在欧洲学习Interpretation in Europe

The Interpreting program offers two specialization tracks: Conference Interpreting and Interpreting and Technologies for Communication. Both tracks develop advanced skills in consecutive and simultaneous interpreting between Italian and selected foreign languages, with tailored paths for students depending on their language proficiency. The Conference Interpreting track focuses on dialogical and conference settings, while the Technologies for Communication track emphasizes digital tools, multimedia content, and distance interpreting. Students engage in practical training, including internships, and choose electives in public speaking, voice coaching, or visual communication. The program culminates in a final project or exam.

To apply for the Interpreting program, candidates must hold a bachelor's degree or equivalent foreign qualification. Priority is given to degrees in Modern Languages and Cultures or Linguistic Mediation, though other qualifications may be considered by an admission committee. All applicants must pass an entrance exam assessing personal preparation and language skills. For the Conference Interpreting track, Italian and two foreign languages must be at CEFR level C1. For the Interpreting and Technologies for Communication track, English and another foreign language must be at C1, while Italian must be at least B2. Conditional admission is possible for candidates close to completing their undergraduate studies. EU students typically pay around €1,200/year based on family income. Non-EU students usually pay a fixed fee of about €1,400/year. Check with the university for your exact fee.

This master's program focuses on translation, terminology, and language technologies in the context of the humanities. Students explore text analysis, digital rhetoric, AI applications, and modern translation tools. Elective topics include second language acquisition, natural language processing, and interdisciplinary semiotics. The curriculum also emphasizes scientific writing, terminology databases, and practical training in translation. It concludes with a master’s thesis and offers specialization in terminology management and translation practices.

This master's program is aimed at students with a background in translation, technical translation, or English philology. Applicants with a professional degree can enter directly, while those with an academic bachelor's degree must complete an additional 26 credits of fieldwork or internship. The program focuses on advanced skills in terminology, text analysis, and technology use in translation, preparing students for professional practice in specialized language services.

This master's degree develops the analytical skills needed to study literature, film, and visual culture as interconnected forms of meaning rather than as separate disciplines. Delivered jointly across two institutions, the program draws on expertise in literature, film studies, art history, and visual culture, allowing students to approach cultural questions from multiple perspectives within a single, coherent course of study, taught through small, seminar-based classes centered on interpretation, argument, and independent analysis across historical and contemporary contexts.

The two-year program moves from shared theoretical foundations toward increasingly independent research. Core seminars introduce key concepts in cultural theory and analysis, such as culture, nation, power, space, gender, and memory, alongside a seminar tracing major thinkers in critical theory and the social analysis of images, from historical philosophy through to contemporary visual and cultural studies. A dedicated course examines the relationship between words and images across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, while a sequence of interdisciplinary seminars approaches literary texts, films, and visual culture through thematic lenses that vary by year, such as dystopia, ecocritical approaches, memory and trauma, or postcolonial studies. Additional coursework introduces narratology and film analysis methods and their practical application, along with a seminar on adaptation across media that considers literary, film, and video game adaptations in relation to historical and cultural context, authorship, and genre.

During the second and third semesters, students take part in practical training organized in collaboration with cultural institutions and international literary, art, and film festivals in the host city, designed to support their research interests and critical engagement with cultural institutions rather than to provide vocational training. At the end of the second semester, students submit a thesis research proposal and select a supervisor, and the fourth semester is dedicated entirely to writing the thesis within a dedicated master's seminar, culminating in a public thesis defense.

Students benefit from a compact, culturally rich host city with an extensive network of literary, film, and visual culture institutions and festivals, allowing archives, exhibitions, screenings, and public debate to inform coursework and research alongside academic study. Close engagement with faculty supports the development of individual research interests from early in the program, within an international student community whose diverse backgrounds contribute to a comparative approach to the study of culture. The program is research-centered, providing a strong foundation for students who wish to pursue doctoral study, while also equipping graduates with the interpretive and critical thinking skills relevant to a range of careers requiring cultural judgment and the ability to work with complexity.

Applicants must hold a completed bachelor's degree or equivalent qualification and provide proof of English proficiency. Admission is decided through an entrance exam consisting of both written and oral components. The written component requires a one- to two-page statement of research interests and a ten-page writing sample, either an excerpt from the applicant's bachelor's thesis or, if no thesis was written, academic essays completed during their studies or published scholarly articles; if the original writing sample was not written in English, applicants must submit an English translation, which does not need to be notarized.

Applicants are assessed on a points scale across three components: the statement of research interest, worth up to 30 points with a minimum of 21 required; the writing sample together with previous academic performance, also worth up to 30 points with a minimum of 21 required; and an interview, worth up to 40 points with a minimum of 28 required. Only applicants who meet the minimum thresholds on the statement of research interest and writing sample are invited to the interview stage, which is conducted online before an examination board of at least two members and evaluates the applicant's motivation and clarity of goals, their ability to develop and refine a research plan, their analytical ability, and their oral communication skills. Final admission is based on the combined score across all three components.