Political Sciences and International Security

Educational objectives

The course aims to provide a deep knowledge of the history of political movements and parties in Europe and Italy and its relationship with the main international political processes from the end of the Ancien Regime to current political context. Within the course there will be a focus dedicated to the development of environmental movements and "green" parties in Italy and in Europe after World War II.
The issues of genesis and evolution of parties, of their connection with the other political players, of their institutional role and their relationship with the society will be highlighted.
At the end of the course students will be able to analyze the main issues of the modern political system and the role played by the parties in it.
The contemporary party-form will be studied in perspective, looking at its future evolution both in its political and social dimension. Thanks to this approach, the keyconcepts of the course could be applied to other scientific contexts of the course program and used to develop researches.
Student's critical skills will be trained by a constant dialogue with the professor, use of different research materials and by a term paper on books regarding the main issues of the course. This paper will permit students to enlarge their perception of the issues related to the course and to verify their analysis' skills reflecting on the possible implication of these topics in the main contents of the program.
At the final lessons students give a final presentation on their term papers and will be able to compare their opinions and points of view with the rest of the class.
In this way the course aims to assess and strength students' analytical skills and exposition in teamwork and, at the same time, their daily use outside learning context.

Educational objectives

Learning capacity to analyze contemporary democracies and their aporias, through a critical examination of their historical-theoretical foundations. The course will develop the knowledge of the most important contemporary authors - focusing the principle of human equality and its influence on building of social and political bond -, in the light of their theoretical opinion on human condition.

Educational objectives

The course provides an introduction to the main basic methods and tools for the quantitative assessment of economic policies, in particular regional, industrial and labor market policies. The main objectives of the course are:
a) knowledge of the main counterfactual methods at the basic level for policy evaluation
b) provide the statistical bases to allow knowledge of counterfactual methods of policy evaluation
c) development of the skills related to the critical evaluation of policy evaluation analysis, also through the study of specific evaluation studies
d) enable the student to independently produce and process evaluation case studies, also through laboratories for the statistical program R
e) develop the communication skills of the evaluation also with presentation of synthetic essays.

The final objective is to provide the student with guidance on how to evaluate a policy and how to deal with the problems that arise in the analysis of a quantitative policy evaluation study.

Educational objectives

The course aims at introducing students to the knowledge of citizenship as social, cultural, political and institutional phenomenon. Citizenship has been of crucial importance in the building of democratic societies; but nowadays it is living deep changes. These changes have given place to unexpected developments, with uncertain results. In any case, they have definitely modified the citizenship device, which remains, however, an essential point of reference for the building and development of democratic societies.

Specific objectives of the course are the following:
- To offer students a systematic knowledge of democratic citizenship as an inclusion, cohesion and development device of modern and contemporary societies, with reference to the results of scientific research started in the '90s;
- To enable students to employ an empirical approach to observe and analyze social, cultural, political and institutional dynamics involving democratic citizenship;
- To favor the students' abilities to evaluate situations and processes, as well as to build scenarios on the future of democratic citizenship, through case studies, dialogue with experts, discussion on controversial topics, exercises.

Dublin Descriptors
1. Knowledge and understanding: through the lessons, students will gain appropriate knowledge to understand the phenomenon of democratic citizenship through the conceptual structure that will be provided.
2. Applying knowledge and understanding: the mix of theoretical topics and analysis of materials and cases will enable students to develop a proper operational ability, so that they will learn to use concepts and theories at the end of gather information on citizenship and its transformations.
3. Making judgements: the analysis of the ongoing transformations in democratic citizenship will enable students to enhance their attitude to deliver autonomous judgements, also thanks to individual exercises and working groups.
4. Communication: through class discussion of themes and issues dealt with in the lessons, and through individual or group presentations, students will improve their communication abilities.
5. Learning skills: students will be stimulated to refine learning techniques and methods through the interaction with the teacher as well as with researchers, experts, and people engaged in public policies during ad hoc meetings.

In the final evaluation students will have to prove that have proper knowledge and abilities, so that they could produce information on the citizenship phenomenon and elaborate critical reflections and operational strategies to be used in a professional environment.

