Educational objectives
The Bachelor of Science in Economics and Management for Arts, Culture and Communication has the following educational objectives:
- to provide a solid basic preparation in business, economics, quantitative and juridical subject areas to critically understand the economic-juridical context in which companies, public bodies, financial institutions work;
- to provide a preparation which integrates business courses with liberal arts courses (aesthetics, literature, visual arts, etc.) and social courses (e.g. cultural anthropology) in order to have a command of theories, models, specific language and techniques of business subjects, to enhance critical thinking and the ability to carry out in-depth study thanks to the study of liberal arts courses and research methods in these fields;
- to promote useful knowledge acquisition to critically analyze economic and managerial theories, as well as the development of applied competencies and relational skills to work in areas with high innovation and discontinuity (e.g. arts, cultural institutions, media, fashion, tourism), in the presence of key players with very different expectations (from companies to public bodies, to subjects with very different professional profiles working in these contexts) as well as contrasting elements to integrate, e.g. multiculturalism, for-profit and non-profit, technological discontinuities;
- to develop competencies besides knowledge via educational activities inside and outside the classroom which promote student-teacher interaction and interaction between the students themselves (ability to express their opinions, to work in groups, to negotiate) as well as develop problem setting and problem solving skills;
- to develop competencies to gain a command of the business-economics sector, computer skills, and the use of two EU foreign languages to be effective and efficient in the professional sphere;
- to stimulate students to responsibly evaluate the consequences of their decisions in the professional sphere.