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The PhD in Humanities, continuation of the PhD in Literary, Philological-Linguistic and Historical-Philosophical Studies consists of 3 curricula:

LITERARY CURRICULUM

The specific attention of the curriculum themes goes to issues relating to:
1. literary codification of identity models
2. reception in every age
3. rhetorical and aesthetic aspects
4. translation and translatology
5. theoretical and critical dimension
6. historical-comparative analysis
7. editorial mediation
8. reading practices in the contemporary world
9. methods of teaching literature

LINGUISTIC CURRICULUM

The specific attention of the curriculum themes goes to issues relating to:
1.  philology of Italian literature
2.  historical and comparative linguistics
3.  analysis of grammatical phenomena
4.  dialectology and sociolinguistics of Italian and Italian varieties with particular regard to southern dialects
5.  study of the Italian linguistic history
6.  onomastic
7.  theoretically updated reflection on language teaching (L1 / L2 / LS)
8.  translation and translatology
9.  speech analysis
10. French linguistics
11. Spanish linguistics
12. German linguistics
13. English linguistics
14. Russian linguistics

PHILOSOPHICAL CURRICULUM

The specific attention of the curriculum themes goes to issues relating to:
1. Theoretical philosophy
2.  Contemporary phenomenology and hermeneutics
3.  Ethics and anthropology
4.  Social ontology, ethics of relationships and communicative action
5.  History of philosophy and history of ideas in ancient and late antiquity
6.  History of medieval philosophy and the Renaissance
7.  History of doctrines and philosophical movements in the modern and contemporary age
8.  Logical, linguistic and ontological foundations of the human and natural sciences
9.  Theory of artistic and multimedia practices and languages
10. Philosophy and theory of languages
11. Philosophical aesthetics
12. Rhetoric and argumentation theory

The three curricula aim to identify and classify - through the disciplines involved - the phenomena of continuity and rupture, resumption and innovations, influences and repercussions in the history and life of human societies, favoring critical and reasoned thinking, especially in light of the related challenges to cultural policies, from training to dissemination, from the theorization of new social paradigms to the democratic use of knowledge.

The LITERARY CURRICULUM, in particular, intends to train research doctors who can contribute to the advancement of knowledge in the disciplinary fields that include literary disciplines (ancient, medieval and modern, in various European languages). The educational path of this curriculum intends to focus on the role of literature as a canon of interpretation of reality, its social aspects and the stylistic and symbolic orientations of periods, schools, movements and authors. The curriculum aims to identify and classify the phenomena of continuity and rupture, resumption and innovations, influences and repercussions in the history and life of human societies through literary texts.

The LINGUISTIC CURRICULUM aims to train scholars capable of mastering the theoretical and methodological tools relevant for the analysis of the different aspects of language and textuality, in a diachronic and synchronic dimension, without excluding research perspectives related to pragmatics, to acquisitional theories, to translation aspects, to lexicography, to dialectology and sociolinguistics, to formal studies. PhD students are also enabled to use the main tools of computer science applied to linguistic analysis (databases, concordances, electronic rhymes, editions on computer support, hypertexts, corpora, computerized atlases).

The PHILOSOPHICAL CURRICULUM intends to train research doctors who know how to contribute to the advancement of knowledge in the disciplinary fields that include the philosophical disciplines, showing the ability to orient themselves in the different study traditions, making appropriate selections for the organization and documentation of their own investigation, possession of theoretical categories useful to enhance the reading of one's contemporaneity, starting from the historical, logical, linguistic and ontological foundations of the human sciences.