Professional opportunities
Translators in the fields of literature and specialised languages
Functions
- Skills in the processing, translation and adaptation of literary and artistic-cultural texts, or legal-economic texts, in publishing and the media (cinema, television, theatre, etc.).
Skills
- Critical and historical knowledge of cultures and literature; linguistic and translation skills, including for specialised languages.
- Translation and mediation skills. Ability to understand and draft texts. Ability to understand and interpret complex, highly rhetorical texts, not only in the artistic field. Ability to produce highly rhetorical texts and messages for the fields of communication, advertising, art and publishing.
Career opportunities
Operators, editors, editorial consultants and translators at publishing houses and media companies, editorial services companies, newspaper and television editorial offices and advertising agencies.
Operators, officials, researchers in various institutions and cultural planning
Functions
- Consultancy, study or research on specific activities and projects related to cultural cooperation.
Skills
-Critical and historical knowledge of the cultures and literatures in question; language and translation skills.
Career opportunities Organisers, collaborators with other professionals, of events, cultural projects, thematic educational courses; educators and instructors, in Italy and abroad; developers and testers of specific educational courses for teaching foreign languages, cultures and literatures.
Mediators and consultants for cultural exchange.
Functions
- Organisation, in collaboration with other professionals, of events, cultural projects, thematic educational courses; educational and training activities in Italy and abroad.
Skills
- Excellent knowledge of the English language, and of English and American culture and history in relation to other cultural areas.
Career opportunities
Organisers, in collaboration with other professionals, of events, cultural projects, thematic educational courses; educators and instructors, in Italy and abroad; developers and testers of specific educational courses for teaching foreign languages, cultures and literature.
Operators and officials for national representative bodies abroad.
Functions
- Liaison between the public and public and private bodies/institutions, such as Italian cultural institutes abroad, foreign cultural institutes in Italy, and bodies responsible for the organisation and dissemination of culture and social cooperation between different countries.
Skills
- Excellent knowledge of the English language and English and American culture and history, and advanced knowledge of Italian culture, in terms of language, history, art and literature. Coordination skills.
Career opportunities
- Cultural officers and officials at national representative organisations abroad.
Expert in foreign languages and cultures at libraries and cultural institutes.
Functions
- organiser of events related to the promotion of books; organiser of representative and up-to-date sections on artistic and literary culture and dissemination, mainly in the English and American spheres, as well as Italian. User of information technology and digital humanities.
Skills
- excellent linguistic knowledge. Historical and cultural expertise in English, American and Italian.
Career opportunities
- staff, middle management and senior management in cultural institutes and libraries.
Organiser of cultural events and tourist activities.
Functions
- Planning, organising and managing, in coordination with other professionals, events and cultural projects, including those related to tourist flows, particularly between the cultural and geographical area of origin and the English and American areas studied.
Skills
- Excellent knowledge of the language. Knowledge of English and American history and culture, and excellent knowledge of Italian culture, in terms of language and history/art.
Career opportunities
- Associations and companies operating in the field of cultural tourism.