Study location	Italy, Padua
Type	Master's degree, full-time
Nominal duration	2 years (120 ECTS)
Study language	Italian
Awards	(Laurea magistrale in Psicologia Sociale, del Lavoro e della Comunicazione)
Course code	PS1087/000ZZ/2023

Tuition fee	€2,642 per year For more information please visit: www.unipd.it/en/tuition-fees
Application fee	€30 one-time This fee is non-refundable.
Deposit	€204 one-time In order to accept your place at the University of Padua, the payment of the admission fee is required. This fee is non-refundable.

Entry qualification

Bachelor diploma (or equivalent) A minimum three-year undergraduate degree (or equivalent) is required with proven skills in General Psychology, Psychobiology and Physiological Psychology, Psychometrics, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology and in at least on of these subjects: Work and Organizational Psychology, Dynamic Psychology, Clinical Psychology. - For non-EU students residing outside Italy please check the relevant “Call for admission” - For EU students or equated or non-EU students residing in Italy, please check the relevant Call for admission (TBA) Please verify country-based specific entry title requirements at the following link. The entry qualification documents are accepted in the following languages: English / Italian. You can often get a suitable transcript from your school. If this is not the case, you will need official translations along with verified copies of the original. You must take the original entry qualification documents with you when you finally go to the university. If you are admitted to the degree course, you will have to submit other documents including original and translated/legalised copies of your previous qualifications, etc. No legalised documents are required at application stage.

Language requirements	English B2 level (CEFR) or equivalent Please check out this link for the full list of accepted certificates, minimum scores and exemptions

Other requirements	Specific requirements for Non-EU applicants: Italian – B2 Level (CEFR) or equivalent: please check out this link for the full list of accepted certificates, minimum scores and exemptions Available places for non-European candidates residing outside Italy: 4 (2 for Chinese students joining the Marco Polo Project)

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Overview

The Master’s degree in Social, Work and Communication Psychology takes into consideration the person, singularly and in a group, in professional and social contexts – from a cognitive, emotional, and behavioral point of view – in order to make diagnoses, interventions of individual and collective development, evaluations and selections, and organizational analyses.
The educational objectives include: knowledge of theoretical models regarding individual and collective behavior and their application in the fields of work and in an enlarged community; mastery of methods and instruments useful for evaluation, training, guidance, selection, assessment, and organizational analysis; acquisition of specific knowledge regarding intragroup and intergroup problems, within organizations and communities, cultural psychology, and the psychosocial processes related to migration; ability to plan informative, advertising, and marketing campaigns, and to assess their effectiveness through researches; knowledge of theoretical models and empirical researches in the field of psychology of communication; ability to plan and implement prevention and intervention programs; specialized knowledge regarding research methods and specific skills on methods and tools for the measurement of psychological and psychosocial phenomena.
The professional skills of the psychologist trained in this second cycle degree course are oriented towards the person in difficulties, for example for work-related stress, burnout, mobbing, career planning difficulties or a lack of adjustment to the social or cultural group the person belongs to.
Graduates in this second cycle degree course can also work in enlarged communities in order to promote balanced relationships among people coming from different cultures; in this field, graduates mostly use tools of social psychology and of the psychology of communication, even building and implementing specific evaluation, prevention, communication, and intervention programs.

Career opportunities

The Master’s degree programme trains specialized figures in psychological, social, and psychotherapeutic sciences (graduates will have the possibility to become psychotherapists after further studies in Specialization Schools), and occupational and organizational psychologists.
The areas of activity are related to social and organizational development: realization of preventive actions, interventions, and therapy in case of individual and social discomfort; evaluation of performances and potential, with reference to selection, guidance, role, and professional change; diagnosis of organizational functioning; analysis and implementation of communication and marketing processes in the fields of business and market; planning and evaluation of interventions to encourage the integration among individuals belonging to different groups, ethnicity, and cultures.