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The specific training objectives of the Masters in Ethno-antropological Disciplines refer to various areas of professional intervention:

• public and social services;

• health services within a framework of cultural and therapeutic pluralism;

• educational institutions and training services for human resources with particular reference to the processes of integration and cultural mediation, within a framework of interculturality;

• museums, research, protection and enhancement institutions operating in the field of demo-ethno-anthropological cultural heritage;

• international development cooperation;

• public administrations and public and private institutions;

• those areas of ​​analysis, prevention and resolution of conflicts in which a competence of intercultural mediation is required.

The educational path of the Masters includes:

- activities aimed at the acquisition of high-level knowledge in the various fields of cultural anthropology, ethnology and demology, history and analysis of the processes of change in cultural, socio-economic and political systems, connecting the various knowledge specialists within a coherent framework of theoretical knowledge;

- activities dedicated to the acquisition of advanced knowledge in the fields of ethno-anthropological and sociological theory, as well as of the methods and techniques of the demo-ethno-anthropological disciplines as a whole;

- a part of the activity is dedicated to the acquisition of adequate knowledge in the social and human sciences, as well as in the economic-statistical and juridico-political fields, to the modelling and comparative analysis of social and cultural phenomena;

- a part of the training activities is aimed at the acquisition of advanced knowledge in the preparation and management of projects in the fields:

• of intercultural communication and social, socio-educational and social-health research in contexts of cultural pluralism within public services, in schools and in production;

• international development cooperation;

• analysis and management of government processes in institutions and public administrations;

• the protection and enhancement of cultural heritage, especially the tangible and intangible demo-ethno-anthropological one.

Research visits are planned, as well as study stays at other Italian and European universities, also in the framework of international agreements, aimed at the production of the Masters thesis. Credits for such stays and activities are acquired upon passing the final exam.

The specific training objectives of the Masters in Ethno-anthropological Disciplines are calibrated on the profound social, economic and cultural transformations that characterize societies in the contemporary world. These great processes of change:

• shape familiar, productive and political structures and behaviours;

• determine new relationships, new forms of civil coexistence and increasing flows of mobility and migratory forms in the labour market;

• profoundly influence the traditional visions of the world and the constellations of ideas related to religious and symbolic plans;

• pose new problems of understanding and management in terms of social, economic and productive relations and the training of human resources;

• create new needs for management processes, as well as public, social and health services;

• determine new and more adequate needs and methods for the recovery, protection and enhancement of cultural heritage;

• impose increasingly qualified international cooperation and new professional skills to adapt to the growing capacity of local communities to manage their development processes.

To these needs, the Masters in Ethno-anthropological Disciplines responds through a specialized training plan of professionalism from a theoretical point of view and the practice of both research and management of operations and programmes. In a unitary training project, it composes the skills necessary for the analysis and understanding of social phenomena that require a high theoretical and methodological competence in the demo-ethno-anthropological disciplines and in the historical and social disciplines indispensable to face the study of the phenomena that affect these transformations, cultural aspects of societies and the management of socio-cultural processes. The integration between the ethnographic method, the other methods of cultural analysis, social research and the knowledge acquired in the various fields of historical and social sciences aims to train a graduate with a wide-ranging preparation, able to adapt with the necessary flexibility to the demands of the labour market.

The student has the opportunity to choose between different training paths:

1. scientific and management issues in social, health and educational services, training of human resources in a framework of interculturality;

2. the scientific and management issues of the political-institutional and bureaucratic processes of governance in society and, in particular, in public administrations;

3. scientific issues and management of cultural heritage;

4. scientific issues and management of development processes in the framework of international cooperation.

In these four paths, however, the accent is placed on the opportunities offered by both the ethnographic method for understanding and interpreting social behaviours, collective representations, semantic and symbolic contents of human products, and other methods of cultural analysis and of social research for the management of research and operational programmes for a high mastery of methods, means and communication systems.

In conclusion, the training course includes twelve (12) exams according to the following scheme:

Structure of the study plan in the two-year course with a maximum of 12 examinations (no preliminary prerequisites are foreseen):

Characterizing training activities:

5 exams (M-DEA / 01) of which 1 exam (12 credits) and 4 exams (6 credits each) for a total of 36 credits

1 exam  - 6 CFU (non-MDEA01 demo-ethno-anthropological disciplines)

1 exam - 6 CFU (Sociological Disciplines etc.)

2 exam -6 CFU (Geography, History, etc.)

Similar training activities:

2 exams - 6 CFU each

Electives: 12 CFU

Further training activities: 6 CFU