Degree Course: International Studies Syllabus for A.Y. 2018/2019

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21810032 - INTERNATIONAL LAW AND DEVELOPMENT (objectives)

- CARLETTI CRISTIANA (syllabus) (reference books)

IUS/13

Core compulsory activities

ENG

21810028 - INTERNATIONAL HISTORY OF PEACE (objectives)

- MORO RENATO (syllabus) (reference books)

M-STO/04

Core compulsory activities

ENG

21810020 - INTERNATIONAL POLITICS (objectives)

- RATTI LUCA (syllabus) (reference books)

SPS/04

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ENG

21810014 - THE UNITED STATES AND THE WORLD IN THE 20TH AND 21ST CENTURIES (objectives)

- FIORENTINO DANIELE (syllabus) (reference books)

SPS/05

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ENG

Optional group: One of the Following Required Language and Culture Studies: - (show)

Optional group: Two Electives among the Following: - (show)

21810029 - GENDER AND POLITICAL THEORIES (objectives) This course is based on a systematic analysis of the classic works and theories of antique, modern and contemporary political philosophy, through a gender perspective; i.e. those works and theories in which great thinkers have revealed their thought about the political and social life of women. The aim of the course is to fill a gap in our knowledge about the history of political thought and to comprehend the assumptions behind deeply rooted modes of thought that continue to affect women’s lives in significant ways. - MODUGNO ROBERTA ADELAIDE (syllabus) Week 1 Introduction and description of the course. Methodology. - Joan Scott, Gender: a Useful Category of Historical Analysis, in , 1, V, 1986, pp. 1053 – 1075 - Wendy Brown, Where is the Sex in Political Theory? In , 7, no. 1 1987 - Karen Offen, Defining Feminism: a Comparative Historical Approach, in , vol. 14, n. 11, 1988, pp. 119-157 Week 2 Ancient Greece: Plato and Aristotle. - Susan Moller Okin, Plato and the Greek Tradition of Misogyny, in Susan Moller Okin, Women in Western Political Thought, Princeton University Press, 1992, - Susan Moller Okin, Philosopher Queens and Private Wives, in Women in Western Political Thought - Susan Moller Okin, Female Nature and Social Structure, in Women in Western Political Thought - Susan Moller Okin, Woman’s Place and Nature in a Functionalist World, in Women in Western Political Thought Week 3 Women in medieval thought. The Church Fathers: St. Augustine St. Thomas Aquinas: Women’s place in nature - Diana Coole, Women in Medieval Thought: Transitions from Antiquity to the Renaissance, in Women in Political Theory, Lynne Rienner Publisher, 1993 - Zillah Eisenstein, The Historical Continuity of Patriarchy, from The Radical Future of Liberal Feminism, Northeastern University Press, 1993, Chapter 2 Week 4 Femininity and masculinity in early modern European thought. Deconstructing gender in Machiavelli - Joan Kelly, Did Women Have a Renaissance?, from Joan Kelly, Women, History and Theory, University of Chicago Press, 1984, ch. 7 - Ian Maclean, The Renaissance Notion of Women, in , vol. 34, n. 2, Summer 1981, pp. 211-213 - Hanna Pitkin, Fortune is a Woman. Gender and Politics in the Thought of Niccolò Machiavelli, University of California Press, 1984, chapters 2,3,4,5,6 Week 5 Natural rights against natural authority Thomas Hobbes against the Aristotelian model John Locke against patriarchy - Diana Coole, Women in Political Theory, chapter 4 - Carole Pateman, The Sexual Contract, Stanford University Press, 1988, chapters 1, 4, 6 Week 6 The State of Nature and Reconstructing a Masculinized Republic: Rousseau - Susan Moller Okin, Women in Western Political Thought, chapters 5, 6, 7 - Else Wiestad, Empowerment Inside Patriarchy: Rousseau and the Masculine Construction of Femininity, from Feminist interpretations of Jean Jacques Rousseau, edited by Linda Lange, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002 - Penny Weiss and Ann Harper, Rousseau Political Defense of Sex-Roled Family, from Feminist interpretations of Jean Jacques Rousseau, edited by Linda Lange, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002 Week 7 Vindicating the Rights of Women: Mary Wollstonecraft Liberal Feminism: John Stuart Mill - Mary Wollstonecraft, excerpt from A Vindication of the Rights of Women, in The Feminist Papers, edited by Alice Rossi, pp. 40-85 - John Stuart Mill, excerpt from The Sujection of Women, in The Feminist Papers, edited by Alice Rossi, pp.196-238 - Susan Moller Okin, Women in Western Political Thought, chapter 9 Week 8 Constructing Liberal Feminism in the US: The 19th Century Women’s Rights Movement - Alice Rossi, Introduction: Social Roots of the Woman’s Movement in America, in The Feminist Papers, pp. 241- 281 - From Abolition to Sex Equality: Sarah Grimké (1792-1837) and Angelina Grimké (1805-1879), in The Feminist Papers, pp. 306-322 - Alice Rossi, Along the Suffrage Trail, in The Feminist Papers, pp. 407-412 - Excerpt from the History of Woman Suffrage, in The Feminist Papers, Seneca Falls Convention, pp. 413-421 - Akron Convention and Sojourner Truth, in The Feminist Papers, pp. 426-29 Week 9 Contemporary feminist perspectives on patriarchy. - Virginia Woolf, excerpt from A Room of One’s Own, in The Feminist Papers, pp. 627-652 - Simone de Beauvoir, excerpt from The Second Sex, in The Feminist Papers, pp. 674-705 This course is taught in English. (reference books) Week 1 Introduction and description of the course. Methodology. - Joan Scott, Gender: a Useful Category of Historical Analysis, in , 1, V, 1986, pp. 1053 – 1075 - Wendy Brown, Where is the Sex in Political Theory? In , 7, no. 1 1987 - Karen Offen, Defining Feminism: a Comparative Historical Approach, in , vol. 14, n. 11, 1988, pp. 119-157 Week 2 Ancient Greece: Plato and Aristotle. - Susan Moller Okin, Plato and the Greek Tradition of Misogyny, in Susan Moller Okin, Women in Western Political Thought, Princeton University Press, 1992, - Susan Moller Okin, Philosopher Queens and Private Wives, in Women in Western Political Thought - Susan Moller Okin, Female Nature and Social Structure, in Women in Western Political Thought - Susan Moller Okin, Woman’s Place and Nature in a Functionalist World, in Women in Western Political Thought Week 3 Women in medieval thought. The Church Fathers: St. Augustine St. Thomas Aquinas: Women’s place in nature - Diana Coole, Women in Medieval Thought: Transitions from Antiquity to the Renaissance, in Women in Political Theory, Lynne Rienner Publisher, 1993 - Zillah Eisenstein, The Historical Continuity of Patriarchy, from The Radical Future of Liberal Feminism, Northeastern University Press, 1993, Chapter 2 Week 4 Femininity and masculinity in early modern European thought. Deconstructing gender in Machiavelli - Joan Kelly, Did Women Have a Renaissance?, from Joan Kelly, Women, History and Theory, University of Chicago Press, 1984, ch. 7 - Ian Maclean, The Renaissance Notion of Women, in , vol. 34, n. 2, Summer 1981, pp. 211-213 - Hanna Pitkin, Fortune is a Woman. Gender and Politics in the Thought of Niccolò Machiavelli, University of California Press, 1984, chapters 2,3,4,5,6 Week 5 Natural rights against natural authority Thomas Hobbes against the Aristotelian model John Locke against patriarchy - Diana Coole, Women in Political Theory, chapter 4 - Carole Pateman, The Sexual Contract, Stanford University Press, 1988, chapters 1, 4, 6 Week 6 The State of Nature and Reconstructing a Masculinized Republic: Rousseau - Susan Moller Okin, Women in Western Political Thought, chapters 5, 6, 7 - Else Wiestad, Empowerment Inside Patriarchy: Rousseau and the Masculine Construction of Femininity, from Feminist interpretations of Jean Jacques Rousseau, edited by Linda Lange, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002 - Penny Weiss and Ann Harper, Rousseau Political Defense of Sex-Roled Family, from Feminist interpretations of Jean Jacques Rousseau, edited by Linda Lange, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002 Week 7 Vindicating the Rights of Women: Mary Wollstonecraft Liberal Feminism: John Stuart Mill - Mary Wollstonecraft, excerpt from A Vindication of the Rights of Women, in The Feminist Papers, edited by Alice Rossi, pp. 40-85 - John Stuart Mill, excerpt from The Sujection of Women, in The Feminist Papers, edited by Alice Rossi, pp.196-238 - Susan Moller Okin, Women in Western Political Thought, chapter 9 Week 8 Constructing Liberal Feminism in the US: The 19th Century Women’s Rights Movement - Alice Rossi, Introduction: Social Roots of the Woman’s Movement in America, in The Feminist Papers, pp. 241- 281 - From Abolition to Sex Equality: Sarah Grimké (1792-1837) and Angelina Grimké (1805-1879), in The Feminist Papers, pp. 306-322 - Alice Rossi, Along the Suffrage Trail, in The Feminist Papers, pp. 407-412 - Excerpt from the History of Woman Suffrage, in The Feminist Papers, Seneca Falls Convention, pp. 413-421 - Akron Convention and Sojourner Truth, in The Feminist Papers, pp. 426-29 Week 9 Contemporary feminist perspectives on patriarchy. - Virginia Woolf, excerpt from A Room of One’s Own, in The Feminist Papers, pp. 627-652 - Simone de Beauvoir, excerpt from The Second Sex, in The Feminist Papers, pp. 674-705	8	SPS/02	64	-	-	-	Related or supplementary learning activities	ENG
21810073 - INTERNATIONAL FINANCE (objectives) The purpose of this course is to give a good understanding of international financial markets. We will cover basic theories of the operations of modern monetary systems; interest rate behavior; financial intermediation and central banking; methods and objectives of monetary and regulatory policy. In particular, the following topics will be highlighted: (i) the determination of interest rates, (ii) the functions and operation of financial intermediaries, and (iii) the functions and goals of central banks - D'ADDONA STEFANO (syllabus) Introduction to International Monetary System Interest Rates, Financial Instruments and the Role of Risk The market for Foreign Exchange International Banking System and Financial Markets International Finance and Monetary Policy This course is taught in English. (reference books) McGraw Hill Custom Book ISBN 9781308923505 based on International Finance, 7th Global Edition by Eun, Resnick, 2014 Money, Banking, and Financial Markets, Fourth Edition by Cecchetti, Schoenholtz, 2015	8	SECS-P/01	64	-	-	-	Related or supplementary learning activities	ENG
21810010 - EUROPEAN UNION INTERNAL MARKET LAW (objectives) The course aims to provide students with the basic knowledge and useful tools to understand the regulatory context and the practical functioning of the internal market of the European Union and the four fundamental economic freedoms (free movement of goods, workers, services and capitals). - TORINO RAFFAELE (syllabus) Common Custom and free movement of goods Free movement of workers Right to establishment of professionals and companies Free movement of services Free movement of capital and payments The common agricultural market Internal market and European Consumer Protection Digital single market Free competition and internal market (reference books) R. Torino (ed.), Introduction to the EU internal market law, 2017 During the course the professor will list the European case law that students shall analyse and discuss in class.	8	IUS/02	64	-	-	-	Related or supplementary learning activities	ENG
21810012 - EUROPEAN CONSTITUTIONAL LAW (objectives) The course provides the basics of European constitutional law through a review of supranational law sources and its functioning between national and European legal systems. Moreover, the course aims to open a debate on the basic structure of the EU form of government, on the functioning of European institutions, and on the protection of fundamental rights at supranational level. - SCARLATTI PAOLO (syllabus) PART I – General Introduction. European constitutional theory and constitutional principles of European Union 1) The Idea of a European constitution and European constitutional law. The constitutionalizing process of the EU 2) The democratic deficit theory and the issue of "European demos" 3) Constitutional history: from "Ventotene" to Lisbon 4) The Lisbon Treaty and multilevel constitutionalism. The consolidating Europe's constitutional heritage trough constitutional traditions common to the Member States 5) European Citizenship, representative democracy and European party system PART II – European Institutions and Sources of law 1) The European form of government: general principles 2) The European Parliament and the role of National Parliaments 3) The Reform of Council and the European Council 4) The European Commission, its President, and The High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy 5) General principles on the European system of sources of law 6) The Legislative procedures 7) European law and national legal systems PART III – The European protection of fundamental rights 1) The European Court System: Competences and Procedures 2) Annulment Powers, Remedial Powers and Adjudicatory Powers 3) The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union and the European Convention on Human Rights 4) European fundamental rights and national law (reference books) REQUIRED READINGS: - Robert Schütze, European Constitutional law, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2016 (Second Edition) - Relevant European legal Texts (TEU, TFEU, Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, ECHR, etc.) RECOMMENDED READINGS: - Hartley T.C., The foundations of European Union law. An introduction to the constitutional and administrative law of the European Union, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2014. - Repetto G. (Ed.), The constitutional relevance of the ECHR in domestic and European law, Intersentia, Cambridge 2013. - Bilancia P., The dynamics of the EU integration and the impact on the national constitutional law, Giuffré, Milano 2012. - von Bogdandy A., Bast J. (Eds), Principles of European constitutional law, Hart Publishing, Oxford 2009 (Second Edition). - Douglas-Scott S., Constitutional law of the European Union, Longman, Harlow 2002.	8	IUS/08	64	-	-	-	Related or supplementary learning activities	ENG

