we are
The headquarters of the School of Humanities and its related departments are distributed in the area around Via Balbi and Piazza della Nunziata. Some of these palaces are historical palaces of the city of Genoa, called "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): presidency, Aula Magna, classrooms number 1 to number 9, DAFIST and DIRAAS faculty offices and studios, Library
- via Balbi 4 (Palazzo Balbi Senarega): Humanities Single Student Desk, classrooms E, F, G, H, M, N, P, offices and studios of DAFIST faculty, DIRAAS, Library
- via Balbi 6 (Palazzo Balbi Raggio): classrooms I, Q, R, S, Library of the School of Humanities
- via Balbi 30: DAFIST faculty studios
- via delle Fontane 10: Teaching Hub, classrooms A through M and Aula Magna, LaLim Laboratory
- piazza Santa Sabina 2: DLCM faculty offices and studios, Library
Read more
You will find the contact details of the following reference offices helpful:
Humanities Student One-stop Shop
Via Balbi 4 - ground floor
16126 Genoa
+39 010 209 51690
studenti.uma@unige.it
To get information about:
.- Registrations and Enrollments; Transfers; Course Transfers .
- recognitions from previous careers
- admission to pathways aimed at enrollment in master's degrees (Bridge Careers)
- resumption of Studies
- Suspension and Renunciation of Studies
- request for certificates
- request for duplicates
- enrollment in individual educational activities
You can write to sportello.lettere@unige.it
to obtain information:
- general information on Courses of Study .
- about the Study Plans .
- on the submission of graduation application
Documents and forms
Orientation
Educational offerings
Regulations
Forms
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- Form for application for change of study plan during the year and for inclusion of off-plan exams (to be sent to sportello.lettere@unige.it)
- Form for petition for recognition of additional educational activities (to be sent to faculty members of the Internship/stages and other activities committee)
- Form for end of internship
- Thesis Title Filing Form (to be sent to tesiarealettere@unige.it)
- Authentications (exams, registration, graduation). It is necessary to be authenticated with credentials UniGePass to use the service.