Geographical exploration
The slave trade
Some case studies of African nations: Ashanti, Ethiopia, Zulu
Colonial expansion
Panafricanism
The struggle for indipendence

- J.D. Fage, A History of Africa, 1978, Chap.III & IV

- L. Goglia - F. Grassi, Il colonialismo italiano da Adua all'impero, Laterza, chap. II.

This course focuses on the contemporary history of international relations in East Asia. Particular attention will be devoted to the positions occupied by Japan and China during the Cold War years, as well as to their interactions both with the other regional actors, the two Superpowers and Europe. The analysis of the factors generated by the bipolar order will facilitate the identification of continuity and discontinuity lines in the broader context of globalization.
A seminar will address the issue of the construction of the political identity in China through the Communist Party rhetoric in the post-Maoist period.

The syllabus for attending students is the following:

1) Best, Hanhimaki, Maiolo, Schulze, Storia delle relazioni internazionali. Il mondo nel XX secolo e oltre, UTET 2014 (capitoli: 8, 9, 10, 12, 14 e 15).
2) O. Frattolillo, Il Giappone tra Est e Ovest, FrancoAngeli 2014.
3) F. Mazzei & V. Volpi, Asia al centro, EGEA 2014, second edition (capitoli: 2, 3, 4, 10 e 12).


The syllabus for non-attending students is the following:

1) Best, Hanhimaki, Maiolo, Schulze, Storia delle relazioni internazionali. Il mondo nel XX secolo e oltre, UTET 2014 (capitoli: 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14 e 15).
2) Frattolillo, Il Giappone tra Est e Ovest, FrancoAngeli 2014.
3) Mazzei, Volpi, Asia al centro, EGEA 2014, seconda edizione (per intero).
4) R. Lim, Geopolitics of East Asia, Routledge 2005.
5) One of the following books (free choice):
- Frattolillo, Diplomacy in Japan-EU Relations, Routledge 2013;
- Frattolillo, Interwar Japan beyond the West, Cambridge SP 2012;
- Frattolillo, L’etica dell’interessere, Mimesis 2013.

The course aims at exploring the History of the Islamic world in its genesis with a special focus on it historical origin, in order to provide the students with:

a. A methodological introduction to the history of Islam and the Muslim majority countries, aiming at a critical approach, aware of the dangers of prejudices and misrepresentations. Hence, students will be introduced to the question of Orientalism, and its persistence until today, then the question of periodization of History from an Islamic viewpoint, looking in a diachronic way, at eras of the Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Region where Islam was born and developed in the first instance.
b. Basic elements of Islamic studies: creed, texts, pillars, umma, jihad, Law (shari'ah). Moreover, students will study the notions of: authority, Shi'a and Sunna, Caliphate and Imamate; Dhimma; Everyday Islam.
c. Outline of politico-institutional History of Islam from the Unity of the Caliphate until the fragmentation and the Ottoman Empire, highlighting the plurality of experiences of the Islamic States.
d. An Introduction to the basic themes of Modern and Contemporary History of Muslim Majority Countries, with a special focus on Middle East and North Africa.

For those attending the course:

- Appunti delle lezioni
- Lorenzo Declich, Islam in 20 parole, Bari-Roma: Laterza 2016.
- Pier Giovanni Donini, Il mondo islamico. Breve storia dal Cinquecento a oggi, Bari-Roma: Economica Laterza, 2015 (o altre edizioni).
- Short articles available in pdf from https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/122G5xn30mQ13pp4l2xlMA3ShjkbQgbAR, including:
- Anna Bozzo, L’Islàm questo sconosciuto.
- EW Said, Orientalismo, “Introduzione”.
- G. Endress, Introduzione alla storia del mondo musulmano, Capp. 1-3-6.

Those non attending must read one of the following:

- Carole Hillenbrand, Islam. Una nuova introduzione storica, Torino: Einaudi, 2016.
- G. Filoramo (a cura di), Islam, Roma-Bari: Laterza, ultima edizione.

We will also consult this translation of the Qur'an:
Il Corano, traduzione e cura di A. Bausani, Milano, BUR.

The colonization of Eritrea
The first war in Africa
The conquest of Libya
The Italian colonies during the First World War
The "pacification" of Tripolitania and Cyrenaica
The Italo-Ethiopian war
Racism in the colony
"Madamato" and "meticciato"

A. Volterra, Sudditi coloniali. Ascari eritrei 1935-1941, FrancoAngeli, Milano, 2005

A.Volterra, M.Zinni, Il leone, il giudice e il capestro, Donzelli, Roma, 2021

Part One. Basic concepts. The European System of Economic Accounts (ESA). ESA 2010 innovations. Aggregate accounts (current accounts, accumulation accounts, balance sheets). Statistical measures of production’ factors (capital and labour).
Part Two. Index Numbers: definition, methods and properties, consumer price index . Dynamic and static spatial analysis of economic-productive phenomena. Definitions and measures of inequality and poverty. The measurement of well-being.

