Drama, Art and Music Studies

The DAMS degree programme offers basic training in visual, musical and performing arts. At the end of the programme, students possess historical, critical and analytical competencies that allow them to work in the indicated disciplinary fields, understanding and managing the languages within cultural production and organisation contexts. They are also able to communicate, fully responding to the contexts and interlocutors, in oral and written form, in Italian and at least one other European Union language (to at least level B1), and use IT tools for collecting and sharing information.
The course units distributed over three years cover four macro-areas of learning: literary and historical subjects (study of the foundations and processes governing disciplines of humanist traditions, particularly literature and history); critical-philosophical and pedagogic subjects (study of the foundations and processes governing aesthetics, semiotics, psychology and pedagogy); socio-anthropological, political-legal and managerial subjects (study of the foundations and processes governing sociology, anthropology, law and politics linked to the arts, cultural economics); the visual, performing and media arts (study of the foundations and processes governing disciplines of the visual arts, photography, cinema, television, music, theatre and dance). The knowledge and competencies acquired overall help to develop a complex professional figure: artistic-cultural operator working in bodies, institutions, businesses working in the production, distribution, promotion and transmission of visual, cinematographic, TV, musical, theatrical products and heritage, and more generally the creation of contents for the arts.
From the first year, the programme includes some mandatory core humanities course units (focusing on the macro-areas of literature and history, critical-philosophical and pedagogic subjects and socio-anthropology)
Other mandatory core learning activities, during the entire duration of the programme, cover specific course units in the various disciplinary fields (visual arts, photography, cinema, television, music, theatre and dance), to develop a strong historical and linguistic knowledge of the artistic-expressive system as a whole. The teaching focus of the programme is in fact based on the recognition of the organic nature of the system of artistic forms of visual, performing and media expression, using a plural, integrated approach. A consistent number of learning activities in the fields of ‘Music and entertainment, fashion techniques and artistic productions' and 'Historical-artistic disciplines' responds to the aim of reinforcing and extending the programme contents as far as possible, aiming to provide students with broad, transversal skills in various artistic fields; at the same time, students have a reasonably wide range of choice to define their own learning path.
The understanding of the cultural production organisation processes is developed above all in the second and third year of the programme, with specific course units in legal, political and managerial fields, integrating practical training and laboratory work, both building on the studies of the first year and developing autonomous activities in the last two years.

Admission to the degree programme in DAMS – Drama, Art and Music Studies is subject to the possession of either a five-year high secondary school diploma or other suitable qualification obtained abroad. Additionally, knowledge and competence in the following areas are required:
– strong competencies in the comprehension and analysis of texts in the Italian language;
– good general knowledge;
– strong logical reasoning skills;
– one European language (French, English, Spanish, German) to CEFT level A2.

The methods for verifying the knowledge and competencies required for admission are defined in the Degree Programme Teaching Regulations. If the minimum score required is not achieved, specific additional learning requirements will be assigned. Completion of the learning requirements is the subject of a separate test. The relevant testing method is also set out in the Degree Programme Teaching Regulations. Students who do not complete the additional learning requirements by the date established by the competent bodies and, in any case, by the end of the first year of the degree programme, will be unable to sit exams in the following years.