Business, banks, employment and taxation 
Minor a.y. 2022/2023

What is a Minor

A Minor is a complementary path to a Bachelor’s Degree Programme 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.

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 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 2022/2023

Recipients and credits recognition

The Minor is offered free of charge to Ca’ Foscari undergraduate and postgraduate students.

It is possible to enrol as an external user, with a charge of 496 euros (480 euros + 16 euros duty stamp), reduced to 336 euros (320 euros + 16 euros duty stamp) if you are enrolled in another university.

The Minor can be recognised in the elective course section of your Bachelor's degree with the following exceptions:

  • students enrolled from a.y. 2020/2021: this Minor is offered to Ca’ Foscari undergraduate students, excluding those enrolled to Business Administration, International Trade and Tourism, Economics and Business, Digital Management (all the undergraduate programmes of the economic area). Final marks will not affect the average of your degree.
  • students enrolled up to a.y. 2019/2020: this Minor is offered to Ca’ Foscari undergraduate students, excluding those enrolled to Business Administration, International Trade and Tourism, Economics and Business, Digital Management and Foreign Commerce. Students enrolled to Digital Management can include Money Matters: Banks and Savings and Labour, Social Security and Taxes into the study plan.

Enrolment, attendance and exams

Enrolment procedure will be available from 5 September to 2 November 2022. There is not a maximum number of participants.

The Minor is offered free of charge to Ca’ Foscari undergraduate students. Before enrolling you must have finalised your enrolment in your Bachelor’s Degree Programme, otherwise you will be charged a 496 euros fee (480 euros + 16 euros duty stamp). IMPORTANT: Withdrawing from Minor is possible. Please, be aware that enrolling again, after the withdrawal will be at your expense.

Students enrolled from a.y. 2020-21

The Minor is offered free of charge to Ca’ Foscari undergraduate students. Before enrolling you must have finalised your enrolment in your Bachelor’s Degree Programme, otherwise you will be charged a 496 euros fee (480 euros + 16 euros duty stamp). IMPORTANT: Withdrawing from Minor is possible. Please, be aware that enrolling again, after the withdrawal will be at your expense.

You can enrol in the Minor in the academic year you prefer: during the first, the second or the third year of your Bachelor’s Degree Programme. In order to attend the three modules, sign up and take the exams, you must enrol in the Minor path.

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 path the following year.

By passing the three Minor exams you will get a certification and an Open Badge. The ECTS obtained may be recognised in the elective course section of your degree course once you have passed the exams, and final marks will not affect the average of your degree: please check the website to understand if this applies to you and how to enrol.

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 degree programme.

Students enrolled up to a.y. 2019-20

You do not have to enrol on Minor path. You can keep on choosing between completing the full Minor path, passing the three exams and obtaining the certification and the open badge, or attending just one or two single modules (if the Minor has a limited number of participants, please refer to the call for application).

In order to attend, sign up and take the exams, you must have previously included the chosen modules in your study plan. You may include two modules in the elective course section (12 ECTS) and one (6 ECTS) in the surplus credit section. Business Administration students have 18 ECTS in the elective course section, therefore they do not have to use the surplus credit section.

The Minor is offered free of charge to Ca’ Foscari postgraduate students, but it cannot be recognised in the elective course section of your Master's Degree Programme. Before enrolling you must have finalised your enrolment in your Bachelor’s Degree Programme, otherwise you will be charged a 496 euros fee (480 euros + 16 euros duty stamp).

If you are regularly enrolled at Ca' Foscari university when you enrol in the Minor path, you can complete it even after your graduation, but you have to take the exams in the four exam sessions available. IMPORTANT: Withdrawing from Minor is possible. Please, be aware that enrolling again, after the withdrawal will be at your expense.

In order to attend the three modules, sign up and take the exams, you must enrol in the Minor path. 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 path the following year.

By passing the three Minor exams you will get a certification 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 not the Minor certification nor the Open Badge.

External users, not enrolled to Ca’ Foscari undergraduate or postgraduate programmes, can enrol to the Minor with a charge of 496 euros (480 euros + 16 euros duty stamp).

If you are a student in 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.

In order to attend the three modules, sign up and take the exams, you must enrol on the Minor path.

Enrolment lasts one year. It is mandatory to attend the three modules in the same year and to take the exams in the four exam sessions available. You will not be allowed to complete the Minor path the following year.

By passing the three Minor exams, you will get a certification 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 not the Minor certification nor the Open Badge.