CULTURE OF UNITY
Master’s Degree
The degree programme draws from anthropology, the humanities and social sciences in their concurring contribution toward a reading of reality and complex scenarios and processes in the light of an integral vision of the human being and contemporary society. Two specific areas are thus explored: communication and dialogue (understood mainly as intercultural and interreligious), and integral education of the person.
"Sustaining educational and communicative processes to generate fraternal societies"
Degree Programme Common Courses
- Psychology of the Person (3 ECTS)
- Pedagogy of Communion – I (3 ECTS)
- Jesus Forsaken: at the heart of the Christological event – exegesis and theology (Part I and II) (3+3 ECTS)
- Generative Communication (6 ECTS)
Interdisciplinary Courses
- For a Culture of Unity: praxis (2 ECTS)
- Biblical Hermeneutics of Revelation (6 ECTS)
- Elements of Social Ethics (3 ECTS)
- Foundations of Politics (6 ECTS)
- Civil Economics and Management (6 ECTS)
- For a Culture of Unity: methodology and approach
- Italian Language Courses (basic and advanced)
- English language (basic and advanced)
Core Curriculum Courses
- Pedagogy of Communion – II (3 ECTS)
- Psychology of the Relation (3 ECTS)
- Music, Relations and Creativity (3 ECTS)
- Social Pedagogy (6 ECTS)
- Ethics and Conflict Resolution (3 ECTS)
- Leadership: models and practices (3 ECTS)
- Developmental Psychopathology (3 ECTS)
Aimed at training experts in communication processes (on both an interpersonal and institutional level) capable of analyzing and interpreting cultural and religious phenomena that characterize contemporary society in a critical and proactive way, fostoring the appreciation of diversity, necessary to initiate and sustain integration processes.
Degree Programme Common Courses
- Psychology of the Person (3 ECTS)
- Pedagogy of Communion – I (3 ECTS)
- Jesus Forsaken: at the heart of the Christological event – exegesis and theology (Part I and II) (3+3 ECTS)
- Generative Communication (6 ECTS)
Interdisciplinary Courses
- For a Culture of Unity: praxis (2 ECTS)
- Biblical Hermeneutics of Revelation (6 ECTS)
- Elements of Social Ethics (3 ECTS)
- Foundations of Politics (6 ECTS)
- Civil Economics and Management (6 ECTS)
- For a Culture of Unity: methodology and approach
- Italian Language Courses (basic and advanced)
- English language (basic and advanced)
Core Curriculum Courses
Required:
- Foundations of Dialogic Processes (3 ECTS)
Optional
- Communication and Social Change (6 ECTS)
- Communicative Image Analysis (3 ECTS)
- Communication Theories (3 ECTS)
- Theology and Practice of Interreligious Dialogue (3 + 3 ECTS)
- Dialogical Processes between Catholic Social Thought and Critical Social Theory (3 ECTS)
- Ethics and Conflict Resolution (3 ECTS)
- Elements of Social Planning (3 ECTS)
Summary of Credits
MASTER’S DEGREE IN CULTURE OF UNITY
(SPECIALIZATION IN PEDAGOGY OF COMMUNION FOR A CULTURE OF PEACE AND COMMUNICATION PROCESSES AND INTERCULTURAL AND INTERRELIGIOUS MEDIATION)
Total [ECTS]
Preparatory Courses
0
Interdisciplinary Courses
32
Degree Programme Common Courses
24
Core Curriculum Courses (required and optional)
42
Other Academic Activities (chosen from all the subject areas available at the Institute)
6
Other seminars and interdisciplinarian events of the Institute
1
Final thesis (including thesis seminar)
15
Totals
120 ECTS
ACADEMIC DEGREE
Master’s Degree (Licentiate) in “Culture of Unity”
DURATION
Full time curriculum (120 ECTS, 4 semesters)
LANGUAGE REQUIREMENTS
Italian, level B2
ACCOMMODATION
On campus: Figline e Incisa Valdarno (Florence). For more information contact info@sophiauniversity.org
TUITION FEES
€ 3.600 (annually). The amount can be reduced based on documented annual income and geographical area of origin.
PREPARATORY COURSES START DATE
START OF FIRST SEMESTER
APPLICATION DEADLINES
contact info@sophiauniversity.org
ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS
Possession of a first-level university degree or equivalent (minimum 180 ECTS); adherence to the formation project
ADMISSIONS
Applicant selection based on interviews and previous academic records (see info for how to apply)
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