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Curriculum(s) for 2024 - International cooperation and development (31275)

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Lesson [SSD] [Language] YearSemesterCFU
1010516 | SOCIOLOGY [SPS/07] [ITA]1st1st9

Educational objectives

Acquisition of the fundamental lexicon of sociological analysis and of the most consolidated theoretical configurations.

Mastery of integrated references to the qualifying topics of the discipline.

Particular analysis of the study of cultural change with regard to the phenomena of cooperation between populations and institutional organizations of different geopolitical origins and different cultural backgrounds.

The lessons and the exercises aim to transmit the ability to study, deepen and re-elaborate the study materials in an autonomous way.

1017545 | CONTEMPORARY HISTORY [M-STO/04] [ITA]1st1st9

Educational objectives

The course aims to provide students with an articulate and critical knowledge of the events of the contemporary world,
It intends to favor the understanding of the roots of contemporaneity, the ability to contextualize historical events in time and space.
The knowledge of the methodology, the sources, the periodization and the main themes of the contemporary historiographical debate must allow the student to reach a sufficient competence to develop autonomy of judgment.
The student must acquire the ability to reasonably display the moments and the training processes of contemporary reality.
Through the course, students must acquire the essential knowledge and tools necessary for the development of a critical reading of the events of the contemporary age.

1020693 | CULTURAL ETHNOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY [M-DEA/01] [ITA]1st1st9

Educational objectives

The course is divided into two parts. The first part of course introduces students to the fundamental issues, methods, and concepts of ethnology and cultural anthropology. A review of the history of the discipline will provide an opportunity both to deepen the knowledge of and compare methods and approaches of research, and to investigate the question of how problems emerging in research may be correlated to a particular historical and political era.
The second half of the course focuses on the role of gift giving in social systems at local and global level, covering a wide range of topics, including the forms of gift in so-called “archaic societies” (the melanesian kula, the potlach, etc.), hospitality, blood and organ donations, the practice of online gift giving in the form of mutual help and peer-to-peer file sharing, the images and concepts related to solidarity used in humanitarian aid campaigns.

A) knowledge and understanding
By the end of the course students will have a basic theoretical history of the discipline and be able to identify the strengths and weaknesses of various concepts and theoretical perspectives.
The will become familiar with the research methods and the sources of data that anthropologists use and they will develop an awareness of the ethical issues in anthropological research experiences. Furthermore, they will learn the meanings of gift in different cultures and historical contexts and how the study of gift-giving process enriched and renewed our understanding of human experience in a wide range of social situations .

B) applying knowledge and understanding
Students should be able to use the knowledge acquired to critically analyse and evaluate anthropological documents and reports and they will be expected to be able to use ethnographic and comparative approach as a method for documenting and understanding cultural diversity and processes of culture change in today’s global world. In interactive situations, students will be engaged in exercises that using ethnographic approach as a method to describing situations of everyday life.

C) making judgement
Autonomy of judgment is enhanced encouraging students to think critically about the course materials (texts, films, lectures, etc.), specifically getting students to ask themselves questions such as, “how reliable are the sources being used to substantiate an argument? Could the research be influenced more by opinion bias than evidence? Are there alternative explanations to those being presented? Why has the author chosen to use that particular style of writing?”
The course will provide a combination of group or individual activities that prompt students to a constant re-examination of descriptions and interpretations of the same phenomenon or case study and to develop a reflexive awareness of the limitations of the observer’s point of view

D) communication skills
Students should be able to improve communication skills participating actively in class discussion with the knowledge acquired and with their own ideas. All students will be also encouraged to submit short written papers (approximately 4-5 pages) on topics related course contents and create comprehensible and relevant reports

E) learning skills
This course is designed to give students the basic theoretical and methodological skills in anthropology and ethnology also as preparation for subsequent master-level education. The course provides motivations to pursue anthropology at more advanced level in fields of interest ranging from the sharing economy and study the social implications of organs donation to the representations of human suffering in the media and humanitarian communication

10589727 | ECONOMICAL AND POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY [M-GGR/02] [ITA]1st2nd9

Educational objectives

During the course, students will learn the spatial and temporal interplay of factors that have contributed to the current pattern of social, political, economic and territorial relations in the world; they will understand the territorial pattern of the main sectors of the economy, and the linked most important processes of integration between countries and regions of the world and the striking differentiations of economic development. Students will also assimilate all the theoretical tools and conceptual and empirical references in understanding and in critical analysing specific themes: city and urbanization, environment, ecosystems, nature; growth and development; development policies.

