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Bachelor of Arts in Fashion Marketing Management

Milan Campus

The new BA in Fashion Marketing Management, currently under approval for A.Y. 2024/25, enriches the Fashion Design Area.

 

The course aims to train professional figures capable of managing the multidisciplinary complexities of the Fashion System, connecting the ideation and development phase of the product to marketing, communication, and distribution strategies. It also provides cultural, design, and management skills related to fashion supply chain and marketing management. Students will develop brand vision and identity projects, digital communication, and distribution starting from the knowledge of the product system and designing strategic processes related to the new demands of the digital marketing market and new models of creative entrepreneurship. The course will address topics related to the supply chain and sustainable design, with a view to a product-system perspective that can think innovatively about the socio-cultural and sustainable impact of the fashion industry.

 

Department: Design and Applied Arts
Area: Fashion Design
Title Awarded: First Level Academic Degree

Total Credits/Duration: Three years/180 CFA (1CFA=1ECTS)
Language: Italian - English
Campus: Milan

Bachelor of Arts in Comics and Visual Storytelling

The new BA in Comics and Visual Storytelling enriches the Communication and Graphic Design Area.

The Course prepares future comics illustrators, graphic novelists and visual artists providing them with the necessary skills to create engaging stories and develop their own style. By studying various genres - from Superheroes to Manga, from Mickey Mouse to the Comic Strips, from Indie Comics to Visual Novels, as well as the art of visual storytelling, students will learn the basic principles of comics, enabling them to create narratives, characters and visual sequences capable of conveying messages and emotions.

Department: Design and Applied Arts
Area: Communication and Graphic Design
Title Awarded: First Level Academic Degree in Graphic Design and Art Direction
Duration/Total Credits: Three years/180 CFA (1CFA=1ECTS)
Language: Italian - English
Campus: Milan - Rome

Master of Arts in Digital and Live Performance

The new MA in Digital and Live Performance enriches the Media Design and New Technologies Area.

The Course is a highly specialised interdisciplinary path focusing on different areas, including contemporary dramaturgy, body and movement, new technologies, interaction and sound design. The two-year MA is unique in Italy and aims to establish a set of methods to research innovative languages, ideate and design multidisciplinary artistic performances, training professionals able to dialogue and interact with international productions.

Department: Design and Applied Arts
Area: Media Design and New Technologies
Title Awarded: Second Level Academic Degree in New Technologies for Art
Duration/Total Credits: Two years/120 CFA (1CFA=1ECTS)
Language: Italian - English
Campus: Milan

Master of Arts in Italian Design

The new Academic Master in Italian Design enriches the Design Area. 

The Course is an experiential journey to research and analysis of the features of the Italian Design: through an intensive programme which combines theory - to acquire knowledge and method, workshops - to explore the most advanced edges of the Italian approach to projects, and meetings with the main players in this field, the course trains professionals able to lead trends at an international level, contributing to both innovation in industrial production, and development of new intuitions, aesthetic visions and cultural values.
 


Department: Design and Applied Arts
Area: Design
Title Awarded: First Level Academic Master Degree
Duration/Total Credits: One year/60 CFA (1CFA=1ECTS)
Language: Italian - English
Campus: Milan

Academic Master in Sustainable Innovation Communication

The Academic Master in Sustainable Innovation Communication enriches the Communication and Graphic Design Area.
The Academic Master explores theories, methods and design approaches to contemporary communication through an intensive programme and helps students to develop cross-disciplinary analysis, cultural coding and language skills pertinent to the sustainable innovation of institutions, public and private companies. It provides students with the competences to design and plan communication systems in which marketing, strategy and creativity are integrated with coherence and harmony in order to enhance the eco-systemic impact of cultural and technological innovations.

Department: Design and Applied Arts
Area: Communication and Graphic Design
Title Awarded: First Level Academic Master Degree
Total Credits/Duration: One year/60 CFA (1CFA=1ECTS)
Language: Italian - English
Campus: Milan, Rome
 

Academic Master in Fashion Digital Marketing

The Academic Master in Fashion Digital Marketing enriches the Fashion Design Area.
The Academic Master is an intensive study path that analyses the developments of the contemporary fashion system in terms of marketing, communication and culture, with the aim of preparing professionals in the digital marketing field, capable of creating specific contents and strategies for fashion and lifestyle brands. With the study of digital technologies, tools and media within theoretical and project-based courses, where lectures are complemented by seminars and thematic workshops, the students can develop a self-sufficient, innovative and sustainable approach. 

