The Department of Humanities fosters and coordinates scientific research and teaching in the realm of Letters, Philosophy, Foreign Languages and Literature, Communication Sciences and Applied Linguistics and Translation.

The Department serves as the hub for internationally acclaimed research activities and houses prominent research centers, a Papyrological Museum, and a Language Center.

The Department facilitates international mobility through collaborative agreements with prestigious foreign universities under the Erasmus+ Programme. Additionally, it offers Bachelor’s and Master’s degree programs, including double degree courses in Philosophy, Applied Linguistics and Translation, Technical Translation and Interpreting, and Modern Languages, Literature and Translation.

Furthermore, the Department of Humanities offers two doctoral programs: Forms and History of Philosophical Knowledge and Languages, Literatures, Cultures, and their Applications.

Philosophy
The aim of the doctoral programme is the international training of scholars in philosophical sciences in order to carry out autonomous study, research and teaching activities in the field of the history of philosophy, moral philosophy and philosophy and history of science, within the common European framework of education and research. Teaching and training activities are carried out both in Lecce and in Paris and Cologne. Doctoral students also attend interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary and trans-disciplinary activities organised by the Doctoral School. From 2021 the Doctoral Programme in "PHILOSOPHY. Forms and history of philosophical knowledge' has opened up to the themes of the environment and sustainability, inaugurating a line of research in line with the themes identified by the PNRR.
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Lingue, Letterature, Culture e loro applicazioni
The doctoral program offers a course of advanced academic training based on interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary cross-fertilisation in “Area 10”. It focuses on the structure and evolution of classical and modern, Western and Eastern languages and literatures, in their communicative value, in their different contexts of use and in their semantic-structural and pragmatic hybridities.
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