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21810037 - ISSUES IN THE CONTEMPORARY CATHOLIC ROMAN CURCH (objectives) The aim of this course is to offer students an environment in which to critically evaluate some of the most pressing issues facing the Roman Catholic Church at the dawn of the Third Millennium. Through the analysis of the texts identified, and eventual conversation in class, students will be challenged to probe deeply into certain themes and consider them from many angles. Most of these themes are quite controversial, and thus require serene and objective scrutiny which will be fostered throughout the course. - FASANARO LAURA (syllabus) Introduction The nature and identity of the Catholic Church Brief historical survey, particularly of the beginnings; a structured community, founded by Christ and entrusted to the Apostles; notion of apostolic succession; doctrinal orthodoxy and important ‘heresies’ that sprout up; Jesus Christ as only saviour; universality of the Church. Authority within the Catholic Church The Holy See: the Pope (“Bishop of Rome”) and Bishops in communion with him; importance of Canon Law and the Catechism of the Catholic Church; ongoing development of doctrine; truth, dogma, and “re-formable” doctrines; hierarchical priesthood as a service to the sacraments; clericalism; Pope Francis’ style and priorities. Ecumenism The Roman Catholic Church in relation to the Orthodox Churches of the East; her relation to other Christian denominations (Anglicanism, Lutheranism, Presbyterianism); her relation to Judaism and the State of Israel; her relation to Islam and the Muslim world; a word on atheism. The relationship between Faith and Reason The difference between ‘knowing’ and ‘believing’; the universality of rational inquiry; contemporary controversies with philosophical schools; notion of ‘truth’; the natural law and general ethics; the Church’s appeal to Divine Revelation. The Catholic Church and Darwinism Notion(s) of evolution; common descent; ‘creationism’. The Catholic Church and Intelligent Design Contemporary controversy surrounding intelligent design theory. (reference books) REQUIRED READINGS: • Michael Behe, The Edge of Evolution, pp. 1-102. • What We Cannot Not Know, J. Budziszewski, pp. 3 – 27. • Rabbi David Dalin, Ph.D., A Righteous Gentile: Pope Pius XII and the Jews. • Charles Darwin, On the Origins of Species, excerpts. • Dominus Iesus by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (August 6, 2000). • Philip Jenkins, The New Anti-Catholicism, pp. 67-91; 93-112. • Pope John Paul II, Fides et ratio (1998), excerpts. • Pope Paul VI, Humanae Vitae (1968). • Charles Rice, Fifty Questions on the Natural Law, pp. 286-294. • Peter Seewald, Salt of the Earth,pp. 121-213. • Wesley Smith, Culture of Death, pp. 81-122. • George Weigel, The Truth of Catholicism, pp. 5-52.	8	M-STO/04	64	-	-	-	Elective activities	ENG
21810040 - THE ITALIAN FASCISM: THE FIRST TOTALITARIAN POLITICAL RELIGION (objectives) By the end of the course students will be able to: recognize the importance of the symbolic dimension in politics; put in relation secularization, politics and religion in modern society and grasp in a better way the contours of the modern political experiment (up to today fundamentalism); understand the main features of Totalitarianism; identify the main aspects of the Fascist regime, its values, its institutions, its leaders; understand the historical significance of Fascism, and its dramatic danger as a wrong answer to the problems of mass society; identify the myths, rituals, symbols, monuments and other spectacles of Fascist Italy; discover the mechanism of deep fascination provoked by mass rituals. - MORO RENATO (syllabus) The course is an introduction to the history of Italian Fascism with particular emphasis on the sacralisation of politics. Under Fascism, the political arena became permeated with myths, rites, and symbols of a secular religion, imbued with fundamental values, and intended to mould the moral consciousness and meaning of the existence for all Italians. This was not a completely new concept. Since the American and French Revolutions, politics has often taken on the features of religion, claiming as its own the prerogative of defining the fundamental purpose and meaning of human life, asking faith, loyalty and reverence for secular political entities as the nation, building its temples, lamenting its martyrs. With Italian Fascism, however, the civic religion of the country (a religion open to every citizen) transformed itself into the intolerant, exclusive cult of the symbol of a single party, of its values, of its commandments, of its chief. In this way, Italian Fascism opened the way to many modern totalitarian political religions of the 20th Century, from Nazism, to Stalinism, from Europe to Asia. This course is taught in English. By the end of the course, students are able to: - recognize the importance of the symbolic dimension in politics; - put in relation secularization, politics and religion in modern society and grasp in a better way the contours of the modern political experiment (up to today fundamentalism); - understand the main features of Totalitarianism; - identify the main aspects of the Fascist regime, its values, its institutions, its leaders; - understand the historical significance of Fascism, and its dramatic danger as a wrong answer to the problems of mass society; - identify the myths, rituals, symbols, monuments and other spectacles of Fascist Italy; - discover the mechanism of deep fascination provoked by mass rituals. Week 1 Section 1: Overview of course Section 2: What is the “sacralisation of politics”? Week 2 Section 1: The American Revolution, the French Revolution and a new religion for the citizen Section 2: The religion of the nation in the 19th Century (Readings: Gentile, Politics as Religion. Chapter II; Mosse, The Nationalization of the Masses. Chapters I and II) Week 3 Section 1: The origins of Fascism: World War I Section 2: The crisis of Italian democracy and the birth of Fascism; "Squadrismo" and the "sacred militia" (Reading: Gentile, Fascism in Power: The Totalitarian Experiment) Week 4 Section 1: The Origins of the Fascist Religion Section 2: From “Squadrismo” to the Totalitarian Experiment (Readings: Gentile, The Sacralization of Politics in Fascist Italy. Chapter I; Mussolini and the Parliament after the March on Rome, according to the NY Times) Week 5 Section 1: Fascism at Power and the Birth of the Totalitarian State Section 2: The Center of Fascist Rituals: Piazza Venezia and Via dell’Impero in Rome (Reading: Baxa, Piacentini's Window: The Modernism of the Fascist Master Plan of Rome) Week 6 Section 1: General Review Section 2: Mid-term exams Week 7 Section 1: The “Fascist Doctrine”; Symbols, rituals and calendar of the Fascist Religion Section 2: Fascism and Catholicism: Two Religions? (Readings: Mussolini, The Doctrine of Fascism (1932); Gentile, The Sacralization of Politics in Fascist Italy. Chapter II; Gentile, New Idols: Catholicism in the Face of Fascist Totalitarianism) Week 8 Section 1: “Collective harmony”: The mass rites of the Fascist regime Section 2: The “Foro Mussolini”: A place for the education of the Fascist youth élite (Reading: Ponzio, A forgotten story: The training for teachers of physical education in Italy during the fascist period) Week 9 Section 1: The cult of the Duce Section 2: Totalitarianism and art: the Nazi, Soviet and Fascist cases (Readings: Gentile, The Sacralization of Politics in Fascist Italy. Chapter VI; Nelis, Constructing Fascist Identity: Benito Mussolini and the Myth of Romanità) Week 10 Section 1: The end of Fascism: A final appraisal Section 2: The temples of faith for the “new Italians”: The new Fascist model city in the EUR district (Readings: Gentile, Fascism as a Political Religion; Bosworth, Everyday Mussolinism: Friends, Family, Locality and Violence in Fascist Italy; Adamson, Fascism and Political Religion in Italy: A Reassessment) Week 11 Section 1: Books Review Presentations Section 2: Books Review Presentations Week 12 Section 1: Books Review Presentations Section 2: General review (reference books) REQUIRED READINGS: E. Gentile, Politics as Religion, Princeton University Press, 2006 Reader RECOMMENDED READINGS: Agulhon, Maurice. Marianne au combat, tr. ingl. Marianne into battle. Republican imagery and symbolism in France, 1789-1880, Cambridge [Eng.]-New York : Cambridge University Press, 1981. Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities. London : Verso, 1983. Bellah, Robert N. The Broken Covenant. American Civil Religion in Time of Trial, New York : Seabury Press, 1975. Ben Ghiat, Ruth. Fascist Modernities: Italy 1922-1945. Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, 2001. Burleigh, Michael. Sacred causes. Religion and politics from the European dictators to Al Qaeda. London : Harper Press, 2006. Cristi, Marcela. From Civil to Political Religion. The Intersection of Culture, Religion and Politics. Waterloo (Ontario) : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2001. De Felice, Renzo. Interpretations of Fascism. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1977. Edelman, Murray J. The Symbolic Uses of Politics. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1964. Falasca-Zamponi, Simonetta. Fascist Spectacle. The Aesthetics of Power in Mussolini’s Italy. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1997. Gentile, Emilio. Politics as Religion. Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2006. ---. The Sacralization of Politics in Fascist Italy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996. Griffin, Roger (ed.). Fascism, Totalitarianism and Political Religion. London : Routledge, 2005. Hobsbawm, Eric J. & Ranger T.O. (eds.). The Invention of Tradition. Cambridge, MA : Cambridge University Press, 1983. Kertzer, David I. Ritual, politics, and power. New Haven : Yale University Press, 1988. Lane, Christel. The Rites of the Rulers. Rituals in Industrial Society. The Soviet Case, New York/Cambridge [Eng.] : Cambridge University Press, 1981. Liebman, Charles S. & Don-Yehiya, Eliezer. Civil Religion in Israel. Traditional Judaism and Political Culture in the Jewish State. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1983. Moro, Renato. “Religion and Politics in the Time of Secularization: The Sacralization of Politics and Politicisation of Religion”, in Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions, 6, 1, 2005, pp, 71-86. Mosse, George L. The Nationalization of the Masses. Political Symbolism and Mass Movements in Germany from the Napoleonic Wars through the Third Reich. New York : Fertig, 1975. (assigned selections). Ozouf, Mona. Festival and the French Revolution, Cambridge, MA : Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pois, Robert A. National Socialism and the Religion of Nature. London : Croom Helm, 1986. Thrower, James. Marxism-Leninism as the civil religion of Soviet society. God's commissar. Lewiston, NY: E. Mellen Press, 1992.	8	M-STO/04	64	-	-	-	Elective activities	ENG
21810041 - TERRORISM AN INTRODUCTION (objectives) The course examines the historical, ideological, and local roots of terrorist violence and explores terrorism in relation to revolutionary power, nationalism, and religious extremism. - CECI GIOVANNI MARIO (syllabus) Terrorism has been one of the most pressing political problems of the last half-century: almost every continent has experienced the threat of terrorism, from Europe to Asia, from Africa to America. The course deals with the principal issues associated with modern international terrorism. In particular, it focuses on the following topics: 1. What is Terrorism?; 2. Typologies of Terrorism; 3. Causes of Terrorism; 4. History of Terrorism and Case Studies (Spain, Northern Ireland, Middle East, Germany); 5. Red and Black Terrorism in Italy; 6. Roots and Causes of Italian Terrorism; 7. Al Qaeda, ISIS and the New Age of Terror; 8. “Old” and “New” Terrorism; 9. Terrorism, Counter-terrorism and the Law; 10. Italian Responses to Terrorism; 11. Writing on Terrorism: Literature and Representations of Terrorists; 12. The End of Terrorism (reference books) - D.J. Whittaker (ed.), The Terrorism Reader, New York: Routledge, 2012; - L. Weinberg, Global Terrorism. A Beginner’s Guide, Oxford: Oneworld, 2005; - Reader; - Further materials will be assigned by teacher in class.	8	SPS/04	64	-	-	-	Elective activities	ENG
21810122 - ORGANIZED CRIME IN ITALY: MAFIAS, MURDERS AND BUSINESS (objectives) The course analyses the role of organized crime in Italy through a historical, structural, and cultural perspective. After an overview of the various criminal organizations that are active both in Italy and abroad – the Camorra and the Ndrangheta, today’s richest and most powerful criminal organization – the course will focus on the Sicilian mafia, Cosa Nostra. - Derived from 21810181 THE ECONOMICS OF ORGANIZED CRIME AND SOCIAL INNOVATION in International Studies LM-52 N0 (A-Z) GARAU EVA (syllabus) Discussion topics will include both mafia wars, the importance of investigators Falcone and Borsellino, the Maxi Trial, and the anti-mafia state organizations, from their origins to their role today in the struggle against organized crime. The course will highlight the creation of the International Department against Mafia and legislation developed specifically to aid in the fight against criminal organizations. It will examine the ties between Cosa Nostra and Italian politics, the period of terrorist attacks, and response of the Italian government. By the end of the course students will be able to: • Examine the complexity of social structures related to Organized Crime; • Analyze the cultural and social background of Cosa Nostra • Describe the relation between Cosa Nostra, cultural values and the Italian political system; • Define how the phenomena conditioned the development of democracy in Italy; • Identify how the reality of criminal organizations differs from common stereotypes on Italian Mafia This course is taught in English. (reference books) REQUIRED AND SUGGESTED READINGS: • Anita Lavorgna and Anna Sergi, “Types of organized crime in Italy. The multifaceted spectrum of Italian criminal associations and their different attitudes in the financial crisis and in the use of Internet technology”, in International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice, N° XX (2013). • John Dickie, Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2004). • “Giuseppe Impastato: his actions, his murder, the investigation and the cover up,” Centro Siciliano di Documentazione "Giuseppe Impastato". • Letizia Paoli, Mafia Brotherhoods. Organized Crime, Italian Style, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003). • Letizia Paoli, “Mafia and organised crime in Italy: The unacknowledged successes of law enforcement” in West European Politics Vol. 30, No. 4, (2007,). • Paul Ginsborg, “Corruption and the Mafia” in: Italy and its discontents (London: Penguin, 2001). • Francesco Calderoni, “Where is the mafia in Italy? Measuring the presence of the mafia across Italian provinces” in Global Crime, Vol. 12, No. 1, (2011).. • Francesco Calderoni, Strategic positioning in mafia networks, working paper provided by the Instructor. • Roberto Saviano, Gomorrah, (Milan: Mondadori, 2006). • Letizia Paoli, “Italian Organised Crime: Mafia Associations and Criminal Enterprises” in Global Crime, Vol. 6, No. 1 (2004) • Federico Varese, “Mafia movements: a framework for understanding the mobility of mafia groups” in Global Crime, Vol. 12, No. 3 (2011). • Francesco Calderoni, “Strategic positioning in mafia networks”, working paper provided by the Instructor FILMOGRAPHY: • The Godfather, director Francis Ford Coppola • Donnie Brasco, director Mike Newell • The 100 Steps, director Marco Tullio Giordana • Excellent Cadavers, director Ricky Tognazzi • Mafia kills only in Summer, director Pif	8	SPS/04	64	-	-	-	Elective activities	ENG
21810123 - VALUING DIVERSITY? ITALIAN CONTEMPORARY IMMIGRATION AND INTEGRATION POLICIES (objectives) This course offers students insight on the creation of a globalized world and how different cultures, languages and ways of life progressively came together as a result of the contribution of migrants. Students are exposed to the evolution of Italy from an emigration to an immigration country. After drawing a profile of contemporary Italian immigration, with its economic - Zanazzi Silvia (syllabus) This course offers students insight on the creation of a globalized world and how different cultures, languages and ways of life progressively came together as a result of the contribution of migrants. Students are exposed to the evolution of Italy from an emigration to an immigration country. After drawing a profile of contemporary Italian immigration, with its economic, political and sociological aspects, the course focuses on the integration process of immigrants in Rome. Through the analysis of integration policies and experiences in different fields, students will gain awareness of the complexity of the issues at stake and will be able to fully understand opportunities and constraints brought about by multiculturalism in a large metropolis. This course is taught in English. (reference books) REQUIRED READINGS: • Maurizio Albahari (2015), Fatal distractions: Mediterranean migrations and the war on human smuggling (download from http://councilforeuropeanstudies.org). • University of Oxford (2016), Forced migration review: Destination Europe (download from http://www.fmreview.org/destination-europe.html). Selected extracts. • Maurizio Ambrosini (2013), A functional offence. Irregular immigration, elderly care recipients, and invisible Welfare. (download from: www.eui.eu) (16 pages) • Maurizio Ambrosini (2011), Immigration in Italy: between economic acceptance and political rejection, International migration and integration (download from: www.studisocialiepolitici.unimi.it/docenti/ambrosini/documenti/File/JIMI.art.mio.pdf) (18 pages) • Silvia Rusconi (2010), Italy’s migration experiences (download from: http://www.migrationeducation.org/38.1.html?&rid=178&cHash=b18ff335ad74f6e52754cfcb43318922 ) (11 pages) • The Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime (2014), Smuggled Futures: The dangerous path of the migrant from Africa to Europe (download from: www.globalinitiative.net) (27 pages) • Giuseppe Sciortino (2009), Fortunes and miseries of Italian labour migration policy, CESPI Country Papers (download from: http://www.cespi.it/WPMIG/Country%20mig-Italia-Sciortino.pdf) (16 pages) • Meltingpot News (2015), New bill makes it easier for immigrant children to become Italians (download from: http://www.meltingpotnews.com/). • Elena Caneva (2015), The integration of migrants in Italy: an overview of policy instruments and actors (download from: http://cadmus.eui.eu/). IDOS(2016), Dossier statistico immigrazione 2016. Selected extract: Immigration in Italy in 2015. Key facts. SUGGESTED FILM VIEWINGS: • Nuovomondo, by Emanuele Crialese (2006) • Terraferma, by Emanuele Crialese (2011) • Soltanto il mare, by Dagmawi Yimer, Giulio Cederna and Fabrizio Barraco (2011) • L’Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio, by Agostino Ferrente (2006) • Scontro di civiltà per un ascensore in Piazza Vittorio, by Isotta Toso (2010)	8	SPS/04	64	-	-	-	Elective activities	ENG
21810045 - ARABIC STUDIES (objectives) The course is to give students a thorough grounding in the written and spoken language, and to equip students with a knowledge of the history and culture of Arabs and Islam. - Derived from 20710276 LINGUA ARABA 1 in Lingue e mediazione linguistico-culturale L-12 SOLIMANDO CRISTINA (syllabus) During the course, students learn the basic grammar and vocabulary needed to deal with both everyday life and current affairs. (reference books) The translation texts and exercises (with the teacher) will be published under "teaching materials" on the personal page. The reference texts for grammar are: Veccia Vaglieri, La grammatica teorico-pratica della lingua araba (2 volumi, uno di teoria e uno di esercizi). Manca A., Grammatica teorico-pratica di arabo letterario moderno. For readings and exercises (and listening): Solimando C., Salem A., Imparare l'arabo conversando.	8	L-OR/12	64	-	-	-	Elective activities	ARA