Cesare Piacentino, Elementi di Statistica Economica e Contabilità Nazionale, Aracne, Roma, 2009:
cap. 1, 2 cap. 5 § 5.1 § 5.2 § 5.5, cap. 3, 6

Schemi e appunti di contabilità nazionale secondo il nuovo sistema europeo, a cura di Mazziotta C., Di Palma F., De Castris M., 2006.
“La rilevazione dello stock di capitale” a cura di Mazziotta C., Magazzino C., 2005.
“I coefficienti tecnici nella tavola input-output”, a cura di Mazziotta C. e De Castris M., 2007.
“Le principali novità del Sec 2010”, a cura di De Castris M., 2016.
Parte seconda.
Cesare Piacentino, Elementi di Statistica Economica e Contabilità Nazionale, Aracne, Roma, 2009:
cap. 3, 6
Renato GUARINI e Franco TASSINARI, Statistica Economica, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2000:
cap. 12, § 6
Dispensa esercizi per la prova scritta:
Esercizi e soluzioni relativi alla seconda parte, a cura di Mazziotta C. e De Castris M., 2007.
Dispense integrative relative alle lezioni della parte seconda:
L’analisi della povertà: concetti e metodi, a cura di De Castris M., 2016.
Analisi statistica dei dati territoriali, a cura di De Castris M., 2016.
N.B. Le dispense integrative sono disponibili presso 4Appunti, via Chiabrera, 174, tel. 06.59605579.

The course aims at providing an outline of the evolution of economic theorizing from Antiquity to the most recent developments. A special attention will be devoted to the works of F. Quesnay, A. Smith, D. Ricardo, T. R. Malthus, K. Marx, A. Marshall, V. Pareto, J. M. Keynes. As concerns the most recent developments of economic theory a particular attention will be devoted to theories concerning money, business cycle, unemployment, financial crises. The course further aims at providing a critical awareness on the relationships among economic theory and its practical implementation in terms of public policies.

To be agreed upon with the Professor.

- Women's conditions in ancient Greece: Plato and the queens philosophers
- At the roots of misoginy: Aristotle
- Niccolò Machiavelli through the interpretative category of gender
- Proto-feminism in Venice during the XVIIth century
- Mary Wollstonecraft and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Contemporary feminism: equality and sexual difference.

Readings given by the professor

The aim of the first part of the course is providing to the students some basic instruments of knowledge: a) the meaning of politics; b) how to construct scientific theories; c) elements of methodology used by political science to investigate the political phenomena.
The second part of the course analyses some crucial themes, such as: a) the state and the processes of state-building; b) the process of European integration; c) the types and features of political regimes (non-democratic, hybrid and democratic regimes).
The third part of the course analyses, always in a comparative perspective, the subject of democracy: a) political parties, groups, social movements; b) elections and electorial systems; c) political representation; d) the democratic institutional systems (parliament, government, public administrations); e) the actors and the dynamics of policy-making.

Texts for the exam:

1) Handbook - P. GRILLI DI CORTONA, O. LANZA, B. PISCIOTTA, L. GERMANO, Capire la politica, Utet Università, Novara, 2020 (third edition);

Here the link to the publisher's website Utet: http://www.utetuniversita.it/catalogo/scienze-umane-e-sociali/capire-la-politica-3694
The book is available in electronic format on Pandoracampus
website: https://www.pandoracampus.it/store/details/10.978.8860/087362

2) Book - P. GRILLI DI CORTONA, Lezioni di scienza politica, a cura di Rosalba Chiarini e Barbara Pisciotta, Editoriale Scientifica, Napoli, 2016.

Objectives

The aim of the course is to introduce the main concepts, approaches, methods and the central problems regarding the scientific analysis of political phenomena in order to provide students with basic knowledge for analyzing and understanding the functioning of contemporary political systems.

Program

The course will present and discuss in comparative perspective all main themes of the discipline, specifically will be analyzed the following topics: state, democracy, non-democratic regimes and regime changes, political parties, interest groups, electoral systems, parliaments, governments, bureaucracy and public policies.

Reference books

1) P. Grilli di Cortona, O. Lanza, B. Pisciotta, L. Germano, Capire la politica. Una prospettiva comparata, Utet, Novara, 2020 (III edizione);
2) P. Grilli di Cortona, Lezioni di scienza politica, a cura di R. Chiarini e B. Pisciotta, Editoriale Scientifica, Napoli, 2016.

