The MA offers specialisation in Theatre Studies; it promotes research on cultural, artistic and documental institutions, thus linking the University to theatre in its various aspects; it grants proficiency in handling a conceptual and methodological apparatus that concedes the possibility of recognizing the field of research, questioning it and assessing its importance and value; it stimulates original research and the study of important aspects in artistic practice within the disciplinary plurality in which it exists and the various links it establishes with society. It helps master an academic discourse that is well-structured, with personal observations, and can integrate information collected from bibliographical or other sources; to foster personal thinking and the ability to express it both orally at (national and international) conferences and congresses, and in written essays for (national or foreign) publication.