First of all young men and women graduate with a bachelor's or master's degree and then attend to a master program or advanced course in the humanistic area: this is the typical route of boys and girls who want to obtain a specialization in the historical, philosophical, literary area and then become managers, teachers, successful professionals with a career in the humanities maybe as academics or culture expert. They are in fact programs designed for students with a literary preparation which provide specific knowledge.
The second semester is usually the starting period of university master programs. Those postgraduate courses are attended by graduates and young professionals after graduation, bachelor or master degree, to complete their specialization. These programs are addressed to men and women, boys and girls interested in a course starting in September or October, more rarely in November or December, and almost never in the summer, in July or August. The students of these master prgorams follow the lectures from the second half of the year, because very often in the months before they took part in a preparatory course.