Aim:
The course is aimed at students who have already developed a communicative competence above the "threshold" level and aims to develop their autonomy in the use of ESP through intensive reading comprehension exercises and oral discussion of specialized texts and the acquisition of the morpho-syntactic structures necessary for the purpose (intermediate level / B1 +).
In particular, the course aims to develop the knowledge of specific terminologies, specialized vocabulary and register typically used in the professional fields related to politics, economics and law through the reading, understanding and analysis of various textual typologies. The material used in class to stimulate the exercise of reading and lexical expansion is taken (extracted or adapted) from authentic texts, essays, newspapers, specialized magazines, reports and proceedings of congresses and conferences, as well as ESP books for students of Political Sciences, Economics and Law, in order to cover the main contents of the various disciplines relevant to the area of study and research of International Relations and the Curriculum of the course of study: World Politics; Economic Factors and Agents, International Political Economy, International Organizations (IGOs and NGOs), International Law and Management.
Linguistic analysis and discussion of each sample will first be done orally, in class, in order to solicit the comparison of different interpretations, and then assigned as homework in addition to cloze, multiple choice and word formation exercises available on the Moodle page of the course, which has been enriched with additional materials for further readings, links to international radio stations specialized in the discussion of global political topics, film lists on international politics, glossaries and much more.