Department: Design and Applied Arts
Area: Fashion Design
Title Awarded: First Level Academic Master
Total Credits/Duration: One year/60 CFA (1CFA=1ECTS)
Language: Italian - English
Campus: Milan

Academic Master in Art and Ecology

The Academic Master in Art and Ecology enriches the Visual Arts Area.
The Academic Master provides the students with a cross-disciplinary methodological approach and the needed tools to fulfil the most urgent issues related to landscape, environmental protection, biodiversity and sustainability, by connecting artistic creativity, design practice and scientific knowledge. Through theoretical seminars, experimental workshops and field research, the students explore the dynamics and stratifications that define an ecosystem (natural and social). 

Department: Visual Arts
Title Awarded: First Level Academic Master
Total Credits/Duration: One year/60 CFA (1CFA=1ECTS)
Language: Italian - English
Campus: Milan

University Master’s Degree in Business Law for the Fashion System

NABA presents the University Master's Degree in Business Law for the Fashion System, resulting from the collaboration between the Academy and the International Telematic University UNINETTUNO.

The course intends to train highly qualified professionals capable of managing the business, legal, technological, and marketing aspects of the fashion and textile industry in a systematic and multidisciplinary way, at national and international level, with a focus on sustainability (environmental, economic, and socio-cultural) and digitalisation aspects. 

The online Master includes on-demand and live lessons on the UNINETTUNO e-learning platform and one week in presence at the NABA Campus in Milan.

Title Awarded: First Level University Master's Degree
Total Credits/Duration: One year/60 CFU (1CFU=1ECTS)
Language: English (simultaneous translation available)
Formula: Online + 1 week in presence at NABA Milan Campus
Accredited by: International Telematic University UNINETTUNO

Academic Master in New Urban Design

The Academic Master in New Urban Design enriches the Design Area.
The Academic Master gives a new perspective on the role of urban designers, and allows the students to enhance their experience in reading into, interpreting and designing cities to face the new complexity of urban contexts, and complement it with practical actions also establishing relationships with local and international partners. Through the research of new ways to understand the city, this course develops the specific necessary skills to carry out new urban design projects, with specific attention to service design.

Department: Design and Applied Arts
Area: Design
Title Awarded: First Level Academic Master
Total Credits/Duration: One year/60 CFA (1CFA=1ECTS)
Language: Italian - English
Campus: Milan
 

Bachelor of Arts in Design

Rome Campus

 

The NABA Campus in Rome enriches its academic offer with a new three-year programme already in force at NABA Milan, the Bachelor of Arts in Design. The new BA is currently under approval for Rome Campus for A.Y. 2024/25.

Following the “learning by doing” approach and with its two specializations in Interior Design and in Product and Innovation Design, the Course at Rome campus sees a mix of theoretical and practical activities; the course includes workshops to integrate both. After having explored basic concepts and techniques, students learn to observe the multitude of contemporary forms of design and how to apply them to their work. The course aims at stimulating sensitivity and passion for the world of objects, understood as cultural artefacts that reflect and shape human life. It explores space as an environment, examining its interactions with objects and its function as a stage for individual and collective rituals.



Department: Design and Applied Arts
Area: Design
Title Awarded: First Level Academic Degree
Duration/Total Credits: Three years/180 CFA (1CFA=1ECTS)
Language: Italian - English
Campus: Milan - Rome*
 

*Under approval for A.Y. 2024/25

Academic Master in Screenwriting for Series

Rome Campus

 

The Media Design and New Technologies Area enriches its academic offer in Rome with the Academic Master in Screenwriting for Series.
Through an intensive programme that integrates theories, methods and design practices by developing cross-disciplinary skills of analysis and cultural coding of contemporary languages, this Master intends to train professionals figures in the field of audio-visual screenwriting, who are capable of intercepting themes and narratives of a constantly evolving world for the development of cinematographic or serial projects of national and international relevance.

Department: Design and Applied Arts
Area: Media Design and New Technologies
Title Awarded: First Level Academic Master
Total Credits/Duration: One year/60 CFA (1CFA=1ECTS)
Language: Italian - English
Campus: Rome