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Literature and Humanities

Course Type Bachelor’s degree

Academic year 2022/2023

Membership structure
Disum

The three-year Bachelor’s degree in Literature (Literature and Humanities) Course code L-10 is open to all (no capped number admission).

The course lasts 3 years (full-time) or 4 or 6 years (part-time).

To obtain the degree you must achieve 180 academic credits.

You have the opportunity to obtain a bi-national double degree in partnership with the Université de Savoie Mont Blanc, Chambéry.

The course location for the Literature degree programme is Vercelli, in via G. Ferraris 109/116.

As of academic year 2015-2016, the three-year course in Literature also allows you to attend lessons in Alessandria. Lessons are held at Palazzo Borsalino, via Cavour 84, Alessandria.

Key features

High-quality teaching and research

  • Innovative teaching with seminars, conferences, workshops, and educational trips
  • Opportunities for international mobility programs, Erasmus and Free Mover, in partnership with prestigious foreign universities
  • Possibility of obtaining a double degree thanks to the bi-national agreement with the Université de Savoie (Chambéry)

To enrol/register

All the information on enrolment or registration for this course will help you understand the correct procedure to follow.

There are diagnostic admission tests to check your initial level of knowledge, so be sure to check the Admission Requirements page

The course

The degree programme in Literature offers a foundation in the disciplines on which humanistic knowledge is based: classical Greek and Latin, Italian studies (Italian language and literary culture), the history of the Italian language, philology, political history. social, geography, archeology and art history. A specific path is planned for the "Cultural Heritage" area. Basic courses are offered in the fields of Italian literature, Italian language, philology and linguistics, history, geography, and classical studies. In the II and III year you will be able to follow courses in which more specific themes and methodological issues will be addressed.

In the third full-time year, the course allows you to take a linguistic qualification for 3 academic credits. All details are attached (at the bottom of the page).

Credits reserved by the University for the activities art. 10 paragraph 5 letter. d: the activities are listed in the option sheet of the last year of the course. For seminars, conferences and other activities, see the attachment at the bottom of the page.

Study Plans

Teacher-Tutor

During your studies you are followed by a teacher-tutor who is assigned to you by the Literature course Academic Board from among the teachers and researchers of your course. The nomination is made after the Student Admin office has communicated to the Teaching Office your completed enrolment.

On the Representatives and Tutors page, you will find all the information you need and the list of tutors assigned to students.

Notice for all students enrolled in 2020-2021 cohort and subsequent

As of 2020-2021, to take the final exam all students must take the first four modules of the online Bibliolab course. Laboratory on basic Information skills

The certificate of completion of the course must be attached to the application for graduation. The activity takes place online and a self-assessment test is provided at the end of each module. Progress to the next module is subject to passing the end-of-module test. After completing the first 4 modules, the student will be able to download and print a certificate, to be attached to the graduation application, thus proving that they have completed the required task.

Exemption 

Students who have followed the activity: "Evaluating print and digital sources of information: tools and methods" held by prof. Lana and thus collecting the relevant credits, are exempted from this task

Last modified 3 October 2023