Languages of Asia for Business and International Cooperation - Southeast Asia Curriculum Ca' Foscari University of Venice

Overview

The Master's Degree Programme offers four curricula: South-East Asia (entirely taught in English) and Chinese, Japanese and Arabic (entirely taught in Italian).

The program allows students to acquire high language and communication skills, combined with a solid knowledge of the current institutional and socio-economic reality in the geographical area of specialization. In particular, the following will be studied:

• Sectoral languages in the legal, political, economic and social fields;
• Recent institutional systems and socio-economic changes, viewed from a historical perspective;
• The relationship between national processes and the wider regional and global context;
• Research methods and tools, including computer science.

The student develops analytical and intercultural communication skills across different sectors. The achievement of training objectives is guaranteed by the presence of teachers specialized in the disciplines and geographical areas covered by the course.

Career opportunities

Graduates can find employment with businesses and financial institutions operating in Asianand North African markets, with national and international public organisations, with volunteer facilities and institutions operating in cooperation with these and in development sectors.

Possible career opportunities include:

• Interpreter
• Translator
• Technical editor
• Linguist or philologist
• Researcher and educator
• Journalist
• Economic systems specialist
• Market regulation specialist
• Economic planning specialist
• Economic and financial consultant

Accreditation

QS rankings by subjects: top 100 for Modern Languages