The main phenomena and turning points of European history between the end of the fifteenth and the first half of the nineteenth century will be examined and critically analyzed, also in the fundamental dimension of the relations with other cultures and civilizations.

Carlo Capra, Storia moderna 1492-1848, Firenze, Le Monnier Università, 2021.
Paolo Prodi, La storia moderna, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2005.

The first part of the course introduces the most relevant theories of communication, with a specific focus on interpersonal communication. The following topics are considered: interaction rituals, framing practices, rules of conversation, the relation between communication and social identities, pathological forms of communicative interaction. A special focus will consider the role of the stranger and the inclusion and exclusion practices related to migration processes.
The second part of the course will shed light on the social representations and the types of knowledge produced by the media. In particular, the medial representation of gender identities, ethnicity, generation and social class will be considered.

a) Anna Lisa Tota (2020), Ecologia della Parola. Il piacere della conversazione, Einaudi, Torino.
b) The following articles and essays available on the personal web page of the professor hosted on the Moodle platform:

1) Paul Watzlavick (1988), “Le profezie che si autodeterminano”, in La realtà inventata, a cura di Paul Watzlawick, Feltrinelli, Milano, pp. 87-104.
2) David Rosenhan, (1988) "Essere sani in posti insani", in La realtà inventata, a cura di Paul Watzlawick, Feltrinelli, Milano, pp. 105-127.
3) David Sudnow (1965), “L’organizzazione sociale della morte”, in A. Dal Lago, P. P. Giglioli (a cura di) (1983), Etnometodologia, Il Mulino, Bologna, pp. 121-143
4) Harvey Sacks (1972), “Come la polizia valuta la moralità delle persone basandosi sul loro aspetto”, in A. Dal Lago, P. P. Giglioli (a cura di) (1983), Etnometodologia, Il Mulino, Bologna, pp. 177-196.
5) Erving Goffman (1969), La vita quotidiana come rappresentazione, Il Mulino, Bologna (prefazione – cap. 1 “Rappresentazioni” – cap. 2 “Equipes”), pp. 9-126.
6) Alfred Schütz (1944), Lo straniero. Un saggio di psicologia sociale, in Simonetta Tabboni (a cura di) (1993), Vicinanza e lontananza. Modelli e figure dello straniero come categoria sociologica, Milano, Angeli, pp. 127-143.
7) Stuart Hall (1980), "Codifica e decodifica", in Tele-visioni, A. Marinelli e G. Fatelli (a cura di) (2000), Meltemi, Roma, pp. 67-84.
8) Pierre Bourdieu (2015), "Effetti di luogo", in La miseria del mondo, Edizione italiana a cura di Antonello Petrillo, Ciro Tarantino, Milano, Mimesis, pp. 187-197.

The first part of the course introduces the most relevant theories of communication, with a specific focus on interpersonal communication. The following topics are considered: interaction rituals, framing practices, rules of conversation, the relation between communication and social identities, pathological forms of communicative interaction. A special focus will consider the role of the stranger and the inclusion and exclusion practices related to migration processes.
The second part of the course will focus on the social representations and the types of knowledge produced by the media. In particular, the medial representation of gender identities, ethnicity, generation and social class will be considered.

a) Anna Lisa Tota, Ecologia della Parola. Il piacere della conversazione, Einaudi, Torino.
b) The following articles and essays available on the personal web page of the professor hosted on the Moodle platform:

1) Paul Watzlawick, 1988, “Le profezie che si autodeterminano”, in La realtà inventata, a cura di Paul Watzlawick, Feltrinelli, Milano, pp. 87-104.
2) David Rosenhan, "Essere sani in posti insani", in La realtà inventata, a cura di Paul Watzlawick, Feltrinelli, Milano, 1988, pp. 105-127.
3) David Sudnow, 1965, “L’organizzazione sociale della morte”, in A. Dal Lago, P. P. Giglioli (a cura di) (1983), Etnometodologia, Il Mulino, Bologna, pp. 121-143
4) Harvey Sacks, 1972, “Come la polizia valuta la moralità delle persone basandosi sul loro aspetto”, in A. Dal Lago, P. P. Giglioli (a cura di) (1983), Etnometodologia, Il Mulino, Bologna, pp. 177-196.
5) Erving Goffman, 1969, La vita quotidiana come rappresentazione, Il Mulino, Bologna (prefazione – cap. 1 “Rappresentazioni” – cap. 2 “Equipes”), pp. 9-126.
6) Alfred Schütz, 1944, Lo straniero. Un saggio di psicologia sociale, in Simonetta Tabboni (a cura di) (1993), Vicinanza e lontananza. Modelli e figure dello straniero come categoria sociologica, Milano, Angeli, pp. 127-143.
7) Stuart Hall, 1980, "Codifica e decodifica", in Tele-visioni, A. Marinelli e G. Fatelli ( cura di) (2000), Meltemi, Roma, pp. 67-84.
8) Pierre Bourdieu (2015), "Effetti di luogo", in La miseria del mondo, Edizione italiana a cura di Antonello Petrillo, Ciro Tarantino, Milano, Mimesis, pp. 187-197.