Educational objectives

The course aims to offer students the knowledge of the main theories on political communication, mass-communication and political/social actors communication's strategies. In addition, special attention will be paid to some issues, such as political communication effects, campagin's strategies and the evolution of political communication throughout online tools (such as social networks and blogs).
Communication skills and the ability to elaborate analysis and judgments on the issues addressed will also be stimulated through active participation in open discussions with external guests and by gathering and discussing empirical case-studies.
Through these opportunities, the course aims to offer theoretical and empirical tools for the analysis of the political communication processes and the relationships among media, political and social actors.

Educational objectives

The course objective is twofold: on one hand it aims to consolidate and increase basic English language skills (as identified by level B2 of the Common European Framework of Reference) through listening, speaking, writing and reading practices. On the other hand, the course intends to provide students with appropriate critical tools for the metalinguistic analysis of specific textual typologies typical of institutional communication (such as political speeches) conveyed through traditional and 'social' media.

The course is divided into two components: a monographic part delivered by the course lead and a part of language activities delivered by native speaker readers.

The monographic component of this course focuses on the use of language in specific politics and international relations contexts. Throughout the course, specific examples on the use of English in political, institutional, diplomatic and mass communication contexts will be analyzed from linguistic and pragmatic-discursive points of view. Through practical examples, the relationship between language and power will be highlighted with a specific focus on politics as a discursive practice.

The monographic course is accompanied by lettorati, a set of language activities aimed at developing the students' main linguistic skills (reading, writing, speaking) and focusing on consolidating English syntax, phonetics, and pragmatics.

Please note: the course is delivered jointly to first-year and second-year students (9 and 6 CFUs respectively). For differences in course delivery and assessment please read the following sections.

Educational objectives

The course aims to offer students an advanced knowledge of Spanish language and linguistics. It will provide them the theoretical and empirical tools to deepen, even independently, the study of Spanish and the analysis of texts and discourses for specific purposes.

Specific objectives:

a) The Spanish linguistic laboratory, held by the Expert Linguistic Collaborators, aims to develop the 4 basic skills: written and oral production and comprehension.

b) The monographic course, taught by the professor, intends to stimulate the ability to apply linguistic knowledge to the analysis of specific communication contexts and fields, namely the political one. These topics will be introduced through a variety of materials and oral and written documents in the FL to strengthen communication skills and stimulate metalinguistic reflection and individual analysis.

Exchange and active participation will also be favored through moments of confrontation with external guests.

Educational objectives

Secondo i Descrittori di Dublino, al termine del corso gli studenti dovranno
- dimostrare conoscenze e capacità di comprensione della lingua francese che rafforzino quelle del primo ciclo e permettano di sviluppare idee originali, in particolare in un contesto di ricerca;
- essere capaci di risolvere problemi in ambiti nuovi o non familiari, inseriti in contesti più ampi o interdisciplinari, relativi al francese;
- integrare la conoscenza del francese e gestire la complessità dell'uso del francese; formulare giudizi anche in presenza di informazioni limitate; riflettere sulle responsabilità sociali ed etiche associate all'applicazione di determinate conoscenze e giudizi;
- comunicare le conoscenze in e sul francese, sapendo illustrare i processi che hanno portato alla loro acquisizione a interlocutori specialisti e non;
- Studiare la lingua francese in modo autonomo e indipendente. Essere in grado di ideare e sviluppare un progetto in o sulla lingua francese e di portarlo a termine entro il termine stabilito.

Educational objectives

The course aims to offer students an advanced knowledge of Spanish language and linguistics. It will provide them the theoretical and empirical tools to deepen, even independently, the study of Spanish and the analysis of texts and discourses for specific purposes.

Specific objectives:

a) The Spanish linguistic laboratory, held by the Expert Linguistic Collaborators, aims to develop the 4 basic skills: written and oral production and comprehension.

b) The monographic course, taught by the professor, intends to stimulate the ability to apply linguistic knowledge to the analysis of specific communication contexts and fields, namely the political one. These topics will be introduced through a variety of materials and oral and written documents in the FL to strengthen communication skills and stimulate metalinguistic reflection and individual analysis.

