Critical Histories of Management 
Advanced Courses a.y. 2023/2024

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. The Courses consist of two or three modules of 6 CFU/ECTS each, for a total of 12 or 18 CFU/ECTS.

By passing all the exams, you will obtain a certificate of the course you have completed and an Open Badge: a digital certificate describing the skills you have acquired. If you do not pass all the exams, you will only receive a certificate for the exams you have taken.

Contacts, FAQs

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

Heads of studies

Prof. Giovanni Favero
Prof. Fabrizio Panozzo

Modules of the Advanced Course

Academic year 2023/2024

How to enrol in the Advanced Course

The course is open to a maximum of 15 participants, who will be selected through a dedicated call for admission between September and October 2023. To be admitted, students must have a Bachelor's degree. Any further admission requirements will be listed in the call for admission.

Classes will be held during the 4th period. Admitted students may enrol according to the deadlines defined in the call for admission.

Enrolment in the Advanced Course is valid for one year. It is mandatory to attend all the modules in the same year and take the exams in the four exam sessions available in each module. You will not be allowed to complete the Advanced Course the following year.

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

Advanced Courses are free of charge for all students enrolled in a Master's degree or a PhD programme at Ca' Foscari.
Make sure you have finalised the enrolment in your degree programme before signing up for the Advanced Course, or else you will be charged a fee of 496 euro (480 euro + 16 euro duty stamp).
Once enrolled, you can complete the Advanced Course even after your graduation: it is however very important that your enrolment at Ca' Foscari is in order when you join the Advanced Course.

If you are not enrolled in a Ca' Foscari Master's or PhD programme, you can enrol in the Advanced Course as an external user by paying an enrolment fee of 496 euro (480 euro + 16 euro duty stamp).

If you are enrolled at another University, the fee is 336 euro (320 euro + 16 euro duty stamp). Before proceeding with the payment, please contact the Enrolment Unit through the web portal www.unive.it/faqsforstudents. We will get back to you with information on how to pay the reduced fee.