Class size
75 students, of whom 50 are international* (may be subject to change)
*”International”= A diploma awarded anywhere in the world with the exclusion of: Italian high school qualification (Maturità) | European Bac.
Curriculum
First year
- Research methodologies (qualitative and quantitative methods) (6 ECTS)
- Lab* on management tools (spreadsheets; databases etc.) (3 ECTS)
- Economics for business and management I: firm, consumer and markets (6 ECTS)
- Social psychology (6 ECTS)
- Lab* on advertising: motivation, emotion, and experience (3 ECTS)
- Sociology (6 ECTS)
- Material and cultural studies: (12 ECTS)
- Mod. 1 Material and cultural studies
- Mod. 2 Fashion and food systems
- Law for fashion and food (12 ECTS)
- Contemporary history (9 ECTS)
- Seminar on theological issues
* Lab is integral to the course mentioned above it
Second year
- Persuasive communication (6 ECTS)
- Consumption and consumers: Ethics and models (6 ECTS)
- Economics for Business and management II: Imperfect competition and strategic thinking (6 ECTS)
- Sociology of media and communication (9 ECTS)
- Political science (9ECTS) with a Lab on Policies for sustainability (3 ECTS)
- Principles of management and accounting (6 ECTS)
- Italian for communication (Italian language and culture or Italian culture and heritage) (6 ECTS)
- One foreign language among the following five: (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
- Seminar on theological issues
Third year
- Creative industries and cluster policies (6 ECTS)
- Applied social psychology: food and fashion (6 ECTS)
- Digital and platform media: (12 ECTS)
- Mod. 1: Strategies
- Mod. 2: Tools and analytics
- Marketing (6 ECTS)
- Advanced English for communication management (6 ECTS)
- Elective courses: (12 ECTS)
- Nutrition, Clothing and Well-being (6 ECTS)
- Communication for Sustainability (6 ECTS)
- Economic Geography (6 ECTS)
- Politics in Media (6 ECTS)
- Lab on Storytelling for Fashion and Food (3 ECTS)
- Lab on Visual Multisensory Communication (3 ECTS)
- Lab on Events and Exhibitions as Communication Tools (3 ECTS)
- Lab on Fashion Podcasting (3 ECTS)
- Lab on Food Blogging (3 ECTS)
- Lab on Public Speaking (3 ECTS)
- Lab on Fashion Film (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)
- Seminar on theological issues
*The Servizio Linguistico di Ateneo (SeLdA) promotes the learning of modern languages.
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
Start date and academic calendar for the a.y. 2025/26 will be available in July 2025. For reference:
For the academic year 2024/25 classes started on September 30th, 2024.
For the academic year 2024/25 classes started on September 30th, 2024.
Find here the calendar of the Faculty of Political and Social sciences (for the a.y. 2024/25).
A Welcome event is scheduled for the week before courses begin.
Learning Italian
SELDA (Servizio Linguistico di Ateneo) organizes fee-paying Italian language courses. For more information contact SELDA from the dedicated iCatt function (in the homepage, box “request for information”), or send an email to selda.lingueper@unicatt.
Theology seminar
Students are required to attend theology teachings aimed at offering a reasoned and critical knowledge of the Christian message.