Introduction

Inviting you to start immediately, as soon as you have completed your bachelor's degree, in a training programme that will lead to a specific master's degree: this is the aim of the first cycle in Information and Communication offered in Louvain-la-Neuve by UCLouvain.

The bachelor's degree in Information and Communication prepares you directly for one of the three master's degrees taught at UCLouvain: journalism; communication; information and communication sciences and technologies (ICST).

In order to offer a complete and high-level training, university studies in communication combine the mastery of theories, the development of analytical skills and the in-depth learning of techniques related to the various professions in the world of information and communication. Even if the bachelor's degree does not in itself have a professional purpose, the various discoveries of the world of communication that it offers are the ideal springboard for starting a master's degree in the best conditions, which prepares you for quality jobs in the world of journalism, organisational communication or information and communication technologies.

At the end of your first cycle, you will: 

• have a sound knowledge of the humanities and social sciences
• have received training in the basic disciplines of information and communication sciences (ICTS)
• have been practically introduced to at least one sector of information and communication directly related to the Masters taught at the Ecole de communication de l'UCLouvain;
• have learned to work alone or in a team on increasingly complex issues;
• be able to communicate in three languages other than French.

 

Your profile

Discovering communication requires being attentive to the world around us and being passionate about its evolution. A student in communication seeks to analyse, understand and then transmit.

Curiosity, ability to express oneself and a concern for precision and accuracy are therefore essential qualities that will be required. 

Your future job

Our graduates find employment in

• journalism (print, radio, TV, web, multimedia and transmedia)
• public relations, internal communication, external communication, corporate intervention, political communication, social advertising, scientific popularisation, awareness raising, prevention, media education, media training
• animation and cultural communication, multimedia, media analysis, research and teaching, etc.

Your programme

The programme includes a part of general education in economic, social and political sciences, but is mainly oriented around specific training in information and communication.

The bachelor's degree offers you :

• a solid knowledge of the humanities and social sciences
• training in the basic disciplines of information and communication
• an introduction to research methods and issues in the major fields of information and communication;
• a concrete discovery of at least one component of the world of information and communication in connection with the courses taught in the Master's programme at the Ecole de communication de l'UCLouvain: journalism, communication, information and communication sciences and technologies (STIC);
• a possibility of multidisciplinary deepening in connection with the chosen component;
• a possibility of mobility at the KU Leuven;
• advanced learning of writing and expression methods and techniques;
• a practice of deepening and/or discovering three languages other than French;
• diversified pedagogical methods: seminars, practical work, solving communication problems, inverted courses, moodle courses, etc.

At the end of your bachelor's degree, you will go on to a Master's degree in communication, a Master's degree in journalism or a Master's degree in information and communication sciences and technologies (STIC).