Bachelor in Information and Communication [180.0] - COMU1BA

The bachelor's programme of Information and Communication offers a first approach to this subject in the context of a more general training in Human Sciences. In terms of skill acquisition, the programme has the aims of developing the students' capacity to elaborate interdisciplinary reflection, of helping them develop their skills of critical analysis, of initiating them in autonomous and personal study and of laying the foundation stones for future scientific research.
 
The first year of the bachelor's programme is dedicated to the acquisition of knowledge in the general disciplines of the ESPO Faculty. Different courses in the domain of Information and Communication Sciences will help to prepare the students for this discipline, both from a theoretical and an applied point of view, thanks to the work accomplished and to the integration of the topics in a disciplinary seminar. From the first year on, great importance is given to working autonomously. In the second year, the student will pursue his interdisciplinary education and go more deeply into the subject areas of Information and Communication Sciences. Finally, the third year is dedicated to research methods as well as to initiation into the main domains of Information and Communication.
 
The programme is thus designed for the student to progress gradually and become more and more personally involved in his own acquisition of knowledge and the development of his own critical analysis and autonomous reflection capacities from year to year. These university skills correspond to the stakes inherent in the Sciences of Information and Communication and involve capacities such as being able to analyse the media and various communication situations.

Written and oral exams are aimed at checking the level of acquisition and the extent of the mastery of the concepts, theories, basic data and know-how within the subject areas concerned.
 
Certain pedagogical activities (tasks and exercises) take the form of ongoing evaluation. Among other forms of ongoing assessment, the use of multimedia pedagogical tools makes e-learning partly possible, which includes auto-evaluation procedures on a regular basis.