- Docente: Paul Matthew Loveless
- Crediti formativi: 6
- SSD: SPS/04
- Lingua di insegnamento: Inglese
- Modalità didattica: Convenzionale - Lezioni in presenza
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Laurea in European Studies (cod. 5983)
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dal 30/09/2024 al 12/12/2024
Conoscenze e abilità da conseguire
The course provides notions about the method, concepts, categories, and key patterns of Political Science. At the end of the course the student will be able to describe and interpret political phenomena and, especially, the functioning and transformations of democratic political systems. The course also provides students with intellectual tools for decoding the current political debate, as well as with logical and linguistic tools for communicating the results of their analysis to an audience of specialists and non-specialists.
Contenuti
This course exposes students to the breadth, variety, motivations, and challenges in the study of politics. Students will engage fields of inquiry that dominate the study of politics, including parties, behavior, institutions, global politics, and philosophy, inter alia. In addition, students will be introduced to – and participate in debates on - common but problematic concepts such as democracy, justice, equality, fairness. Pedagogically, the course surveys core debates in the study of politics, highlighting the main components in current political science research. As devised, this course will offer students the opportunity to engage with core contributions and controversies in order to advance their own understanding and study of politics.
A detailed syllabus is available on Virtuale
This course is part of the BAES program (UnaEuropa) and is not open to Erasmus (or other) students.
Testi/Bibliografia
The main textbook is Garner, R., P. Ferdinand, S. Lawson, and D.B. MacDonald. 2020. Introduction to Politics. Oxford University Press.5th edition
Other readings will be made available on Virtuale: https://virtuale.unibo.it/
Metodi didattici
Lectures and Activity Seminars. In addition, there is the expectation that students will engage in independent and unguided research on the issues that most interest them. In particular, students may explore in detail aspects and issues introduced in the lectures; link them to wider issues in political research; and reflect critically on them.
Modalità di verifica e valutazione dell'apprendimento
There will be two assessments. The first are weekly assignments that will ask students to respond to questions related to topics from the previous week(s). The assignments will follow Weeks 2-10 for a total of 9 assignments. This will be done electronically (Virtuale: https://virtuale.unibo.it/ ).The second assessment will be a final exam held in the exam period according to the UNIBO academic calendar.
The final mark has 2 parts:
- [1] 50% of the final grade is the average of 8 assignments (the lowest assignment grade will be dropped).
- [2] 50% of the final grade is a final exam covering material from all parts of the course
Strumenti a supporto della didattica
Course material includes presentation slides, book chapters, academic articles, documents, and other materials. These will be made fully available to students via Virtuale.: https://virtuale.unibo.it
Orario di ricevimento
Consulta il sito web di Paul Matthew Loveless