Human and social sciences

The Department of Human and Social Sciences (SUS) offers future students the opportunity to choose the educational path best suited to their personal aptitudes and professional goals, responding to the needs of the territory in the fields of psychology, social sciences and motor sciences.

Strengths of the SUS Department

An innovative teaching in the field of psychological, social, and applied movement science professions, thanks to the possibility of participating in laboratory activities (Psychometrics Laboratory; LAMP-Laboratory of Movement and Performance Analysis; KUBE-Lab – Kore University Behavioral Lab; Computer Science Laboratory)) (#https://unikore.it/index.php/it/ricerca-scientifica/laboratori), making use of first-rate scientific and teaching technologies.

Strong interaction with the world of work thanks to the possibility of carrying out, in addition to classroom lessons, other activities such as practical internships at local authorities, companies and public and private services (the University of Enna directly and free of charge activates and takes care of practical training and internship activities, thanks to the collaboration with the Order of Psychologists, the ASP, sports facilities, Municipality of Enna) affiliated with the Department, present in the territory, in Italy and abroad, with the aim of integrating theory and practice [#Ukepass: https://unikore.it/index.php/it/studenti/uke-pass]

Attention to the needs of the student through a direct relationship with the teachers who monitor their career and provide support and tutoring, specific orientation services thanks to the student-tutors who welcome and offer support in all phases of the training path, a constantly updated web website and My UKE App and computerized procedures for administrative practices and the booking and recording of exams.

Excellent facilities (disciplinary laboratories, classrooms, study spaces and library) where teaching and training activities take place, and which allow students to use suitable, comfortable and technologically advanced spaces (the wi-fi system is available in every area of the Department). The Department includes among the facilities built the “Pettinato” Hall and the “Maria Montessori” Great Hall, which with its capacity of almost 400 seats, is the venue for numerous scientific and cultural events of considerable national and international attraction.

Support and services for students with disabilities throughout their educational path thanks to the presence of a special University commission, which represents a point of reference for the resolution of problems inherent to teaching and physical and organizational structures, with the opportunity to request necessary aids and/or additional time in completing entrance tests and exams

In order to promote inter-university exchange , international cooperation, comparison of learning methodologies and a better knowledge of foreign languages, our students are encouraged to spend periods of mobility for study or internship purposes at prestigious foreign universities and research institutes thanks to the Erasmus+ Programme [#Kore International Relations Office (KIRO)

It is also the seat of State Exams for the qualification to practice the professions regulated by the Presidential Decree- 328/2001 – Psychologist, Doctor in Psychological Techniques for Social, Organizational and Work Contexts, Doctor in Psychological Techniques for Personal and Community Services. Section A and B –.

For those who decide to continue their studies, the Department also offers the opportunity to

Courses post degree: Doctorate in Contexts, environments and lifestyles for health and well-being (XXXVI and XXXVII cycle), exclusively aimed at master's degree holders and aims to provide higher education for the realization of a scientific or research university career; Advanced training courses and Master, promoted in collaboration with other bodies and institutions, with the aim of facilitating the student's path towards the world of work.

The student interested in his or her cultural growth will therefore find in the Department of Human and Social Sciences the best conditions to study with serenity and profit.