Programme Structure
The degree programme is divided into four curricula, from which you can choose according to your interests and professional goals:
- International Relations and Institutions;
- Cooperation Institutions and Organisations;
- Institutions, Governance and Public Policy;
- International relations and global affairs (IRGA)
(entirely taught in English).
The courses are dedicated, in the first year, to the basic and institutional elements of the various disciplines and in the following years there is a progressive specialization on the main themes of the four training paths.
ECTS
To obtain the three-year degree, 180 university credits (ECTS) are required, which are acquired to the extent of about 60 each year with evaluation tests both for the courses and for other supplementary forms of teaching. Each exam is awarded a certain number of credits, the same for all students, and a grade (expressed in thirtieths) that varies according to the level of preparation. The mark awarded in the final examination is expressed in one hundred and tenths.
Curricular profiles
- International Relations and Institutions;
The specific courses of this curriculum deal with issues such as the functioning of the European Union and the main supranational institutions; the prospects for the development of relations, on a global scale, between different political, economic and cultural systems; the strategies developed by associations, organisations and companies to establish themselves within national and international contexts; the relationship between policy choices and the regulatory framework at local, national and international level; the historical roots of national social and cultural phenomena and international relations.
- Cooperation Institutions and Organisations;
This curriculum explores topics such as development profiles on a global scale and North-South relations; the historical, economic and social roots of underdevelopment; the role and functioning of the main supranational institutions; international security issues and development and peace initiatives to counter the radicalisation of conflicts; the functioning mechanisms and effects of development cooperation projects. In addition to the courses, the curriculum offers a number of professional workshops, dedicated to contexts, areas of intervention and specific dynamics of development cooperation.
- Institutions, Governance and Public Policy;
This curriculum focuses on the theme of public policies understood as the set of all those actions - prepared both by the state subject and by a plurality of individual subjects and intermediate aggregations - oriented to the pursuit of the common good and the well-being of society. In this perspective, the necessary basic economic, political, sociological, historical and legal skills are integrated within this curriculum with some specialized disciplines instrumental to the analysis of problems (policy analysis) and the design of the different intervention alternatives (policy design).
- International relations and global affairs (IRGA)
(entirely taught in English).
By attending this interdisciplinary curriculum students will learn to understand and interact with different societies, cultural traditions, and institutions around the world. Providing competences in History, Political science, Economics, Law, Sociology and Psychology, this curriculum allows students to develop a critical understanding of how local and global players interact within complex situations and negotiate in bilateral and multilateral frameworks. Do you wonder why some countries are in peace and others at war? Why some regions are wealthier than others? How international disputes may be peacefully resolved? Then IRGA is your choice!