21810046 - CHINESE STUDIES (objectives) By the end of the course, students will communicate effectively in Chinese, oral and written, and understand the rich and different cultures of China, so that they will become culturally aware and ready to be global citizens. - Derived from 20710275 LINGUA CINESE 1 in Lingue e mediazione linguistico-culturale L-12 ROMAGNOLI CHIARA (syllabus) Chinese writing system (meaning and identification of radicals), phonological system and pinyin transcription; nominal and verbal phrase; usage and features of the main adverbs, prepositions, conjuctions and particles; auxiliary verbs; Chinese sentence constituents (features and order); types of questions; classifiers; locative particles. (reference books) F. MASINI ET AL, Il cinese per gli italiani (vol. 1), Hoepli, 2006. T. LIOI ET AL, Introduzione alla scrittura cinese, Hoepli, 2016.	8	L-OR/21	64	-	-	-	Elective activities	ZHO
21810178 - HISTORY AND POLITICS OF THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA (objectives) The course will address the evolution of Islamic political doctrine, with a focus on contemporary phenomena such as that of jihadism, salafism, political Islam, post-Islamism, and the relationship between oppositional Islamic parties and government across a range of settings. These themes will be analysed by looking at how local contexts, analysed through an historical lens, intersect with trans-regional phenomena triggered by the new media and migration. - GERVASIO GENNARO (syllabus) The course examines the historical and political trajectory of the Middle East and North Africa from the Colonial Era until today. The students will be introduced to the debate on Orientalism, its role in the colonial era, and its relevance until today. A particular focus will be on the post-colonial era. Among the topics covered there will be: State formation, the role of ideologies (both secular and religious) in the shaping of the region, the intra-regional and international relations of the Region and the so-called ‘Arab Spring’. Students are expected to actively participate to the course. This course is taught in English. All the available teaching materials, the announcements and all that is related to this course will be circulated to the registered students via e-mail, and posted on the lecturer’s departmental webpage (bit.ly/dsu-gervasio) (reference books) 1. R. Owen, State, Power and Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East, Routledge: London & New York: 2004. 2. J. Chalcraft, The Arab Uprisings of 2011 in Historical Perspective in The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Middle-Eastern and North African History, 2016 (available as a pdf file on the course website). 3. One of the following, except for students enrolled in International Studies, or International Relations (Dept of Political Science), who will choose two: a. G. Achcar, The People Want. A Radical Exploration of the Arab Uprising, London: Saqi, 2013. b. L. Anceschi, G. Gervasio & A. Teti (eds), Informal Power in the Greater Middle East. Hidden Geographies, London: Routledge, 2014 & 2016. c. A. Bayat, Revolution without Revolutionaries: Making Sense of the Arab Spring, Stanford: Stanford UP, 2017. d. F. Cavatorta & L. Storm (eds), Political Parties in the Arab World: Continuity and Change, Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2018. e. S. Cook, False Dawn: Protest, Democracy, and Violence in the New Middle East, Oxford: Oxford UP, 2017. f. F. A. Gerges, ISIS: A History, Princeton: Princeton UP, 2017. g. A. Khalil (ed), Gender, Women and the Arab Spring, London & NY: Routledge, 2015. h. H. Kraetzschmar & P. Rivetti (eds), Islamists and the Politics of the Arab Uprisings: Governance, Pluralisation and Contention, Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2018. i. R. Owen, The Rise and Fall of Arab Presidents for Life, Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2014. j. Ch. Tripp, The Power and the People: Paths of Resistance in the Middle East, Cambridge, Cambridge UP, 2013. IMPORTANT! Students without any prior knowledge of the History of the MENA, must read one of the following textbooks: a. W. Cleveland & M. Bunton, A History of the Modern Middle East, Boulder: Westview Press, 2016, b. Betty Anderson, A History of the Modern Middle East, Stanford: Stanford UP, 2016.	8	SPS/13	64	-	-	-	Elective activities	ENG
21810185 - ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS (objectives) This course introduces philosophical ethics in the context of environmental such as population growth, resource use, sustainability, non-human animal welfare, biodiversity loss, environmental justice, and global climate change. No prior experience with philosophy is required. The two main goals of the course are to provide students with a more sophisticated understanding and vocabulary to make and evaluate ethical arguments and to engage students’ ethical reasoning and reflection on environmental issues. - MANGHETTI CHIARA (syllabus) By completing this course, students will be able to: ● Demonstrate important concepts and vocabulary related to ethics ● Exhibit ethical literacy and its application to environmental issues ● Use critical thinking to critique how environmental problems relate to ethical consideration ● Differentiate between normative and meta-ethics and how they relate to how humans react with the environment ● Relate how biocentrism, eco-centrism and anthropocentrism impact environmental justice and conservation ● Comprehend the intersection of environmental ethics and culture This course is taught in English. (reference books) Required readings: McShane, K . (2007). Anthropocentrism vs. Nonanthropocentrism: Why Should We Care? Norton, G. B. (1984). Environmental Ethics and Weak Anthropocentrism. Radford, T. (2010). How James Lovelock introduced Gaia to an unsuspecting world. Korsgaard, C. M. (2013). Getting Animals in View. Orland, M. A. (2004) A brief history of the relationship between humans and wildlife.	8	SPS/01	64	-	-	-	Elective activities	ENG
21810186 - EUROPEAN COMPARATIVE POLITICAL SYSTEMS (objectives) This course will introduce students to the politics in Western European countries, with a focus on France, one of the largest founding members of the European Union, as well as other Western and peripheral European nations. The course will examine the most significant aspects of European politics by analyzing the functioning of the European Union and its governing bodies. The relationship between EU-wide directives and policies, and national policies on topics such as taxation, the welfare state, health care systems and immigration will be also explained and analyzed. - PULCINI GIORDANA (syllabus) This course examines the political systems of various European nation-states. Focus is placed on the main political cleavages in each, such as class, ideology, ethnicity, and religion, and how these divisions have influenced the political playing field. Additional topics include nationalism, citizenship, party structures, corporatism, the welfare state, and electoral politics. A special focus will be recent symptomatic challenges to European democracy. As we compare the features of these different democratic systems in detail and relate them to their historical and cultural context, we will focus on three major challenges common to all of these democracies: the decreasing level of participation, especially regarding voter turnout; the decline of large political parties, which raises the question of who, in future, is going to mediate between the citizens’ interests and those of the state; and the perception that the major decisions in democratic countries are increasingly made outside the purview of democratic institutions. This course is taught in English. (reference books) Readings Aguilar, Paloma. Memory and Amnesia: The Role of the Spanish Civil War in the Transition to Democracy. New York: Berghahn, 2002. Sonia Alonso, Sonia and Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser. “Spain: No Country for the Populist Radical Right?” South European Society and Politics. Vol. 20, Iss. 1, 2015. Derenne, Benoît et al. “G1000 Manifesto”. Eurozine 02-11-2011. http://www.eurozine.com/pdf/2011-11-02-G1000-en.pdf Dryzek, John S. Deliberative Democracy and beyond: Liberals, critics and contestations. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Dryzek, John S. Foundations and Frontiers of Deliberative Governance. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Elster, Jon, ed. Deliberative Democracy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Eley, Geoff. Forging Democracy: The History of the Left in Europe, 1850–2000. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Encarnación, Omar G. Spanish Politics: Democracy after Dictatorship. New York: Poltiy, 2008. Fishman, Robert M. Democracy’s Voices: Social Ties and the Quality of Public Life in Spain. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004. Fukuyama, Francis. Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy. New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2014. Grönlund, Kimmo, Bächtiger, André, and Maija Setäla, eds. Deliberative Mini-Publics: Involving Citizens in the Democratic Process. Colchester: ECPR Press, 2014. Gunther, Richard, Montero, José Ramón, and Joan Botella. Democracy in Modern Spain. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. Hancock, Donald M. Politics in Europe. 6t h ed. Thousand Oaks: CQ Press, 2015. Heywood, Andrew. Politics. 4th ed. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Iglesias, Pablo. Politics in a Time of Crisis: Podemos and the Future of Democracy in Europe. London: Verso, 2015. Judt, Tony. Postwar: A History of Europe after 1945. New York: Penguin, 2005. Magone, José M. Contemporary European Politics: A Comparative Introduction. London and New York: Routledge, 2011. Magone, José M. Contemporary Spanish Politics. London: Routledge, 2009. Martí, José Luis, and Philip Pettit. A Political Philosophy in Public Life: Civic Republicanism in Zapatero's Spain. New York: Princeton University Press, 2012. Marx, Karl, and Friedrich Engels. The Communist Manifesto. New ed. New York: International Publishers Co., 2014 [1848]. Müller, Jan-Werner, What is Populism? Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. Pierson, Christopher, Castels, Francis G., and Ingela K. Naumann, The Welfare State Reader. 3rd ed. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2013. Rosenberg, Shawn W., ed. Deliberation, Participation, and Democracy: Can the people govern? Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Smith, Rand W. Enemy Brother: Socialists and Communists in France, Italy and Spain. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2012. Van Reybrouck. Against Elections: The Case for Democracy. London: Random House UK, 2016. Vincent, Mary. Spain, 1833–2002: People and State. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Online resources Journal of Democracy http://www.journalofdemocracy.org/ South European Society and Politics http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/fses20 Open Democracy https://www.opendemocracy.net/ The Center for Deliberative Democracy at Stanford University: http://cdd.stanford.edu/ Eurozine (a netmagazine that publishes outstanding articles from more than 80 associated journals partnered in the network by the same name): http://www.eurozine.com/ G1000 Platform for democratic innovation: http://www.g1000.org/en/	8	SPS/04	64	-	-	-	Elective activities	ENG
21810181 - THE ECONOMICS OF ORGANIZED CRIME AND SOCIAL INNOVATION (objectives) The aim of the course is to bring examples of real-life experience involving organized crime, and to understand how mafias gain huge amount of money and re-invest them all over the world. Students will analyse data, figures and specific events; the will have the chance to understand how this system affects the economic and institutional life of entire regions and the world economy; finally a focus will be made on the strategies to combat transnational organized crime at global level and to fight mafias at local level, especially thorough the Italian social entrepreneurs. - GARAU EVA (syllabus) On completion of the course, students should be able to: 1. Compare and contrast organized crime all over the world 2. Assess mafia’s business side: how money are made and on money laundering 3. Reflect on how organized crime can influence the economic and institutional life in many part of the world 4. Describe and discuss money laundering and anti‐money laundering techniques 5. Organize information on the all‐powerful Italian organized crime, focusing on history, evolution and globalization of business empires, environmental organized crime, and reflect on organized crime as local solution to global competition 6. Examine the efficacy and effectiveness of social entrepreneurship and good governance as a response to economic crisis (case studies) and of active citizenship and transparent information as tools for change, even in territories affected heavily by organized crime 7. Reflect on the color of money This course is taught in English. (reference books) Required Texts Reading material will be posted in the blackboard. Behan Tom, “See Napoli and die” Macmillan, 2002 ISBN-13: 978-1848850187; Ginsborg, Paul: “Italy and Its Discontents: Family, Civil Society, State: 1980-2001, Palgrave MacMillan – 2006, ISBN-13: 978-1403973948; Lilley Peter: Dirty Dealing: The Untold Truth About Global Money Laundering, International Crime and Terrorism - 3rd Edition". By Peter Lilley; Kogan Page, 2006, ISBN-13: 978-749445126; Saviano R, “Gomorrah– Italy’s other Mafia”, Macmillan, 2008, ISBN 978- 0-374-16527-7; Articles • Beham Tom,“How capitalism created the mafia”, 2008 • UNODC, The Globalization of Crime A Transnational Organized Crime ThreatnAssessment, 2010 Report • UNODC, World Drug Report, 2010 • US Government: “Strategy to combat transnational organized crime - Addressing Converging Threats to National Security”, July 2011 Films La mafia uccide solo d’estate (2013) Campania in-felix (2011) Una vita tranquilla (2010)	8	SECS-P/06	64	-	-	-	Elective activities	ENG
21810182 - POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE EU: CRISIS & CHANGE (objectives) This course is designed to give students a practical understanding of the political-economic situation in Europe and a familiarity with theoretical principles applicable to economic crises in general. - SCRIBNER BENJAMIN LEE (syllabus) In 2010, Greece’s government debt reached 300 billion Euro, the largest in its modern history, triggering an acute crisis centered on the European Union’s Mediterranean members. Continued economic difficulties and debates over immigration are increasing polarization of European politics and have led to a rising skepticism of the EU itself as a project, as evidenced by the UK referendum to exit the EU that passed in the summer of 2016. What are the various narratives of the crisis? How are governments, businesses and civil society responding? This course is designed to give students a practical understanding of the political-economic situation in Europe and a familiarity with theoretical principles applicable to economic crises in general. The course includes discussion of current political-economic issues as they develop during the semester. The centerpiece of the course is a weekend excursion in which students from Arcadia’s Rome and Athens centers meet with EU experts, civil society members or politicians. Past excursion locations include Rome, Athens, Barcelona, and Brussels. This course is taught in English. (reference books) Required Texts: Oatley, T. H. (2008). International political economy: Interests and institutions in the global economy. New York: Pearson/Longman. ISBN: 978-0205060634; Cost: To Be Determined. Articles and selections include: ● Shambaugh, Jay C. "The Euro’s Three Crises." Brookings Papers on Economic Activity: 157-231. ISSN: 0007-2303. ● Collignon, Stefan, Europe’s Debt Crisis, Coordination Failure, and International Effects (July 12, 2012). ADBI Working Paper No. 370. Article is freely available at: http://www.stefancollignon.de. ● de Streel, Alexandre. The Evolution of the EU Economic Governance Since the Treaty of Maastricht: An Unfinished Task (September 15, 2013). Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law, Vol. 20, 2013. ISSN: 1023-263X. ● Caritas Europa. "Caritas Monitoring Report 2015: Poverty and Inequalities on the Rise." 2015. Report is freely available at: http://www.caritas.eu/news/crisis-report-2015. ● Palley, Thomas I. "Financialization: What It Is and Why It Matters." Levy Economics Institute of Bard College Working Paper 525. Paper presented at a conference on “Finance-led Capitalism? Macroeconomic Effects of Changes in the Financial Sector,” sponsored by the Hans Boeckler Foundation and held in Berlin, Germany, October 26–27, 2007. ● Goda, Thomas, Ozlem Onaran, and Engelbert Stockhammer. "A Case for Redistribution? Income Inequality and Wealth Concentration in the Recent Crisis." 2014. Presented at the Progressive Economy Annual Forum 05.– 06.03.2014, Brussels. Freely available at: http://www.postkeynesian.net/downloads/working-papers/PKWP1305.pdf. ● Financial Crisis: Causes, Policy Responses, Future Challenges. Outcomes of EU funded Research. Brigette Young, European Commission, 2014. ISBN: 978-9279363375. ● Allard, Céline, Petya Koeva Brooks, John Bluedorn, Fabian Bornhorst, Franziska Ohnsorge, and Katharine Christopherson Puh. "Toward A Fiscal Union for the Euro Area." IMF Staff Discussion Notes 13.9 (2013): 1. ISBN: 978-1484307373/2221-030X. Recommended Additional Reading Frieden, J. A. (2006). Global capitalism: Its fall and rise in the twentieth century. New York: W.W. Norton.	8	SECS-P/02	64	-	-	-	Elective activities	ENG
21810179 - COMMUNICATING ACROSS CULTURE IN ITALY, EUROPE AND THE MEDITERRANEAN (objectives) Using the daily life experiences of class members in combination with texts, theory and discussion, students will develop the knowledge, skills and studies necessary for successful intercultural encounters in the Italian, European and Mediterranean context. - SCRIBNER BENJAMIN LEE (syllabus) Using the daily life experiences of class members in combination with texts, theory and discussion, students will develop the knowledge, skills and atudes necessary for successful intercultural encounters in the Italian, European and Mediterranean context. The course begins with an exploraon of the students’ own past and present exposure to a variety of cultures, followed by an new examinaon of students’ own cultures that such experiences uniquely permit. Cultural patterns will be introduced to allow students to beer interpret culturally diverse behaviors and communicaon styles and learn to make well-grounded generalizations when comparing cultures. Finally, the course will offer theorecal tools to interpret current cultural issues in the Italian, European and Mediterranean region such as migration and refugees, religion and the resurgence of exclusive and xenophobic concepons of culture. At the end of the course, students will evaluate their growth and areas of challenge through an assessment of intercultural competence. This course is taught in English. (reference books) Required Texts: Marn, J.N. & Nakayama, T.K. (2010). Intercultural Communication in Contexts (5th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw Hill Humanies/Social Sciences/Languages. ISBN-13: 978-0073385129; Cost: To Be Determined. Samovar, L.A., Porter, R.E., McDaniel, E.R. & Roy, C.S. (2012). Chapter 6: Cultural Values: Guidelines for Behavior. In Communication Between Cultures (8th ed.) (172-212). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing. ISBN-13: 978-1111349103; Cost: To Be Determined. Additional Readings and Resources: Arcles and powerpoint lecture slides are available from the instructor on the course "Canvas site through Arcadia University".	8	SPS/02	64	-	-	-	Elective activities	ENG

