Faculty of Communication, Culture and Society
The Faculty of Communication, Culture and Society is the Faculty of USI dedicated to humanities and social sciences. It offers education and research programmes that focus on the interaction between communication, culture and society.
Today, digital technologies and global communication networks, the intersection of different cultures, languages and religion, as well as the ways culture is shaped and conveyed, raise major challenges in our economy, politics and society. The Faculty addresses these challenges with interdisciplinarity, by combining humanities and social sciences, in close dialogue with economics and research on digital technologies.
The Faculty offers two Bachelor's curricula: the Bachelor in Communication and the Bachelor in Lingua, letteratura e civiltà italiana. The Faculty’s Master's degree curricula provide a platform that focuses on media management, business communication, marketing, communication within economic and specific social contexts such as health, fashion, financial activities and tourism. In field of humanities, the Faculty offers a Master's programme in Lingua, letteratura e civiltà italiana. The Faculty is home to two Doctoral Schools in Lingua, letteratura e civiltà italiana and in Communication Sciences.
“The Faculty’s contribution to making students and citizens more knowledgeable and responsive to global economic, political and cultural demands is well known. Our areas of expertise vary widely to encompass both the arts and humanities, social and economic sciences and management and financial studies, including the fields of Italian language and culture, multimodal and multimedia communication processes, corporate, health and public communication, marketing and digital technologies, including fashion, financial and media management. Current issues of international importance such as climate change, AI, social media and democratic governance are all topics regularly tackled in our teaching, research and public service remit."
Matthew Hibberd, Dean of the Faculty of Communication, Culture and Society
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