Master in Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology

The learning outcomes of the programme include in-depth, broad scientific and professional grounding responding to the complex socio-cultural problems of contemporary society.

Specifically, at the end of the programme students will possess advanced knowledge of demographic, ethnological and anthropological disciplines, focusing on local and global socio-cultural and religious pluralism and dynamics. Graduates will master techniques and instruments for gathering and processing ethnographic data and are able to effectively disseminate the results of research. They can use at least one other European Union language fluently, both in written form and orally.
The programme sets out to train three professional figures: cultural anthropologist, ethnographer, ethno-anthropologist specialising in religions.

The course catalogue covers three learning areas:

1. Epistemological theory;
2. Methods, instruments and applications;
3. Thematic history.

The three areas work synergically to train the professional figures of cultural anthropologist, ethnographer, ethno-anthropologist specialising in religions. The epistemological theory area provides the theoretical basis, analytical models and competences in historical development of the anthropological disciplines required to lay the foundations for specific activities performed in the professional field. The methods, instruments and applications area provides: the competences and methodologies required to plan and conduct research; the language tools needed to work with sources; the application models of anthropological knowledge. The historical-thematic area provides geographically and historically contextualised knowledge of religious, political, institutional and artistic phenomena in and beyond Europe, allowing the cultural anthropologist, ethnographer, ethno-anthropologist specialising in religions to work effectively with the local and global dynamics of the contemporary world.

This programme is available in Italian.