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21810019 - INTERNATIONAL MACROECONOMICS (objectives)

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21810177 - THE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM AFTER THE END OF THE COLD WAR (objectives)

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21810017 - LATIN AMERICA IN THE 20TH CENTURY (objectives) • Enable students to develop a working knowledge of the key social, political, and economic transformations occurred in Latin America during the 20th century. • Acquire knowledge of the most relevant historical process and political formations developed in Latin America that affected the American continents and the global space. • Develop students’ critical thinking and skills through: evaluating historians’ arguments; connecting analytic frameworks and historical processes. • Improve written and oral expressive skills by presenting, discussing, and (substantial) writing. - BERNARDI CLAUDIA (syllabus) CONTENTS OF THE COURSE (Part I - II) Week 1: October 4 Introduction The structure of the course: method, assignments, forms of assessment and presentation of materials. PART I. The TRANSFORMATION of LATIN AMERICA in the FIRST DECADES October 5 The nation-state formation after the independence Week 2 October 8 The new age of imperialism: the beginning of the “American century” October 11 Revolution: the Mexican case at the edge of Latin America October 12 Land and democracy Week 3 October 15 Economic expansion and industrialization (1880-1930) October 18 Labor and immigration PART II. From the GREAT DEPRESSION to the COLD WAR October 19 World War II and “The Great Transformation” Week 4 October 22 Populism: an overview of an abused concept October 25 Classical Populism: the Brazilian and Argentinian cases October 26 The struggle for sovereignty and democracy Week 5 October 29 Revolution in Bolivia and Guatemala November 5 Revolution in Cuba November 8 Wrap-up discussion about PART I and PART II Week 6 November 12 Mid-term examination November 15 Discussion about Mid-term and How to write a paper (reference books) MANDATORY READINGS: • Thomas E. Skidmore, Peter H. Smith, James N. Green, Modern Latin America, Eighth Edition, Oxford University Press, New York-Oxford, 2014. • Teresa A. Mead, A History of Modern Latin America. 1800 to the Present, Second Edition, WILEY Blackwell, Oxford, 2016. • Williamson Edwin, The Penguin History of Latin America, Penguin, New York, 2009. • Blanca Sánchez-Alonso, “Labor and Immigration” (Chapter 10, pp. 377-426), in John H. Coatsworth, Roberto Cortés Conde, Victor Bulmer-Thomas (eds), The Cambridge Economic History of Latin America. Volume II - The Long Twentieth Century, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2006. • Matthew Brown, “The Global History of Latin America”, in Journal of Global History, vol. 10, Issue 3, November 2015, pp. 377-386. For in-class presentation, students can choose one among these five options: 1. Leon Fink (ed), Workers across the Americas. The Transnational Turn in Labor History, Oxford University Press, New York-Oxford, 2011 [chapter 10, 14, and 17; pp. 136-162, 245-266, 329-354]. Ch. 10 - Catherine Nolan Ferrell, “De facto Mexicans”. Coffee Workers and Nationality on the Guatemalan-Mexican Border, 1931-1941, pp. 136-162. Ch. 14 - Michael Snodgrass, “Patronage and Progress. The Bracero Program from the perspective of Mexico”, pp. 245-266. Ch. 17 - John H. Flores, “A Migrating Revolution. Mexican political Organizers and their Rejection of American Assimilation, 1920-40”, pp. 329-354. 2. Richard Graham (ed), The Idea of Race in Latin America (1870-1940), University of Texas Press, Austin, 1990. Ch. 4 - Alan Knight, “Racism, Revolution, and Indigenismo: Mexico, 1910-1940”, pp. 71-114. AND Laura Gotkowitz, Histories of Race and Racism. The Andes and Mesoamerica from Colonial Times to the Present, Duke University Press, Durham and London, 2011 [Part III, pp. 159-217]. Seemin Qayum “Indian Ruins, National Origins: Tiwanaku and Indigenismo in La Paz, 1897–1933”, pp. 159-168. Deborah Poole, “Mestizaje, Distinction, and Cultural Presence: The View from Oaxaca”, pp. 179-203. Claudio Lomnitz, On the Origin of the “Mexican Race”, pp. 204-220. 3. Scott Mainwaring, Arturo Valenzuela (eds), Politics, Society, and Democracy. Latin America, WestView Press, Boulder Co., 1998 [chapters 5, 6, 7, and 8; pp. 101-202]. Ch. 5 - Jonathan Hartlyn, “Political continuities, missed opportunities, and institutional rigidities: another look at democratic transitions in Latin America”. Ch. 6 - Arturo Valenzuela, “The crisis of presidentialism in Latin America”. Ch. 7 - Juan Linz, “Presidentialism, and Democracy: A Critical Appraisal”. Ch. 8 - Scott Mainwaring and Matthew S. Shugart, “The Evolution of Latin American Party Systems”. 4. Timothy J. Dunne, The Militarization of the U.S.-Mexican Border (1978-1992) Low Intensity Conflict Doctrine Comes Home, University of Texas Press, Austin, 1996. Ch. 1 - Introduction, pp. 1-34. Ch. 4 - The war on drugs in the U.S. Mexico Border Region, 1981- 1992, pp.103-146. Ch. 5 - Conclusion, pp. 147-172. 5. Amelia M. Kiddle, María L.O. Muñoz (eds), Populism in twentieth century Mexico: the presidencies of Lázaro Cárdenas and Luis Echeverría, University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 2010. Alan Knight - Cárdenas and Echeverría: Two “Populist” Presidents Compared, pp. 15-37. Diane E. Davis - Policing and Populism in the Cárdenas and Echeverría Administrations, pp. 135-158. AND Carlos de la Torre, Populist Seduction in Latin America, Ohio University Press, Columbus, 2010. chapter 1, The Ambiguity of Latin American “Classical” Populism, pp. 1-27. AND Michael Conniff, Populism in Latin America, Second Edition, The University of Alabama press, Tuscaloosa, 2012. Chapter 4 - From Cárdenas to López Obrador Jorge Basurto, pp. 86-109 Selected readings will be assigned in class and provided by the instructor.	8	SPS/05	64	-	-	-	Related or supplementary learning activities	ENG
21810074 - EVOLVING SECURITY IN THE POST 1945 WORLD (objectives) The course aims at defining and elaborating on the concept of military security as it developed after the Second World War. The time span is determined by the ineluctable revolution that the discovery and use of nuclear weapons ushered in both in terms of military doctrine and of power politics. Starting with a reflection on the reasons of the early failure of collective security, the course will first focus on the crucial hallmarks of security in a bipolar international system, making a clear distinction between States included in, and excluded from a multilateral alliance. It will then take into consideration the major challenges posed to military security by the newly emerging threats as the former was consolidating after the end of the Cold War. - GALA MARILENA (syllabus) The course focuses on the most important aspects that security has assumed in the international system since the end of the Second World War. In adopting a historical approach, it intends to offer the students a general survey and understanding of a process that becomes the effect and the producer of frames of political action. The end of the Second World War has been selected as the starting point of analysis, mainly because it marked the beginning of the era of security studies in the United States and the Western world. Indeed, that field of studies developed after the failure of the attempt made at that time to establish an effective collective security within the United Nations. That failure coincided with the beginning of the nuclear era, which, in turn, dominated the Cold War. The time period characterized by bipolar confrontation represents a good deal of the focus of the course because it allows to examine the specific dynamics of that confrontation and the related developments concerning nuclear deterrence and proliferation. Still, in spite of the Cold War demise, the security discourse is still looming large in the contemporary international system, not only for the risk of nuclear proliferation, which seems growing after the end of the Cold War, but also because of the so-called securitization of many international issues, like environment, migration and access to resources. The course, therefore, aims at helping the students historicize the notion of international security and familiarize them with the main components of the contemporary international security agenda. - Part I: (first 5-6 weeks) After having introduced the meaning of security studies in the United States and the Western world, a good deal of attention is devoted to understanding the failure of the attempt made immediately after the second World War to establish an effective collective security within the United Nations, and its later evolution. Then, the focus shifts on the hallmarks and meaning of international security in the bipolar world, when military conflicts were bound to remain limited, as more or less limited was the room for maneuvering that most of the states inside and outside of the principal military alliances might reasonably expect to gain. Inter alia, Western Alliance is examined also to emphasize that, because of the threat of a nuclear holocaust, it has gradually turned out to be the venue for devising a shared security agenda and, through that, a curtailed version of collective security. The era of bipolar confrontation is also examined from the standpoint of the development of nuclear deterrence and proliferation as the two sides of the (nuclear-tinged) security coin - Part II: (second 5-6 weeks) The second part of the course concentrates on some of the most relevant challenges to international security characterizing the post-Cold War world, wherein globalization has been coexisting with a growing and widespread securitization of a series of international and transnational matters. Through the adoption of a historical perspective, the students are encouraged to reflect on and discuss about the transformation that the concept of international security has undergone over the last decades. Thus, class discussions are organized with the purpose of favoring a deeper analysis and debate on the various issues singled out as significant, and each student is required to present a short paper on one of those issues, using the bibliographical material suggested or provided by the professor (reference books) REQUIRED READINGS: - Mary Kaldor and Iavor Rangelov (edited by), The Handbook of Global Security Policy, Wiley Blackwell, 2014 – excluding the following chapters: 4, 8, 9, 12, 13, 15, 17, 19, 26 - Mark Mazower, Governing the World. The History of an Idea, Penguin Books, 2012 – pp. 191-342 For the in class discussions, students will have to read the following essays: - Fiona B. Adamson, “Crossing Borders: International Migration and National Security”, International Security, 31: 1 (Summer 2006), pp. 165-199 - David A. Baldwin, “The Concept of Security”, Review of International Studies, Vol. 23, n. 1, (January 1997), pp. 5-26 - Frank Boesch and Rudiger Graf, “Reacting to Anticipations: Energy Crises and Energy Policy in the 1970s. An Introduction”, Historical Social Research, 39: 4 (2014), pp. 7-21 - Madeline Carr, “Public-Private Partnerships in National Cybersecurity Strategies”, International Affairs, 92: I (2016), pp. 43-62 - Colin S. Gray, “What Rand Hath Wrought”, Foreign Policy, 4 (Autumn 1971), pp. 111-129 - Excerpts of the Human Development Report 1994, Published for the United Nations Development Programme - Excerpts of the first two chapters of Edwin Daniel Jacob’s Rethinking Security in the Twenty-first Century, (16 pp.) - Michael MccGwire, “Deterrence: The Problem- Not the Solution”, International Affairs, Vol. 62, n. 1, (Winter, 1985-1986), pp. 55-70 - Scott M. Thomas, “A Globalized God. Religion’s Growing Influence in International Politics”, Foreign Affairs, Vol 89, n. 6, Nov-Dec 2010, pp. 93-101 - David S. Yost, “NATO’s Evolving Purposes and the Next Strategic Concept”, International Affairs, 86:2 (March 2010), pp. 489-522.	8	SPS/06	64	-	-	-	Related or supplementary learning activities	ENG
