Curriculum
*Theology seminar Read
Theology courses are seminars in religious studies that explore religious and ethical topics from an academic and cultural viewpoint, promoting thoughtful discussion across diverse traditions.
First year
- Business management and finance - 10 ECTS
- Management basics
- Financial accounting and business evaluation
- Economics of the agri-food system - 11 ECTS
- Agri-food economics and policy
- Microeconomics of the agri-food system
- Agricultural and food marketing - 6 ECTS
- Food safety management - 10 ECTS
- Food protection and management
- Food risk analysis and management
- Industrial organisation and strategic decision-making in food systems - 10 ECTS
- Strategic decision making
- Industrial organisation
- Quantitative methods - 12 ECTS
- Applied mathematics and statistics for the agri-food system
- Applied econometrics for the agri-food system
- Research methods in agricultural and food economics - 1 ECTS
- Theology* (in Y1 or Y2)
Second year
- Agricultural, food and environmental policies of the European Union - 6 ECTS
- Economics of agricultural and food markets - 7 ECTS
- Optional courses** - 10 ECTS
- Dissertation - 20 ECTS
- Seminars - 1 ECTS
- Soft skills and entrepreneurship - 1 ECTS
A) "Business and Innovation Policies" profile
- Multi-channel retail marketing - 5 ECTS
- Strategic management in the food industry - 5 ECTS
- Food Supply Chain Management - 5 ECTS
B) "Sustainability Policies" profile
- Sustainability strategy and reporting - 5 ECTS
- Food footprint: the environmental impact of the agro food chain - 5 ECTS
- Economics of sustainability and circularity in food systems - 5 ECTS
**Optional courses
- Climate change economics and policy (5 ECTS)
- Entrepreneurship and innovation (5 ECTS)
- Artificial intelligence for the agri-food system (5 ECTS)
- Food Consumer Psychology and Market Intelligence (5 ECTS)
- Italian civilisation and language for international students[1] (5 ECTS) [1]Only for non-Italian students