notizie sull insegnamento di lingua letteratura e cultura romena presso la regia scuola superiore di commercio la facolta di economia e commercio e l universita ca foscari venezia

The aim of this research is to retrace the evolution of the academic study of Romanian at Ca' Foscari University, from its introduction in the second half of the 19th century to the present day, introducing a series of unpublished documents. The study highlights the most important periods for the above-mentioned course: 1883/84 – 1891 when Professor Marco Antonio Canini founded the Romanian language and culture course at Regia Scuola Superiore di Commercio di Venezia, the 1940s when Anna Potop was appointed Professor of Romanian at the Istituto Universitario di Economia e di Commercio, the 1970s when Sorin Stati coordinated courses of Romanian language and culture and ending with the late 1990s and 2000s when the courses were reinstated due to the collaboration between the Istituto Romeno di Cultura e Ricerca Umanistica di Venezia and Ca' Foscari University

Colloquial Arabic Teaching at Ca' Foscari

Since the '70s Ca' Foscari teachers have been facing the challenge of diglossia that typifies the Arab world where the oral use of Standard Arabic is reserved to specific situations, while colloquial varieties of the same language are used for ordinary conversations. Thus, learning Colloquial Arabic is a paramount need to communicate with native Arabic speakers. Moreover, diglottic proficiency is necessary to access several contemporary cultural outputs of the Arab world. This article describes the features of Arabic diglossia and instructional approaches meant to cope with the phenomenon. It then offers a brief account of Colloquial Arabic teaching at Ca' Foscari, which has been a European vanguard in the field

I primi anni della Scuola Superiore di Commercio attraverso il primo Resoconto della gestione

The retrieval of the first financial report allows the analysis of the income and expenses of the Advanced School for Commerce from 1868 to 1872. This analysis shows the relevance of two groups of accounting headings: the contributions of the founding bodies and the government to the revenues; the salaries of the Director and of the faculty to the expenses. The numerical data corroborate the information available in other descriptive sources, allowing to discuss the crucial contribution of specific items to the good initial functioning of the School. The chapter also presents a comparison of the weightings of the main groups of accounting headings in the first report and in the last one