Communicating complexity
Advanced Courses a.y. 2024/2025
Enrolment period
From 05/05/2025 to 09/06/2025
About Advanced Courses
Advanced Courses are designed to deepen students’ understanding of topics deemed particularly significant and relevant to disseminate scientific knowledge, thus improving the skills acquired with the academic curriculum. The Courses consist of two or three modules of 6 ECTS each, for a total of 12 or 18 ECTS.
To enrol in an Advanced Course, you must have a Bachelor's degree.
By passing all the exams, you will get a certification and an Open Badge. Furthermore, the Advanced Course can be recognised in the elective course section of your Master’s degree. If you do not pass all the exams, you will only receive a certificate for the exams you have taken.
Recipients and credits recognition
The Advanced Course is offered free of charge to Ca’ Foscari postgraduate and PhD students.
It is possible to enrol also as an external user.
If you are a postgraduate student at Ca’ Foscari, the Advanced Course can be recognised in the elective course section of your Master’s degree.
Goals
- To develop and correctly use skills needed to disseminate scientific knowledge in a simple and comprehensible manner
- Definition of public engagement objectives, targets, and strategies
- Written and oral communication: from compliance with grammar rules to correct use of verb tenses
- Press and press agencies: generalist and specialist communication, correct interpretation of the role of author or interviewee
- Radio and television, the Web, social media
- Science told like a novel: the importance of storytelling and emotional involvement
- Public speaking: vocabulary and methodologies of lay language
- The art of dialogue: not only words. The underestimated role of body language
- The importance of orders of magnitude: simpler messages last longer
Skills
Students will acquire the ability to write informative articles based on their scientific knowledge, as well as the ability to conduct TV, radio, or web interviews, adapting their communication style to various media and audiences.
Teaching methods
Seminars and group work in peer-teaching mode. Writing and analysis of journalistic texts about scientific topics. Simulations of real situations. Seminars with guests.
Language
Italian
Head of studies
Prof. Stefano Bonetti
Modules of the Advanced Course
Academic year 2024/2025
Curriculum PERCORSO COMUNE (Students enrolled till 2024)
| Course | Subdiv. | Period | University credits | Professor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LANGUAGES AND TECHNIQUES OF MEDIA [HC0102] | Summer course | 6 | ||
| COMMUNICATION METHODS AND STRATEGIES [HC0103] | Summer course | 6 | ||
| PREPARING FOR OUTREACH [HC0101] | Summer course | 6 |
Number of participants
Lessons will be carried out with at least ten participants.
There is no maximum number of participants.
Enrolment
Enrolment procedure will be available from 05/05/2025 to 09/06/2025 through the registration link that will be published on this page. For further information on the procedure, please consult the enrolment guide.
At the end of the enrolment period, students who have applied will receive confirmation via email.
Applicants will be notified via email if the Advanced Course is not activated.
Type of recipients and rates
Ca’ Foscari Master's degree or PhD students
Advanced Courses are free of charge for all students enroled in a Master's degree or a PhD programme at Ca' Foscari.
Before enroling you must have finalized your enrolment in your Master’s degree or PhD programme, otherwise you will be charged a 496 euros fee (480 euros + 16 euros duty stamp).
External users
External users, not enroled at Ca’ Foscari postgraduate nor PhD programmes, can enrol in the Advanced Course with a charge of 496 euro (480 euro + 16 euro duty stamp).
If you are a student at another university, the fee is reduced to 336 euros (320 euros + 16 euros duty stamp). At the end of the enrolment process, stop before the payment and open a ticket at www.unive.it/faqsforstudents in order to get in touch with the Enrolment unit. Ca’ Foscari staff will contact you to explain how to get the reduction on the enrolment fee.
Attendance and exams
Enrolment lasts one year. It is mandatory to attend all the modules in the same year.
You have four exam sessions to take the exams; the last one is in January. You will not be allowed to complete the Advanced Course programme the following academic year.
Attendance is not mandatory.
The exam grades don’t average.
By passing all the exams, you will get a certification from your personal area and an Open Badge. If you fail one or more exams in your Advanced Course, you will still be entitled to receive the certification for the exams you passed, (if you are enroled in a Ca’ Foscari Master’s degree programme, the credits will not be recognised in the elective course section).
Housing
In order to allow students to attend Advanced Courses during the summer period, Ca' Foscari plans to reserve some rooms in the university residences, depending on the availability. If you are interested, please fill out this form. We will register your interest and put you in touch with the facility management between April and May.
Withdrawal
Withdrawing from Advanced Course is possible: filling the withdrawal form, you must attach the receipt of the online payment of the duty stamp (16 euros). You can find the withdrawal form within the FAQs. Please, be aware that enroling again after the withdrawal will be at your expense.