Filosofia

Ca' Foscari University of Venice
Italy, Venice

Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage

Study location	Italy, Venice
Type	Bachelor's degree, full-time
Nominal duration	3 years (180 ECTS)
Study language	Italian
Awards	BA
Course code	FT2/FIL/2014

Tuition fee	€2,100 per year More information
Application fee	€30 one-time This non-refundable fee allows you to apply for admission to a maximum of two programmes of study. How to pay the fee

Tuition fee

€2,100 per year

More information

Application fee

€30 one-time

This non-refundable fee allows you to apply for admission to a maximum of two programmes of study.

How to pay the fee

Entry qualification	High school / secondary education (or higher) Students must have attended school for at least 12 years in order to be eligible to enrol in a bachelor’s degree offered by an Italian university. READ MORE ABOUT THE PRELIMINARY EVALUATION OF YOUR APPLICATION The entry qualification documents are accepted in the following languages: English / Italian. If your documents are not in English or Italian, please upload the original documentation or a verified copy of it AS WELL AS a professional translation in English or Italian. You can obtain professional translations either in your country or in Italy, and they can be issued by professional translators, a local court of law or court interpreters.

Entry qualification

High school / secondary education (or higher)

Students must have attended school for at least 12 years in order to be eligible to enrol in a bachelor’s degree offered by an Italian university.

The entry qualification documents are accepted in the following languages: English / Italian.

If your documents are not in English or Italian, please upload the original documentation or a verified copy of it AS WELL AS a professional translation in English or Italian. You can obtain professional translations either in your country or in Italy, and they can be issued by professional translators, a local court of law or court interpreters.

Language requirements	Italian ITALIAN A minimum B2-level knowledge of Italian is required for enrolment. Please make sure you upload one of the certifications we recognise as proof of your language level. You can apply to this programme even if you have yet to obtain a language certification, but in order to complete your enrolment you will need to provide one or take a preliminary Italian language test organised either on Skype or on campus before the academic year begins. You are exempted from needing to provide evidence of your proficiency in Italian if: • Italian is your mother tongue; or • you are an EU citizen (regardless of citizenship and residence). Chinese Marco Polo students can provide a language certification indicating either a B1- or a B2-level knowledge of Italian. Chinese Marco Polo students enrolling with a certified B1-level knowledge of Italian must achieve a certified B2-level knowledge of the language by the end of the first year of their studies.

Language requirements

Italian

ITALIAN
A minimum B2-level knowledge of Italian is required for enrolment.
Please make sure you upload one of the certifications we recognise as proof of your language level.

You can apply to this programme even if you have yet to obtain a language certification, but in order to complete your enrolment you will need to provide one or take a preliminary Italian language test organised either on Skype or on campus before the academic year begins.

You are exempted from needing to provide evidence of your proficiency in Italian if:
• Italian is your mother tongue; or
• you are an EU citizen (regardless of citizenship and residence).

Chinese Marco Polo students can provide a language certification indicating either a B1- or a B2-level knowledge of Italian. Chinese Marco Polo students enrolling with a certified B1-level knowledge of Italian must achieve a certified B2-level knowledge of the language by the end of the first year of their studies.

Other requirements	Access to this programme is unrestricted. However, personal knowledge will be evaluated with an italian language written test and with a test on philosophy. For more information, please consult the programme’s dedicated web page at the section Enrol > Admission. All international students (even those holding an Italian language certification and those who passed Ca’ Foscari’s Italian test) will be assigned an Additional Learning Requirement, or ALR, in Italian and in philosophy (Obbligo Formativo Aggiuntivo – OFA) that must be satisfied by the end of your first year of study (deadline of September 30) by passing the respective exams. Passing the ALR exams may be necessary in order to take other exams included in your study plan.

Other requirements

Access to this programme is unrestricted. However, personal knowledge will be evaluated with an italian language written test and with a test on philosophy.

For more information, please consult the programme’s dedicated web page at the section Enrol > Admission.

All international students (even those holding an Italian language certification and those who passed Ca’ Foscari’s Italian test) will be assigned an Additional Learning Requirement, or ALR, in Italian and in philosophy (Obbligo Formativo Aggiuntivo – OFA) that must be satisfied by the end of your first year of study (deadline of September 30) by passing the respective exams. Passing the ALR exams may be necessary in order to take other exams included in your study plan.

More information	unive.it/degree/ft2

This programme gives you a critical understanding of philosophy’s principal themes and the issues that have arisen in their historical development while exploring them in connection with other disciplines and research fields, including psychology, the human sciences, education studies and the arts.
It is the only university programme in Italy that reflects on the philosophical matters that are fundamental to our contemporary world and our increasingly globalised society. Two of the programme’s defining components are its integration of the human sciences (psychology, anthropology) and its coursework in the education sciences.

Thanks to the skills this programme helps you to develop, you will be ready to continue your education with a graduate degree or pursue a professional career in a variety of fields, including print and digital publishing and library and archive services.

This programme offers 3 curricula, or study paths, from which to choose. Explore this programme’s study plan (Study > Study plan > Enrolled in the 2024/2025 academic year)

Philosophy
Philosophy and History
Philosophy and Human Sciences

This programme includes the following components:

course work
curricular internship
final thesis

You can request to spend one or two semesters at a partner university through Ca’ Foscari’s exchange programmes.
Your curricular internship can be carried out either in Italy or abroad.

Graduates are equipped to undertake advanced studies in the fields of philosophical and social analysis and educational counseling. They can also move on to a first-level professional master’s programme dealing with philosophy and philosophical counseling or with educational training and the science of cognition.

Possible career fields include: