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Scienze dello Spettacolo e Produzione Multimediale

Tuition fee €2,642 per year

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Application fee €30 one-time

This fee is non-refundable.

Deposit €205 one-time

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Overview

The degree programme provides solid specific theoretical, historical, technical and operative skills in performing arts music, arts, visual communication as well as their technological applications. Along with theoretical and philological fundamentals of the history of performing arts and the history of music, the degree programme also provides methods and techniques for texts analysis and multimedia products development.
The educational path offers a dual perspective: acquisition of theoretical, methodological, critical and historical skills in humanities and practical skills in the latest technological innovation products. The degree programme also includes specific course units, workshops and seminars, internships and networking opportunities within the Veneto region. These opportunities help students to develop practical skills in designing and developing multimedia products, including interdisciplinary ones. Furthermore, the degree programme also trains qualified researchers in single disciplines concerning the current communicative strategies and the innovative development of the cultural industry.
The educational offer consists of one curriculum that breaks down into the following activities:
- course units in history of theatre. They focus on the theoretical and methodological approach when studying and analyzing theatrical texts whilst considering the outcome of the performance and its historical, philological, linguistic and performative aspects;
- course units in cinema and multimedia. They address the historical, theoretical, aesthetical, philological, legal and economic aspects of the history of cinema and of the new serial narrative forms. The course units will also enhance products’ designing and development as well as the communication strategies linked to education and training;
- course units concerning the history of music and musicology. They aim at developing skills in cultural, historical, musical and environmental heritage, not only with a philological, critical, analytical and comparative approach, but also through a performative and educational perspective.

Career opportunities

The degree programme trains:
1. qualified graduates skilled in designing and developing multimedia products. Their aesthetic and critical awareness enables them to consider the ongoing cultural trends when designing and developing multimedia products for the audiovisual, broadcasting and new technologies field.
2. workers in entertainment and cultural services and managers of radio and television, cinema, music and theatre production. Graduates can perform professional tasks both in public and private bodies operating in the fields of plastic and graphic arts, music, cinema, audiovisual media, radio, television, photography, communication and theatre among others.
3. Skilled editors, consultants and technicians across all the branches of publishing and press and/or digital communication offices. These professionals create, edit, write and publish texts either for specialists or for the general public within exhibitions or as a support to audio/video documents. They are also responsible for the designing and management of show schedules;
4. events and exhibitions critics as well as art critics, experts in specific fields;
5. coordinators of marketing and training of cultural heritage both in private and public sector, including schools and tourism, as historical and critical experts of single artistic expressions.
Graduates may also consider:
6. a career as teachers in schools, upon obtaining their teaching qualification and successfully participating in calls for teaching, pursuant the current regulations.
7. to continue their studies with a research-oriented path (PhD research doctorate) or with vocational training purposes (2nd level short specialisation degree)

Apply now! Academic year 2025/26
Application deadline
2 Feb 2025, 23:59:59
Central European Time
Studies commence
1 Oct 2025
Apply now! Academic year 2025/26
Application deadline
2 Feb 2025, 23:59:59
Central European Time
Studies commence
1 Oct 2025