Degree course in Languages, Culture and Digital Communication

The degree programme develops students’ skills across three main areas:

• Humanities, through courses in Italian, foreign and comparative literatures, philosophy and history. These subjects foster critical thinking and a deep, nuanced understanding of the complexity of the contemporary world;
• Digital and multimedia studies, focused on learning methods and designing communication tools that make humanistic knowledge accessible to wider audiencesumanistico;
• Languages, with the study of two foreign languages: English and one additional language chosen from Spanish, French or German.

Teaching on this programme places strong emphasis on the lecturer–student relationship, supported by small class sizes that encourage dialogue as a central element of learning. In language courses, students are divided into small groups in order to maximise effectiveness and learning outcomes. In the digital area, only 30% of teaching is delivered through traditional lectures, while 40% is dedicated to learning how to use digital and web-based applications. The remaining 30% consists of hands-on workshops in which students test and apply the knowledge they have acquired.

The course aims to create professional figures equipped primarily with excellent competence in two foreign languages, with solid cultural knowledge and with a concrete basis in computer science, essential for acquiring skills in digital communication: professional figures ready to operate in a working world that is increasingly multilingual, globalised and dependent on technology.

The course prepares the student both on the humanistic-linguistic side and on the computer-digital side. The acquisition of the linguistic and cultural heritage of the studied languages (English and a second language chosen by the student from French, Spanish and German) is ensured by the foreign language courses; the ability to take a critical look at literary works is achieved thanks to the study of literature (foreign, Italian and comparative) to which meta-cognitive, meta-textual and sociological knowledge will be associated, ensured by the study of linguistics, philology, psychology, sociology and by the writing workshop in Italian; the computer and digital design laboratories provide the tools to carry out digital projects.

The preparation acquired will enable graduates to enter all those professional areas for which a solid knowledge of foreign languages and humanistic culture is required and skills in using IT tools. These are tools necessary to build the foundations of a digital culture central to the transformation processes that are, today, bringing together the world of industry, commerce and production.  At the same time, the course will enable students to acquire a solid base of knowledge necessary to undertake a Master's degree in Digital Humanities in the area of Languages and Literature or an area more specifically dedicated to Digital Communication.