Unit HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT
- Course
- Political sciences and international relations
- Study-unit Code
- 10145009
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Giovanni Belardelli
- Teachers
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- Giovanni Belardelli
- Hours
- 63 ore - Giovanni Belardelli
- CFU
- 9
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2019
- Offered
- 2019/20
- Learning activities
- Base
- Area
- Formazione interdisciplinare
- Academic discipline
- SPS/02
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian.
- Contents
- Lectures will focus on the principal authors and works of political thought from the XVI Century to the present.
- Reference texts
- Texts for attending students:
a) J.-J. Chevallier, Le grandi opere del pensiero politico, Il Mulino 1998;
b) additional readings provided in the Department website.
Texts for non-attending students:
a) J.-J. Chevallier, Le grandi opere del pensiero politico, Il Mulino 1998;
b) G. Belardelli, Mazzini, il Mulino 2011. - Educational objectives
- The course aims at providing the fundamental elements about political theories and their historical development. The course aims also at providing the capability of analysing political texts.
- Prerequisites
- Essential knowledge of modern and contemporary history, history of philosophy.
- Teaching methods
- Lectures
- Other information
- Class attendance is strongly recommended.
- Learning verification modality
- For students who attend the course, assessment consists of one mid-course and one final written exam, each one lasting about 90 minutes. The purpose of the exam is to ascertain the level of individual students' knowledge of program contents and their ability to express them in a clear and appropriate manner.
Non-attending students must sit a single oral exam, lasting about 30 minutes, with questions on the contents of the texts assigned in the program. - Extended program
- Lectures will focus on the principal authors and works of political thought from the XVI Century to the present.