The course aims at providing students with an understanding of the history of Latin America from the processes of independence to the end of the 20th century. At the end of the course, students will have an in-depth knowledge of the problems and events dealt with during the lessons and to be able to appropriately contextualize them over the chronological period studied.

The course addresses (among others) these key topics:

- The idea of Latin America
- The process of independence
- The construction of national states and the affirmation of the primary-export model
- European migrations and Latin America
- The English and North American presence
- The Crisis of the Liberal State
- Relations with Europe and the United States in the 1920s and 1930s
- The emergence of the populist state
- The 'great transformation' of Latin America
- The Latin American Cold War
- The Cuban Revolution
- The 1960s: crises, reforms, revolutions
- The counter-revolutionary cycle. The National Security Doctrine, military dictatorships and the neo-liberal state
- The Plan Condor and human rights violations in the Southern Cone
- Democratic transitions in the Southern Cone
- Internal armed conflicts and peace processes in Central America and Colombia
- The women's question in Latin America
- Regional integration processes
- The turn of the century and the challenges of the new millennium

Attending students, in addition to the essays provided by the lecturer, should study the text:

- Loris Zanatta, Storia dell'America Latina contemporanea, Laterza, 2017


Non-attending students will have to study the following texts:

- Loris Zanatta, Storia dell'America Latina contemporanea, Laterza, 2017

- Raffaele Nocera, Stati Uniti e America Latina dal 1823 ad oggi, Carocci

- Francesca Lessa, I processi Condor. La repressione transnazionale e i diritti umani in America del Sud, 24marzo Onlus/Qudu 2023 (Part I)

The course deals with issues relating to the history and politics of the US with special reference to the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. These two documents are central in the American political and social experience. Nowadays, with the radicalization of politics and presidential elections they become all the more relevant. Students will learn how the American system of government works and what are the prerogatives and duties of the president and of Congress. At the end of the semester, students will achieve a deep understanding of the most relevant aspects of American history and society with a special attention on foreign policy and the role of the US at the world level. A special section of the course is dedicated to Bob Dylan and American culture.

First section:

Settimana 1: introduzione al corso e illustrazione dei principali temi trattati. Istituzioni ed elezioni in prospettiva storica. La Dichiarazione di Indipendenza degli Stati Uniti d’America. Libertà e repubblicanesimo.

Settimana 2: La Costituzione: il Congresso e le sue funzioni. Discussione sui compiti e ruoli dei tre organi del governo. La politica americana oggi e le sue radici storiche. La trasformazione del concetto di libertà.

Settimana 3: Bob Dylan e la cultura americana. Una descrizione dell’America.

Settimana 4: L’Ottocento. Federazione, Unione, Nazione. La società e la politica americane e la loro trasformazione. La Guerra Civile e la Ricostruzione. La frontiera e l’espansione degli Stati Uniti.

Second Section:

Settimana 1: Il ruolo degli Stati Uniti a livello internazionale tra la seconda metà dell’Ottocento e inizio Novecento. La società di massa e il nuovo concetto di libertà.

Settimana 2: L’età progressista, il New Deal e la guerra mondiale. Affermazione degli Stati Uniti come grande potenza. Le nuove libertà americane

Settimana 3: Il movimento dei diritti civili, la crisi degli anni settanta e la trasformazione della società. Il nuovo millennio. 9/11. Il paese diviso e la radicalizzazione della politica: Obama e Trump. Il 6/1/21.

Required readings:

Eric Foner, Storia degli Stati Uniti d'America. La «libertà americana» dalle origini a oggi, Roma, Donzelli, 2017.

Alessandro Carrera, La voce di Bob Dylan. Una spiegazione dell’America, Milano, Feltrinelli, 2017, capitoli: 4, 5, 6, pp. 166-286.

La Dichiarazione di indipendenza degli Stati Uniti d’America

La Costituzione degli Stati Uniti d’America. http://www.dircost.unito.it/cs/docs/stati%20uniti%201787.htm


One volume among the following:

Tiziano Bonazzi, Abraham Lincoln. Un dramma americano, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2016.

Francesco Clementi, Eleggere il presidente. Gli Stati Uniti da Roosevelt a oggi, Venezia, Marsilio, 2020

Michael Cox, Agonie dell'impero. Il potere americano da Clinton a Biden, Milano, Vita e Pensiero, 2022

Daniele Fiorentino, Il Pluralismo culturale, Roma, Viella, 2021.

