- Docente: Sofia Ventura
- Credits: 8
- SSD: SPS/04
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Forli
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in International relations and diplomatic affairs (cod. 8783)
Learning outcomes
The aim of the course is to analyse the most important concepts of political science from both a methodological and a substantive point of view. At the end of the course students are supposed to be able to manage political science concepts in order to understand and analyse with critical awareness the political public discourse.
Course contents
The aim of the course is to analyse the most important
concepts of political science from both a methodological and a
substantive point of view. At the end of the course students are
supposed to be able to manage political science concepts in order
to understand and analyse with critical awareness the political
public discourse.
- Concept analysis
- Political philosophy, political theory, political science and
common discourse
- Main political concepts building (Politics,
Authoritarianism/Totalitarianism, Populism, Representation,
Political party, Equality, Ideology, Rights, Liberty, etc.)
- Analysis of how concepts are used in the political public
discourse
Readings/Bibliography
1) G. Sartori, Elementi di Teoria Politica, Bologna, Il
Mulino, 2003.
2) Selected entries from N. Bobbio, N. Matteucci G. Pasquino,
Dizionario di Politica (Handbook of politics), Utet, 2013 to
be communicated in class.
Teaching methods
Teaching lessons and seminars
Assessment methods
All students will be evaluated on the basis of participation in class discussions (30 per cent) and the elaboration of a written work at the end of the course (70%).
Teaching tools
Power point, illustration of audiovisual materials.
Office hours
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