Teaching
Undergraduate courses:
Faculty of Political and Social Sciences
Communication and Society - COMeS
The degree course in Communication and Society (COMeS) is a highly interdisciplinary training course, aimed at providing students with knowledge both to understand the different processes and psycho-social contexts of interpersonal communication, and to critically analyze the system, logics, and products of the media and creative industries, in the broader context in which they operate: Its educational offer - which includes three macro disciplinary areas, such as media and communication studies, social sciences (i.e. sociology, psychology, political science, law and history) and economic disciplines - is designed to prepare professionals capable of keeping up with the innovation processes introduced by digital media and with the creative processes underlying the production of cultural goods. A close relationship with the world of professions and businesses also allows the continuous updating of the training offer. Go to the website
Communication Management - COMMA
The programme in Communication management, entirely taught in English, is a curriculum of the undergraduate programme in Comunicazione e società (Communication and society). COMMA's programme revolves around three disciplinary linchpins: Social Sciences (Sociology, Politics, Psychology), Economics and Media; it provides a solid and grounded multidisciplinary approach to lead students understanding the processes underlying creative industries and becoming communication professionals with a specific expertise on the fashion and food sectors. Go to website
Faculty of Arts and Philosophy
Arts, Media and Performing Arts (DAMS)
The degree course in Arts, Media and Performing Arts (DAMS) trains professionals in culture, communication and entertainment by combining three training components: a basic humanistic culture, a specific historical and theoretical preparation in the field of theatrical/audiovisual performance, and a direct knowledge of professional techniques in the fields of artistic management. Go to website
Media Languages
The course aims to reconcile the disciplines of the humanities-literary area with the analysis of new digital media. After the first year - characterized by basic courses in the linguistic, sociological and historical-literary fields - students can choose between four profiles: Information Media, Cinema and Audiovisuals, Events and Live Communication, Advertising. Go to the website
Faculty of Linguistic Sciences and Foreign Literatures
LANGUAGES FOR COMMUNICATION, BRAND AND MEDIA MANAGEMENT
The profile is aimed at managing increasingly important functions within companies, in particular international ones, and related to the corporate communication dimension, brand management and media relations in a scenario strongly characterized by digitization and the centrality of the means of communication. Go to the website
LANGUAGES, COMMUNICATION, MEDIA AND DIGITAL CULTURES
The profile is designed to offer technical, theoretical and applied knowledge of the disciplinary sectors typical of communication sciences in their various articulations: journalism, radio, television, advertising. Go to website
Graduate courses:
Faculty of Arts and Philosophy/Economics
Communication for Business, Media and Complex Organizations - CIMO
Communication for Business, Media and Complex Organizations is an interfaculty master's degree course that stems from the synergy between the faculties of Arts and Philosophy and Economics. CIMO is also an interclass course that offers students the opportunity to obtain a Master's Degree, of their choice, in one of the following classes: LM-19 Information and Publishing Systems or LM-59 Sciences of Public Communication, Business and Advertising. Go to website
Communication for Business, Media and Culture - CIMO (English language)
The Programme in Communication for business, media and culture, entirely taught in English, is a curriculum of the main Graduate Programme in Communication for Business, Media and Complex Organizations - CIMO (Business, Media and Corporate Communication). Communication for business, media and culture is an inter-faculty Graduate Degree Programme created by the synergy between Humanities and Philosophy Faculty and Economics. It is also an interclass course that offers enrolled students the possibility to obtain a Graduate Degree in one of the following classes: LM-19 Informazione e Sistemi Editoriali (Information and publishing systems) or LM-59 Scienze della Comunicazione pubblica, d'impresa e pubblicità (Public, Business and Advertising communication). Go to the website
Faculty of Arts and Philosophy
Digital Content Management for Media, Business, and Cultural Heritage - GeCo
The graduate degree programme in Digital Content Management for Media, Business and Cultural Heritage (GeCo, class LM-19 - Information and Publishing Systems) trains communication professionals able to manage narrative, argumentative, persuasive, dramaturgical content, expressed in verbal, graphic-visual and audiovisual form, within the web, social media and different digital platforms. Go to website
Faculty of Linguistic Sciences and Foreign Literatures
THE ART AND INDUSTRY OF NARRATION: FROM LITERATURE TO CINEMA AND TV
The Art and Industry of Narration: from Literature to Cinema and TV is a curriculum of the graduate programme in Foreign Languages, Literatures and Cultures, entirely taught in English.
The course aims to give students fundamental basic professional skills for jobs related with the creation, editing, publication, distribution, of narrative content in its various forms: novels, comics, animation, TV series, cinema, not excluding other forms that use story-telling as a tool of communication. The scientific but also professional quality of the courses is guaranteed by a teaching staff whose excellence in research is accompanied by a long high-level experience in journalism, editing, publishing, novel writing, screenwriting - the very subjects taught in classes. Special guests and key-note speakers who are invited every year to share their working experience with students have included, in the past few years, novelist and screenwriter David Nicholls, writer Eshkol Nevo, Sir Ivor Roberts (former UK Ambassador and President of Trinity College, Oxford), Marco Varvello (News Correspondent - Bureau Chief in London, RAI Italian TV).
The course also has a special focus on the creation of contents for kids and on animation. In 2023, the course has signed an agreement with the Association of production companies of animation in Italy (CartoonItalia), which has recognized the quality of its teaching. The agreement intends to foster internships for students, as well as other kinds of collaborations with the programme. Go to the website