The DES-LS / ESS-LS programs provide students with an advanced education preparing them for high-skilled jobs in socio-economic professions.

The program has one class group taught in Italian and one international class group taught entirely in English (Economics and Social Sciences).

While adhering to the educational objectives concerning the field of study of the programs, the DES-LS/ESS-LS have the following goals:

• to provide advanced education in economics, economic history, sociology and political science, the use of quantitative tools and the legal environment of corporate governance and market regulation.

In particular, according to the elective courses chosen, the program aims:

• to provide advanced grounding in theoretical and applied economics, through interactive courses enabling students to understand the key questions and issues of social and economic systems;
• to develop the analytical and interpretation skills required to understand socio-economic phenomena, through the knowledge of advanced quantitative methods and concrete experience in their application;
• to acquire the skills needed to interpret the economic, social and cultural processes in costant evolution, typical in technologically advanced and developed societies , through a reflection on key issues in social sciences and its body of knowledge.

Program Director: Marco Bonetti