STORIA DELLE RELAZIONI INTERNAZIONALI
(objectives)
The course aims to provide students with the tools to understand the international relations. The course introduces students to the fundamental principles and concepts of international relations and their history from the beginning of the 20th century to the dawn of the 21st. The course aims to provide students with the tools to understand the international relations. The student will have to critically confront the problems of international relations, the emergence of global dynamics of the post-colonial world and the redefinition of the broader international geopolitical and geo-economic context of the post cold-war.
The practical skills and abilities that students are expected to acquire are as follows:
1. Knowledge and understanding At the end of the course, which is included in the first year of the study program, the student should acquire a solid knowledge of the principles of international relations, the main problems and hinges in the history of international relations during the twentieth century until recent years.
2. Ability to apply knowledge and understanding The student will have to be able to acquire a conceptual instrumentation capable of analyzing also the international relations of today and to contextualize the main processes that mark its course in a global perspective. The student will have to be able to use the knowledge acquired during the course in the analysis of historical processes, even complex ones, and to usefully connect it to the knowledge acquired in the other disciplines of the study program.
3. Autonomy of Judgment The student will begin to familiarize himself/herself with the dialectic that connects the present time to the past and to confront the limits of causal explanations of historical and international phenomena.
4. Communication Skills The student is expected to refine his or her skills in communicating, in written and oral form, the knowledge acquired and to demonstrate ownership of language, ability to synthesize and articulate ideas.This skill is developed through the active involvement of students through oral classroom discussions and a written test midway through the course.
5. Learning Skills The student should increase his/her ability to understand and being able to interpret and elaborate one's own assessments on the main points of the history of international relations.
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