21810072 - CONTEMPORARY ASIA (objectives) By the end of this course and having completed the relevant readings and activities, students should be able to: 1. Analyse the historical development of international relations in East Asia since the mid XIX century, comparing and contrasting developments in East Asia’s international politics in the Cold and post-Cold War periods (CLO 1). 2. Explain the linkages between global and regional security issues in the East Asian region (CLO 2). 3. Discuss the emergence, development, effectiveness and prospects of intra-regional institutions (CLO 3). 4. Assess the prospects for regional stability and cooperation (CLO 4) - FRATTOLILLO OLIVIERO (syllabus) CONTENT: PART I – Introduction and description of the course 1) Introduction : East Asia as a regional entity (geopolitics and culture) 2) Historical overview : The pre-war order in East Asia (the Sino-centric order and the Japanese particularism) – Part I 3) Historical overview : The pre-war order in East Asia (the Sino-centric order and the Japanese particularism) – Part II 4) Japan and China facing the first great challenge (the Modernity) 5) Japan and China facing the second great challenge (the Globalization) 6) Revision 6) Mid-term. PART II 1) Security, identity and stability in East Asia 2) China and the Japan-U.S. alliance - The security dilemma in East Asia 3) Ambiguous Japan: Japan’s national identity at century’s end 4) Power and purpose in Pacific East Asia 7) Revision 8) Final Exam Students are expected to write a 2.500 words, theoretically informed, research paper on a topic of their choice which has been previously discussed with the instructor. (reference books) REQUIRED READINGS: John Welfield, An Empire in Eclipse. Japan in the Postwar American Alliance System, Bloomsbury. Chi-Kwan Mark, China and the World Since 1945. An International History, Routledge. Rémy Davison, “Asia’s ‘Great Game’”, in M. Connors, R. Davison & J. Dosch, The New Global Politics of the Asia-Pacific. Conflict and Cooperation in the Asian Century, Routledge. M.K. Connors, “Between a doctrine and a hard place. Japan’s emerging role”, in M. Connors, R. Davison & J. Dosch, The New Global Politics of the Asia-Pacific. Conflict and Cooperation in the Asian Century, Routledge. Rémy Davison, “The Chinese century?”, in M. Connors, R. Davison & J. Dosch, The New Global Politics of the Asia-Pacific. Conflict and Cooperation in the Asian Century, Routledge. RECOMMENDED READINGS: Mastanduno, M., Lake, D. and Ikenberry, G.J., 1989. “Toward a Realist Theory of State Action”. International Studies Quarterly, 33 (4) : 457-74. Saich, T., 2011. Governance and politics of China. London and New York : Palgrave Macmillan. Frattolillo, O., 2012. Interwar Japan beyond the West. The search for a new subjectivity in world history. Newcastle-upon-Tyne : Cambridge SP. Frattolillo, O., 2013. “Sovereignty and Identity in EU-China-Japan Political Dialogue. A Theoretical Analysis”. Quarterly Journal of Chinese Studies, 2 (1) : 102-118. Hook, G.D., Gilson, J., Hughes, C.W. and Dobson, H., 2005. Japan’s international relations. Politics, economics and security. London and New York : Routledge. Lim, R., 2005. Geopolitics of East Asia. London and New York : Routledge.	8	SPS/14	64	-	-	-	Related or supplementary learning activities	ENG
21810076 - SUSTAINABILITY, ECONOMIC DEVELPMENT AND TRANSPORT (objectives) This course focuses on the sustainability of development patterns. Environmental quality, economic vitality and equity are discussed with a particular emphasis on the critical role played by transportation. In fact, transport is global and fundamental to economy and society, so effective action requires strong international cooperation. - GATTA VALERIO (syllabus) CONTENT PART I – TRANSPORT, ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT PART II – URBAN FREIGHT AND BEHAVIOUR CHANGE PART III – QUANTITATIVE METHODS FOR PREFERENCE ANALYSIS This course is taught in English. (reference books) Required readings: Block, R., Kopp, A., Limi, A. (2013). Turning the right corner : ensuring development through a low-carbon transport sector. Directions in development: environment and sustainable development. Washington DC; World Bank. Articles and handouts provided during the course	8	SECS-P/06	64	-	-	-	Related or supplementary learning activities	ENG
21810022 - POST-COLONIAL STUDIES IN THE ENGLISH SPEAKING WORLD (objectives) The course examines the nature and characterization of postcolonial studies in the area of Anglophone literature. By reading a selection of theoretical and literary texts, students will be encouraged to take a critical outlook of different postcolonial methodologies, in order to gain consciousness of the impact of postcolonial theory on and through fiction. Specifically, South African literature and culture will be analysed in relation to the ideas of identity, nationalism, and race. By the end of the course, students should have an understanding of the main aspects of contemporary postcolonial theories, and achieve a critical awareness of the wide-ranging thematic influence of race and identity topics on South African literary texts. - ZULLI TANIA (syllabus) Syllabus DESCRIPTION: The course examines the nature and characterization of postcolonial studies in the area of Anglophone literature. By analysing a selection of theoretical and literary texts, students will be encouraged to take a critical outlook of different postcolonial methodologies, in order to gain consciousness of the impact of postcolonial theory on and through fiction. Specifically, the dynamic link between colonial and postcolonial literature and culture will be analysed in relation to the concepts of identity, migration, and race. NUMBER OF CREDITS: 8 INSTRUCTOR: Tania Zulli, Associate Professor of English Language and Literature By the end of the course, students should have an understanding of the main aspects of contemporary postcolonial theories, and achieve a critical awareness of the wide-ranging thematic influence of race and identity topics, with a specific focus on South African literary texts. The emphasis on migration, as developed through literary texts both in nineteenth-century and modern literature, will be instrumental to the connection of such themes to modern social and cultural issues. This course is taught in English. CONTENTS: INTRODUCTION Week 1 – 11th/12th March 2019 1. Introduction and course description 2. Talking about the transnational: nation, space, cultures 3. Joseph Conrad and Nadine Gordimer as transnational authors PART I Introducing Postcolonial Studies Week 2 – 18th/19th March 2019 1. Defining the terms: colonialism, imperialism, neocolonialism, postcolonialism 2. Postcolonialism: When? Where? Who? What? 3. The “death” of postcolonialism Week 3 – 25th/26th March 2019 1. Talking about the English-Speaking World: Which Language? Whose Language? 2. Adopting another language: the experience of Jumpa Lahiri 3. Hybridity, Ambivalence, Mimicry PART II – Postcolonial Literature and the Question of Migration Week 4 – 1st/2nd April 2019 1. The Issue of Migration: Cultural Problems and Perspectives Isolation vs. integration, silence vs. communication 2. Migration writing, writing about migration 3. Building an Idea of Transnational Fiction Week 5 – 8th/9th April 2019 1. Past and present migrations: Joseph Conrad and Nadine Gordimer 2. From past to present: a transnational approach 3. Migration writing, writing about migration Week 6 – 15th /16th April 2019 1. Amy Foster: language, exile, migration MID TERM WRITTEN ASSESSMENT – NO PRESENTATIONS Week 7 – 29th/30th April 2019 1. Amy Foster: critical reading and class discussion NO PRESENTATIONS 2. Swept from the Sea 2. Amy Foster and Swept from the Sea: a comparative reading Week 8 – 6th/7th May 1. Nadine Gordimer’s modern migrations 2. Inside Out Migrations: The Pickup by Nadine Gordimer 3. The Pickup: Dislocation, religion, and communication Week 9 – 13th/14th May 1. The Pickup: critical reading. 2. Prof. Kim Salmons, University of St. Mary’s, Twickenham, London, Seminar on Conrad and Food (reference books) REQUIRED READINGS: • Ania Loomba, Colonialism/Postcolonialism, London, Routledge, 1998, pp. 1-20. • Ania Loomba, Colonialism/Postcolonialism, London, Routledge, 1998, pp. 173-183. • Chinua Achebe, “The African Writer and the English Language”, in Colonial Discourse and Postcolonial Theory, ed. P. Williams and L. Chrisman, London, Routledge, 1993, pp. 428-434. • Douglas Kerr, “Conrad and the Immigrant: The Drama of Hospitality”, Review of English Studies 67 (279), 2016, pp. 334-348. • Elleke Boehmer, “The writing of ‘not quite’ and ‘in between’”, in Colonial and Postcolonial Literature, Oxford, OUP, 2005, pp. 225-236. • Franz Meier, "Picking up the Other: Nadine Gordimer's The Pickup", EESE 2/2003, http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/edoc/ia/eese/artic23/franz/2_2003.html • Ileana Dimitriu, 2003, “The End of History: Reading Gordimer’s Post-Apartheid Novels”, Current Writing, 15, 1, pp. 17-37. • J. M. Coetzee, “Nadine Gordimer”, in Inner Workings. Literary Essays 2000-2005, London, Harvill Secker, 2007. • Joseph Conrad, “Author’s Note”, Almayer’s Folly, London, Wordsworth Classics, 2011, pp. 5-6. • Joseph Conrad, “Amy Foster” • Katherine Isobel Baxter, “‘Senseless speech’ and inaudibility in Conrad’s ‘Amy Foster’: rethinking trauma and the unspeakable in fiction”, Textual Practice, DOI: 10.1080/0950236X.2015.1084364 • Krystyna U. Golkowska, “Empathy and Othering in Joseph Conrad’s Amy Foster”, AWEJ, Special Issue on Literature No. 2 October, 2014, 60-68. • Masoud Farahmandfar, "Picking Up an Identity: A Postcolonial Reading of Nadine Gordimer’s The Pickup", International Journal of Comparative Literature & Translation Studies, 2 (2), April 2014, http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.ijclts.v.2n.2p.35 • Nadine Gordimer, “Writing and Being”, in Living in Hope and History, London, Bloomsbury, 1999, pp. 195-206. • Nadine Gordimer, The Pickup, London, Bloomsbury, 2001. • Nurten Birlik, “Two Cases of Marginalization told from the Wings: “Amy Foster” and Swept from the Sea”, Trames, 2009, 13 (63/58), 1, 83–91. • Peter Childs and Patrick Williams, An Introduction to Postcolonial Theory, London, Harvester, 1997, pp. 1-25. • Richard Ambrosini, Reconceptualizing Conrad as a Transnational Novelist: A Research Programme, Studia Neophilologica 2012, DOI:10.1080/00393274.2012.751662, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00393274.2012.751662 • Stephen Clingman, "Village, Empire, the Desert", in The Grammar of Identity, Oxford, OUP, 2009, pp. 230-239. • Stephen Clingman, “Introduction. The Grammar of Identity”, in The Grammar of Identity, Oxford, OUP, 2009, pp. 1-34. • Stephen Clingman, “Waterways of the Earth: Joseph Conrad”, in The Grammar of Identity, Oxford, OUP, 2009, pp. 35-48. • Tania Zulli, Amy Foster, Venezia, Marsilio, 2018. • Tania Zulli, Joseph Conrad: Language and Transnationalism, Chieti, Solfanelli, 2019. • Tania Zulli, “Stepping across which line? Geographical and intellectual dislocations in Nadine Gordimer’s The Pickup”, Forms of Migration-Migration of Forms, Vittoria Intonti, Federica Troisi e Marina Vitale (a cura di), Bari, Progedit, 2009, pp. 238-246. • Tania Zulli, ““The desert is mute”: Spatial and Linguistic Extremes in Nadine Gordimer’s The Pickup”, ed. Nicoletta Brazzelli and Frédéric Regard, Textus XXIX – 2 (May-August 2016), pp. 155-168. AUDIOS AND VIDEOS: • http://www.livinglanguage.com/blog/2016/03/01/reflections-on-language-from-in-other-words-by-jhumpa-lahiri/ • http://lithub.com/jhumpa-lahiri-on-language-and-the-longing-for-home/ • https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jan/31/jhumpa-lahiri-in-other-words-italian-language	8	L-LIN/12	64	-	-	-	Related or supplementary learning activities	ENG

