Professional opportunities
Functions Works in various areas of publishing and cultural production, developing cultural projects, analysing cultural demand, implementing cultural initiatives and promoting cultural activities.
Skills Draft complex texts in Italian and other foreign languages, communicate in a professional and context-appropriate manner, select and organize information and documentation from specific sources and repositories, demonstrate familiarity with communication methods and techniques, use IT tools related to specific fields, including internet search engines and databases.
Career opportunities Private companies; foundations; local authorities and public administration; cultural entrepreneurship; institutes, public and private agencies related to cultural production and dissemination.
Intercultural language training teacher
Duties Designs short- and long-term teaching programmes; identifies learning difficulties and/or dysfunctions and develops strategies to address them; cultivates metalinguistic and metacultural awareness in learners; cultivates intercultural awareness in learners.
Skills - Teaching design skills;
- Knowledge of the latest teaching methodologies;
- Ability to assess learners;
- Ability to assess and manage the affective filter of learners.
Career opportunities Private companies; foundations; local authorities and public administration; cultural entrepreneurship; institutes, public and private agencies connected with cultural production and dissemination; publishing; Italian or foreign public bodies; non-profit associations; translation agencies; private training institutes.
In addition
- graduates will be able to continue their studies in research doctorates consistent with their studies
- graduates with sufficient credits in the SSDs required by law will be able to access postgraduate training required by current legislation to teach in lower and upper secondary schools.
High-level translator and cultural mediator
Functions - Understands complex texts (literary, essayistic, technical-scientific) in written and oral form and renders them in the target language, with awareness of the needs and cultural identity of the audience for which the translated text is intended;
- Mediates between meaning structures and value systems rooted in different cultural contexts;
- Cultivates and consolidates intercultural awareness of the contexts in which they work.
Skills - Understanding of complex texts in foreign languages;
- Understanding and management of interlinguistic and intercultural problems;
- Full command of the Italian language;
- High metalinguistic and metacultural skills;
- Management of translation information technology.
Career opportunities Publishing; Italian or foreign public bodies; private companies, non-profit associations; translation agencies.