Master's degree programmes

Four master's degree programs are active in the Department of Human Sciences for Education “Riccardo Massa.”
 

The Master’s Degree in Advanced Educational Sciences aims to train educational professionals with a strong theoretical foundation in the educational disciplines that can enable them to understand and design educational intervention: pedagogical and philosophical consultants, coordinators of educational services, consultants for projecting and managing educational interventions.

These professionals can offer their expertise in several areas: schools, educational services, local organizations, private sector, informal and not formal educational settings.

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The Master's Degree in Artistic Languages for Education aims to promote synergy between the pedagogical sciences and the artistic disciplines. It aims to train professionals with pedagogical, design, and administrative skills capable of working with methods, theories, and languages inherent to artistic, embodied, performative, and participatory expression. It also aims to develop and disseminate artistic culture and strengthen the educational function of the arts. Graduates will be able to work in educational and organizational contexts, and in projects oriented to environmental and cultural heritage enhancement, both public and private.

It is aimed both at those who have pedagogical and organizational skills and want to master languages on an artistic- expressive basis to integrate them into the field of educational professions, as well as those who come from studies and experiences in the artistic, expressive, embodied, performative and literary fields, wish to deepen and master the training and organizational aspects.

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The Master’s Degree in Cultural and Social Anthropology provides a fundamental training in social and cultural anthropology. Students learn to view/to approach human beings as parts of plural, diverse and rich cultures and societies.

Both theoretical and applied topics are at the core of the Master's course. The programme trains professionals to respond with responsibility and sensibility to the key challenges of contemporary societies, such as intercultural cohabitation, migrations and integration, citizenship and rights, cooperation and development, securitization and valorisation of heritage, securitization and management of resources and the environment, types of families and their transformation, interreligious dialogue and economic relationships with new markets.
Assets of the Master's programme include the quantity and the variety of specific anthropological courses; an interdisciplinary approach granted by courses in philosophy, educational sciences, geography and sociology; professors with an international profile; a heightened attention to area studies.

Students are encouraged to participate in international exchanges, to undertake training in organizations, associations or enterprises whose focus is coherent with the aims of the Master's programme, and to carry out ethnographic researches. Some courses may be taught in English. 

Upon successful completion of the programme students will obtain a Master’s Degree in Anthropology and Ethnology, which gives access to a Second Level Master Degrees and Doctoral programmes.

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The Master’s Degree in Human Resources Development is an advanced program aimed to prepare professionals to work in Human Resource and Training & Education fields, both in Corporate Departments and in Consultancy.

The program is aimed to form theoretical and methodological competences in the fields of adult education (on a life-long perspective), organizational analysis, human resource systems and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) applied to Education and HR processes.

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