Bachelor’s degree in Humanities – Knowledge Dissemination Curriculum (L-10)

The Bachelor’s degree in Humanities – “Dissemination of Knowledge” curriculum is designed to provide future graduates with a solid and adequate preparation in Humanities to deal with the demands urgently posed by the contemporary knowledge society.

 

 

Contemporary civil society expects, from anyone graduating in this class, the possession of a preparation that includes the more traditional areas of the Humanities (Italian language and literature, history and geography, general linguistics and of the Italian language). Proficiency in the use of a second European Union language is required (primarily English) and of the main digital tools and applications, necessary both for operating in the new learning areas and for placement in areas other than education. UniCusano has prepared two curricula for the degree program called “Literary and Linguistic Subjects” and “Dissemination of Knowledge,” respectively.

 

 

The two curricula include a common two-year period (120 credits, including 12 credits “student’s choice”) completed in the case of ” Dissemination of Knowledge,” on digital knowledge and skills.

 

 

Through the solid basic humanistic culture, the ability to master, in addition to the oral and written varieties of the Italian language, at least the most significant ones of the English language and, possibly, of another EU language (of which the curriculum of both curricula will potentially allow the insertion) together with the possession of digital skills and competences will allow the graduate to enter the traditional circuit of job opportunities in Humanities and beyond. He or she will be able to enter the field of cultural heritage production and enhancement and publishing and communication, including web.

 

 

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The three-year Bachelor of Humanities program is the best solution for all students, making it possible for those who are unable to attend a traditional university because they are far from home or for professional reasons to obtain this university degree.

 

 

Through Unicusano’s e-learning platform, it will be possible to follow the lectures of the online Bachelor of Humanities – “Dissemination of Knowledge” curriculum, in telematic mode. It is possible to study on computer media from the comfort of home, in your own time, and then take the exams at the local exam centre. Thanks to the quality of its teachings and locations throughout Italy, Unicusano is today the best choice for those who wish to graduate with a Bachelor of Humanities degree.

 

 

Professional profile and expected occupational and professional opportunities for humanities graduates – “Dissemination of Knowledge” curriculum

 

 

Knowledge dissemination expert

 

 

Function in a work context:

 

 

• Collaborates with editorial or web agencies, OPR, and communication offices in order to create, produce, and communicate (in a way that is functional to the communication medium) news, events, activities, reviews, catalogs;
• develops informational or narrative or regulatory texts fated at analog or digital communication;
• knows how to design and manage content fated for news organs and websites;
• knows how to create and manage websites through the use of CMS (Content Management System, the study of which is included in the disciplines of the area of computer science and communication management)
• knows how to operate within databases.

 

 

Skills associated with the function:

 

 

• Knows how to speak and write adequately in different varieties of the Italian language, functional to the purpose of the communicative event and can explain his/her choices;
• Is aware of useful strategies for communicating effectively and appropriately to the context and medium employed and understands the reasons behind the individual choice;
• is aware of strategies for creating, designing, and producing texts that are heterogeneous in content and editorial characteristics and understands the reasons behind the individual choice;
• is able to critically select and organize information and documentation from generalist (web) and specialized (subject bibliography) sources and can explain his/her choices;
• knows how to use digital tools actively and critically and can explain their reasons;
• has the ability to read and analyse data quantitatively;
• can communicate orally and in writing in English (CEFR level B2) and has awareness of their own language and register choices.

 

 

Employment opportunities:

 

 

• Publishing agencies;
• Institutes and agencies deputed to production and dissemination, including scientific and also via web;
• libraries;
• public or private entities, associations and foundations.