Alessandro Portelli, Bob Dylan, pioggia e veleno, Roma, Donzelli, 2018

Canzoni di Bob Dylan:
Da 'The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan' (1963)
'Blowin' in the Wind'
'Masters of War'
'A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall'
Da 'The Times They Are a-Changin'' (1964)
'The Times They Are a-Changin'
'With God on Our Side'

Non attending students will have to prepare also: La Costituzione degli Stati Uniti, a cura di Fabrizio Tonello, Milano, Bruno Mondadori, 2010

The course aims to provide an adequate overview of the main issues of political, economic and social history that affected Russia and Central and Eastern Europe during the 19th and 20th centuries.

1) Tsarist Autocracy and the Disappearance of the Nation in Central Europe 2) The Balkans and the Ottoman Conquest 3) The Transformations of Russia up to the First World War 3) National Revival in the Balkans 3) Nationalism and Multiethnic Realities in Central Europe 4) What Modernisation? Social, economic and national issues in Eastern Europe between World War I and World War II 5) The Bolshevik Revolution. the birth of a new world 6) Stalinism and the Soviet state 7) World War II and the birth of a new limes in Europe 8) The communist system and the Cold War 9) Crisis and end of communism 10) From the Urals to Trieste... an endless transition? 11) The challenges of the new Russia and the present world.

G. Lami, Storia dell'Europa orientale. Da Napoleone alla prima guerra mondiale, Firenze, Le Monnier Università, 2019

Giovanna Cigliano, La Russia contemporanea. Un profilo storico, Roma, Carocci, 2013

Stefano Bottoni, Un altro Novecento. L'Europa orientale dal 1919 a oggi, Roma, Carocci, 2021. Students attending will need to study the pages starting with the second chapter.

Non-attending students will add the entire volume: Stefano Bottoni, Un altro Novecento. L'Europa orientale dal 1919 a oggi, Roma, Carocci, 2021

First module - Focus on English Grammar

The first module deals with some of the main grammar and morpho-syntactic structures of the English language.

Second module - American Short Stories

The second module is an introduction to the diversity of American culture through short stories and their writers. At the end of the module, students will be able to: analyze the chronological and historical development of the American short story through its most representative authors; become familiar with the act of analyzing and interpreting short stories through appropriate theoretical and methodological frameworks, acknowledging alternative interpretations and developing critical thinking; experience how literary and cultural texts can transform one’s perception and understanding of self, other and communities.

Edgar Allan Poe, “The Tell-Tale Heart” (1843)
Kate Chopin, “Desiree’s Baby” (1893)
Ambrose Bierce, “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” (1890)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper” (1892)
Susan Glaspell, “A Jury of Her Peers” (1917)
Ernest Hemingway, “The Killers” (1927)
Ralph Ellison, “Battle Royal” (1947)
Shirley Jackson, “The Lottery” (1948)
Ray Bradbury, “There Will Come Soft Rains” (1950)
Joyce Carol Oates, “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” (1966)
Alice Walker, “Everyday Use” (1973)
Raymond Carver, “Cathedral” (1983)
Louise Erdrich, “The Red Convertible” (1984)
Tim O’Brien, “The Things They Carried” (1990)

The short stories listed above may be read in any edition in English.

First module: English grammar: Learning the Language
The first module deals with some of the main grammar and morpho-syntactic structures of the English language. The language skills acquired by the students will be assessed at the end of the course.

Second module: Twentieth-century African-American voices
The second module focuses on the literary and critical contribution by twentieth-century African-American writers. In an interdisciplinary framework, the analysis of the formal features of these texts will be instrumental to connect literary and socio-cultural issues. By promoting active participation in class, the adopted teaching method envisages the improvement of language skills and the ability to engage in open discussion.The reference material includes works of fiction, critical essays and audiovisual material.

For all students:

- Adriano Elia, Serena I. Volpi, Heading South with Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes, Padova, Libreriauniversitaria.it, 2021.
- Adriano Elia, W.E.B. Du Bois and Langston Hughes - Two Remarkable Men, Novalogos, 2020.
- Adriano Elia, La Cometa di W.E.B. Du Bois, Roma, RomaTrE-Press, 2015.

Further reference material will be given during the course.

The course will focus on: “The Plague in Literature”.

It will tackle this topic through the analysis of three texts: “La Peste” (1947) by Albert Camus, “Le théâtre et la peste” (1938) by Antonin Artaud and “Les pestiférés” (1977, posthumous) by Marcel Pagnol.

