2017/2018

2017/2018

DM270

IUS/09 (INSTITUTIONS OF PUBLIC LAW)

DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION AND MULTIMEDIA

PERCORSO COMUNE

1°

2nd semester (26/02/2018 - 30/05/2018)

6

36 lesson hours

Italian

ORAL TEST

ILLARI SILVIA (titolare) - 6 ECTS

Though no formal prerequisites are required to attend the course, a basilar knowledge of the Italian constitutional framework will surely help in the understanding and in participating to the lessons.

The course focuses on crisis and emergency risk communication with reference to the National service of civil protection in Italy. The first part of the course is an introduction that deals with the main features of the Italian constitutional system and its institutional design. The second part of the course is devoted to the National service of civil protection: organization, activities and tolls to inform and communicate. In this part the students learn civil protection is not a task assigned to a sole administration, but is a function belonging to a complex system. This system must inform and communicate in time of peace or in the event of major natural, technological and radiological disasters to ensure better protection of people, the environment, property and cultural heritage in emergency situations. Finally, the last part of the course is devoted to civil protection and social media.
Two are the main goals of the course: 1) to provide students with a basic knowledge and understanding of the main framework of the public law and the National protection civil service; 2) to provide the tools required for understanding the communication in the risk. After a general introduction to some fundamental concepts of the discipline, the students will be stimulated on some practical experiences in order to widen their practical knowledge of the subject too.

The course focuses on:
1) the main features of the Italian constitutional system:
- form of State and form of government
- The Parliament
- The President of the Republic
- The Government
- Regions, provinces and municipalities
- Public administrations
- Sources of law

2) Risk communication in emergency time
- National Service of Civil Protection (structure, functions and
- Civil Protection Department
- Civil protection information in peace time: actors, actions and tools
- Civil protection information in emergency time: actors, actions and tools
- Communication plan
- Practical experiences

3) Pubblic administration and social media:
- Public institutions and social media in Italy
- National service of civil protection and social media
- U.S.A. Experience
- Some good practices

Lectures, seminars, presentations by students; workshops, problem solving discussions.

A list of required readings will be available to students through the course website, immediately after the beginning o f the course,

The final examination will be oral.