FACULTY OF ECONOMICS
Laurea Magistrale/MSc – Management
2015-2016 Academic Year
September 2015
By: Stefano Baraldi
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Introduction
This paper is aimed at providing students enrolled for the Master of Science in Management (MSM) with
general guidelines regarding the preparation and subsequent submission of their study plan.
Students may contact the programme coordinator for support and assessment of specific cases (see office
hours published online).
Structure of the study plan
In drawing up their study plan, students must provide for:
7 courses during the first year of the programme;
 7 courses during the second year of the programme.
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The course schedule will need to comply with the distribution of credits (ECTS) by field of study, as shown
in the table below. Each of the courses for the MSM are worth 8 ECTS.
COURSE STRUCTURE
YEAR 1
3 BASIC COURSES
Mathematics for management, Transnational commercial law, Industrial organization
CFU
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4 ADVANCED BUSINESS COURSES
Corporate strategy, Corporate finance (advanced), Customer-based marketing strategy, Financial accounting
and analysis (advanced), HR management, Management control systems, Supply chain management
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1 ELECTIVE (ECONOMIC) COURSE
International economics, Labor economics, Monetary economics and asset pricing, Political economy of the
European Union
2 ELECTIVE (BUSINESS) COURSE
Business communication, Change management, International corporate finance, Management information
systems, Project management, Performance measurement, Work and organizational psychology
YEAR 2
1 BUSINESS LAB INTRODUCTORY COURSE
8
16
Consulting companies, healthcare organization, luxury and fashion, multinational enterprises, small and
medium enterprises.
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1 BUSINESS LAB FIELD PROJECT/INTERNSHIP
8
1 BUSINESS LAB ELECTIVE COURSE
Applied statistics and big data (starting from 2015-2016), Brand management, Corporate governance and social
responsibility, Cross cultural management, Entrepreneurship, International business management, Public
management
8
1 ADVANCED/ELECTIVE (BUSINESS) COURSE
8
THESIS
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TOTAL
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Courses belonging to the Faculty's other degree programmes may not be chosen as elective.
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Students who have been accepted on the MSM subject to their taking one of the five first-level degree
programme courses specified by the Faculty as admission prerequisites do not have the option of
scheduling the final advanced/elective course. The five courses in question are: Organizational design and
theory, Management accounting, Marketing management, Corporate finance, and Comparative company
law.
Business lab courses
By the end of year 2, students have to apply for being admitted to business labs (consulting companies,
healthcare organizations, luxury and fashion, multinational enterprises, small and medium enterprises),
stating their preferences for:
attending a specific lab throughout the second year of MScM;
 an internship or a field project.
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Each business lab will hold every year up to: 20 students, 8 internships, 1 field project.
Priority will be given to the students that, in the course of their first year have: a) earned the greatest
number of credits (ECTS); b) got the highest grade point average.
Accordingly, students will be then:
sorted into the different business labs (for an internship or a field project) by the end of July (year
1);
 eventually assigned to business labs with their tacit approval by the first week of September (year
2).
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Students not applying in due time will be sorted into business labs as a matter of course, based on
availability.
Each lab consists of:
an introductory course (4 ECTS): the course will be held in the 1st term of year 2 (SeptemberNovember) and will be “automatically” included in the study plan of the students admitted to the
various labs;
 a field project or an internship (8 ECTS): this “fieldwork” will be scheduled in the 2nd and/or 3rd
terms of year 2 (January-June), depending on the agreements reached with the companies
participating in the lab; students will be asked to confirm their participation (and the 8 ECTS to be
included in their study plan) in the assigned field project/internship by the first week of September
(year 2); students who turn down the opportunity of a field project/internship can include in their
study plan another elective/lab business course subject to the programme coordinator’s approval;
no internships other than those offered by UCSC International (and recognized by the Commissione
Stage) can be submitted within the study plan;
 1 business lab elective course (8 CFU).
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Prerequisites
The 2015-2016 Faculty Guide lists which second-level degree courses require the completion of preparatory
courses (page 132). For example, students may not schedule International corporate finance without
having previously taken and passed the Corporate finance course. Submitted study plans will not be
approved if requirements for preparatory courses have not been met.
Students may compensate for prerequisites not met:
by scheduling the required course as an elective (with reference to the above example, by
scheduling Corporate finance as the advanced/elective business course);
 by scheduling the required course as an extra course in the event in which the advanced/elective
business course is already a required course (thus, when the advanced/elective business course is
already a required course, the Corporate finance course would be included in the study plan as an
extra course).
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Changes to study plans
Study plans approved at the beginning of the first year of the programme may be changed at the beginning
of the second year, at a date no later than the deadline set by the Polo Studenti, and by taking into account
that:
no changes are made to courses already taken;
 any course changes must be made within the same group of courses (for example, an advanced
course may only be substituted by another advanced course).
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Submission and approval of study plans
Study plans proposed by students must be submitted on or before the date set by the Polo Studenti. The
Polo Studenti and the programme coordinator will check that the rules set out above are complied with
and will then either approve the plan as presented or call a student for further discussion of their plan if
necessary.
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