Global Humanities

The degree treats the humanities through a global frame instead of a national one. Sapienza describes it as combining literary, artistic, socio-anthropological, historical-religious and political-legal perspectives. The stated aim is to give students the concepts, research methods and techniques needed to understand migration, interethnic communication and transcultural mediation. The subjects named in the programme's own presentation are history, sociology, anthropology, arts, literatures, law, economics and health.

Year one is part fixed and part chosen. Two named courses are set: Words of History: A Global Exploration, worth 6 credits, and Rethinking Geopolitics and Development: Decolonizing Perspectives from Emerging Regions, worth 6 credits. The rest of the year comes from three optional groups: History for 18 credits, Arts, Music and Performance Studies for 18 credits, and Social and Anthropological Studies, Economics and Law for 12 credits. The History group includes Medieval History, Early Modern History and Contemporary History, each offered at 9 or 6 credits.

Year two is built from optional groups as well: History II for 6 credits, Anthropology, Cultural Psychology, Religions and Philosophy for 24 credits, and Trancultural Studies, Politics and Migration Studies for 24 credits. Year three adds Transnational Studies, International Law and Public Health for 18 credits, then Other Language Skills for 6 credits, Training and Orientation Internships for 12 credits, Other Useful Skills for Inclusion in the Job Market for 3 credits, and the Final Dissertation for 9 credits.

The work placement is not optional. Sapienza counts the internship and the job market skills credits together as 15 credits. At 25 hours per credit that is 375 hours of placement to complete before you graduate.

Admission runs on a test, not a ranking. You sit the ENGLISH TEST HUMANITIES@HOME, built by CISIA and booked through Sapienza. It is 30 questions across three sections of 30 minutes each: reading and comprehension, clues and inductive reasoning, and reasoning on texts and data. Sapienza ran it on eleven dates between February and October 2026. An ENGLISH TOLC-E taken from 1 July 2024, or an SAT taken from 1 January 2021, is accepted instead of it.

The test does not decide whether you get in. It decides whether you start with a gap to close. Score under 12 out of 30 and you still enrol, carrying a Further Required Course, known as an OFA, in Academic English. You clear it during your first year, either by a remedial test or by passing Words of History: A Global Exploration. Miss it and you cannot sit exams for the years after the first. The equivalent thresholds are 13 out of 36 on the ENGLISH TOLC-E and 960 out of 1600 on the SAT.

The English rule printed for this degree differs from the university wide one. The call asks for CEFR level B2 and lists eight accepted certificates by name without printing a minimum score against any of them. The Classics degree in the very same call does print scores, IELTS 5.5 and TOEFL iBT 80, which shows the omission on Global Humanities is deliberate rather than an oversight. Duolingo is not on the list. No certificate is needed at all if you hold a secondary school diploma in English, and that route carries no country restriction.

Sapienza charges students with foreign tax residence a fixed yearly contribution set by country band. Pakistan sits in Band A, which is 300 euro a year. A regional tax of 140 euro and a stamp duty of 16 euro are added on top.