 

 

The three-year course in Humanities prepares for the profession of (ISTAT coding):

 

 

• Information acquisition technicians – (3.3.1.3.1)
• Organizers of fairs, exhibitions and cultural events – (3.4.1.2.1)
• Convention and reception organizers – (3.4.1.2.2)
• Museum technicians – (3.4.4.2.1)
• Library technicians – (3.4.4.2.2)

 

 

Knowledge required for admission

 

 

These are to be considered fundamental and functional knowledge for attending the degree program:

 

 

• a good mastery of the Italian language, oral and written, consistent with the possession of a high school diploma;
• general culture and adequate basic training in humanistic area knowledge, consistent with the possession of a high school diploma;
• command of at least B1 CEFR level of a European Union language.

 

 

The aspirant’s ability to handle digital devices and applications for participatory writing and the creation of multimedia texts and presentations is considered preferable or advantageous.

 

 

The details of how the admission requirements are to be ascertained are made explicit in the study course Regulations.

 

 

Specific educational objectives of the Bachelor of Humanities – “Dissemination of Knowledge” curriculum and description of the course of study

 

 

The Bachelor of Humanities – “Dissemination of Knowledge” curriculum is designed with the aim of providing those who will attend it with the fundamental knowledge and skills to acquire expertise in the most recent areas of the humanities, consequent to the (re)organization of society into a knowledge society (databases, digital applications, web communication).

 

 

The knowledge and practice of spoken and written varieties of the Italian language, perfected through constant work on texts of different kinds and the knowledge and practice of a second language to be acquired, at the end of the three-year period, at least a B2 level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR), will allow graduates in the Humanities to be able to place themselves and their theoretical and practical knowledge into a European perspective.

 

 

The preparation of a figure flexible to modern professional needs is achieved through the definition of an educational program aimed at training figures capable of working in the field of knowledge dissemination through new technologies.

 

 

Overall, the graduate will enjoy basic and transversal skills and a wide cultural flexibility to successfully enter the world of work or continue studies in a specialized field, with particular reference to a master’s degree, such as LM 14, in which to acquire the remaining credits to be able to subsequently enter competitions for teaching literary subjects in high schools, or to master’s degree of I level of the field of communication or education.

 

 

The expected learning outcomes mainly concern:

 

 

(1) mastery of the different varieties of the Italian language and the main varieties of a second language;

(2) a solid philological approach combined with analytical skills stimulated by the study of metalinguistic knowledge and Latin language;

(3) the ability to work on drafting texts in Italian and foreign languages, including in teams;

(4) the ability to combine disciplinary knowledge and the acquisition of linguistic-literary methodologies with the knowledge and skills required by the contemporary knowledge society;

(5) familiarity with the use of the main digital tools useful for the dissemination of knowledge.

 

 

Expected Learning Outcomes.

 

 

Knowledge and understanding skills

 

 

Graduates in Humanities – “Dissemination of Knowledge” curriculum will acquire knowledge and ability to understand Italian linguistic and literary culture of ancient, medieval, modern and contemporary ages.

 

 

They will also acquire the ability to make use of analytical tools and methodologies that enable them to firmly root the contents of the humanistic tradition in modernity and critically interpret its cultural phenomena.

 

 

The examination of products of different textual types – verbal and/or nonverbal, as in the case of visual, musical, performance art works -, and the adoption of a contrastive methodology in the frontal lectures, which will take place in the virtual classroom as well as training in the critical reading of scientific texts and individual study of textbooks and in-depth studies, will allow students to extend and deepen their abilities to understand texts, to place them in their cultural context and to examine them strong also in the knowledge of what has been produced on them by critics.

 

 

To this end, the course of study stimulates experiences abroad and attempts to foster the development of independent comprehension skills, favouring, where possible, seminar teaching, also delivered through computer mediation.

 

 

The verification of the achievement of the expected results will be carried out through the examination and aptitude tests, and, in the final stage, through the final exam.

