International Relations and Supranational Institutions

The final exam consists in the elaboration of a written thesis, the result of mature critical elaboration, assigned by a supervisor on a topic agreed with the student. The thesis will be discussed, with the intervention of a co-supervisor, in front of a degree commission composed according to current regulations. The student will have three sessions available for the graduation for each academic year. These ordinary sessions are scheduled in July, October and January of each year. In addition, an extraordinary session will be scheduled in March for students who manage to finish their studies one semester early in accordance with the provisions established by the University. To participate in the graduation sessions, the student must submit the graduation application to the student secretariat in the ways and times indicated in the academic calendar for each academic year published on the website of the Department of Political Sciences https://web.uniroma1.it /disp/ The selection board will be able to award a minimum of 0 and a maximum of 11 points from the starting mark calculated from the arithmetic mean of the marks of the exams envisaged by the course, honors and if actual winners of the scholarship as an Erasmus and Erasmus student Plus. (Details are available on the Department website at https://web.uniroma1.it/disp/sites/default/files/allegati/punteggi.pdf). Graduation exam In order to graduate, the student must be in possession of the thesis assignment sheet signed by the professor in charge of the course who will act as supervisor. The date shown at the bottom of this sheet indicates the period from which the student started the work of the thesis. The student can have the thesis assignment sheet signed already during the first year of the course. The thesis assignment sheet must be signed at least 6 months before the discussion of the thesis and is valid for two academic years. The teacher will be able to sign the thesis assignment sheet only after the student has taken and passed the exam. If, during the course of the three-year thesis, the advisor professor should be retired, he may decide to continue following the assigned thesis and be present in the degree commission within the academic year in which he was allocated in retirement or to renounce . In this second case, the teacher belonging to the same disciplinary scientific sector who will teach the subject in place of the retired colleague will assume the role of supervisor. If the subject is no longer provided, a teacher with a similar sector will be assigned by the President of the Political Science and International Relations teaching area. The student can only ask for the thesis from a teacher with whom he has taken an exam in his/her educational path, excluding further educational activities and excluding exams belonging to the "Educational activities chosen by the student". Students can participate in the graduation session if they meet the "Graduating" requirements as indicated in the General Manifesto of Studies for the a.y. in which she will decide to graduate. The number of credits acquired upon submission of the graduation application to the student secretariat will be equal to 88% of them net of the final exam.