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21810122 - ORGANIZED CRIME IN ITALY: MAFIAS, MURDERS AND BUSINESS (objectives) The course analyses the role of organized crime in Italy through a historical, structural, and cultural perspective. After an overview of the various criminal organizations that are active both in Italy and abroad – the Camorra and the Ndrangheta, today’s richest and most powerful criminal organization – the course will focus on the Sicilian mafia, Cosa Nostra. - Derived from 21810181 THE ECONOMICS OF ORGANIZED CRIME AND SOCIAL INNOVATION in International Studies LM-52 N0 (A-Z) GARAU EVA (syllabus) Discussion topics will include both mafia wars, the importance of investigators Falcone and Borsellino, the Maxi Trial, and the anti-mafia state organizations, from their origins to their role today in the struggle against organized crime. The course will highlight the creation of the International Department against Mafia and legislation developed specifically to aid in the fight against criminal organizations. It will examine the ties between Cosa Nostra and Italian politics, the period of terrorist attacks, and response of the Italian government. By the end of the course students will be able to: • Examine the complexity of social structures related to Organized Crime; • Analyze the cultural and social background of Cosa Nostra • Describe the relation between Cosa Nostra, cultural values and the Italian political system; • Define how the phenomena conditioned the development of democracy in Italy; • Identify how the reality of criminal organizations differs from common stereotypes on Italian Mafia This course is taught in English. (reference books) REQUIRED AND SUGGESTED READINGS: • Anita Lavorgna and Anna Sergi, “Types of organized crime in Italy. The multifaceted spectrum of Italian criminal associations and their different attitudes in the financial crisis and in the use of Internet technology”, in International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice, N° XX (2013). • John Dickie, Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2004). • “Giuseppe Impastato: his actions, his murder, the investigation and the cover up,” Centro Siciliano di Documentazione "Giuseppe Impastato". • Letizia Paoli, Mafia Brotherhoods. Organized Crime, Italian Style, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003). • Letizia Paoli, “Mafia and organised crime in Italy: The unacknowledged successes of law enforcement” in West European Politics Vol. 30, No. 4, (2007,). • Paul Ginsborg, “Corruption and the Mafia” in: Italy and its discontents (London: Penguin, 2001). • Francesco Calderoni, “Where is the mafia in Italy? Measuring the presence of the mafia across Italian provinces” in Global Crime, Vol. 12, No. 1, (2011).. • Francesco Calderoni, Strategic positioning in mafia networks, working paper provided by the Instructor. • Roberto Saviano, Gomorrah, (Milan: Mondadori, 2006). • Letizia Paoli, “Italian Organised Crime: Mafia Associations and Criminal Enterprises” in Global Crime, Vol. 6, No. 1 (2004) • Federico Varese, “Mafia movements: a framework for understanding the mobility of mafia groups” in Global Crime, Vol. 12, No. 3 (2011). • Francesco Calderoni, “Strategic positioning in mafia networks”, working paper provided by the Instructor FILMOGRAPHY: • The Godfather, director Francis Ford Coppola • Donnie Brasco, director Mike Newell • The 100 Steps, director Marco Tullio Giordana • Excellent Cadavers, director Ricky Tognazzi • Mafia kills only in Summer, director Pif	8	SPS/04	64	-	-	-	Elective activities	ENG
21810139 - HISTORY OF ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT (objectives) The course will focus on the political history of energy and on the environmental consequences of the emergence of different energy regimes from the beginning of the 20th century to the present time. - Derived from 21810139 HISTORY OF ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT in Relazioni internazionali LM-52 N0 (A-Z) Garavini Giuliano (syllabus) Indicative Themes Readings will be shared before each class via Dropbox or via mail: Week 1 The Beginning of the Age of Oil. We will discuss the emergence of a global oil industry at the beginning of the 20th century, together with the birth of the "concession system" in the Middle East. We will also tackle the concept of "carbon democracy" as a way to understand the political significance and the impact of the beginning of the age of oil and of the passage from one to the other kind of fossil fuels. Week 2 The Great Depression of the 1930s and WWII. The international oil industry runs into trouble by the end of the 1920s. We will discuss the pressures for state regulation in the US, the emergence of the first "petrostates" and of the nationalist movements trying to influence oil production. We will also discuss the first efforts to define energy regimes and the very same concept of an energy regime. WWII opened the way to the widespread use of oil in the transportation industry as well as a key energy source. Week 3 The Golden Age of the International Oil Cartel and the Creation of OPEC. We will discuss the importance of the 1948 "fifty-fifty" profit sharing model as a way to spread the use of petroleum, the rise of the Middle East as a key oil-exporting region, as well as the beginning of western European dependence from petroleum imports. This was the Golden Age of the "international oil cartel" that peaked with the coup in Iran in 1953. We will then discuss the reasons for the creation of OPEC and its importance both for the evolution of the international energy market and as well as a key actor in international relations in the 20th century. At the same time will also discuss political and economic importance of oil in the Arab world and some of the "rentier state" theories. Week 4 The 1960s: the Decade of Consumers and Consumerism. We will discuss the "Great Acceleration" of the Anthropocene and the rise of consumerism, together with the emergence of environmental movements, and we will read some of the key texts that influenced early environmentalism. Week 5 The Energy Crisis and the "Oil Shocks" of the 1970s. We will discuss the beginning of the energy crisis of the 1970s as well as the "peak oil" debate and the "limits of growth" theory. At the same time we will deal with the consequences of the emerging environmentalist debate, such as the convening of the first UN Conference on Human Environment (1972). We will discuss the difference between the two oil shocks of the 1970s and their links to the debate on the creation of a New International Economic Order. We will also deal with the energy malaise in consuming countries and the failed search for "alternatives". Week 6 The Oil Counter-shock of the 1980s. We will discuss the rise of the North Sea and of non-OPEC production, as well as the role of the newly elected governments in Great Britain the US for the re-launching the of hydrocarbons energy model. We will assess the impact of the "counter-shock" for the oil consumers and the oil producers. Week 7 The Crisis of the Petrostates and Globalization. We will speak about the "oil curse debate" and of the attack on "proprietary governance" in Venezuela and in Russia. We will also discuss the structural shift in energy consumption patterns with the rise of Asia and in particular of China an India as key energy consumers and importers. Week 8 Energy Transition or Energy Transformation? We will discuss the concept of "energy transitions" as opposed to that of "energy transformation" and discuss what could be the likely nature of this energy transformation. We will debate examples of energy transitions in history and find links and connections with the present situation. Week 9 The Anthropocene, its Meaning and Consequences. We will discuss the meaning of the "Anthropocene" concept as well as its political significance and ita impact on the study of the humanities. Week 10 The Global Warming Diplomacy. We will discuss the impact of "renewable energy" and the possibility and consequences of "peak demand" for petroleum in the future. At the same time will try to understand the limits of the fight against global warming, such as the emergence of "shale" and of difficulties in controlling the rise in CO2 levels. We also discuss the possibility of litigation against oil companies and the idea of keeping natural resources underground. (reference books) Required: • Leonardo Maugeri, The Age of Oil: The Mythology, History, and Future of the World's Most Controversial Resources (the complete book) • Christophe Bonneuil and Jean-Baptise Fressoz, The Shock of the Anthropocene. The Earth, History and Us (the complete book) One of the following (or another previously agreed with the instructor): • Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable • Simon Pirani, Burning Up: A Global History of Fossil Fuels Consumption • Bernard Mommer, Global Oil and the Nation State • John McNeill and Peter Engelke, The Great Acceleration. An Environmental History of the Anthropocene Since 1945 • Meg Jacobs, Panic at the Pump: The Energy Crisis and the Transformation of American Politics in the 1970s • Myrna Santiago, The Ecology of Oil. Environment, Labour and the Mexican Revolution, 1900-1938 • Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate • Timothy Mitchell, Carbon Democracy. Political Power in the Age of Oil • Pierre Terzian, OPEC: The Inside Story • Tyler Volk, CO2 Raising: The World's Greatest Environmental Challenge • Andreas Malm, Fossil Capital. The Rise of the Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming A useful source for inspiration for your presentations and for the essay: • Luigi Piccioni, La cronologia di "altronovecento" dell'ambiente e dell'ambientalismo 1853-2000	8	M-STO/04	64	-	-	-	Elective activities	ENG
21810149 - GLOBAL ECONOMY AND LABOUR RIGHTS (objectives) The course aims at developing the salient characteristics and trends in social and labour rights regulation, in the framework of global economy and sustainable development. - Derived from 21210062 Global economy and labour rights in Economia dell'ambiente e dello sviluppo LM-56 GIOVANNONE MARIA (syllabus) 1. Sustainable Development, Global Economy and Social Rights: why we need a linkage 2. The International Labour Organization and International Labour Standards 3. The European Union and Employment Law 4. International and European Trade Agreements 5. Case study: a focus on U.S.A., Mexico, Canada, Australia, Brazil, China, Japan, India France, Germany, UK, Eastern EU countries, Italy 6. Conflicts of laws in employment contracts, social security systems and industrial relations 7. Social Clauses, Codes of Conduct and CSR: an evolutionary perspective This course is taught in English. (reference books) Servais J.M., International Labour Law, Fifth edition, Wolters Kluwer International, 2017. Supplementary and up-to-date information and materials will be provided on-line to the students by the teacher in a dropbox folder. The acces will be made available by the teacher sending an e-mail request.	8	IUS/07	64	-	-	-	Elective activities	ENG
21810150 - INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY (objectives) This course will provide students with an analytical framework for the study of international trade. - Derived from 21210064 International trade in the global economy in Economia dell'ambiente e dello sviluppo LM-56 NENCI SILVIA (syllabus) It is divided in two parts. The first considers both the predictions of the Neoclassical trade theory (i.e., the Ricardian Model and the Heckscher-Ohlin Model) and the new trade models with imperfect competition, including the most recent developments related to firm-level evidence. The second part discusses the effects and the political economy determinants of trade policy. International agreements multilateral trade liberalization and on regional trade liberalization will be also discussed. The course considers both the theories and recent empirical works, as well as a discussion of the relevant methodological issues in measurement and estimation. This course is taught in English. (reference books) Teaching material Lecture slides and other teaching material will be downloadable from the course website. Textbook International Trade, R. C. Feenstra and A.M Taylor, Third Edition, 2014, Worth MacMillan. Readings Some topics rely on journal articles and papers.	8	SECS-P/02	64	-	-	-	Elective activities	ENG
21810183 - BUSINESS ETHICS AND LEADERSHIP (objectives) This course examines the philosophical foundations and basic principles of ethics as they apply to businesses and the environments in which they operate. Real-world case studies are used to provide students with insight into how businesses and organizations manage – and in some cases fail to manage – challenging ethical and moral dilemmas. Students also consider the particular responsibilities of business leaders in fostering ethical awareness and practices within the corporate context. - SPITZMILLER REBECCA (syllabus) This course examines the philosophical foundations and basic principles of ethics as they apply to businesses and the environments in which they operate. Real-world case studies are used to provide students with insight into how businesses and organizations manage – and in some cases fail to manage – challenging ethical and moral dilemmas. Students also consider the particular responsibilities of business leaders in fostering ethical awareness and practices within the corporate context. This course is taught in English. (reference books) Teays, Wanda. Business Ethics Through Movies: A Case Study Approach. Wiley-Blackwell, 15/2016. VitalSource Bookshelf Online.	8	SECS-P/08	64	-	-	-	Elective activities	ENG
21810184 - COMPARATIVE HEALTH SYSTEMS (objectives) The course offers an introduction to foundational concepts of health care delivery systems including health and disease; and policy and economics. - TERLIZZI ANDREA (syllabus) This course explores the impact of demographics, infrastructure, political and public will, global economic conditions, and geopolitical circumstances on health care systems. Evidence-based health policy research points to the need to carefully assess health care delivery systems in individual countries in order to identify initiatives, patterns, and mechanisms that have most likely contributed to successful reforms and sustainable financing arrangements. Comparisons will be made among the different regional actors with special reference to the debate on health care in the US. Different countries commonly have different goals and motivations for introducing certain health care policies and interventions. Students will learn about, assess, and understand these unique interests, needs, and historical experiences that shape current health care at the national level. Visits to private and public health institutions in the host country are included. The course is taught in English. (reference books) Readings: WHO’s Health Care Systems in Transition series is an excellent source to look at the health care system of a country. http://www.euro.who.int/en/aboutus/partners/observatory/health-systems-in-transition-hit-series. Berman P, Bitran R. “Health Systems Analysis for Better Health System Strengthening.” World Bank Health, Nutrition, and Population (HNP) Discussion Paper, May 2011. 10 Bhattacharya J, Hyde T and Tu P. Health Economics. Basingstoke: PalgraveMacmillan, 2013. CSDH. Closing the gap in a generation. Health equity through action on the social determinants of health. Final report of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health. Geneva, World Health Organisation 2008. Dörner D. The logic of failure: Recognizing and avoiding error in complex situations. New York: Basic Books; 1996. Kahneman D. Thinking, Fast and Slow. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011 McMichael AJ, Beaglehole R. “The Changing Global Context of Public Health”. Lancet 2000; 356: 495–499.	8	SECS-P/03	64	-	-	-	Elective activities	ENG