 

 

Ability to apply knowledge and understanding

 

 

At the end of the course the graduate will be able to:

 

 

• frame significant themes and authors, the history of Italian literature and deal with the above also in an interdisciplinary way, in its completeness and by scans;
• know structures and functions of languages in general and of Italian (and its varieties) more specifically and be able to understand the main changes that have determined them
• recognize the most significant phases of the linguistic history of Italian and their outcome on contemporary Italian;
• mature a critical and autonomous judgment on a text;
• research, identify and employ computer tools for researching and in texts and for their dissemination through the web;
• adjust one’s communicative production to the context and medium employed;
• contextualize texts in time and space, including social;
• research and use the most useful sources for the analysis of a text;
• identify and use appropriate analysis methodologies for texts;
• possess a B2 level of the CEFR of languages.

 

 

In order for these abilities to apply knowledge and understanding to be achieved, the student will be offered, a continuous work of critical analysis of texts (of various types), disciplinary and interdisciplinary. practice throughout the duration of the course through participation in the courses (which will be delivered in a virtual classroom, whether face-to-face lectures or laboratory and seminar activities), and individual study of bibliography and multimedia materials (analog and digital).

 

 

Verification of the achievement of the ability to apply knowledge and understanding will take place at the end of the course by means of examination and proficiency tests and in itinere through oral and/or written and/or practical intermediate tests. the degree of competence achieved will be measured through the ability to independently analyse and produce innovative texts compared to those considered in the courses.

 

 

Linguistic and textual area of the first and second language

 

 

Knowledge and comprehension

 

 

At the end of the course graduates will have achieved knowledge and skills in understanding and producing texts relevant with the context and communicative medium, in the first and second language.

 

 

They should also have acquired an adequate methodology of textual and metatextual analysis and interpretation.

 

 

Achievement of the objective will be facilitated through the activities given in the virtual classroom and verified through oral and/or written examinations and in midterm tests.

 

 

Ability to apply knowledge and understanding

 

 

At the end of the course, graduates should be able to apply linguistic, metalinguistic, textual and metatextual knowledge in both production and comprehension; they should also be comfortable in any field and medium of knowledge dissemination.

 

 

Achievement of the objective will be verified through the critical analysis and active production of texts of a heterogeneous nature in terms of type, period, geographical, cultural and social context and medium of dissemination, which will take place as part of the midterm and final examinations.

 

 

Historical-Literary Area

 

 

Knowledge and understanding

 

 

At the end of the course, graduates will have attained knowledge and ability to understand and critically analyse literary texts of various periods, form and content. They should also have acquired an adequate methodology of historical-literary and critical analysis of the text.

 

 

Achievement of the objective will be facilitated through activities given in the virtual classroom and verified through oral and/or written examinations and in midterm tests.

 

 

Ability to apply knowledge and understanding

 

 

At the end of the course, graduates will be expected to be able to recognize and frame, with an increasing degree of autonomy, including on the basis of its textual invoice, any literary text produced in the Italian language. They will also know how to guide themselves in the translation and analysis of Latin texts.

 

 

Achievement of the objective will be verified through the critical analysis of synchronic and diachronic literary texts proposed as part of the midterm and final examinations.

 

 

Historical-geographical area

 

 

Knowledge and understanding

 

 

By the end of the course, graduates will have achieved knowledge and ability to guide themselves in time and space and recognize and describe at least the most significant phenomena of each period and area. They should also have gained familiarity with reading and understanding historical and geographical texts, including physical, political and historical maps.

 

 

Achievement of this objective will be verified in itinere, in the course of lectures conducted in the virtual classroom, in midterm tests, where provided, and through the final examination.

 

 

Ability to apply knowledge and understanding

 

 

At the end of the course, graduates will be expected to be able to place in a territory, in synchrony and in diachrony, the main facts that characterize it.

 

 

Achievement of this objective will be verified by subjecting the student to texts other than those covered in the course of lectures at the intermediate tests, where provided, and the final examination.

 

 

Digital communication area

 

 

Knowledge and understanding

 

 

At the end of the course, graduates will be able to identify and use the main tools for the production of digital text and its communication, including by means of CMS (Content Management System, the subject of study in the INF/01 and/or ING-INF/05 areas). They should also be familiar with tools for quantitative text analysis and have at least the basics of data evaluation practice (an area addressed in the teachings of SSD M-PED/04).

 

 

The achievement of this objective will be verified through practical tests administered during the lectures, carried out in the virtual classroom, in midterm tests, where provided, and at the final written and/or oral and practical examination.

 

 

Ability to apply knowledge and understanding

 

 

At the end of the course, graduates should be able to identify the most suitable applications for the production and editorial dissemination of different text types. They should also be able to produce at least in elementary form a website through CMS (Content Management System) and to perform research and data analysis by means of quantitative analysis techniques.

 

 

Achievement of this objective will be verified through original, problem-solving-based practical tests administered during the lectures, conducted in the virtual classroom, in midterm tests, where scheduled, and at the final written and/or oral and practical examination.

 

 

Making judgment

 

 

Graduates in the Humanities – “Dissemination of Knowledge” curriculum should be able to frame, critically examine and motivate, including through the methodology acquired, their judgment on texts related to the knowledge fields under study.

 

 

Depending on a text (regardless of the text type, format and constituent languages: e.g. literary, historical, geographical, analog, digital, multimedia, etc.) they will have to be able to: search and collect bibliographic sources on it in the relevant literature; show critical spirit towards knowledge and sources relevant with the text to be analysed reachable through the web; relate the data offered by the text with the body of knowledge acquired, also in an interdisciplinary key.

 

 

To facilitate the acquisition of autonomy of judgment, the student throughout the course will be trained to detect and comment on the formal and content aspects of heterogeneous texts of increasing difficulty, contextualizing them also in a (socio)linguistic-cultural and historical-geographical key.

 

 

Supplementary seminar activities of the frontal courses, the one and the other delivered through the virtual classroom, will support the progressive acquisition of critical autonomy, which must be demonstrated in the setting up and conduct of the final exam.

 

 

Verification of the acquisition and level of autonomy will take place through

 

 

• the administration, progressive and continuous during the lectures and other activities carried out in the virtual classroom, of texts to be interpreted critically, motivating the reason for one’s choices;
• the intermediate tests carried out as part of the individual teachings;
• the final test (examination) of each individual teaching.

 

 

Communicative skills

 

 

Graduates in Humanities – “Dissemination of Knowledge” curriculum will have to achieve a high level of communicative efficacy and relevance in both spoken and written production, to be pursued and refined also through the attendance of theoretical-practical activities that will be offered among the Other Educational Activities.

 

 

They will also know how to identify the most functional environments and tools for the digital communication of what they produce.

 

 

The verification of the progress of skills will take place in the context of the in itinere and final tests of the language courses and in the suitability tests of the Other Formative Activities.

 

 

Learning skills

 

 

Graduates will learn basic knowledge and skills referring to different areas of knowledge, together with the ability to use, and critically, digital tools and techniques of effective communication.

 

 

Thanks to the plurality of approaches, they will be able to start on a process of understanding the complexity of the contemporary knowledge society, a process which, however, in order to materialize in a more stable ability to learn how to learn, should be completed through a subsequent path.

 

 

The competence related to learning to learn will be evaluated through the ability to solve problems posed by heterogeneous texts administered in the course of lectures and exercises, carried out in the virtual classroom, in itinere tests, where provided, and final exams.

 

 

Final Examination

 

 

The final examination scheduled for the degree in Humanities – “Dissemination of Knowledge” curriculum consists of the public discussion, in the presence of a special Commission, of a written paper (thesis), in which criteria of procedural rigor, substantive relevance, disciplinary specificity and linguistic precision must be achieved.

 

 

In the writing and discussion of the paper, the expected learning objectives specified in the descriptor system will be verified.

 

 

The Degree Committee evaluates the student’s paper and discussion of the thesis, assigning the final paper a score consistent with the provisions of the Regulations of the Course of Study.