Educational objectives The main objective of the course is to teach students not only basic notions of economic relations among countries and economies, but also methodologies that are useful to understand reasons and benefits of international trade and international financial flows. Students are assumed to acquire the capability of applying the adequate formal economic models to the situations related to international economic relations.
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Educational objectives The course illustrates the most advanced theoretical interpretative tools that have been developed in the tradition of geopolitical thought. In this way, it provides a key to understanding the world's political systems and their geopolitical dynamics by introducing an academic understanding of Geopolitics.
The approach relates “real-world” events to theoretical perspectives understanding Geography as an investigation on the links between politics and space.
Therefore, the specific objectives of the course are the acquisition of critical skills and judgment on geopolitical dynamics.
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Educational objectives General Objectives
Provide the student with the basic knowledge:
(1) foundational theoretical and empirical aspects of the theoretical aspects of economic integration and economic policy
(2) of the European economic integration, starting from the commercial integration, moving then to the study of the optimal currency area and discussing the process of economic and monetary integration.
(3) guide students throughout the historical path leading to the enlargement of the European Union (from 6 to 28 Member States), the extension of the competences acquired by the Community institutions, and the deepening of competences in areas that required the transfer of national sovereignty to supranational institutions (e.g., the European Central Bank).
Specific Objectives
(1) Specific objectives aim at giving the students qualified skills on the processes that have affected European integration both from an institutional-juridical point of view and from an economic and international economic policy point of view.
(2) widen and increase the knowledge of students so to empower them to pass from the status of passive to one of active and participating subject of the main policies of the European Union.
The intention is to broaden the knowledge and understanding of the effects of economic and commercial integration by allowing the student to transition from the status of a passive subject - because he has little information on these issues - to an active and participating subject of the choices made by the European political and economic leaders. The acquisition of this basic knowledge will allow participants to take part in current debates in particular on the future of the European Union, on the proposals of the reformers of the European construction and to better understand the positions of those who are now taking sides against the EU.
The development of these skills is ensured by the participation of students in frontal lessons, by discussions in the classroom, possibly with with experts invited to report on their work experience with the European institutions
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