21810211 - MIGRATION AND MOBILITY IN A GLOBAL WORLD (objectives) The course will provide an analysis of this dramatic phenomenon in 20th and 21st centuries, focusing on the major migration waves that have involved Europe and USA. - PETITI GIANNI (syllabus) Subjects of migration vary in different geographies and time scales. Migration is sometimes explored as the movement of people (together with knowledge, goods, capital and networks) across borders. The course will provide an analysis of this dramatic phenomenon in 20th and 21st centuries, focusing on the major migration waves that have involved Europe and USA. Demographic, economic, social, political and religious causes of migration will be addressed through the analysis of specific case studies, which will contribute to provide the students with a map of the most significant movements of people and their aftermaths in the decades to follow. Students will be accompanied by the instructor and different guest speakers to gain the knowledge to answer to questions, such as “what are the definitions of migration? What are the features and patterns of migration from and to Europe? What is the role of states in defining and managing migration? Does it complement, compete with, subvert and/or foreshadow ethnic, national, religious, class and gender identities? What are the most vulnerable migrant groups? How do practices of migration cohabit with the state? What are the references in migration studies to concepts such as multiculturalism, toleration, diversity, collective rights, alienation and difference?” . This course in taught in English. (reference books) Readings: The Holy Bible, Abulafia, David, The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean, Castles & Miller 2009. The age of migration. Fourth Edition. UK Chapter 3. Chapter 7. Pages 170-180 UN The International Migration Report, EU Annual Report on Migration and Asylum, Oxford Academics, Migration Studies Irial Glynn, Emigration Across the Atlantic: Irish, Italians and Swedes compared, 1800–1950, Stroum Center for Jewish Studies – University of Washington Regulation (Eu) No 604/2013 Of The European Parliament And Of The Council Of 26 June 2013 (Current Dublin Regulation), Un Convention And Protocol Relating To The Status Of Refugee Are Knudsen, Arne Strand, and Erlend Paasche War and migration (2013) Mahmud Abdur-Rahman et. al., Life in Syria, (2017) Un Convention And Protocol Relating To The Status Of Refuge	8	SECS-S/03	64	-	-	-	Elective activities	ENG
21810188 - INTERNATIONAL JOURNALISM (objectives) This course is designed to provide an introduction to the theories and techniques of journalism, with an emphasis on fairness and accuracy of journalistic coverage of diverse, multi-ethnic communities, the role of journalism in democratic societies, news values and ethics, and reporting and writing techniques. All this is done with a special comparative focus on the situation of journalism in the country of study, in Europe as a whole and the U.S. Using specific examples from especially the first two geographical and political areas, students examine the influence of journalism on politics, business, and society. Being in a vibrant European capital, with dozens of newspapers, magazines, and new media produced here, students experience the location and organizers of the most influential national press briefings as well as attend an editorial board meeting of one of the most popular daily newspapers. They will also pay particular attention to the role of foreign correspondents. - BRANCHI ANDREA (syllabus) By the end of the course students will: • Have a basic understanding of the role of journalism in our modern societies and the challenges and changes it is currently undergoing (e.g. technological, societal and ethical developments) • Have built and demonstrated a knowledge of differences between journalism in different countries all over the world (e.g. media system, institutions, content and journalists). • Have compared the Italian journalism with that in the US and critically assessed the two approaches. • Discussed the complex relationship between journalism and the development of a democratic society and displayed awareness of future challenges concerning (international) journalism. • Be able to fulfill at least very basic journalistic tasks (such as writing a complete short news message and a pre-editing of a newspaper page or webpage microsite). (reference books) Reading: A. Tucher, “Why Journalism History Matters: The Gaffe, the ‘Stuff,’ and the Historical Imagination”, in American Journalism; Fall 2014, Vol. 31, pp. 432-444 S. Pasti, M. Chernysh and L. Svitich, “The Russian journalist and their profession”, in D. Weaver and L. Willnat (Eds.) The global journalist in the 21st Century. New York: Routledge, 2012 Selections from: M. Conboy, Journalism. A Critical History, Sage, 2014; I. Hargreaves, Journalism. A Very Short Introduction, Oxford UP, 2003 M. Bromley, “Subterfuge as public service: investigative journalism as idealized journalism,” in S. Allan (ed.), Journalism: Critical Issues; Open University Press, 2005, pp. 313-329 I. Hargreaves, Journalism. A Very Short Introduction, Oxford UP, 2003 S. Allan (ed.), Journalism: Critical Issues; Open University Press, 2005 H. Sissons, Practical Journalism. How to write news, SAGE, 2006 Y.T. Mc Ewen and F.A. Fisken (eds.), War, Journalism and History. War Correspondents in the Two World Wars Peter Lang, 2012; G. Mc Laughin, The War Correspondent, Pluto Press, 2002 P. Patterson and L. Wilkins, Media Ethics, Issues & Cases, McGraw-Hill, 2014; M. Conboy, Journalism. A Critical History, Sage, 2014 Selections from: − H. Sissons, Practical Journalism. How to write news, SAGE, 2006 − S. Allan (ed.), Journalism: Critical Issues; Open University Press, 2005 − D. Hallin and P. Manchini, Comparing media systems: three models of media and politics. Cambridge UP, 2004 − C. Valentini and G. Nesti (eds.) Public Communications in the European Union. History, Perspectives and Challenges. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010	8	SPS/08	64	-	-	-	Elective activities	ENG
21810181 - THE ECONOMICS OF ORGANIZED CRIME AND SOCIAL INNOVATION (objectives) The aim of the course is to bring examples of real-life experience involving organized crime, and to understand how mafias gain huge amount of money and re-invest them all over the world. Students will analyse data, figures and specific events; the will have the chance to understand how this system affects the economic and institutional life of entire regions and the world economy; finally a focus will be made on the strategies to combat transnational organized crime at global level and to fight mafias at local level, especially thorough the Italian social entrepreneurs. - GARAU EVA (syllabus) On completion of the course, students should be able to: 1. Compare and contrast organized crime all over the world 2. Assess mafia’s business side: how money are made and on money laundering 3. Reflect on how organized crime can influence the economic and institutional life in many part of the world 4. Describe and discuss money laundering and anti‐money laundering techniques 5. Organize information on the all‐powerful Italian organized crime, focusing on history, evolution and globalization of business empires, environmental organized crime, and reflect on organized crime as local solution to global competition 6. Examine the efficacy and effectiveness of social entrepreneurship and good governance as a response to economic crisis (case studies) and of active citizenship and transparent information as tools for change, even in territories affected heavily by organized crime 7. Reflect on the color of money This course is taught in English. (reference books) Required Texts Reading material will be posted in the blackboard. Behan Tom, “See Napoli and die” Macmillan, 2002 ISBN-13: 978-1848850187; Ginsborg, Paul: “Italy and Its Discontents: Family, Civil Society, State: 1980-2001, Palgrave MacMillan – 2006, ISBN-13: 978-1403973948; Lilley Peter: Dirty Dealing: The Untold Truth About Global Money Laundering, International Crime and Terrorism - 3rd Edition". By Peter Lilley; Kogan Page, 2006, ISBN-13: 978-749445126; Saviano R, “Gomorrah– Italy’s other Mafia”, Macmillan, 2008, ISBN 978- 0-374-16527-7; Articles • Beham Tom,“How capitalism created the mafia”, 2008 • UNODC, The Globalization of Crime A Transnational Organized Crime ThreatnAssessment, 2010 Report • UNODC, World Drug Report, 2010 • US Government: “Strategy to combat transnational organized crime - Addressing Converging Threats to National Security”, July 2011 Films La mafia uccide solo d’estate (2013) Campania in-felix (2011) Una vita tranquilla (2010)	8	SECS-P/06	64	-	-	-	Elective activities	ENG
21810182 - POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE EU: CRISIS & CHANGE (objectives) This course is designed to give students a practical understanding of the political-economic situation in Europe and a familiarity with theoretical principles applicable to economic crises in general. - SCRIBNER BENJAMIN LEE (syllabus) In 2010, Greece’s government debt reached 300 billion Euro, the largest in its modern history, triggering an acute crisis centered on the European Union’s Mediterranean members. Continued economic difficulties and debates over immigration are increasing polarization of European politics and have led to a rising skepticism of the EU itself as a project, as evidenced by the UK referendum to exit the EU that passed in the summer of 2016. What are the various narratives of the crisis? How are governments, businesses and civil society responding? This course is designed to give students a practical understanding of the political-economic situation in Europe and a familiarity with theoretical principles applicable to economic crises in general. The course includes discussion of current political-economic issues as they develop during the semester. The centerpiece of the course is a weekend excursion in which students from Arcadia’s Rome and Athens centers meet with EU experts, civil society members or politicians. Past excursion locations include Rome, Athens, Barcelona, and Brussels. This course is taught in English. (reference books) Required Texts: Oatley, T. H. (2008). International political economy: Interests and institutions in the global economy. New York: Pearson/Longman. ISBN: 978-0205060634; Cost: To Be Determined. Articles and selections include: ● Shambaugh, Jay C. "The Euro’s Three Crises." Brookings Papers on Economic Activity: 157-231. ISSN: 0007-2303. ● Collignon, Stefan, Europe’s Debt Crisis, Coordination Failure, and International Effects (July 12, 2012). ADBI Working Paper No. 370. Article is freely available at: http://www.stefancollignon.de. ● de Streel, Alexandre. The Evolution of the EU Economic Governance Since the Treaty of Maastricht: An Unfinished Task (September 15, 2013). Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law, Vol. 20, 2013. ISSN: 1023-263X. ● Caritas Europa. "Caritas Monitoring Report 2015: Poverty and Inequalities on the Rise." 2015. Report is freely available at: http://www.caritas.eu/news/crisis-report-2015. ● Palley, Thomas I. "Financialization: What It Is and Why It Matters." Levy Economics Institute of Bard College Working Paper 525. Paper presented at a conference on “Finance-led Capitalism? Macroeconomic Effects of Changes in the Financial Sector,” sponsored by the Hans Boeckler Foundation and held in Berlin, Germany, October 26–27, 2007. ● Goda, Thomas, Ozlem Onaran, and Engelbert Stockhammer. "A Case for Redistribution? Income Inequality and Wealth Concentration in the Recent Crisis." 2014. Presented at the Progressive Economy Annual Forum 05.– 06.03.2014, Brussels. Freely available at: http://www.postkeynesian.net/downloads/working-papers/PKWP1305.pdf. ● Financial Crisis: Causes, Policy Responses, Future Challenges. Outcomes of EU funded Research. Brigette Young, European Commission, 2014. ISBN: 978-9279363375. ● Allard, Céline, Petya Koeva Brooks, John Bluedorn, Fabian Bornhorst, Franziska Ohnsorge, and Katharine Christopherson Puh. "Toward A Fiscal Union for the Euro Area." IMF Staff Discussion Notes 13.9 (2013): 1. ISBN: 978-1484307373/2221-030X. Recommended Additional Reading Frieden, J. A. (2006). Global capitalism: Its fall and rise in the twentieth century. New York: W.W. Norton.	8	SECS-P/02	64	-	-	-	Elective activities	ENG
21810179 - COMMUNICATING ACROSS CULTURE IN ITALY, EUROPE AND THE MEDITERRANEAN (objectives) Using the daily life experiences of class members in combination with texts, theory and discussion, students will develop the knowledge, skills and studies necessary for successful intercultural encounters in the Italian, European and Mediterranean context. - SCRIBNER BENJAMIN LEE (syllabus) Using the daily life experiences of class members in combination with texts, theory and discussion, students will develop the knowledge, skills and atudes necessary for successful intercultural encounters in the Italian, European and Mediterranean context. The course begins with an exploraon of the students’ own past and present exposure to a variety of cultures, followed by an new examinaon of students’ own cultures that such experiences uniquely permit. Cultural patterns will be introduced to allow students to beer interpret culturally diverse behaviors and communicaon styles and learn to make well-grounded generalizations when comparing cultures. Finally, the course will offer theorecal tools to interpret current cultural issues in the Italian, European and Mediterranean region such as migration and refugees, religion and the resurgence of exclusive and xenophobic concepons of culture. At the end of the course, students will evaluate their growth and areas of challenge through an assessment of intercultural competence. This course is taught in English. (reference books) Required Texts: Marn, J.N. & Nakayama, T.K. (2010). Intercultural Communication in Contexts (5th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw Hill Humanies/Social Sciences/Languages. ISBN-13: 978-0073385129; Cost: To Be Determined. Samovar, L.A., Porter, R.E., McDaniel, E.R. & Roy, C.S. (2012). Chapter 6: Cultural Values: Guidelines for Behavior. In Communication Between Cultures (8th ed.) (172-212). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing. ISBN-13: 978-1111349103; Cost: To Be Determined. Additional Readings and Resources: Arcles and powerpoint lecture slides are available from the instructor on the course "Canvas site through Arcadia University".	8	SPS/02	64	-	-	-	Elective activities	ENG

