Presentation of the PhD Course: Research and Studies on Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and Renaissance Humanism, Salerno (RAMUS)

The Doctorate in Research and Studies on Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and Renaissance Humanism, Salerno (RAMUS) was created in the academic year 2013–2014 by combining two pre-existing doctorates (in "Classical Philology" and in "Philosophy, Science and Culture of Late Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance Humanism") with the aim of offering excellent training to scholars in the history of thought and literary expressions of Classical Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and Renaissance Humanism.

The RAMUS PhD course is inter-departmental as it is based in two Departments of the University of Salerno: the Department of Cultural Heritage Sciences (DiSPaC) and the Department of Humanities (DIPSUM). In accordance with Article 18 of the University of Salerno's Teaching Regulations, an interdepartmental doctorate is a course of study set up in collaboration with two departments, 'in the presence of a complex training project that denotes particular needs for didactic integration'. Both departments contribute to the teaching and research activities and to the ordinary running of the RAMUS PhD course with a 50% share, through the teaching involvement of their lecturers, organisational assistance, and financial support. In accordance with the same Article 18, only one of the two Departments, in particular the Department of Cultural Heritage Sciences (DiSPaC), is responsible for the administration of the PhD course. The interdepartmental nature of the Doctorate is an opportunity for a synergic increase in the quality of the teaching project and the range of training activities made available to doctoral students and contributing to increasing the attractiveness of the institution, nationally and internationally. The organisation of teaching in modules of three days a month for ten months a year, successfully tested by both previous doctorates and enabled through the use of teaching facilities made available by the two departments, encourages the participation of doctoral students interested in the training courses offered in such an organic and coordinated form only by the University of Salerno.