Business, banks, employment and taxation 
Minors a.y. 2023/2024

What is a Minor

A Minor is a complementary programme to a Bachelor’s Degree which allows you to broaden your main study field by developing cross-cutting skills that are useful both for your further education and for your career.

A Minor is composed of three modules of 6 ECTS each. By passing the three Minor exams you will get a certification and an Open Badge.

Contacts, FAQs

Objectives and contents

Each student, at the end of their studies, is destined to take on work as an employee in a company or on their own. In any case, they must fulfil their obligations as a tax payer through the payment of fees and taxes. Furthermore, by entering the world of work, the student becomes, if they are not already, the client of a bank, since both personal income and expenses, as well as those connected with the work performed, pass through a current account. At the same time, there is the issue of managing savings, through the choice of investments compatible with one's own needs and financial objectives. Among the objectives there is also that of having an adequate income at the end of the working activity, adhering to supplementary social security schemes with respect to the public pension, such as pension funds.

The objectives of the minor are therefore to provide the student with the basic knowledge on the functioning of companies, the labour market, the social security system and the tax system and deepen the student’s financial education, through the knowledge of the rules governing relations with banks and the main savings investment instruments.

To ensure the effectiveness of the course, the frontal lessons, carried out by a team of professors from the Management Department, are accompanied by external witnesses, in order to ensure a better understanding of the operational aspects of the topics covered.

Language

This Minor is taught in Italian.

Coordinator

Professor Antonio Proto

Modules of the Minor

Academic year 2023/2024

Recipients and credits recognition

The Minor is offered free of charge to Ca’ Foscari undergraduate and postgraduate students. It is possible to enrol also as an external user.

  • If you are an undergraduate student at Ca’ Foscari, this Minor can be recognised in the elective course section of your Bachelor’s Degree with the exception of students enrolled to all the undergraduate programmes of the economic area (Business Administration, International Trade and Tourism, Economics and Business, Digital Management). Final marks will not affect the average of your degree.
  • If you are a postgraduate student at Ca’ Foscari, the Minor cannot be recognised in the elective course section of your Master's Degree Programme.

Enrolment, attendance and exams

Enrolment procedure will be available from 4 September to 3 November 2023. There is not a maximum number of participants.

In order to attend the three modules, sign up and take the exams, you must enrol in the Minor programme.
Enrolment lasts one year. It is mandatory to attend the three modules in the same year and take the exams in the four exam sessions available. You will not be allowed to complete the Minor programme the following year.

By passing the three Minor exams you will get a certification from your personal area and an Open Badge.
If you fail one or more exams in your Minor, you will still be entitled to receive the certification for the exams you passed, but the credits of the Minor will not be recognised in the elective course section of your Bachelor’s Degree programme.

Withdrawing from Minor 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 enrolling again after the withdrawal will be at your expense.

The Minor is offered free of charge to Ca’ Foscari undergraduate students. Before enrolling you must have finalised your enrolment in your Degree Programme, otherwise you will be charged a 496 euros fee (480 euros + 16 euros duty stamp).

External users, not enrolled to Ca’ Foscari undergraduate nor postgraduate programmes, can enrol in the Minor with a charge of 496 euros (480 euros + 16 euros 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 you make the payment and click on Request for assistance 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.