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Type D and Type F activities
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Laurea in Lingue e culture per il turismo e il commercio internazionale - Enrollment from 2025/2026Type D and Type F Credits (CFUs D and F)
As part of the academic plans for each degree program, students must earn a specified number of credits from the Type D and F (CFUs D and F) categories.
CFUs D (student's choice activities)
CFUs D can be earned through various activities, including:
- Elective courses: non-mandatory courses within your plan of study, subject to the approval of the Chair of the Teaching Committee the course cannot be selected independently.
- Accredited activities: activities accredited by the Teaching Committee
- Language Proficiency: acquiring proficiency in languages different from or additional to the required ones.
- Internships or apprenticeships: practical work experience in relevant fields
- TALCs (Transversal Skills): skills gained through specific university programs.
The total number of CFUs D is calculated over the entire degree period (two or three years) and is not tied to a single academic year.
Transversal skills
Explore the learning pathways promoted by the University's Teaching and Learning Center for currently enrolled students that aim to develop transversal skills
Please note: TALC courses are only recognized as CFUs D.
Contamination Lab
The Contamination Lab Verona (CLab Verona) is an experiential learning program focused on innovation and business culture. It offers students the opportunity to collaborate in teams across different programmes and disciplines to solve challenges posed private companies and institutions. Completing this pathway earns students 6 CFUs D. Learn more about the CLab challenges here.
Important Notes:
- To be eligible for any credit-bearing learning activities, including electives, students must be enrolled in the academic year during which the activities are offered.
- GRADUATING SENIORS: Students who plan to graduate in the November or March/April sessions are advised NOT to undertake extracurricular activities in a new academic year (in which they are not enrolled), as these graduation sessions correspond to the previous academic year. Activities completed during an academic year in which students is not enrolled will not be credited with CFUs.
CFUs F (other training activities)
CFUs F typically relate to skills in computing and languages, internships and apprenticeships, and other educational activities accredited by the Teaching Committee.
The degree program in Languages and Cultures for Tourism and International Commerce recognizes the following:
- 3 CFUs for a third language (B1 level)
- 3 CFUs for computer skills
- 6 CFUs for a mandatory internship.
Computer skills can be acquired by:
- Passing the test in the University's computer labs.
- Attending and passing the final exams for courses offered by schools and centres accredited by AICA (Italian Association for Computer Science and Automatic Computing) or courses recognized by the Province and Region. Applications for the recognition of previously acquired computer skills are reviewed by the Commission for the Recognition of Computer Skills.
Internship are designed to provide students with direct, practical knowledge and experience relevant to their field of study, helping them acquire specific professional skills.
To discover all the teaching activities accredited by the foreign teaching college click here
Principles of management [Cognomi P-Z] (2024/2025)
Teaching code
4S02442
Teacher
Coordinator
Credits
9
Language
Italian
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
SECS-P/08 - MANAGEMENT
Period
II semestre (Area Lingue e letterature straniere) dal Feb 17, 2025 al May 24, 2025.
Courses Single
Authorized
Learning objectives
To provide the participants with the basic knowledge of a company’s nature, functions, operating logic, management and governance. To introduce the issues and the main methods for defining a strategy to obtain competitive advantage in international competitive environments. To present a managerial framework of the tourism phenomenon according to the main actors’ perspectives. The course aims to provide the first basic knowledge in the business field provided by the three-year study plan and will allow the graduate to enter with awareness in business organizations. The course also aims to provide insights to allow the student a conscious choice of curricula.
Prerequisites and basic notions
No prior knowledge is required
Program
WHAT IS A COMPANY
– The company as a relational system
– The company and the environment in which it operates
– The goals of the corporate decision-maker and the functions of the company
– The birth of the company: a review of production factors
– Tangible and intangible resources assets of the company
- The company as a decision-making process: the criteria of efficiency and effectiveness
- Entrepreneurship and managerial skills
- The sustainability of the company
STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT
- The strategy between the study of competitors and the enhancement of company resources
- The analysis of the competitive context
- The possible ways of business development
– The ways of competitive differentiation and cost leadership
– Non-competitive relationships between businesses QUANTITATIVE MODELS TO SUPPORT BUSINESS DECISIONS
(for this part of the program there are hours of exercise, held in any case by the same teacher)
– Evaluations of economic convenience between short and long-term choices
– The profitability diagram
– Sizing of production capacity
– Make or buy decisions between integration and decentralization
– Analyzes of long-term convenience: evaluation and choice of investments industrial
– The problem of intangible investments
THE INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE COMPANY
– The globalization of the markets
– Foreign trade and foreign direct investments
– The internationalization of the company
– The different methods of entry of the company into foreign markets
INTRODUCTION TO THE TOURISM PHENOMENON
– Relevance of tourism in the economic system
- Production in tourism: between market relations and business creation
- Holiday production and distribution companies: tour operators and travel agencies
- Service production companies: accommodation, transport, the attractions
Bibliography
Didactic methods
The teaching methods adopted are distinguished between attending and non-attending students. For attending students, the teaching methods consist of frontal lessons dedicated to the transmission of the basic notions with the addition of the presentation of various case studies for the deepening of knowledge considered particularly critical. In addition, there will be the possibility of hosting privileged external witnesses in the classroom to discuss particularly topical issues and discuss together the economic and business perspectives of different competitive contexts. For non-attending students, given the possibility of participating in single ad hoc lessons (for example on the occasion of meeting with privileged witnesses), the teaching method consists mainly in providing support from the teacher in the study of the indicated bibliography.
The weekly student reception service is available throughout the academic year. With the reception students can be resolved specific doubts about individual parts of the program, rather than receive advice for study and general guidance regarding the discipline and its usefulness in the educational path with respect to the final learning objectives.
For information regarding student reception, students are invited to consult the professor's institutional web page and the relative notices.
Learning assessment procedures
The exam consists of a written test and, for those who obtain a positive evaluation (equal to or greater than 18/30), will continue with (alternatively): - a compulsory oral test for those who have achieved a particularly high score in the written test, - an optional oral test (chosen by the student) for all the others. The written test consists of an exercise on the economic evaluation of the convenience of an industrial investment and 4 open questions for which 5/6 lines are available for each question to answer. A facsimile of the exam can be found in the documents published online for students.
The duration of the written test is 45 minutes.
Evaluation criteria
The evaluation criteria of the tests are: - knowledge of the topics of the program, - mastery of the specific language of the subject, - ability to connect the topics (also as a consequence of an understanding of the unity of the discipline), - ability to apply the concepts to the reality.
Criteria for the composition of the final grade
The final assessment is expressed out of 30 and takes into account all tests, written and oral (if taken). It is emphasized that it is always necessary to register for both tests (written and oral) prior to the written test and therefore regardless of the result of the written test.
Exam language
italiano
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