Italofonia nell’Istria slovena: il caso dell'Univerza na Primorskem

The Univerza na Primorskem of Capodistria University brings together six institutes and the Italian language is offered in the form of courses at all faculties (but only the Humanistic Studies, however, represents a degree course).The study courses are organized on three course levels: a 4 year course, two annual courses and a doctoral one. The first level, the 4 year course study “Italijanistika” (Bachelor Degree), provides the students an adequate knowledge of the Italian language, literature, linguistic and intercultural communication, in addition to the possibility to continue their studies in the second level degree courses with a pedagogical or linguistical address. The second level (the first annual course study) in “Italijanistika (pedagoški študijski program) - Master of Arts - in Italian Studies (pedagogical programme)”, aims to train first level graduates from a non-pedagogical-didactic course of study in Italian. The second course (the second annual level) “Italijanistika - Master of Arts - in Italian Studies” is linguistics in which literary sciences are deeply explored. There is also a research doctorate (PhD) in “Jezik in medkulturnost” (Language and Interculturality) in which an extensive study of foreign languages such as Italian, English and French, as well as Linguistic Mediation and Translation is deepened. Univerza na Primorskem plays an important socio-cultural (as well as educational) function and represents a bridge of considerable importance between the Italian and Slovenian communities.