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Headquarter
Rieti (RI)
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Department
Agriculture and Forest Sciences
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Language
Italian
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Course lenght
3 years
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Admission
Non-selective entry test
The Bachelor’s Degree Course in Mountain Sciences, unique in Italy with this denomination, aims to train a bachelor’s graduate with professional skills in analysis, projection, and management of mountain areas and their resources, with particular reference to the Apennine and Mediterranean environments. The training program aims to train an expert capable of identifying and preventing the risks of environmental degradation while proposing sustainable solutions for forest conservation and valorizing hilly and mountain agriculture and related products, as well as valorizing the possibilities connected to green tourism.
The graduate acquires skills for the recovery of geographical and socio-economic marginalities of mountain environments with a marked naturalistic and recreational value through the ability to plan and design parks and protected areas; he acquires skills that allow him to get various and fulfilling roles such as mountain agronomist, expert in biodiversity conservation, expert in forest engineering, and expert in the economic enhancement of mountain territories.
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Learning objectives
To train graduates with the ability to analyze, design and manage mountain areas and their resources, with particular reference to the Apennine and Mediterranean reality. Expand the university education of the graduates in Agricultural and Forestry Sciences towards new directions for enhancing the mountain environment also in economic terms, tourism promotion and entrepreneurial growth. The academic path aims to prepare a technician with an articulated preparation in the forestry, agricultural, environmental and economic sectors through a course dedicated to the management of natural resources of mountain areas, and to their enhancement in economic and environmental terms.
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Career opportunities
The course on Mountain Sciences is a job-oriented course with a practical approach which allows graduates to quickly enter the job market. Graduates in Mountain Sciences can find employment as technician (supporting park rangers, forest rangers or guides) in the Regional and State Forestry Corps, Ministries, Regions, Park Authorities and Protected Areas, Mountain Communities, Industries, design and consulting firms and businesses, particularly those operating in mountain areas. It allows students to acquire competences allowing them to work as mountain agronomists, biodiversity conservation experts, forestry engineering experts and experts of the financial improvement of mountain areas. Following a successful state examination, the three-year degree course allows students to enter the Agronomists and Forestry national register Junior B section. Graduates can also teach vocational training courses.
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Further education
The degree course allows students to acquire solid foundations to continue his or her course of study with a second cycle degree course and a master’s.
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Further information about the course
The training course includes basic, characterizing and integrative, mono-disciplinary or, in some cases, integrated courses. Each teaching of the degree course includes lectures and exercises. The training includes time spent in the Alpine and Apennine environment and student mobility programmes (ERASMUS, training and internships in ltalian and foreign companies).
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Programme coordinators
Head of the Course:
Prof. Mario Augusto Pagnotta
pagnotta@unitus.itStudents secretariat:
scienzemont@unitus.it
Course secretary office 0746 1733462 – 0746 1739605 – 0746 1732574Tutoring contact person:
tutorsdm@unitus.it
Course director:
Professor Bartolomeo Schirone schirone@unitus.it
Tel. 0761357391Academic offices:
Coordinator Lorena Remondini
Tel. 0761357286-219
dafne@unitus.itStudent office:
Claudia Menghini Tel. 0761357263
Cosimo De Pace Tel. 0761357582
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