Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
MSc in The Art and Industry of Narration
Milan, Italy
MSc
DURATION
2 years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
24 Jun 2026*
EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2026
TUITION FEES
EUR 9,370 / per year **
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* 5 May 2026 for non-EU students | 24 June 2026 for EU students
** non-EU residents | €6,850 for EU residents per year
Key Summary
This course is intended to culturally prepare students and to give them important and basic professional skills for all the different jobs that are related to the creation and editing, publication, and distribution of narrative content in its various forms: literature, comics, animation, TV series, cinema and all the other different forms that use story-telling as a tool of communication.
The course also has a special focus on the creation of content for kids and animation.
The aim of the course is, on the one side, to give a strong foundation in English and American culture and literature, both having worldwide diffusion in contemporary society, and, on the other, to furnish some important basic tools in highly specific areas like writing for cinema and television, the industry of publishing, the history, and production of animation, literature and TV series for kids.
UCSC International Scholarship available to non-EU residents. If they get the scholarship, the yearly tuition fee will be €6,400.
Total ECTS: 120
First-Year
- English Communicative Strategies
- English Drama on Stage and Screen From Novel to Film: Britain (With a Seminar on Comparative Literature: Stories Across Borders)
- History and Industry of International Cinema
- The Art and Industry of Publishing
- Writing and Producing for Animation (With a Seminar on Literature, Cinema, and TV series for Kids and Young Audiences)
- Writing for Cinema and Television
Second Year
- English Specialized Texts
- Transmedia Storytelling
- From Novel to Film: USA
- Contemporary Italian Cinema
- Two Different options are possible:
- Foreign language (plus 8 ECTS during the first year: in this case, the student will only take in English drama on stage and on screen and only 4 ECTS in From Novel to Film)
- Elective courses available from the School of Linguistic Sciences and Foreign Literatures (in Italian or English)
- Foreign language (plus 8 ECTS during the first year: in this case, the student will only take in English drama on stage and on screen and only 4 ECTS in From Novel to Film)
- Elective courses available from the School of Linguistic Sciences and Foreign Literatures (in Italian or English)
- Elective course or Internship
- Final written dissertation
Degree Awarded: Master's Degree in Foreign Languages, Literatures and Cultures
At the end of the course students may apply for jobs related to the development, evaluation and distribution of narrative contents, both in the more classic areas of fiction and publishing, as well as in TV, cinema, internet, not excluding other areas (like social media) that make use of storytelling tools.
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