SCIENCES OF THE CULTURAL GOODS

Course details

Academic Year:

2017/2018

Type of Course:

DEGREE COURSE

Degree Class:

L-1 - Class of first degrees in Cultural Heritage

Duration in years:

Credits:

180

Location:

SASSARI

Department:

HISTORY, HUMANITIES AND EDUCATIONAL SCIENCES

Entry test:

Type of access:

open access

Compulsory attendance:

Course website:

http://www.dissufdidattica.uniss.it

Course in brief

Sciences in Cultural Heritage is the undergraduate course covering practical and theoretical approaches to key issues and working practices related to the different sectors of the cultural heritage field: archeological, historical, artistic, demo-ethno-anthropological, environmental and, in a minor degree, archive-keeping. The degree also gives students the philological-literary skills required to frame the different kind of cultural heritage and the technical and legal framework concerning cultural heritage.

List of Courses

Archaeological

Course year: 1 (A.Y. 2017/2018)

ARCHEOLOGY AND HISTORY OF CHRISTIAN ART - 6 credits - Compulsory
LINGUA FRANCESE - 6 credits - Optional
LINGUA INGLESE - 6 credits - Optional
LINGUA SPAGNOLA - 6 credits - Optional
LINGUA TEDESCA - 6 credits - Optional
MEDIEVAL HISTORY - 12 credits - Compulsory
METHODOLOGY OF THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH - 12 credits - Compulsory
MODERN HISTORY - 12 credits - Optional
PALEOGRAPHY - 6 credits - Optional
PALETNOLOGY - 6 credits - Compulsory
PHOENICIAN PUNIC ARCHEOLOGY - 6 credits - Optional
PROTOHISTORY - 6 credits - Compulsory
ROMAN HISTORY - 12 credits - Optional

Course year: 2 (A.Y. 2018/2019)

ARCHEOLOGY AND HISTORY OF GREEK AND ROMAN ART - 12 credits - Compulsory
BASICS OF TEMATIC CARTOGRAPHY AND GIS - 6 credits - Compulsory
CLASSICS - 6 credits - Optional
CULTURAL HERITAGE LEGISLATION - 6 credits - Compulsory
ETRUSCOLOGY AND ITALIC ANTIQUITY - 6 credits - Compulsory
ITALIAN LITERATURE - 6 credits - Compulsory
LANDSCAPE GEOGRAPHY - 6 credits - Compulsory
MEDIEVAL AND HUMANISTIC LATIN LITERATURE - 6 credits - Optional
MEDIEVAL ARCHEOLOGY - 6 credits - Compulsory
ROMANCE PHILOLOGY - 6 credits - Optional

Course year: 3 (A.Y. 2019/2020)

ANCIENT CHRISTIAN LITERATURE AND HAGIOGRAPHY - 12 credits - Optional
CONTEMPORARY HISTORY - 6 credits - Optional
FINAL TEST - 6 credits - Compulsory
GREEK HISTORY - 6 credits - Optional
HISTORY OF CLASSICAL CULTURE AND TRADITION - 12 credits - Optional
HISTORY OF LEGAL AND ECONOMICAL INSTITUTIONS OF SARDINIA - 6 credits - Compulsory
LATIN LITERATURE - 12 credits - Optional
SCIENCES APPLIED TO CULTURAL HERITAGE - 6 credits - Compulsory
TRAINING - 12 credits - Compulsory

Cultural heritage management

Course year: 1 (A.Y. 2017/2018)

ETNOLOGY AND CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY - 12 credits - Compulsory
LINGUA FRANCESE - 6 credits - Optional
LINGUA INGLESE - 6 credits - Optional
LINGUA SPAGNOLA - 6 credits - Optional
LINGUA TEDESCA - 6 credits - Optional
MEDIEVAL HISTORY - 12 credits - Compulsory
METHODOLOGY OF THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH - 6 credits - Compulsory
MODERN HISTORY - 12 credits - Optional
PALETNOLOGY - 6 credits - Compulsory
PROTOHISTORY - 6 credits - Compulsory
ROMAN HISTORY - 12 credits - Optional

Course year: 2 (A.Y. 2018/2019)