1) Albert Camus, “La Peste”, Paris, Gallimard, 1947 (or any other paperback French edition)

2) Pierre-Louis Rey, “Camus: l’homme révolté”, Paris, Gallimard, 2006, 95 p. (available from Moodle platform or copy shop Appunti, via Chiabrera 174)

3) Antonin Artaud, “Le théâtre et la peste”, in “Le Théâtre et son double”, Paris, Gallimard, 1838, pp. 21-47 (available from Moodle platform or copy shop Appunti, via Chiabrera 174)

4) Marcel Pagnol, “Les pestiférés”, in “Le Temps des amours”, Paris, Éditions de Fallois, 2004, pp. 139-194 (available from Moodle platform or copy shop Appunti, via Chiabrera 174)

Grammar Texts (optional):
1) Michèle Boulares, Jean-Louis Frerot, “Grammaire progressive du français” (niveau avancé), Paris, Clé International, 2012
Or
2) Dominique Berger, Anne Charlotte Signoret, Nerina Spicacci, “Savoir-dire, savoir-faire” (niveaux B1/B2), Bologna, Zanichelli 2008
3) Françoise Bidaud, Marie-Christine Grange, “Manuel de français intermédiaire. Corso di lingua francese (B1/B1+)”, Milano, Hoepli, 2017

Camus’s novel and grammar texts are available from: Feltrinelli Bookstore, Via V. E. Orlando, 78/81 Roma.

The program is divided into three parts. A first theoretical part will illustrate, in a diachronic key, the morphosyntactic foundations of modern French and some essential phases in the evolution of the French language. A second part will focus on institutional relations between France and the French-speaking world, with particular attention paid to the question of language in the French-speaking South (Africa, the Caribbean and Pacific region). Finally, a third part will focus on the linguistic and discursive analysis of enunciation in the transnational context and will be carried out on a selection of authentic texts indicated in the program and available on Moodle. All texts studied in class will be part of the exam.
As Level B1 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) is an essential requirement to register the final exam grade, students who need to pass the B1 test are recommended to check well in advance the class schedule and the exam dates at the Roma Tre University Language Center (CLA).
Those students who already have a language certificate of the above-mentioned level are invited to contact the University Language Center for possible validation of such certificate.

Chapters on the history of French language in France:
1) Françoise Gadet, Ralph Ludwig, Le français au contact d'autres langues, Paris, Éditions Ophrys, 2015, pp. 25-41 (downloadable on Moodle).
2) Henriette Walter, Le français dans tous les sens. Grandes et petites histoires de notre langue, Paris, Robert Laffont, coll. Le goût des mots, 1988 (downloadable on Moodle).
3) Lise Gauvin, La fabrique de la langue. De François Rabelais à Réjean Ducharme, Paris, Seuil, 2004, pp. pp. 22-35 + pagine del cap. 3 fornite su Moodle (downloadable on Moodle, compulsory for non-attending students).

Chapters on the French language in the French-speaking world:
4) Françoise Gadet, La variation sociale en français, Paris, Ophrys, 2007, pp. 13-33 (downloadable on Moodle, to all students).
5) Lise Gauvin, La fabrique de la langue. De François Rabelais à Réjean Ducharme, Paris, Seuil, 2004, ch. VII (downloadable on Moodle, to all students).

Critical and methodological readings on socio-institutional and socio-discursive approaches to the French-speaking world, namely “francodoxie” (downloadable on Moodle)
6) François Provenzano, ch. 2 : "Qu’est-ce que la francodoxie?", in "Vies et mort de la francophonie. Une politique française de la langue et de la littérature", Bruxelles, Les impressions nouvelles, coll. Réflexions faites, 2011, pp. 55-70 (downloadable on Moodle, to all students).
7) Ruth Amossy, ch. 4: "Images de soi, images de l'autre: 'je' / 'tu' ", in "La présentation de soi. Ethos et identité verbale", Paris, PUF, 2010, pp. 103-130 (downloadable on Moodle, to all students).
8) Patrick Charaudeau, Le Discours politique. Les masques du pouvoir, Limoges, Lambert-Lucas, 2014, pp. 87-128 (downloadable on Moodle, compulsory for non-attending students).

Texts/discourses to be analysed (downloadable on Moodle, except for Fatou Diome’s book, to be acquired):
- Discours d'Onésime Reclus (extracts) + reading from Pinhas (downloadable on Moodle, compulsory for non-attending students).
- Discours de Nicolas Sarkozy à la jeunesse de Dakar (2007) + one of the two critical readings "L'Afrique répond à Sarkozy" downloadable on Moodle (1. Ngalasso, 2.Th. Obenga).
- Frantz Fanon’posture in "Peau noire, masques blancs", selected texts (chapter 1 to be read for non-attending students, downloadable on Moodle).
- Discours sur la dette, Thomas Sankara (1987).
- Marianne porte plainte!, Fatou Diome (Albin Michel: 2017) – to be acquired (-10% at the librairie Stendhal for all students from Roma Tre).

