Master in Biology

The Master's Degree Course in Biology, belonging to the Degree Class L-6 Biology, has a duration of two academic years. All graduates in the class of the Bachelor's Degrees in Biological Sciences and (L-13) and Biotechnology (L-2) and related Degree Classes can access the Master's Degree Course in Biology.

The attainment of the qualification involves the acquisition of 120 university training credits (CFU).

The activities foreseen by the CFU include frontal teaching, assisted laboratory activities, individual internship or internship activities in laboratories also outside the University of Sannio in Italy and abroad in order to prepare an original experimental thesis work.

The Master's Degree Course in Biology has organized into two different curricula: 1) Biosanitary and 2) Food Resources and Nutrition. The educational objectives of the Biosanitary curriculum include the preparation of graduates who, at the end of their career, are able to combine an in-depth basic biological culture with a solid scientific and operational preparation in the fields of bio-sanitary research and diagnostic practice. The objectives of this course are the acquisition of appropriate knowledge of disciplines in the bio-sanitary, biomolecular and advanced analysis methodologies.

The Food Resources and Nutrition curriculum aims to train an independent professional figure who possesses specific knowledge and skills in the field of food and nutrients and is therefore capable of evaluating the composition, nutritional quality, functional efficacy, and suitability of food for human consumption as well as aspects associated with over or underfeeding in populations or groups of populations. The objectives of this direction are also the acquisition of new technologies applied to human food and nutrition through a distinct and integrated approach to the health one.

Graduates in Biology will thus be able to hold roles of high responsibility, to be carried out independently, in the field of basic and applied biomedical research, human nutrition, management, and control of analytical processes in the context of structures with a molecular-diagnostic vocation and pharmaceutical, biotechnological promotion and development and, finally, scientific dissemination.

The university campus of Benevento made up of the Departments of Law, Economics, Management, and Quantitative Methods, Engineering, Sciences and Technologies, born as a branch of the University of Salerno, acquired full administrative and didactic autonomy starting from 1 January 1998 (DM 29 / 12/1997) as the University of Sannio of Benevento.

Within the framework of national university training, the Samnite University is distinguished by a complex cultural project, characterized, on the one hand, by highly specialized training courses, such as to qualify it as a center of national importance for certain disciplinary fields; on the other hand, from the promotional role that the University proposes in the process of development of the economic and social system of Campania, and in particular of its internal areas.

The choice of a hypothesis for the establishment of university structures (Rectorate, Administrative Direction, Faculty Presidencies, Libraries, Teaching classrooms, Guest quarters, Canteen, Language Center, Computer laboratory) according to a logic of strong integration with the territory, therefore, becomes an indispensable step for the creation of that University - City system which summarizes the best Italian university tradition and which expresses, first of all, a specific cultural option with a high civil commitment, destined to enhance all the pre-existing potentialities in the area, urban planning, building and social.