- Docente: Antonio Del Vecchio
- Credits: 12
- SSD: SPS/02
- Language: Italian
- Moduli: Antonio Del Vecchio (Modulo 1) Antonio Del Vecchio (Modulo 2)
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in History (cod. 0962)
Learning outcomes
By the end of the course students will have acquired the tools to tackle the theoretical and practical issues debated in the history of modern and contemporary political thought, including direct reading of texts by the main authors in the history of political doctrines. They also learn how to identify categories, languages and complex concepts relating to the discipline in a long-term framework and how to express themselves correctly in the appropriate terminology. They will display critical-methodological reasoning skills as used in constructing conceptual maps, adopting analysis models and assessing solutions to theoretical problems.
Course contents
Students will be introduced to main political concepts, such as state, sovereignty, democracy, freedom, equality, citizenship, revolution) through the analysis of the most important classics of modern and contemporary political thought.
Readings/Bibliography
FOR THOSE STUDENTS WHO WILL ATTEND CLASSES:
1) Manuale di storia del pensiero politico , a c. di C. Galli, Bologna, Il Mulino, 20113 (from chapter 3, to chapter 15 included).
2) I grandi testi del pensiero politico. Antologia , a c. di C. Galli, Bologna, Il Mulino, 20112 (ten authors selected by the student)
FOR THOSE STUDENTS WHO WILL NOT ATTEND CLASSES:
1) Manuale di storia del pensiero politico , a
c. di C. Galli, Bologna, Il Mulino, 20113
2) I grandi testi del pensiero politico. Antologia, a
c. di C. Galli, Bologna, Il Mulino, 20112
Teaching methods
The
course consists of lectures. It aims at furnishing the conceptual
instruments and the proper lexicon of the history of modern
political thought, introducing students to direct understanding of classical texts in the history of political
thought, and of a system of radical critique of
modernity.
Assessment methods
Students who attend at least 75% of the lessons are considered to be attending.
The final exam will be an oral one, with questions aimed at verifying student's mastership of the themes discussed in class (only for attending students) as well as those treated in textbooks.
Non-attending students will have to take an oral final exam about the themes treated in textbooks.
The evaluation will focus particularly on the student's capacity of handling the sources and readings indicated in the bibliography and his ability to correlate the various themes and problems addressed in the course.
The assessment will thus examine the student's:
- factual knowledge of the subject;
- ability to summarise and analyse themes and concepts;
- familiarity with the terminology associated with the course and his ability to use it effectively.
Top marks will be awarded to a student displaying an overall understanding of the topics discussed during lectures, combined with a critical approach to the material and a confident and effective use of the appropriate terminology.
Average marks will be awarded to a student who has memorized the main points of the material and is able to summarise them satisfactorily and provide an effective critical commentary, while failing to display a complete mastership of the appropriate terminology.
A student will be deemed to have failed the exam if he displays significant errors in his understanding and failure to grasp the overall outlines of the course, together with a poor mastership of the appropriate terminology.
Office hours
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