BSc in Communication Management
Milan, Italy
DURATION
3 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
26 Feb 2025
EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2025
TUITION FEES
EUR 8,500 / per year *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* for non-EU residents | €6360 for EU residents per year
Introduction
Discover the unique emphasis of our Communication Management undergraduate degree on the thriving realms of food and fashion—an unsurprising choice given their status as leading Italian exports and global imports. Enrich your academic experience in Milan, a city renowned as the fashion capital and a culinary hotspot, boasting the nation's most innovative and diverse international cuisine landscape, including 16 Michelin-starred restaurants.
The undergraduate degree in Communication Management (COMMA) is a unique program designed for students interested in learning about communication in the fields of fashion and food while understanding what role sustainability plays in these sectors, the principles and practice of sustainable development in the context of urban cultures, as well as why the number of food and fashion bloggers is growing.
Combining sociology and media studies, psychology and economics, history and political science, together with law, the program provides a coherent interdisciplinary curriculum that allows students to develop their understanding of how communication works in the creative industries, particularly in fashion and food.
Admissions
Scholarships and Funding
Several scholarship options are available. Please check the university website for more information.
Curriculum
Total ECTS: 180
First Year
- Contemporary History
- Economics for Business and Management (I): Firm, Consumer, and Markets
- Law for Fashion and Food
- Material and Cultural Studies
- MOD. 1 Material and Cultural Studies
- MOD. 2 Fashion and Food Systems
- Research Methodologies (Qualitative and Quantitative Methods)
- Lab on Management Tools (Spreadsheets; Databases etc.)
- Social Psychology
- Lab on Advertising: Motivation, Emotion, and Experience
- Sociology
Second Year
- Economics for Business & Management (II): Imperfect Competition and Strategic Thinking
- Consumption and Consumers: Ethics and Models
- Italian for Communication (Italian Language and Culture or Italian Culture and Heritage)
- Persuasive Communication
- One foreign language among the following five
- Lab on Storytelling for Fashion and Food
- Lab on Visual and Multisensory Communication
- Lab on Events and Exhibition as a Communication Tool ρSeminar on Theological Issues
- Principles of Management and Accounting
- Sustainability
- Sociology of Media and Communication
- One Foreign Language among the Following Five
- French
- Spanish
- German
- Arabic Language and Culture
- Chinese Language and Culture
Third Year
- Advanced English for Communication Management
- Applied Social Psychology: Food and Fashion
- Creative Industries and Cluster Policies
- Digital & Platform Media
- Mod. 1: Strategies
- Mod. 2: Tools and analytics
- Marketing
- Possible alternatives (for students unable to undertake an internship)
- Lab on fashion film
- Lab on food design
- Elective Courses
- Nutrition, Clothing and Well-being
- Communication for Sustainability
- Economic Geography
- Politics in Media
- Lab on Storytelling for Fashion and Food
- Lab onVisual Multisensory Communication
- Lab on Events and Exhibitions as Communication Tools
- Lab on Fashion Podcasting
- Lab on Food Blogging
- Lab on Public Speaking
- Lab on Fashion Film
- Internship
- Final dissertation
Program Outcome
Degree Awarded: Degree in Communication and Society
Program Tuition Fee
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