BASICS OF TEMATIC CARTOGRAPHY AND GIS - 6 credits - Compulsory
CLASSICS - 6 credits - Optional
CULTURAL HERITAGE LEGISLATION - 6 credits - Compulsory
ECOLOGY - 6 credits - Compulsory
HISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY ART - 6 credits - Compulsory
ITALIAN LITERATURE - 6 credits - Compulsory
LANDSCAPE GEOGRAPHY - 6 credits - Compulsory
MARKETING TERRITORIALE E POLITICHE DELL'AMBIENTE - 12 credits - Compulsory
MEDIEVAL AND HUMANISTIC LATIN LITERATURE - 6 credits - Optional
ROMANCE PHILOLOGY - 6 credits - Optional
URBAN SOCIOLOGY - 6 credits - Compulsory

Course year: 3 (A.Y. 2019/2020)

ANCIENT CHRISTIAN LITERATURE AND HAGIOGRAPHY - 12 credits - Optional
CONTEMPORARY HISTORY - 6 credits - Optional
FINAL TEST - 6 credits - Compulsory
GREEK HISTORY - 6 credits - Optional
HISTORY OF CLASSICAL CULTURE AND TRADITION - 12 credits - Optional
LATIN LITERATURE - 12 credits - Optional
MANAGEMENT OF CULTURAL HERITAGE - 6 credits - Compulsory
SCIENCES APPLIED TO CULTURAL HERITAGE - 6 credits - Compulsory
TRAINING - 12 credits - Compulsory

History and the Arts

Course year: 1 (A.Y. 2017/2018)

ARCHEOLOGY AND HISTORY OF CHRISTIAN ART - 6 credits - Compulsory
HISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY ART - 12 credits - Compulsory
HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL ART - 12 credits - Compulsory
LINGUA FRANCESE - 6 credits - Optional
LINGUA INGLESE - 6 credits - Optional
LINGUA SPAGNOLA - 6 credits - Optional
LINGUA TEDESCA - 6 credits - Optional
MEDIEVAL HISTORY - 12 credits - Compulsory
MODERN HISTORY - 12 credits - Optional
ROMAN HISTORY - 12 credits - Optional

Course year: 2 (A.Y. 2018/2019)

ARCHEOLOGY AND HISTORY OF GREEK AND ROMAN ART - 12 credits - Compulsory
BASICS OF TEMATIC CARTOGRAPHY AND GIS - 6 credits - Compulsory
CULTURAL HERITAGE LEGISLATION - 6 credits - Compulsory
HISTORY OF MODERN ART - 12 credits - Compulsory
ITALIAN LITERATURE - 6 credits - Compulsory
LANDSCAPE GEOGRAPHY - 6 credits - Compulsory
MEDIEVAL AND HUMANISTIC LATIN LITERATURE - 6 credits - Optional
MUSEOLOGY - 6 credits - Compulsory
ROMANCE PHILOLOGY - 6 credits - Optional

Course year: 3 (A.Y. 2019/2020)

ANCIENT CHRISTIAN LITERATURE AND HAGIOGRAPHY - 12 credits - Optional
CONTEMPORARY HISTORY - 6 credits - Optional
FINAL TEST - 6 credits - Compulsory
GREEK HISTORY - 6 credits - Optional
HISTORY OF CLASSICAL CULTURE AND TRADITION - 12 credits - Optional
HISTORY OF LEGAL AND ECONOMICAL INSTITUTIONS OF SARDINIA - 6 credits - Compulsory
LATIN LITERATURE - 12 credits - Optional
SCIENCES APPLIED TO CULTURAL HERITAGE - 6 credits - Compulsory
TRAINING - 12 credits - Compulsory

Expected Skills

Historical Disciplines

Knowledge and know-how:
Knowledge and understanding of the Greek, roman, medieval, modern and contemporary history, paleontology and institutional, juridical, economical history of Sardinia.

Ability to apply knowledge and know-how:
Ability to develop autonomous research in the historical field. Be able to work as an archivist.

Archeological Disciplines

Knowledge and know-how:
Knowledge and Understanding of prehistory, Proto-history, Etruscology and Italic antiquity, archeology, Greek and roman art, Christian and Medieval Archeology, archeological research methodology, Punic-Phoenician archeology.

Ability to apply knowledge and know-how:
Ability to gather the interconnections between historical events, literary production and artistic phenomena in specific historical contexts; ability to apply the knowledge gained within excavation contexts.

Demo-Ethno-Anthropological field

Knowledge and know-how:
The student will gain a strong foundation in anthropological research methods, a strong knowledge of anthropological theory and analysis, a deep understanding of ethnographic approaches to the study of contemporary society with particular focus on the concept of identity and multiculturalism in the different historical contemporary contests.

