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The doctoral degree in Human Sciences: systems dynamics, cultural heritage, cultural studies is a course with interdisciplinary vocation that aims, through an innovative integration of knowledge and humanistic skills, to form scholars able to face the most advanced challenges in the various areas of European cultural studies, of archaeological research and historical sciences, of enhancement and communication of cultural heritage and of dynamics of social and institutional systems.

Taking into account the plurality of the themes and the peculiarities of the individual research fields, the training and research project provides an articulation in several curricula, each of them able to promoting research-intervention skills, allowing the acquisition of effective reading keys on the relationships between cultural processes and facts and the phenomenal dynamics observed in different cases in social systems, as well as training experts in the enhancement of cultural heritage and in the field of culture analysis and cultural productions, and forming experts able to operate in cultural institutions.

The doctoral program is therefore divided into the following 5 curricula:

• Models for improving performance in the public sector
• Dynamics of legal-social systems
• Archeology and Historical Sciences of Antiquity
• Enhancement, communication and updating of cultural heritage
• European Cultural Studies

 

Occupational and professional expected opportunities

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The doctorate is intended to train:

• scholars of material and immaterial cultural heritage, in possession of innovative and interdisciplinary methodological tools for the contextual analysis of archaeological, artistic and historical-cultural testimonies and for the enhancement of cultural heritage in the territory and in the current company

• experts in European cultural studies eligible to hold research and teaching roles in universities and schools and to carry out training activities in public and private institutions

• qualified figures to coordinate and direct cultural institutions such as museums, theaters, archives and libraries, cultural foundations and humanitarian institutions, and social services in multicultural and international contexts

• figures operating in publishing companies (publishing houses, newspapers, TV etc.) and international bodies for social and cultural studies

• figures carrying out consultancy activities for policy-makers, able to offer reading hypotheses and innovative solutions to social problems and to develop policies oriented to the management of cross-cultural processes in the public and private sphere

• operators suitable to play the role of "facilitators" of learning processes and decision-making processes that involve different social actors called to respond to systemic and "global" problems