The IULM University - Milan ( it, Libera Università di Lingue e Comunicazione IULM ) is a university located in

Milan Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city ...

Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical ...

. It was founded in 1968 and is organized in four faculties. .

History and profile

The University Institute for Modern Languages (IULM) was founded by

Carlo Bo Carlo Bo (25 January 1911 – 21 July 2001) was an Italian poet, literary critic, distinghuished humanist, a professor and Life senator of Italy (from 1984). Biography Bo was born on January 25, 1911, in Sestri Levante, Italy. From 1929 to ...

, poet, literary critic and professor of Spanish and French language and literature and Silvio Baridon, French language and literature professor at

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, in 1968. It was renamed in 1998, as the IULM University of Languages and Communication, to reflect its teaching of both languages and communication. IULM University offers six three-year degree courses: *Interpreting and Communication *Corporate Communication and Public Relations *Communication, Media and Advertising *Tourism, Management and Territory *Arts, Media, Cultural Events *Fashion and Creative Industries In addition to these three-year undergraduate degree courses, IULM University offers one- and two-year post-graduate degree courses, and also research doctorate schools. Teaching staff include managers and professionals from media and communication, professional services, business, public administration and cultural organisations. Teaching is done through lectures, classroom activities and case studies, continuous assessment, internships in Italy and abroad and through international student exchanges.

Campus

IULM University campus includes a study centre with modern teaching facilities. The main building houses a reception desk, students’ admin. offices, the Dean’s office, the library and classrooms. New buildings have recently been added: a canteen catering for about 400 people, a building intended to become a research institute, an auditorium and a hall of residence.

Organization

These are the 3 faculties in which the university is divided into: * Faculty of

Communication Communication (from la, communicare, meaning "to share" or "to be in relation with") is usually defined as the transmission of information. The term may also refer to the message communicated through such transmissions or the field of inqui ...

* Faculty of

Interpreting Interpreting is a translational activity in which one produces a first and final target-language output on the basis of a one-time exposure to an expression in a source language. The most common two modes of interpreting are simultaneous interp ...

and

Translation Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text. The English language draws a terminological distinction (which does not exist in every language) between ''transla ...

* Faculty of

Arts The arts are a very wide range of human practices of creative expression, storytelling and cultural participation. They encompass multiple diverse and plural modes of thinking, doing and being, in an extremely broad range of media. Both ...

and

Tourism Tourism is travel for pleasure or business; also the theory and practice of touring (disambiguation), touring, the business of attracting, accommodating, and entertaining tourists, and the business of operating tour (disambiguation), tours. Th ...

Bachelor Programs
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* Interpreting and Communication * Corporate Communication and Public Relations * Communication, Media and Advertising * Tourism, Management and Territory * Arts, Media, Cultural Events * Fashion and Creative Industries

Master's Degree Courses
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* Specialised Translation and Conference Interpreting * Marketing, Consumption and Communication * Strategic Communication * Artificial Intelligence for Business and Society * Television, Cinema and New Media * Hospitality and Tourism Management * Arts, Valorisation and Markets

University Master's Degree
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Specialist Master's Degree
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Master's Executive
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Executive Course
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Research doctorates
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* Visual and Media Studies * Communication, Markets and Society

See also
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List of Italian universities This is the list of universities in Italy, sorted in ascending order by the name of the city where they are situated. List of universities Source: MIUR, ''Anagrafe Nazionale Studenti'' (Academic year 2012/2013) Regional distribution Sour ...

External links

IULM University - Milan Website
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