Ability to apply knowledge and know-how:
Ability to apply anthropological research methods in professional practices in both cultural and commercial fields. In-depth training in socio-cultural anthropology and a firm grasp of social scientific research and methods.

Philological, ancient and medieval field

Knowledge and know-how:
Good knowledge of: Latin language, ancient, medieval, humanistic philology and literature in Latin language or in vulgar romances.

Ability to apply knowledge and know-how:
Ability to understand and work with original Latin texts. Ability to conduct hagiography research.

Disciplines in Italian language and literature

Knowledge and know-how:
Full proficiency of the Italian language in his diachronic development. Specifics knowledge in philology and Italian literature.

Ability to apply knowledge and know-how:
Ability to read and criticize in an adult way the text coming from the Italian literature of different periods.

Disciplines in the field of foreign languages

Knowledge and know-how:
Good command of UE foreign language.

Ability to apply knowledge and know-how:
Ability to read and work with text written in, at least, one EU foreign language different from Italian.

Disciplines in Geographic field

Knowledge and know-how:
Knowledge of geographical features in a specific field, good command of the most important way of analysis and interpretation of geographic information, depth understanding of the graphical representation of these information, ability to read maps.

Ability to apply knowledge and know-how:
Advanced knowledge in geographical data elaboration and interpretation, good competence with digital tools (ex GIS).

Disciplines in Juridical and Economic field

Knowledge and know-how:
Knowledge of the Italian and European legislative issues concerning the cultural goods both tangible and intangible, and their repercussions within the local productive economic environment

Ability to apply knowledge and know-how:
Ability to implement policies for the protection and enhancement of the cultural heritage in accordance with the current legal framework.

Disciplines in the Scientific and Technical field

Knowledge and know-how:
Good knowledge of the geophysical surveys for archeology, general and systematic mineralogy, good knowledge of the common analytics methods used for the characterization of stone materials: Transmission Electron Microscopy; scanning electron microscopy ( SEM ) and EDS ; X-ray fluorescence ; X-ray diffractometry.

Ability to apply knowledge and know-how:
Ability to classify the most common sedimentary and metamorphic rocks used as building and ornamental materials. Ability to use the most common analytical methods for the characterization of stone materials.

Disciplines in the historical-artistic field

Knowledge and know-how:
Knowledge and understanding of the diachronic evolution of artistic expression from ancient to contemporary age.

Ability to apply knowledge and know-how:
Ability to develop a critical approach useful to put in the correct cultural and historical context different artistic expressions.

Areas for Career Opportunities

Museum Technician

Position in a workplace:
didactic and organizational assistance in different kind of museums.

Position-related skills:
good skills in the cultural and communication fields useful to organize exhibitions, to welcome and didactically guide visitors in museum, archaeological parks and archeological sites settings.

Career opportunities:
Museum Technician

Teachers in informal education settings

Position in a workplace:
professor of all the disciplines concerning cultural heritage in informal training courses.

Position-related skills:
good cultural, didactic and communication skills useful to transfer the basic concepts related to the different historical, archeological, artistic, historical-artistic, demo-ethno-anthropological, archive-keeping and technical disciplines.

Career opportunities:
Teachers in informal education settings

Tourist guides

Position in a workplace:
Tourist guide and tour operator for travel agencies, tour leader in museums, parks, archeological sites and other areas of historical-cultural and landscape significance.

Position-related skills:
good cultural and linguistic skills required to offer a qualified tourist guide to visitors, good ability to present and contextualize archeological sites, monuments, artwork, sites of historic, cultural, and landscape interest.

Career opportunities:
Tourist guides

Administrative secretaries and technicians of general affairs council

Position in a workplace:
head of general service and of reception offices in public and private institutions.

Position-related skills:
good reasoning and linguistic-discursive skills useful to manage high level administrative services, particularly: preparing staff reports, edit minutes, run the information requests, organize meeting and conferences.

Career opportunities:
Administrative secretaries and technicians of general affairs council

Access requirements

The basics knowledge requirement are:
a) fluency in Italian language;
b) basic knowledge of another EU language
c) appropriate cultural preparation in humanities.
The knowledge request for access the degree will be Checked through a compulsory test.
In the case of an unsatisfactory result of the test, the student will provide other OFA following the rules established in the course’s regulation.

Study Programme Reference Persons

Reference Professors:

Tutors:

Fees

Fees are governed by a single set of rules applicable to all courses, as articulated in the

Regolamento Carriere of the University of Sassari (page 11) and in Annex 5.2 thereof