Exchange and active participation will also be favored through moments of confrontation with external guests.

Educational objectives

The course aims to provide the paradigmatic tools of the analysis of political language, with particular attention to the phenomenon of populism.
At the end of the course students will be able to reconstruct the historical and conceptual evolution of the term and its concrete achievements.
The historical analysis is accompanied by the contemporary analysis of current populisms, the elements in common and the differences they have.

Educational objectives

The course aims to provide students with the necessary tools to achieve a degree of basic preparation on the most important principles and institutions of administrative law, also in order to encourage further study in master's degree studies.
More specifically, the course will provide knowledge about sources, subjective legal situations, administrative activity; the issues related to the organization of the public administration (subjects, structures and relationships, the staff); the most relevant profiles of public contracts and assets.
These are contents that can provide students with useful knowledge to develop specific skills concerning central and local public administrations and public bodies and those skills necessary to understand complex realities in order to apply this knowledge in the workplace.
This course fits perfectly within the specific objectives of the course of Administration and Organization Sciences, as it allows a thorough understanding and an adequate understanding of the main tools of the activity and of the administrative organization (as well as an ability to decline as part of recent innovative administrative law reforms). With the course the student will acquire the methodology of study and research of administrative law; that is to go in for the principles, the general part and the special part of administrative law, which is characterized by different national and European regulatory sources and not by a single code.
What is more, in order to apply themselves to the acquired knowledge and to implement their judgement autonomy, students will work through practices and/or work group on specific topics covered by the course.
This will allow students to develop the skills to communicate what they have learned in frontal lessons even in a working context or just to continue for further studies.
Finally, the verification of the achievement of the knowledge and skills described will be achieved not only through the traditional final examination but also in the continuous and progressive monitoring of learning outcomes by means of oral intermediate tests.

Educational objectives

The course aims to provide students with the knowledge of national welfare system, in his legal aspects, also through the comparison with other European social security systems and the study of the European coordination of national social security systems.
More specifically, the course is designed to provide with a solid preparation in the field of social security, which allows them to be critically oriented towards the different aspects of welfare state, with reference to both national and European legislation. Particular attention will be devoted to the: diachronic reconstruction of pensions legislation; regulatory framework of "social safety nets"; actions to combat poverty and social exclusion; growing development of the role of private parties in management of welfare policies.
At the end of the course, students will gain critical awareness of the functioning of the welfare system, especially in the current socio-economic context, characterized by significant problems of economic sustainability. Students will also acquire a correct legal language and a specialized terminology to develop communication skills, also through classroom discussion of concrete cases and active participation in group exercises.

Educational objectives

The course offers an overview to the internal and external policies of the EU. The course will give the instruments to understand the legal aspects of the EU policies and to critically analyzes the methods and the content of EU substantial Law.

The specific objective of the discipline include:

1) the knowledge and the comprehension of:

a) the internal policies of the EU, such as nternal Market, Free Movement of goods, persons, capitals and payments, freedom to provide service, Agriculture and Fisheries, Area of freedom, security and justice,Transport, Competition, State aid, Harmonisation of National Legislation, Economic and Monetary Policy, Social Policy and Employment, Sectorial policies;
b) the external action

2) the ability to apply knowledge and comprehension through the acquisition of skills aimed to analyze and to interpret the main developments of internal and external policies.

3) the ability to exercise critical thinking through the solicitation of reflections and discussions on events relating to major policies adopted by the EU.

Educational objectives

The course aims to provide students with theoretical and institutional tools to understand the rationale of fiscal decentralization. The multi-level government’s organization will be analyzed from a theoretical and empirical point of view focusing on the recent evolution of decentralization in Italy. Specifically the goals of the course are:
a) Illustration of the motivations and tools of decentralization.
b) Knowledge of the methodological aspects of the analysis of the local public finance.
c) Application of the economic theories to decentralized governments.
d) Development of the evaluation autonomy and critical ability to understand tpublic policies.
e) Development of a tecnical language, adequate to express the economic concepts.
f) Acquisition of learning skills necessary to deepen and update the relevant issues, also using different references, and to understake subsequent studies.

