2016/2017

2016/2017

DM270

SPS/01 (POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY)

DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

ECONOMICS, POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS

PERCORSO COMUNE

1°

1st semester (03/10/2016 - 17/12/2016)

6

40 lesson hours

ENGLISH

ORAL TEST

CEVA EMANUELA MARIA (titolare) - 6 ECTS

Access to the exam is conditional upon attendance of all the lectures and seminars.

The course aims to introduce students to the main features of the Italian political system and of Italian society.

The course covers a range of topics, including the following: Italian political institutions; Italian economic development; regional differences; the Italian welfare state; the Italian party system; media and electoral campaigns in Italy; Italian political ideas; controversies in public ethics; Italy’s contribution to European integration; the impact of European integration on Italian politics and policies; Italian foreign policy.

The course consists in a mixture of lectures and seminars, held by various members of the Department of Political and Social Sciences, in which students will discuss a series of texts.

Readings will be indicated by the lecturers at the beginning of the course.

Written and oral exam. For the exam, students are expected to write an essay of no more than 3,000 words on a topic to be decided in agreement with one of the course lecturers. Essays must be written in English. The final exam mark will depend both on the essay and on active participation in classes.

Course aimed specifically at first-year foreign students following the Magistrale degree course in “World Politics and International Relations” and at the second year students following the Magistrale degree course in “Professional Communication and Multimedia” (free choice credits). The course is also open to students of other degree courses, and to Erasmus visiting students, both graduate and undergraduate.