Master Degree in African and Asian Studies

The Master’s Degree in African and Asian Studies (SAA) in Pavia is designed for students who seek a high-level educational path combined with direct engagement with the realities of Africa and Asia. SAA, representing a truly rare experience in our country and almost unique in northern Italy, offers the opportunity to deepen knowledge and skills related to these two vast regions of the world, while emphasizing the acquisition of language tools and the refinement of study areas typical of political, social, and economic sciences.

Following the scientific and academic partnership agreement between the Department of Political and Socila Sciences of the University of Pavia and the Faculty of Letter and Human Sciencies of the Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University of Fes, Morocco, a Double Degree Program has been set up to enable admitted students to obtain the double degree of Master In Africa and Asia Studies in Italy ad Master in Cultural Studies: Cultures, Identities and Nationhood in Morocco.

The teching and research language of the Double Degree is English. Students enrolled in the Double Degree undertake 60 credits equivalent to their respective year at the partner institution, including research for the dissertation. The study plan for the Double Degree is approved each year by agreement between the two universities on the basis of their respective teaching schedules.