Communicating complexity 
Advanced Courses a.y. 2023/2024

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 CFU/ECTS each, for a total of 12 or 18 CFU/ECTS.

By passing all the exams, you will obtain a certificate of the course you have completed and an Open Badge: a digital certificate describing the skills you have acquired. If you do not pass all the exams, you will only receive a certificate for the exams you have taken.

Contacts, FAQs

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 2023/2024

How to enrol in the Advanced Course

Students can enrol in the Advanced Course from 5 June to 7 July 2024. To be admitted, students must have a Bachelor's degree. There is no maximum number of participants.

Enrolment in the Advanced Course is valid for one year. It is mandatory to attend all the modules in the same year and take the exams in the four exam sessions available in each module. You will not be allowed to complete the Advanced Course the following year.

Withdrawing from the 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 enrolling again after the withdrawal will be at your expense.

Advanced Courses are free of charge for all students enrolled in a Master's degree or a PhD programme at Ca' Foscari.
Make sure you have finalised the enrolment in your degree programme before signing up for the Advanced Course, or else you will be charged a fee of 496 euro (480 euro + 16 euro duty stamp).
Once enrolled, you can complete the Advanced Course even after your graduation: it is however very important that your enrolment at Ca' Foscari is in order when you join the Advanced Course.

If you are not enrolled in a Ca' Foscari Master's or PhD programme, you can enrol in the Advanced Course as an external user by paying an enrolment fee of 496 euro (480 euro + 16 euro duty stamp).

If you are enrolled at another University, the fee is 336 euro (320 euro + 16 euro duty stamp). Before proceeding with the payment, please contact the Enrolment Unit through the web portal www.unive.it/faqsforstudents. We will get back to you with information on how to pay the reduced fee.