Curriculum
First year
- Contemporary history - 9 ECTS
- Economics for business and management (I): firm, consumer and markets - 6 ECTS
- Lab on advertising: motivation, emotion, and experience - 3 ECTS
- Lab on management tools (spreadsheets; databases etc.) - 3 ECTS
- Law for fashion and food - 12 ECTS
- Material and cultural studies - 12 ECTS
- MOD. 1 Material and cultural studies
- MOD. 2 Fashion and food systems
- Research methodologies (qualitative and quantitative methods) - 6 ECTS
- Social psychology - 6 ECTS
- Sociology - 6 ECTS
Second year
- Consumption and consumers: Ethics and models - 6 ECTS
- Economics for business & management (II): Imperfect competition and strategic thinking - 6 ECTS
- Italian for communication (Italian language and culture or Italian culture and heritage) - 6 ECTS
- Persuasive communication - 6 ECTS
- Principles of management and accounting - 6 ECTS
- Sociology of media and communication - 9 ECTS
- Sustainiability - 12 ECTS
- One foreign language among the following - 6 ECTS
- French (SeLdA)
- Spanish (SeLdA)
- German (SeLdA)
- Arabic language and culture
- Chinese language and culture
- One lab among the following - 3 ECTS
- Lab on storytelling for fashion and food
- Lab on visual and multisensory communication
- Lab on events and exhibition as a communication tool
Third year
- Advanced English for Communication Management - 6 ECTS
- Applied social psychology: food and fashion - 6 ECTS
- Creative industries and cluster policies - 6 ECTS
- Digital & platform media - 12 ECTS
- Mod. 1: Strategies
- Mod. 2: Tools and analytics
- Marketing - 6 ECTS
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- Communication for sustainability - 6 ECTS
- Economic geography - 6 ECTS
- Nutrition, clothing and well-being - 6 ECTS
- Politics in media - 6 ECTS
- Lab on Events and exhibitions as communicaton tools - 3 ECTS
- Lab on Fashion film - 3 ECTS
- Lab on Fashion podcasting - 3 ECTS
- Lab on Food blogging - 3 ECTS
- Lab on Public speaking - 3 ECTS
- Lab on Storytelling for fashion and food - 3 ECTS
- Lab on Visual multisensory communication - 3 ECTS
- Internship (3 ECTS) or (for students unable to undertake an internship) any 3 ECTS Lab chosen among those proposed in the offer of the COMMA curriculum and not previously selected
- Final dissertation - 6 ECTS
Career opportunities
Graduates can expect to be employed, among many other opportunities, as:
- Junior social media manager
- Junior innovation manager
- Junior PR officer
- Junior account
- Business developer in a start-up company
- Product manager in creative industries
- Junior marketing specialist
Programme dates
The calendar for the academic year 2023/24 will be available in July 2023.
For references: classes for the academic year 2022/23 started on September 26th, 2022.
Find here the calendar of the Faculty of Political and Social sciences for the academic year 2022/23.
Delivery mode
Please refer to this webpage for updates about delivery mode for academic year 2023/24.
Learning Italian
If you are looking for a flexible and autonomous solution to learn Italian while studying at Università Cattolica, you can access the self-learning linguistic lab (CAP) of the SeLdA (Servizio Linguistico d’Ateneo) and benefit from a personalized language advisory service.
In addition, SELDA organizes fee-paying Italian language courses, for more information contact SELDA from the dedicated iCatt function (in the homepage, box “request for information”).
Theology seminar
Students are required to attend theology teachings aimed at offering a reasoned and critical knowledge of the Christian message.