The course aims at providing a complete and solid basic training in the cultural heritage subject areas, with respect in particular to the archaeological and archival-library heritage. The humanistic approach, providing students with the tools for the historical and anthropological understanding of assets and for their cultural and chronological positioning, is accompanied by a technical approach, enabling them to acquire the knowledge for the most important methods for the recovery, conservation and restoration, as well as for the analysis and classification of the same assets, even through computer tools. Archaeology, history, history of art, literature and linguistics, anthropology, archivists and library science, are therefore accompanied by applied computer science and some physical and chemical subjects, palaeo-anthropology, topography, photogrammetry and legal subjects.
The course provides for some common core course, which are indispensable for all graduates; each student may choose, in the field of archaeological or library heritage, an individual path, through various alternative options. The acquisition of specific experimental techniques, as well as the practice of various subjects, with respect also to the labour market, is achieved through specific laboratories and stages, as well as - for the archaeological curriculum, through the participation in excavation and landscape archaeological surveys.
The attention for core subjects, as well as the presence of common courses (about 50%) will avoid excessive specialization. At the same time, the wide range of related and integrative subjects, will enable students to acquire competences with respect to other ambits, and to find their way in the field of artistic and demo-ethno-anthropological heritage, as well as of the defense and glamorization of cultural heritage, literary tradition and antiquity studies, and increase the possibility to fit in a labour market requiring flexibility and a wide range of competences.
