Foreign Modern Languages and Literatures
The Department was formed in April of 1983 as a research and teaching centre devoted to the study of modern foreign languages and literatures: a vast cultural space, initially limited to the principal European languages, then progressively enlarged to Arabic, Chinese and Persian, and aligning itself to non-Indoeuropean languages such as Hungarian and Finnish.
The academic offering can thus involve four Faculties ("Foreign Languages and Literature", of the Department also serves as the main office; "Letters and Philosophy"; "Education Sciences"; and "Political Sciences") and gives light to six doctoral programmes, while the research can be ultimately organised in a series of Centres (there are actually ten), in which one finds the particular international vocation, multilinguistics and multicultural expression of the department.
The vital center of the Department is the library, that for the library patrimony is the most important departmental library in the humanistic areas and second only to BDU.