BACHELOR’S DEGREE

Innovative Technologies for Digital Communication

Course Summary

The bachelor’s degree course in Innovative Technologies for Digital Communication enables students to acquire both theoretical and practical competencies in the field of user-oriented digital applications planning. Students will learn to devise interactive solutions (digital applications, websites, etc.), applicable to different contexts. The Course follows a multidisciplinary approach, oriented towards users’ point of view throughout all the various stages of digital applications planning. These phases include: needs-identification of specific target users, creation of an application prototype, assessment of user-friendliness, and a promotional phase using digital channels.

Students who follow this curriculum will acquire an extensive and integrated knowledge of the main social research techniques and methodologies used to assess users’ needs (interviews, focus groups, questionnaires, interactive workshops, etc.) and will learn to analyze the relevance of available digital technologies – both “mobile” ones and those linked to the Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence and Big Data – for different categories of users. The acquisition of this knowledge represents the real added value of this specific curriculum.

Innovative Technologies for Digital Communication

Next start date: 19/09/2024

Tuition Fees: € 9.500,00 per year

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  • Study Plan
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Key Info

  • Degree code: L-20
  • Degree type: BA
  • Study method: Full-time
  • Course language: English
  • Location: Rome
  • Entry requirements:
    • Upper secondary school qualification
    • B1 level (CEFR) of English

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Career Opportunities

Over 90% of Link Campus University graduates find employment within 6 months of finishing their course

Type of roles that you could work in as a graduate of this course:

  • Innovation Strategist
  • User Experience Designer
  • Social Media Manager
  • Digital Marketing Specialist
  • Interaction Designer
  • Graphic Designer
  • Web and Mobile Designer
  • Project Manager of Innovative Projects

Careers overview

The range of professional opportunities for graduates of this course is linked to the human and social spheres of digital applications planning as well as to users’ experience that inspires the same planning.

Nowadays there is increasing demand – from small and huge businesses and agencies active in the field of digital services – for professionals who are able to devise digital applications “for” the society and “with” the society. Currently, the key priority is the integration of potential final users’ point of view into a real product. Graduates of this course will have the comparative advantage of being well-aware of different features of the available technologies and digital devices, while at the same time managing to tailor the various digital applications to specific categories of users as well as to the users’ environment, so as to meet expectations and fulfill requirements. 

An important feature of this course is the ongoing cooperation with the University’s research centres. Several lecturers carry out research activities through the DASIC (Digital Administration and Social Innovation Center) which implements a range of projects focused on the application of new technologies at entrepreneurial, institutional, and social levels, aimed at introducing innovation and optimization into production, administration, and consumption processes.

Study Plan

First Year

FIRST SEMESTER

Subject

SSD

CFU

Information Technologies and Digital Applications

INF/01

12

Sociology of Media and Communication

SPS/08

6

Visual and Digital Media Culture

SPS/08

6

Public Speaking

L-LIN/12

6

SECOND SEMESTER

Subject

SSD

CFU

Psychology of Innovation

M-PSI/05

6

Contemporary History and Media History

M-STO/04

6

Media Law

IUS/09

12

Visual Anthropology

M-DEA/01

6

Second Year
FIRST SEMESTER
Subject SSD CFU
Media and Religion M-STO/07 6
Interactive story

Module I
Module II

SPS/08
INF/01
6
6
Corporate and Institutional Communication SPS/07 6
Digital Economy and Marketing
Module I
Module II
SECS-P/08
SECS-P/06
6
9
SECOND SEMESTER
Subject SSD CFU
Digital Economy and Marketing
Module I
Module II
SECS-P/08
SECS-P/06
6
9
Internet Studies SPS/08 6
Digital Social Research SPS/07 6
Third Year

FIRST SEMESTER

Subject

SSD

CFU

Digital Media Design

INF/01

6

Social Media Management

SPS/08

9

Introduction to Artificial Intellingece

ING-INF/05

6

Entrepreneurship and Innovation

SECS-P/08

6

Writng for Digital Media

L-ART/06

9

SECOND SEMESTER

Internship

4

Other Language Skills

6

Final Dissertation

6

Fees and Funding

Full details of tuition fees can be found on the Tuition Fees page

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