Summary 
Academic year 2024/2025

Level of qualification

Master's Degree Programme

Ministerial degree code

LM-37 (Modern American and European Languages and Literatures)

Regulations

The teaching regulations of the study course depend on the following organisational aspects: educational goals, access methods, study plan, exams, final exam, job opportunities, etc. Throughout their university career, students must refer to the teaching regulations enforced from their matriculation.

Double and Joint Degree

European Joint Master’s Programme in English and American Studies
with Otto-Friedrich Universität (Bamberg Germany); Karl-Franzens Universität (Graz Austria); Université Paris Diderot (Paris 7 France);  Jagiellonian University in Krakov (Poland); Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (Spain)
Non-degree awarding universities: Pécsi Tudományegyetem (Pécs Hungary); City College of the City University of New York (USA).
Access: call for applications.

Double Degree in Iberian and Ibero-American Studies
At the end of their study programme students can be awarded with a double degree:

  • a Master’s degree in European, American and Postcolonial Language and Literature of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and a Licenciatura en Letras of Universidad Nacional del Litoral (Argentina);
  • a Master’s degree in European, American and Postcolonial Language and Literature of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice  and a Mestrado em Estudos da Tradução of Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (Brazil);
  • a Master’s degree in European, American and Postcolonial Language and Literature of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and a Máster en Estudios Hispánicos Superiores of Universidad de Sevilla (Spain).

Access: call for applications.

Double Degree - Master européen en Études Françaises et Francophones
At the end of their study programme students can be awarded with a double degree:  a Master’s degree in European, American and Postcolonial Language and Literature of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and a  Master européen en Études Françaises et Francophones of one of the partner universities.
Access: call for applications.

Double Degree with Russian State University for the Humanities
At the end of their studies and after the final examination students achieve both the academic qualifications:

  • a Master’s degree in European, American and Postcolonial Language and Literature of Ca’ Foscari (Slavic and Balkan Studies pathway);
  • Master in Philology in the Slavonic World and Italy from the Russian State University for the Humanities.

Access: call for applications.

Double Degree in German Studies with Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Access: call for applications.

Where

Department of Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies:

  • Ca' Bembo, Dorsoduro 1075, 30123 Venice
  • Palazzo Cosulich, Dorsoduro 1405, 30123 Venice
  • Ca’ Bernardo, Dorsoduro 3199, 30123 Venice

For further information please contact the Linguistic Campus,  campus.linguistico@unive.it

Head of studies

Prof. Simone Francescato (Teaching Committee Coordinator,  simone.francescato@unive.it)

Language

Italian and English 

Access to the programme

Open admission, subject to assessment of minimum requirements.

Quota reserved to non-EU students residing outside Italy: 20 seats, of which 1 is reserved for a Chinese student living in China, under the Marco Polo Project.

Admission requirements

To be admitted to this Master's Degree Programme students must possess a proper individual educational background and the minimum curricular requirements. A certified knowledge of English at minimum level B2 is also required.
Details about the assessment procedures are available in the webpage dedicated to admission requirements.

Admission with international qualification

Applicants with international qualification must have obtained a bachelor’s degree that is the result of at least 3 years of study. The preliminary evaluation of the qualification is mandatory. Procedures and deadlines are available on the dedicated online platform.
International qualification will be evaluated by the designated teaching committee after the pre-evaluation procedure carried out on the online platform.

Course overview

This Master's degree programme provides advanced knowledge of the languages, literatures and cultures of European, American and postcolonial countries, promoting cross-cultural perspectives within a solid background in humanities. 

Graduates will be able to continue their studies in the field of research, to fulfil roles of responsibility in the fields of national and international entrepreneurship and in public and private institutions; they will be able to access the programmes in order to teach in public or private primary and secondary school.

Languages available: Albanian, Anglo-American, English, French, German, modern Greek, Polish, Portuguese and Brazilian, Romenian, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish and Hispanic-American

Curricula available

  • Literature and Culture. The sub-curricula available are:

    • American Studies;
    • English Studies;
    • French Studies;
    • German Studies;
    • Iberian and Ibero-American Studies;
    • Scandinavian Studies;
    • Slavic and Balkan Studies.

  • English and American Studies. The sub-curricula available are:

    • Literary Studies (Joint degree);
    • Cultural Studies (Joint degree).

  • Estudios Ibéricos e Iberoamericanos (Double degree).
  • Master européen en Etudes Françaises et Francophones (Double degree).

Occupational profiles

Graduates will be able to find employment as organisers of cultural events in public and private, national and international companies and in the cultural industry sector; as an expert in intercultural education within a public or private institution in the fields of educational publishing, museum and library education services. He can work as an editor for publishing houses and publishing companies specialising in the literary and cultural sector; as a translator for private companies and public bodies publishing products. They can pursue an academic career after passing competitive examinations, or find employment with national and international research organisations. In order to become a teacher, graduates who have sufficient credits in appropriate groups of fields will be able, as provided for by current legislation, to take part in the admission tests for training courses for secondary teaching.

Attendance

Open, but strongly recommended.

Examination assessment and graduation

Educational activities include classroom teaching, workshops and internships, in order to acquire wide-ranging skills that can be readily transferable into the world of work.
Knowledge gained by students will be assessed through written and oral exams during their entire university career.
The final exam consists in writing a thesis, which must possess the characters of originality, exhaustive documentation and scientific investigation and which will be discussed with a committee of university professors and experts.

Access to further studies

Professional Master’s Programmes (1st level and 2nd level) and PhD programmes.

Last update: 14/03/2024