1013712 | Political Economy [SECS-P/01] [ITA]1st2nd9

Educational objectives

The course is aimed at understanding the main tools of microeconomics and macroeconomics, with an in-depth study on the basis of development economics.

1008602 | English language [L-LIN/12] [ENG]2nd1st6

Educational objectives

The aim of the course is to introduce students to the main features of contemporary English, and to revise grammar, syntactic, lexical and phonetic aspects at the intermediate level (B1/B2). Important English varieties aimed at international communications and cooperation will be presented, along with an overview of the main world English varieties. In addition to improving the skills of using English, this course aims to raise students’ awareness to different varieties of English and different communication styles and situations.

The hours making up the course are based on practical exercises carried out by an English mother-tongue ‘lettore’.

The main course objective is to consolidate and extend students’ abilities in all four language skills in English (Speaking, Listening, Reading, and Writing), to enable them to cope more effectively with, not only specialized genres pertinent to the three year degree course - journalism, social and communication sciences, business and economics -, but also those texts and contexts students are likely to meet in their future professions.
1. Knowledge and Learning: Presuming students will start at a general English B1 level (according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, or CEFR), the primary objective of the course is to bring students up to a B2 level (according to CEFR) in some of the skills and in specialized areas relevant to the degree course and beyond by adopting an applied linguist approach to learning, that is, meaning is activated by context, with linguistic elements being presented in a variety of texts and contexts.
2. Ability to apply knowledge acquired: the second objective is of the course is to provide students with adequate theoretical principles of English, accompanied with ample opportunity to apply theory to practice through a variety of means.
3. Student autonomy: another objective is to foster student autonomy in their learning, where students are encouraged, not only to develop specific study skills, but also to assess their own performance through comparison of their own work and model answers.
4. Communicative ability: to foster students’ communicative ability in English, student participation during the course is actively encouraged, through discussion and assessment of genres, and debates, as is a sense of critical analysis of their own performance and output, and those of their peers.

2. Ability to apply knowledge acquired: the second objective is of the course is to
provide students with adequate theoretical principles of English, accompanied with ample opportunity to apply theory to practice through a variety of means.

3. Student autonomy: another objective is to foster student autonomy in their learning, where students are encouraged, not only to develop specific study skills, but also to assess their own performance through comparison of their own work and model answers.

4. Communicative ability: to foster students’ communicative ability in English, student participation during the course is actively encouraged, through discussion and assessment of genres, and debates, as is a sense of critical analysis of their own performance and output, and those of their peers.

5. Learning strategies: overall, the lessons and practical exercises aim to provide the students with both the means to continue to independently progress in their knowledge and application of English, and a flexibility of approach to adapt their language knowledge and learning to the different contexts they will meet in their future professions.

Expected results: at the end of the course, students are expected to have extended their knowledge and application of specialized genres in English, more fully understanding intended messages, and also being able to use appropriate forms to communicate in a clear and more efficient manner.

1055986 | SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY FOR DEVELOPMENT AND PEACE [M-PSI/05] [ITA]2nd1st6

Educational objectives

The purpose of the course Psychosocial approaches to Peace and Development is to provide psycho-social knowledge and tools for the purposes of understanding the processes of intergroup conflict, peace and reconciliation, and community development.

Specific objectives:
1. Knowledge and Understanding: the first objective of the course is to introduce students on the main topics of peace psychology, highlighting the topics, vocabulary and methodologies of this field of social and community psychology: for this purpose the course will present classical studies and contemporary re-interpretations proposed by peace psychology.
2. Applying Knowledge and Understanding: the second specific objective of the module is to be able to apply the acquired knowledge to problems concerning community development and the constructive management of interpersonal and intergroup relationships, and to develop arguments in light of the contribution made by peace psychology, social psychology and community psychology.

