INTRODUCTION TO POLITICS MOD. 2

Introduction to Politics è un insegnamento che rientra tra le attività formative di base del corso PISE.
Per questo corso è obbligatorio utilizzare la piattaforma moodle: questo infatti è un corso blended e la metà delle ore di insegnamento si svolge in aula virtuale. Al fine di un efficace apprendimento dei contenuti si raccomanda di utilizzare il forum di moodle e le risorse on line.
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https://moodle.unive.it/course/view.php?id=2569
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Knowledge and understanding
By the end of the course students :
- will know several classical political authors and ideas;
- will be able to recognize the historical evolution of the European political thought (until the Modern times);
- will be able to analyze a political philosophical text.

Applying knowledge and understanding
By the end of the course students:
- have developed basic skills to analyse a political language and theory;
- will be able to think "historically" about political ideas.

Communication skills
By the end of the course students will have improved their English communication skills through the classroom presentation undertaken of volunteer basis and through class discussions.

Previous philosophical knowledge is very useful, but not mandatory. Active participation is encouraged

The course will be an introduction to the main authors and ideas of political thought from their origins (from Aristotle to Augustine) and Medieval times (Marsilius of Padua) up to the modern European thought (f. e. Machiavel, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau).

Princeton Readings in Political Thought. Essential Texts from Plato to Populism, edited by Mitchell Cohen, second edition, Princeton University Press, 2018.

Gli obiettivi formativi sono verificati attraverso un esame scritto che include domande aperte e domande chiuse o semi-chiuse.
È importante utilizzare le risorse moodle.

In each lectures professor gives you an overview of the main concepts related to the issues we are dealing.
Whenever it is possible, in class you are requested to spend some times in group, or individual exercises, following an assigned a task related to the topics which professor previously illustrated.

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