SCIENZE DEI BENI CULTURALI

Employment and professional opportunities for graduates.
Museum attendant
Various technical and scientific charges can be assumed in different public and private institutions: archaeological or ethnographic museums, art galleries, foundations, collections and other cultural institutes and sites. The graduates can work in the following sectors: catalogue and edition projects of material and immaterial cultural heritage promoted and funded by the public and private institutions; exhibitions; procedures for adapting informative material of the museum collections and public and private exhibition; reception services to public and teaching activities; creation of scientific dissemination contents.

Teacher for the professional education
The graduates will work as teachers for the professional education, as well as teaching assistant. This activity includes the creation, planning, exhibition and management of laboratories, thematic workshop and the coordination of integrative teaching. 

Tour guide
The graduates may work in this field as: tour guide with public and private institutions of parks and cultural areas; tour guide for travel agencies and tour operators; founders, manager and members of Co-operatives and Associations involved in the enhancement and promotion of the touristic-cultural area; creators of new paths and activities of enhancement of the Cultural heritage.

Administrative secretaries and technicians of general affairs council  
In the principal, but not exclusive, field of the public administration the graduates can work as administrative secretaries and technical of the General affairs: they will carry out activities related to the internal organization of the bureau, to the support of the management, to the secretary, to the management of the staff and relationship with the public. The companies and the private administrations can be supported by the ability of relations with the colleagues and management, archiving, communication of the graduates too.

Knowledge and understanding.
Historical Disciplines
Knowledge and understanding of the Greek, roman, medieval, modern and contemporary history, paleontology and institutional, juridical, economical history of Sardinia. 

Archeological Disciplines
Knowledge and Understanding of prehistory, Proto-history, Etruscology and Italic antiquity, archeology, Greek and roman art, Christian and Medieval Archeology, archeological research methodology, Punic-Phoenician archeology. 

Disciplines in Geographic field 
Knowledge of geographical features in a specific field, good command of the most important  way of analysis and interpretation of geographic information, depth understanding of the graphical representation of these information, ability to read maps. 

Disciplines in the historical-artistic field 
Knowledge and understanding of the diachronic evolution of artistic expression from ancient to contemporary age.

Applying knowledge and understanding.
Historical Disciplines
Ability to develop autonomous research in the historical field. Be able to work as an archivist.

Archeological Disciplines
Ability to gather the interconnections between historical events, literary production and artistic phenomena in specific historical contexts; ability to apply the knowledge gained within  excavation contexts.

Disciplines in Geographic field 
Advanced knowledge in geographical data elaboration and interpretation, good competence with digital tools (ex GIS). 

Disciplines in the historical-artistic field 
Ability to develop a critical approach useful to put in the correct cultural and historical context different artistic expressions.

Language(s) of instruction/examination.
ITALIAN

Skills associated with the function
Museum attendant
The graduates apply the knowledge and the skills acquired, offering a valid support to scientific, dissemination and management activities of the museums and the cultural sites. The experience of the educational course allows them to: test collaboration in groups of different activities; create synthetic texts; carry out bibliographical researches; to elaborate a catalogue; to digitize different types of documentation; use principal digital instruments and internet platforms.

Teacher for the professional education
The graduates apply the skills acquired to create and organize presentations of scientific contents. These contents communicate concepts and information concerning historical, archaeological, geographical, ethno-anthropological and historical-artistic matters.

Tour guide
By the activities of tour operator, the graduates can show their skills and knowledge at different communication of the Cultural heritage.
The wide range of knowledge will be a decisive factor for covering all the areas of Cultural heritage: acquired skills for working in a team will be useful for local, public and private institutions involved in the management, promotion and enhancement of cultural sites.

Administrative secretaries and technicians of general affairs council  
The graduates can apply the acquired skills in the activities of administrative secretaries and technicians of the General affairs. Abilities of interaction with other external groups or colleagues can be applied.

Function in a work context
Museum attendant
The graduates may work as assistants for didactic and organization areas in museums: they will collaborate for the preparation of museum exposition, the creation of exhibitions, the elaboration of contents and dissemination-scientific panels and the captions; there will be space also for the promotion and dissemination activities in the social media, the assistance to the teaching and other activities for the public. 
The support to the management of museums, art galleries, collections, foundations and other cultural institutions will be realized by digital cataloguing, reorganization of documents and collaboration to projects that need proper knowledge.

Teacher for the professional education
The graduates can collaborate in the courses of Cultural heritage education.

Tour guide
The graduates may become tour guides for Cultural tourism, increasing the staff number of public and private institutions, as co-operative, museums, archaeological parks; naturalistic, literary and historical-artistic paths. These jobs can be carried out by private professional activities.

Administrative secretaries and technicians of general affairs council  
The graduates can work in charge of general service and secretary of the public and private administrations. The activities concern principally, but not exclusively, the elaboration of information reports, specific dossier, archiving of the sensitive information, the organization of meeting, the support to the preparation and illustration of contents and the management of relations with the users.

Educational goals
The course of Sciences of Cultural Heritage is articulated in curricula: it offers a large selection
of choices, corresponding to different requests.
For each curriculum a solid historical and philological-literary base is planned. During the first
years the historical (Greek history, Roman history, Medieval history, Modern history,
Contemporary history) and the literary frameworks are given and a knowledge of the sources of
different periods (Greek culture, Latin Literature, Christian Literature and Hagiography,
Medieval and Humanistic Latin Literature, History of the classic culture and tradition, Italian
literature) is provided.
The selection of the disciplines follows each path and the personal interests.
The knowledge of the Legislation of Cultural heritage and Geography is essential, for its
application (thematic cartography and Geographical Information System) or in-depth study
(Landscape Geography).
Some in-depth disciplines concern the science (Sciences applied to the Cultural Heritage) and
the historical area (History of the law and economic institutions of Sardinia) and are included
between the elective, similar and supplementary courses.
At least the oral and written knowledge of one European language (lev. B1 of the CEFR -
Common European Framework of Reference for Languages - classification) other than Italian
is requested for all the courses.
Training activities (excavations, surveys, GIS laboratory etc.), are carried out by members of the
Department or by external institutions (as museums, Heritage boards, restoration center etc.):
they allow the integration of practical work with the in-depth study of theorical skills by specific
paths. The training activities carried out outside the University are certified by a commission.
In the archaeological curriculum different chronological and cultural disciplines, together with
methodological ones (Prehistory, Protohistory, Etruscology and Italic antiquities, Phoenician-
Punic Archaeology, Greek and Roman archaeology and history of art, Christian archaeology
and history of art, Medieval Archaeology, Methodology of the archaeological research,
Landscape archaeology) are activated.
The second curriculum investigates disciplines related to the use and enhancement of Cultural
heritage: Territorial Marketing, Environmental Policies and Management of Cultural heritage.
This curriculum includes courses related to the demo-ethno-anthropological area (Methodology
of the anthropological research, Cultural anthropology and Ethnology) and related courses of
Urban Sociology and Ecology
Another curriculum involves a historical-artistic education and includes all the courses of this
area: History of Medieval art, History of Modern art and History of Contemporary art. The
courses of Greek and Roman archaeology and history of art and Christian archaeology and
history of art complete the path. The transversal course of Museology is included too.