Critical Histories of Management 
Advanced Courses a.y. 2024/2025

Enrolments 

From 16/12/2024 to 20/01/2025

About Advanced Courses

Advanced Courses are designed to deepen students’ understanding of topics deemed particularly significant and relevant to disseminate scientific knowledge, thus improving the skills acquired with the academic curriculum. 

To enrol in an Advanced Course, you must have a Bachelor's degree

Advanced Courses consist of two or three modules of 6 ECTS each. By passing all the exams, you will get a certification and an Open Badge. If you do not pass all the exams, you will only receive a certificate for the exams you have taken.

Furthermore, the Advanced Course can be recognised in the elective course section of your Master’s degree. 

Contacts, FAQs

Recipients and credits recognition

The Advanced Course is offered free of charge to Ca’ Foscari postgraduate and PhD students. It is possible to enrol also as an external user, provided they possess a Bachelor’s Degree.

Postgraduate students must meet the following criteria:

  • Students enrolled in the first year of the Master’s programme: minimum grade 105/110
  • Students enrolled in the second year of the Master’s programme: the average mark of the credits acquired must not be lower than 27/30.

If you are a postgraduate student at Ca’ Foscari, the Advanced Course can be recognised in the elective course section of your study plan.

Goals

The Advanced Course in Critical Histories of Management is characterised by the diversity of the disciplinary approaches to management studies. It addresses topics at the frontier of research in critical management studies and in management and organisational history, encouraging students to critically assess theories, practices and events.

The Advanced Course promotes the critical analysis of the conventional concept of management, presenting it as a social and cultural construct, a set of practices around which power and interests are negotiated, and political processes are implemented.

Skills

Students will acquire the ability to critically approach management theories and techniques. This will prove useful for questioning their neutrality and universality and for understanding their transformation over time. The course aims to develop critical thinking skills, based on theoretical elements derived from political philosophy and social theories, and the theoretical awareness of the retrospective nature of the historical approach, useful to compare the strategic vision of individuals with the historical outcomes of their actions.

Teaching methods

Teaching methods include traditional lectures and innovative and highly interactive approaches. The main activities of the Advanced Course include the presentation of international papers in class, interactive discussion, writing, and a few face-to-face lectures.

Language

English

Coordinators

Prof. Giovanni Favero
Prof. Fabrizio Panozzo

Modules of the Advanced Course

Academic year 2024/2025

Enrolment

Enrolment procedure will be available from 16/12/2024 to 20/01/2025 through the registration link that will be published on this page. For further information on the procedure, please consult the enrolment guide.

At the end of the enrolment period, students who have applied will receive confirmation via email. Applicants will be notified via email if the Advanced Course is not activated.

Number of participants

Lessons will be carried out with at least ten participants.
This Advanced Course is offered to a maximum of 15 students: admission will follow the chronological order. Enrolments received after the maximum number has been reached will be taken into consideration only in the event of withdrawal by some admitted candidates, following the chronological order.

Type of recipients and rates

Advanced Courses are free of charge for all students enroled in a Master's degree or a PhD programme at Ca' Foscari. Before enroling you must have finalized your enrolment in your Master’s degree or PhD programme, otherwise you will be charged a 496 euros fee (480 euros + 16 euros duty stamp).

External users, not enroled at Ca’ Foscari postgraduate nor PhD programmes, can enrol in the  Advanced Course with a charge of 496 euro (480 euro + 16 euro duty stamp).

If you are a student at another university, the fee is reduced to 336 euros (320 euros + 16 euros duty stamp). At the end of the enrolment process, stop before the payment and open a ticket at www.unive.it/faqsforstudents in order to get in touch with the Enrolment unit. Ca’ Foscari staff will contact you to explain how to get the reduction on the enrolment fee.

Attendance and exams

Enrolment lasts one year. It is mandatory to attend all the modules in the same year and take all the exams in the four exam sessions available.

Attendance is mandatory. Students who have more than 30% absence will not be admitted to the final exam.

You will not be allowed to complete the Advanced Course programme the following academic year: the last session available to take exams is January. The exam grades don’t average.

By passing all the exams, you will get a certification from your personal area and an Open Badge. If you fail one or more exams in your Advanced Course, you will still be entitled to receive the certification for the exams you passed, (if you are enroled in a Ca’ Foscari Master’s degree programme, the credits will not be recognised in the elective course section).

Withdrawal

Withdrawing from Advanced Course is possible: filling the withdrawal form, you must attach the receipt of the online payment of the duty stamp (16 euros). You can find the withdrawal form within the FAQs. Please, be aware that enroling again after the withdrawal will be at your expense.