GEOPOLITICS
GEOPOLITICA
| A.Y. | Credits |
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| 2023/2024 | 8 |
| Lecturer | Office hours for students | |
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| Fabio Turato |
Assigned to the Degree Course
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Learning Objectives
For about twenty years, Geopolitics, from a taboo word, has become a fashionable word. Geopolitics studies reality and almost always studies its constraints. It warns us of partisan geopolitics: that analytical approach that sometimes does not present the world as it is, but rather as we would like it to be. Therefore a valid antidote to the so-called "post-truth" and the "alternative truths" that we have come to know in recent times.
Program
With books included in the program of the Geopolitics course, further information is also collected in the Blended learning didactic modality. The topics covered will present four general thematic areas:
1. What is Geopolitics
2. Methods
3. Proposals for a 21st Century Geopolitical Atlas
4. Case study analysis
Learning Achievements (Dublin Descriptors)
- Knowledge and understanding: at the end of the course students must have acquired the knowledge of the main theoretical models and empirical evidence about the evolution of the concept of political representation.
- Applying knowledge and understanding: the students must be able to identify and apply appropriately, to real research and analysis situations, the concepts, models and theories presented throughout the course.
- Making judgements: the students will strengthen their ability to connect the concepts, theories and models presented throughout the course, their ability to deal with complex problems independently, to make judgements and critical reflections about the transformation of political representation.
- Communication skills: the students must be able to clearly and incisively communicate, appropriately using the lexicon, the concepts and the theories put forward by the political science literature on political representation.
- Learning skills: the students are supposed to develop adequate learning skills, so as to be able to extend and deepen the knowledge acquired throughout the course independently, following new paths of theoretical reflection or research.
Teaching Material
The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it
Supporting Activities
The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it
The lecturer will provide via the Moodle platform a selection of materials, and useful links in order to deepen the knowledge on the discussed topics.
Seminars on the diverse topic of empirical research are scheduled.
Educational material and information provided by the lecturer will be available, together with an indication about other supporting activities, in the platform Moodle› blended.uniurb.it
Teaching, Attendance, Course Books and Assessment
- Teaching
Frontal lectures, with slides show presentations and audio-visual materials; presentation and discussion of research results; group exercises.
- Innovative teaching methods
The face-to-face teaching method will be enriched with individual and group exercises and insights that students will carry out using the University's Moodle platform. Some topics of the course will be treated following the practice of the "flipped lesson".
- Attendance
Minimum attendance of 3/4 of the lessons
- Course books
M. Graziano, Geopolitica. Orientarsi nel grande disordine internazionale, Bologna, il Mulino, 2019; ISBN:978-88-15-28372-6
B. Loyer, Geopolitica. Metodi e concetti, Torino, UTET, 2020; ISBN:9788860086129
F. Turato, La Germania populista. Voto e protesta di Alternative für Deutschland, Novi Ligure, Edizioni Epokè, 2019; ISBN:9788899647988
- Assessment
Oral exam following the standard exams calendar
- Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)
Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.
To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.
Additional Information for Non-Attending Students
- Course books
M. Graziano, Geopolitica. Orientarsi nel grande disordine internazionale, Bologna, il Mulino, 2019; ISBN:978-88-15-28372-6
B. Loyer, Geopolitica. Metodi e concetti, Torino, UTET, 2020; ISBN:9788860086129
F. Turato, La Germania populista. Voto e protesta di Alternative für Deutschland, Novi Ligure, Edizioni Epokè, 2019; ISBN:9788899647988
A. Roccucci e L. Caracciolo, Storia contemporanea. Dal mondo europeo al mondo senza centro, Milano, Le Monnier, 2017, ISBN:8800744737 From Chapter 20 to Chapter 27
- Assessment
Oral exam following the standard exams calendar
- Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)
Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.
To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.
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