Compulsory for 12 CFU exam:
Tzvetan Todorov, Nous et les autres. La réflexion française sur la diversité humaine, Paris, Seuil, 1989, pp. 21-34, 133-194 (downloadable on Moodle).

Grammar manuals recommended for developing language skills (not requested at the examination):
- Michèle Boulares, Jean-Louis Frerot, "Grammaire progressive du français (niveau avancé)", Paris, Clé International, 2012.
Or
- Dominique Berger, Anne Charlotte Signoret, Nerina Spicacci, "Savoir-dire, savoir-faire (niveaux B1/B2)", Zanichelli 2008.
or
- Françoise Bidaud, Marie-Christine Grange, "Manuel de français intermédiaire. Corso di lingua francese (B1/B1+)", Hoepli, 2017 (downloadable materials and "corrigés" on the official website).

For beginners (A1/A2):
- Berger/Spicacci/Bergamaschi, "Savoir-dire Savoir-faire (A1/A2/B1)", Zanichelli, 2016 (materiale multimediale e «corrigés» scaricabili dal sito ufficiale);
or
- Françoise Bidaud, Marie-Christine Grange, Jean-Pierre Seghi, "Manuel de français. Corso di lingua francese (A1/A2)", Hoepli, 2012 (CD audio + mp3).

Course contents
Module I: Language
Grammar contents:
Revisión de los tiempos de pasado del indicativo
Revisión de los tiempos del imperativo
Conectores del discurso
Pretérito Perfecto de Subjuntivo, Pretérito Imperfecto de Subjuntivo, Pretérito
Pluscuamperfecto de Subjuntivo: Morfología y usos
Repaso del Condicional Simple
Condicional Compuesto. Morfología y usos
Los relativos adverbiales
Por y para
Oraciones independientes: contraste indicativo/subjuntivo
Oraciones relativas: contraste indicativo/subjuntivo
Oraciones sustantivas: verbos de percepción, pensamiento, verbos de sentimiento, deseo, voluntad, verbos de mandato, ruego, prohibición …
Ser, estar, parecer + que: contraste indicativo/subjuntivo
Oraciones adversativas
Oraciones causales
Oraciones consecutivas
Oraciones finales
Oraciones condicionales
Oraciones concesivas
Oraciones temporales
Oraciones de modo
Oraciones de lugar
Oraciones comparativas
Verbos de cambio
Note: the language module concerns the grammatical and morphosyntactic contents that students will have to study in order to pass the written test (B1) intended for all students.
Maria Vittoria Calvi, ¡ENHORABUENA! Curso y gramática de español para italófonos. Niveles B1 B2, Seconda edizione, Zanichelli, Bologna, 2020.

Modulo II: Fraseologia e Paremiologia
Contenuti teorici:
Historia del nacimiento del estudio de las unidades fraseológicas y paremiológicas
Máximos exponentes
Definición de las UF
Características de las UF (idiomaticidad, fijación, sentido figurado, brevedad, presencia de arcaísmos …
Clasificación de las UF
Las locuciones
Las colocaciones
Las paremias
Los enunciados fraseológicos
Análisis contrastivo
Ejemplos y aplicación práctica

TEXT FOR THE PREPARATION FOR THE EXAM:
Luisa A. Messina Fajardo, Apuntes de fraseología, paremiología, traducción y didáctica del español, Avant editorial, Barcelona, 2017.
Alessia A. S. Ruggeri, Chi dice donna. . . dice tutto! Aprende a conocer a la mujer a través de las unidades fraseológicas italianas y del léxico común, Editorial Académica Española, Riga, 2020.


Introducción
Primera parte: fraseología, paremiología y didáctica
Capítulo 1: fraseología y cultura en la didáctica del español
1.1. Introducción
1.2. ¿por qué se debe estudiar la fraseología?
1.3. Lexicultura y frasecultura
Conclusiones
Capítulo 2: traducción de las unidades fraseológicas
2.1. introducción
2.2. las unidades fraseológicas como pretextos del acto de habla
2.3. traducción de las unidades fraseológicas
Conclusiones
Capítulo 3: la metáfora en las unidades fraseológicas
3.1. Introducción
3.2. Fraseología y metáfora
3.3. Metáforas de la vida cotidiana
3.5. Las paremias en los diálogos de la vida cotidiana
Conclusiones
Capítulo 4: el arcaísmo y la recreación de las paremias
4.1. Introducción
4.2. El refrán y el arcaísmo
4.3. La creación paremiológica
Conclusiones