Educational objectives

The aim of this course is to provide students with the keys to understand contemporary
society in the organizational dynamics of order / change / conflict / integration and the
new social processes in progress, both at national and international level. Specific
attention will be given to the relationship between economy and society determined by
transnational capitalism and to the issue of war. Particular attention will be given to the
still current insights of the classics of sociological thought, in order to bring out the
historical processuality of certain phenomena, from modernity to present day.
At the end of the course, the student will have learned the fundamental determinants of
the current social change and will know how to grasp the social and cultural meaning of
the economic and war transformations of our time.

Educational objectives

This course aims to provide a solid and critic background of the international history from the 19th century through the present with a particular focus on the Italian Foreign Policy.

Educational objectives

Policy analysis' research object is the definition, implementation and evaluation of programs and activities promoted by public institutions and other actors to face common interest problems and opportunities. It is a branch of political science, but borrows concepts and tools from several other social sciences.

The aim of the course is to provide knowledge, information and tools enabling students to:
- know the conceptual structure of policy analysis;
- learn to use it as a tool for analysis and evaluation of policies;
- design a public policy and follow its implementation.

Dublin Descriptors:

1. Knowledge and understanding: through the lessons, students will gain appropriate knowledge to understand public policies and conceptual tools aimed at their analysis and evaluation.
2. Applying knowledge and understanding: the mix of theoretical topics and analysis of materials and cases will enable students to develop a proper operational ability, so that they will learn to use concepts and theories at the end of gather information on actual public policies.
3. Making judgements: the toolbox for the analysis of public policies will enable students to enhance their attitude to deliver autonomous judgements, also thanks to individual exercises and working groups.
4. Communication: through class discussion of themes and issues dealt with in the lessons, and through individual or group presentations, students will improve their communication abilities.
5. Learning skills: students will be stimulated to refine learning techniques and methods through the interaction with the teacher as well as with researchers, experts, and people engaged in public policies during ad hoc meetings.

In the final evaluation students will have to prove that have proper knowledge and abilities, so that they could produce analysis and contribute to the design, implementation and evaluation of public policies, consistent with a professional framework.

Educational objectives

The course aims to offer students an advanced knowledge of Spanish language and linguistics. It will provide them the theoretical and empirical tools to deepen, even independently, the study of Spanish and the analysis of texts and discourses for specific purposes.

Specific objectives:

a) The Spanish linguistic laboratory, held by the Expert Linguistic Collaborators, aims to develop the 4 basic skills: written and oral production and comprehension.

b) The monographic course, taught by the professor, intends to stimulate the ability to apply linguistic knowledge to the analysis of specific communication contexts and fields, namely the political one. These topics will be introduced through a variety of materials and oral and written documents in the FL to strengthen communication skills and stimulate metalinguistic reflection and individual analysis.

Exchange and active participation will also be favored through moments of confrontation with external guests.

Educational objectives

The course provides knowledge of federal theories and institutions from the eighteenth century to the present, orienting the student to the knowledge of a mode of formation of the modern state and international relations built on the ideal of peace. Particular attention is also given to the relationship between local authorities and central government in function of a greater responsibility of political participation.

Educational objectives

"Seminars, Traineeships, Internships":
The 6 credits related to Seminars, Traineeships, internships, can be acquired or all for internships or internships of at least 150 hours of duration or two seminars of 3 credits each or a seminar of 3 credits and an internship or duration at least 75 hours. The recognition of the aforesaid activities will take place by delivering the relative certificates to the student office, between September and December of each year. The student can acquire these activities starting from the first year of the course. The recognition can only take place by simultaneously submitting all the documents relating to the total of 6 credits in the Secretariat.

Educational objectives

The credits related to the laboratory can also be acquired through the laboratory indicated in the Didactic Regulations of the degree course organized by the Department of Political Sciences.