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21810034 - FRENCH STUDIES (objectives) This 8 cfu module is offered to students having a good French level. It aims to develop students’s reading skills, with specific focus on texts dealing with the social, the political, and the economic scenarios of modern and contemporary France. - Derived from 21801877 CULTURE DEI PAESI DI LINGUA FRANCESE in Relazioni internazionali LM-52 NESSUNA CANALIZZAZIONE SPANDRI FRANCESCO (syllabus) The course is offered to all students. It will focus on: “The absurd and history”. The course will tackle these topics through the analysis of two novels: Albert Camus, “L’Étranger” (1942) and Kamel Daoud, “Mersault, contre-enquête” (2013). (reference books) 1) Albert Camus, “L’Étranger”, Paris, Gallimard, coll. Folio, 1942 (or any other paperback French edition) 2) Kamel Daoud, “Mersault, contre-enquête”, Arles, Actes Sud, 2014 (paperback edition) 3) Kamel Daoud, “Mes indépendances. Chroniques 2010-2016”, Arles, Actes Sud, 2017 (available from copy shop Appunti, via Chiabrera 174: study 4 articles of your choosing) 4) “Il romanzo francese del Novecento”, Sandra Teroni, ed., Bari, Laterza, 2008, pp. 62-95 (available from copy shop Appunti, via Chiabrera 174) 5) “Les Constitutions de la France depuis 1789”, présentation par Jacques Godechot, édition corrigée et mise à jour par Hervé Faupin, Paris, Flammarion, coll. GF, 2006, chapters XIII, XIV, XV (available from copy shop Appunti, via Chiabrera 174) Camus's and Daoud's texts are available from: Feltrinelli International Bookstore, Via V. E. Orlando, 84/86 00185 Roma.	8	L-LIN/04	64	-	-	-	Core compulsory activities	FRE
21810036 - GERMAN STUDIES (objectives) Students will build on previously acquired listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills. They will further develop their political and cultural knowledge in German-speaking countries. The course is taught in German and is divided into a linguistic section, which pays particular attention to the acquisition of sectoral lexicons in the political-legal and historical-economic fields, and a thematic section, which is devoted to the German-speaking region through texts and documents of various kinds from newspapers, non-fiction books, films and literature, whereby literature serves as a model for complex cultural communication, aesthetics and criticism. Ziel dieses Kurses ist es, die bereits von Studenten erworbenen Sprachkompetenzen durch die Vertiefung der politisch-kulturellen Erfahrungen im deutschsprachigen Raum zu perfektionieren. Es gliedert sich in einen sprachlichen Teil, der dem Erwerb sektoraler Lexika im politisch-juristischen und historisch-ökonomischen Bereich besondere Aufmerksamkeit widmet, und einen weiteren thematischen Teil, der dem deutschsprachigen Raum durch Texte und Dokumente unterschiedlicher Art aus Zeitungen, Sachbüchern, Filmen und Literatur gewidmet ist, wobei die Literatur als Modell für komplexe kulturelle Kommunikation, Ästhetik und Kritik dient. - Derived from 21801880 CULTURE DEI PAESI DI LINGUA TEDESCA in Relazioni internazionali LM-52 NESSUNA CANALIZZAZIONE FIANDRA EMILIA (syllabus) Deutschsprachiges Theater gegen den Nuklearkrieg Die Vorlesung führt die Studierenden in wichtige Themenbereiche der deutschen Kultur und Geschichte ein. Sie vermittelt einen Einblick in das Atomdrama der sechziger Jahre und in den Motivkomplex Wissenschaft, Ethik und Politik in der deutschen Debatte um die Kernenergie. (reference books) F. Dürrenmatt: Die Physiker. Dyogenes Verlag H. Kipphardt: In der Sache J. Robert Oppenheimer. Rororo (Rowohlt Verlag) (bitte anschaffen). Weitere empfohlene Texte: B. Brecht: Leben des Galilei (besonders die 14. Szene) Erläuterungen Und Dokumente: Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Die Physiker. Reclam Verlag	8	L-LIN/14	64	-	-	-	Core compulsory activities	DEU
21810035 - HISPANIC STUDIES (objectives) This course is taught in Spanish and divided into two modules: the first is based on the (pre-)acquired linguistic and communicative skills and aimed at achieving the understanding and production of texts in the field of phraseology and sectoral paremiology (political, legal, administrative, economic). The second module focuses on the diatopic issues of the Spanish language with an in-depth global study of the cultural and institutional aspects of Latin American countries. Los objetivos formativos del curso se dividen en dos módulos; el primero, a partir de las competencias lingüísticas y comunicativas (pre)adquiridas, está orientado a la consecución de la comprensión y producción de textos en el ámbito de la fraseología y la paremiología sectorial (política, jurídica, administrativa, económica). El segundo módulo se centra en las cuestiones diatópicas de la lengua española con un estudio global en profundidad de los aspectos culturales e institucionales de los países hispanoamericanos. - Derived from 21801879 CULTURE DEI PAESI DI LINGUA SPAGNOLA in Relazioni internazionali LM-52 NESSUNA CANALIZZAZIONE MESSINA FAJARDO LUISA ALLESITA (syllabus) Course contents Module I: Specialty Languages 1. Las lenguas de especialidad Denominaciones, definiciones y características generales The dimensión horizontal: el léxico y la terminología The vertical dimension: textos, funciones y niveles de especialización 2.El lenguaje jurídico-administrativo: Origen y características generales El léxico jurídico Rasgos morfosintácticos El estilo formulario Nivel textual Géneros textuales 4.El lenguaje de los medios de comunicación Definición, características, funciones tendencias, géneros 5.El leguaje deportivo Definición, características, tendencias, géneros 6.El leguaje turístico Definición, origen, características, función, géneros 7.El leguaje advertising Definición, origen, características, función, géneros Reference text: Maria Vittoria Calvi et al., Lenguas de especialidad en español, Carocci publisher, Rome, 2009. Module II: Political language. 1.El Lenguaje político 1.1. Origen y características 1.2. El léxico político 1.3. The political phraseology 1.4. Emisor y recipient 1.5. El contexto histórico 1.6. La retórica 1.7. Estrategias discursivas 1.8. La persuasión política 1.9. The description and the insult 1.10 Tipologías de discursos: totalitarios, de crisis, de investidura Reference text: Luisa A. Messina Fajardo, El lenguaje político. Características y análisis of the political discourse, Maggioli publisher / Apogeo education, Milan, 2016. Note *: For the academic year 2018-2019 the topics of the political speeches to be analyzed in the theses will have to face the following topics: 1. The Venezuela case: Maduro & Guaidó 2. Defense of human rights 3. The defense of equal opportunities: voces de mujeres políticas 4. Los derechos humanos y civiles RECOMMENDED READINGS: PARDO ABRIL, NEYLA. (2007), Cómo hacer análisis crítico del discurso. A Latin American perspectiva. Santiago de Chile: Frasis. VAN DIJK, Teun A. (ed.) (2000a). El discurso como estructura y como proceso. Barcelona: Gedisa. VAN DIJK, TEUN A. (1996), "Discurso, poder y acceso", in Text and Practices: Readings in Critical Discourse Analysis, Caldas-Coultard Carmen Rosa and Coultard Malcom (eds), London, Routledge, pp. 84-104. VAN DIJK, Teun A. (1999), El análisis crítico del discurso, Barcelona, Anthropos. VAN DIJK, Teun A. (2005), Política, ideología y discurso, Universidad del Zulia, Quorum académico. VAN DIJK, TEUN A. (ed.) (2000a). El discurso como estructura y como proceso. (reference books) Maria Vittoria Calvi et al., Las lenguas de especialidad en español, Carocci editore, Roma, 2009. Luisa A. Messina Fajardo, El lenguaje político. Características y análisis del discurso político, Maggioli editore / Apogeo education, Milano, 2016.	8	L-LIN/07	64	-	-	-	Core compulsory activities	SPA

21810043 - SEMINARS, EXTERNAL COURSES AND INTERNSHIPS (objectives)

Other activities

ENG

21810042 - THESIS (objectives)

Final examination and foreign language test

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SECOND YEAR

First semester

Course	Credits	Scientific Disciplinary Sector Code	Contact Hours	Exercise Hours	Laboratory Hours	Personal Study Hours	Type of Activity	Language

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