Capítulo 5: la brevedad en las paremias y en el microrrelato
5.1. Introducción
5.2. Definición de brevedad
5.3. La brevedad en las paremias
Conclusiones

Quinta parte: fraseología y lenguajes especiales
Capítulo 16: los lenguajes especiales: el lenguaje político
16.1. Introducción
16.2. Los lenguajes especiales: características
16.3. El lenguaje político
16.4. Características del lenguaje político
16.4.1. la sintaxis
16.4.2. el léxico
16.4.3. la metáfora
16.5. Otros rasgos del lenguaje político
16.5.1. el contexto
Conclusiones finales

Module III Culture
The module focuses on the study of special languages and political language. The characteristics and analysis of the political discourse.
REFERENCE TEXT:
Messina Fajardo, L. A., El lenguaje político. Características y análisis del discurso político, Maggioli editore / Apogeo education, Milano, 2016.

THE MANDATORY PARTS ARE:
Introducción
El discurso político: herramientas de análisis
CAPÍTULO 1 LOS LENGUAJES ESPECIALES. EL LENGUAJE POLÍTICO

Modulo I
Maria Vittoria Calvi, ¡ENHORABUENA! Curso y gramática de español para italófonos. Niveles B1 B2, Seconda edizione, Zanichelli, Bologna, 2020.
Modulo II
Luisa A. Messina Fajardo, Apuntes de fraseología, paremiología, traducción y didáctica del español, Avant editorial, Barcelona, 2017.
Modulo III Cultura
Messina Fajardo, L. A., El lenguaje político. Características y análisis del discurso político, Maggioli editore / Apogeo education, Milano, 2016.
Modulo III Cultura

The course consists of two parts: German grammar and German Regional Studies (Landeskunde).
1. German Grammar and its structure and syntax. Course materials consist of extensive vocabulary-building exercises and texts that address a broad range of cultural topics.
2. The coursebook “Zur Orientierung” covers the political, social and cultural history of Germany from the Nazi “Third Reich” to the present. Among the themes that we explore are the radical transformations of the country after the Berlin Wall.

H. DREYER , R. SCHMITT, Lehr- und Übungsbuch der deutschen Grammatik. Die Gelbe Aktuell, Verlag für Deutsch
Zur Orientierung, Basiswissen Deutschland, Hueber Verlag

The course has a twofold objective: to provide a basic historical background on the complex processes of internationalization that, in the centuries of the modern age (c. 1450-1800), contributed to determine the first stable forms of geopolitical interconnection, economic interdependence and cross-cultural interaction between different parts of the world; to introduce students to the historiographical debate on globalization and global history, stimulating - through the comparison of different interpretations, proposals for periodization and methodologies - the adoption of a critical and conscious approach to history, its narratives and its problems.

Charles H. Parker, Relazioni globali nell'età moderna 1400-1800, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2012
S. Conrad, Storia globale. Un'introduzione, Roma, Carocci, 2015
J. Osterhammel, N.P. Petersson, Storia della globalizzazione, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2005

The course aims to provide the and students with an introduction, supported by a critical perspective, to the functioning of the "project cycle" in the world of international cooperation.
After an initial introduction to the vocabulary of the anthropology of development, the phases of which the "project cycle" is composed and the tool of the "logical framework" will be analyzed, in order to also identify the critical issues that these two tools may enclose.
Through the use of ethnographic cases, the importance of taking into account the contexts of intervention and the subjectivities of the different actors involved in the design and implementation of development projects and/or related to humanitarian intervention will be highlighted.

Syllabus

The course will be divided into two parts:
General part:
1.The object and the method 
2.The great models of comparative law: civil law and common law
3.The forms of state and government
4.Fundamental rights and constitutional interpretation 


Special part:

Fundamental rights in the field of intercultural research 
1. Pluralist principle and cultural relativism 
2. Looking East; 2.1. …Looking to the African continent; 2.2. …Looking to Latin American countries 
3. The dual nature of the dignity-rights relationship: some examples 

Bibliography

Students that will attend the lectures must study: 

 G. Morbidelli, M. Volpi, G.Cerrina Feroni, Diritto costituzionale comparato, Giappichelli, Torino, 2020.
S. Bonfiglio, Costituzionalismo meticcio. Oltre il colonialismo dei diritti umani, Giappichelli, Torino 2016.

1 - Legal comparison in administrative law
2 - Common features and differences between the main administrative systems
3 - Common law systems and administrative law systems
4 - The influence of European law on national systems
5 - Convergence and integration of national administrative systems
6 - Comparative administrative law and global law
7 - Transnational administrative law
8 - Legal models and administrative organisation
9 - Forms of administrative action
10 - Administrative procedures, transparency and participation
11 - Protection of rights

G. Napolitano, Introduzione al diritto amministrativo comparato, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2020.