3. Making judgments
4. Communication skills
Further specific objectives of the module concern the ability to analyse and reflect autonomously on societal issues in light of the theoretical-methodological tools provided by the course, these objectives will be pursued through small group activities, written reports and presentations in the classroom.

Expected results: students will develop, starting from the lectures, the knowledge related to the main topics and methods of peace psychology, and will acquire through practical exercises and in-depth analysis new skills and mastery of the fields of study, vocabulary and methodologies of discipline.

1017493 | DEMOGRAPHY [SECS-S/04] [ITA]2nd2nd9

Educational objectives

The course is aimed to illustrate the logic and tools of demographic analysis, the main sources of data, the structural and dynamic characteristics of the population. Students will be aware of the international demographic debate, of the causes and consequences of the demographic dynamics in the world.

At the end of the course students will be able to proceed independently in the study of demographic phenomenon; particular attention will be dedicated to the use of IT tools in finding and analyzing demographic data as well as in literature search strategies.

The students will be able to read and correctly interpret statistical information with demographic content; to find relevant data from official statistical sources; to create the main indicators of trends and population structure; to consider the impact of social and economic policies on demographic and family behavior; to participate in the debate on the implications of the demographic dynamics in the different countries of the world.

1017220 | INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC POLICY [SECS-P/02] [ITA]2nd2nd9

Educational objectives

The course provides basic knowledge of the main topics of economic policy in an open economy, as well as the basic concepts on market failures, short-term and long-term theoretical models, and the issues related to the international interdependence of the economic policy. A specific module is dedicated to the problem of global coordination for sustainable development. The course aims to develop a critical approach to the contemporary debate on the central issues of international economic policy and development and the effectiveness of alternative economic policy options. At the end of the course, the student will acquire adequate knowledge to interpret the main topics of international economic policy and undertake advanced economics studies with a sufficient degree of autonomy.

1017513 | Comparativ and public law [IUS/21] [ITA]2nd2nd9

Educational objectives

The course explores the origin and evolution of the liberal nation State and focuses on the western legal tradition and on contemporary constitutional frameworks in Italy and in main western Countries.

The second part of the course deals with some of the most important extra-European countries.

98422 | Economics of development [SECS-P/01] [ITA]3rd1st9

Educational objectives

The course offers a general overview of the main issues related to the causes and determinants of economic development, underdevelopment, poverty analysis, causes of socio-economic inequalities, globalization patterns, with a particula attention to the analysis of poverty and its measures.

At the end of the course students will be able to know the main issues of development economics and to read and understand the main documents and anlysis of national and international organization: such as World bank, IMF, OECD, EU, etc..

Elective course [N/D] [ITA]3rd1st12

Educational objectives

Teaching regulations provide a specific number of credits to be allocated to "chosen by the student activities". The student is free to choose the lessons he prefers with the aim of expanding and deepening the curriculum.
These activities consist solely of exams related to modules activated in the three-year degree courses of the Department, of the Faculty or of other Faculties of Sapienza. The booking and the methods for verbalising the exam grade taken as an activity chosen by the student are the same as those of the other exams required by the curriculum; the grade obtained in these exams contributes to the definition of the average of the votes.

1041533 | STRATEGIES FOR COOPERATION [M-GGR/02] [ITA]3rd2nd9

Educational objectives

The course offers the main elements to: a. Know the evolution of cooperation paradigms, on the one hand, and the cooperation strategies & organization of one of the main international donors (European Union), on the other hand; b. Understand the complex relations and interactions between human rights (in particular refugee law) & humanitarian aid.

AAF1002 | FINAL TEST [N/D] [ITA]3rd2nd4

Educational objectives

The path of the three-year study ends with the execution of a final test. This definition also wants to point out the terminological distinction
compared to the traditional degree thesis (masterly or old pre-reform regulation), which is undoubtedly a more complex research for duration and for
commitment.
The final exam aims to summarize the training acquired by the student over the three years. The purpose is to attest to the achievement of
an adequate mastery, on the one hand, of the disciplinary knowledge characterizing the course of study; on the other, of the capacity for argumentation and writing, of management of the documentary sources and, last but not least, of autonomous planning intervention.
The final exam represents, therefore, an experience aimed at enhancing the nature of the three-year degrees as basic training for future professionals of the international cooperation.