Study location	Turin
Type	POSTGRADUATE DEGREE, full-time
Nominal duration	2 years. The enrolment conditions, full-time or part-time is chosen year by year and accordingly changes tuition fee
Study language	Italian

Tuition fee	€2,800 per year The above amount refers to the academic year 2020/2021, when tuition and fees ranged from €156 to €2,800 per year. For information on tuition and fees for the academic year 2021/2022 please visit this page. Updated information on how to apply for reductions or exemptions on tuition fees will be available at the link above, please check it regularly.
Application fee	€15 one-time The application fee has to be paid within the deadline of each call. The amount of the application fee is the same wheter you decide to apply for 1 or 2 degree programmes.

Entry qualification

First cycle diploma ( BA, Undergraduate diploma) The Master’s degree course has unplanned access. Students wishing to enroll must have a bachelors degree, a three-years university diploma or another qualification obtained abroad, suitable according to current legislation. A good knowledge of two foreign languages (level B2 / C1) is requested, quantifiable in at least 15 ECTS for each of them obtained during the bachelor career, and a basic competence in historical field, quantifiable in at least 6 ECTS. In particular, for Italian students, graduates of classes L-12 (Linguistic Mediation Sciences) and L-15 (Tourism Sciences) are immediately eligible. As for the Albanian students, are immediately eligible graduates of Fakulteti i Gjuhëve të Huaja and of the other Faculties and / or Departments of Foreign Languages, as well as of the Faculties and / or Departments of Economics and Social Sciences, of Public Albanian Universities. If the candidate does not have these prerequisites, he / she must enroll in individual courses and successfully undergo the relative test before enrolling in the Master’s degree course. However, enrollment is subjected to successful completion of the exam aimed at verifying the adequacy of personal competence. The entry qualification documents are accepted in the following languages: Italian / English / French / Spanish. Often you can get a suitable transcript from your school. If this is not the case, you will need official translations along with verified copies of the original. These documents shall be written or translated in one of the following languages: Italian, English, French, Spanish. If the document is issued in a different language from those listed above, you will have to upload both the original document and its certified translation. The above documents need to be handed in to the University of Torino in the original when you arrive.

Language requirements	Italian Your knowledge of Italian language will be verified during the admission interview.

Other requirements	A motivation letter must be added to your application. Please write down different motivation letters for each programme you are interested in. Applicants to post-graduate degrees at the Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures and Modern Cultures must fill in this form: Link to the form

More information	lingue.unito.it/do/home.pl

Overview

The Master’s degree course is bi-national, co-managed with the Fakulteti i Gjuhëve të Huaja (Faculty of Foreign Languages) of the Universiteti i Tiranës (University of Tirana). The first year is attended in Tirana, the second one in Turin. It pursues the goal of training graduates with in-depth knowledge and skills in linguistic, cultural and management aspects in the field of territorial development, in the perspective of its touristic promotion.
This goal needs to be pursued in favour of the cooperation between Italy and Albania, which is built on consolidated business and commercial relationships and now open to new perspectives of continental tourist flows that see Albania as a highly attractive destination.
In particular, graduates have to:
- master a high level of skill in at least two international communication languages, chosen from the five offered by the Master’s degree course (French, English, Russian, Spanish, German);
- acquire management skills aimed at the economic, cultural and environmental development of areas with specific potential in the tourism sector, with particular attention to international users;
- acquire focused knowledge on historical-cultural aspects of the involved areas;
- know the systems for processing the basic data for business communication.
Earning these skills will imply assigning wide space to the use of teaching methods that actively involve the student communication proficiencies, especially during the activities carried out in readings, seminars and workshops. Furthermore, the Master’s degree course gives a prominent role to traineeships, established in agreement with public and private bodies of the Countries involved and, more in general, of the European area, and to alternative activities, in any case functional to the inclusion in the world of work.
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Il CdL è binazionale, cogestito con la Fakulteti i Gjuhëve të Huaja (Facoltà di Lingue Straniere) dell’Universiteti i Tiranës (Università di Tirana). Il primo anno si svolge presso la sede di Tirana, il secondo presso la sede di Torino. Esso persegue l’obiettivo di formare laureati magistrali con approfondite conoscenze e competenze relative agli aspetti linguistici, culturali e gestionali nell’ambito dello sviluppo del territorio, nell’ottica della sua promozione turistica. Tale esigenza risulta particolarmente avvertita nell’interazione tra Italia e Albania, costruita su consolidati rapporti di natura imprenditoriale e commerciale e ora aperta a nuove prospettive di flussi turistici continentali che vedono nell’Albania una meta fortemente attrattiva.
In particolare, i laureati nel CdL devono:
- possedere una elevata competenza in almeno due delle lingue di comunicazione internazionale oggetto di studio, a scelta tra le cinque offerte (Francese, Inglese, Russo, Spagnolo, Tedesco);
- acquisire competenze gestionali finalizzate alla valorizzazione economica, culturale e ambientale di territori dotati di specifiche potenzialità di sviluppo nel settore turistico, con particolare attenzione per i fruitori internazionali;
- acquisire conoscenze mirate riguardanti gli aspetti storico-culturali delle aree coinvolte;
- conoscere i sistemi di elaborazione delle informazioni fondamentali per la comunicazione d’impresa.
L’acquisizione di tali abilità avverrà dando ampio spazio all’utilizzo di metodiche didattiche che coinvolgano attivamente le competenze comunicative degli studenti, in particolare durante le attività svolte nei lettorati, nei seminari e nei laboratori. Inoltre, il CdL assegna un ruolo fondamentale ai tirocini, istituiti in accordo con Enti pubblici e privati dei Paesi coinvolti e più in generale del panorama europeo, e alle attività a essi alternative comunque funzionali all’inserimento nel mondo del lavoro.

Career opportunities

Employment and professional opportunities are in the tourism sector, with a strong characterization tied to multilingualism. The Master’s degree course aim at training professional profiles called to operate:
- with functions of high responsibility, in the context of international relationships in companies, public administration, volunteering structures, local authorities as well as in the direction of international organizations, sectors of cooperation and development aids;
- as experts, in institutions in the field of economic, social and cultural integration;
- as consultants, in public bodies in the field of the protection of immigrant languages and, more broadly, in relation to the linguistic legislation of the EU.
Looking at the first graduates of the proposed course of study, the growth of accommodation facilities, the constant increase and improvement of practicability and transport (especially in Albanian territorial context) will be further conditions for an effective and rapid placement of new resources.
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Gli sbocchi occupazionali e professionali sono nel settore turistico, con una forte caratterizzazione legata alla competenza plurilinguistica. Il CdL intende infatti formare figure professionali chiamate a operare:
- con funzioni di elevata responsabilità, nell’ambito delle relazioni internazionali presso aziende, la pubblica amministrazione, le strutture del volontariato, gli enti locali nonché nella direzione di organizzazioni internazionali, di settori della cooperazione e degli aiuti allo sviluppo;
- come esperti, presso enti e istituzioni nell’ambito dell’integrazione economica, sociale e culturale;
- come consulenti, presso enti pubblici nell’ambito della tutela delle lingue immigrate e più in generale in rapporto alla legislazione linguistica dell’Unione Europea.
Guardando ai primi laureati in uscita dal percorso proposto, la crescita di strutture ricettive, il costante incremento, potenziamento e miglioramento della viabilità e dei trasporti – soprattutto nel contesto territoriale albanese – saranno condizioni permissive ulteriori per un effettivo e rapido collocamento delle nuove risorse formate.