Actitudes y valores.

III year; spring semester; 48 lectures; 6 hrs per week; 6 credits; elective

The course is divided into two parts. The first will introduce principal theories of policy making along three core policy dimensions: agenda setting, decision making, policy implementation. In the second part the conceptual insights gained will be used to analyse a number of substantive policy areas. These will typically include: the single market, social and environmental policies, competition policy, cohesion policies, Common Agricultural Policy, Economic and Monetary Union, immigration policy, and EU foreign policy.

Assessment: oral exam

Professor: Basili, Settembri

Textbooks:

Choice of one of the following:

M. Howlett-M. Ramesh, Come studiare le politiche pubbliche, il Mulino, Bologna, 2003, pages 1- 205;

or

M. Howlett, M. Ramesh, Studying Public Policy. Policy Cycles and Policy Subsystems, Oxford

University Press, 2009.

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PS2-Se28-B: SEMIOTICS

II year; fall semester; 64 lectures; 6 hrs per week; 8 credits

In the 'monographic' course various particular languages are examined and their salient characteristics analysed. The following languages are studied: politics, newspapers, sports, television, advertising, bureaucracy, medicine, religion, youth, mystic, death, trade unions, slogans, etc. Moreover the theoretical contribution of important authors (Peirce, De Saussure, Morris, Propp) will be examined.

In the 'seminar', the characteristics of non-verbal language will be analysed in greater depth. This is because we communicate not only with words but also through the clothes that we wear and the movement (sometimes inadvertently) of our body.

Other activities: practical work

Assessment: oral exam

Professor: Peverini

Textbooks:

U. Volli, Manuale di semiotica, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2003;

U. Eco, Sei passeggiate nei boschi narrativi, Milano, Bompiani,1994;

M. Baldini, Elogio dell’oscurità e della chiarezza, Roma, Armando Editore-Luiss University press, 2004;

P. Peverini, Il videoclip. Strategie e figure di una forma breve, Roma, Meltemi, 2004. 29a

PS1-So29a-B: SOCIOLOGY

I year; fall semester; 64 lectures; 6 hrs per week; 8 credits

Main topics of this course are: the fundamental concepts of sociology (social action, culture, division of labour, etc.); the main methods of social analysis (Marxism, functionalism, individualism etc.); the question of social change and the genesis of an open society; sociology of revolutionary phenomena; modernity and totalitarianism; the Islamic fundamentalism.

Assessment: oral exam

Professor: Pellicani

Textbooks:

G. Rocher, Introduzione alla sociologia generale, SugarCo, Milano, 1992;

L. Pellicani, Dalla società chiusa alla società aperta, Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli, 2002;

L. Pellicani, La genesi del capitalismo e le origini della modernità, Marco, Lungo di Cosenza, 2006.

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PS1-So29b-B: SOCIOLOGY

I year; fall semester; 64 lectures; 6 hrs per week; 8 credits

Main topics of this course are: the fundamental concepts of sociology (social action, culture, division of labour, etc.); the main methods of social analysis (Marxism, functionalism, individualism etc.); the question of social change and the genesis of an open society; sociology of revolutionary phenomena; modernity and totalitarianism; the Islamic fundamentalism.

Textbooks:

G. Rocher, Introduzione alla sociologia generale, SugarCo, Milano, 1993; L. Infantino, L’ordine senza piano, Armando, Roma, 1998;

L. Infantino, Ignoranza e libertà, Armando, Roma, 1999 (chapters 1-2-3). 30a/b

PS2-SoC30a/b-B: SOCIOLOGY OF COMMUNICATION

II year; fall semester; 64 lectures; 6 hrs per week; 8 credits

The course aims to provide an overall view of the development of the media in Italy, from its effects and repercussions on social, industrial and cultural dynamics, to the relations that exist between media, economy, politics and advertising.

Prerequisites: Sociology

Other activities: individual project

Assessment: oral exam

Professor: Sorice, Gili Textbooks:

G. Gili, Il problema della manipolazione: peccato originale dei media?, Franco Angeli, Milano, 2001;

E. Goffman, La vita quotidiana come rappresentazione, Il Mulino, Bologna, 1997; M. Sorice, Sociologia dei mass media, Carocci, Roma, 2009.

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PS1-St31a/b-B: STATISTICS

I year; fall semester; 64 lectures; 6 hrs per week; 8 credits

The course will teach students the fundamentals of statistical methodology with reference to descriptive statistics, the calculation of probability and statistical inference.

Other activities: practical work

Assessment: oral and written exam Professor: De Giovanni, Rocci Textbooks:

G. Cicchitelli Statistica: Principi e Metodi Pearson Education Further material will be provided during the semester. 32

PS3-TG(Eng)32-B: THEORIES OF GLOBALIZATION (in English)

III year; spring semester; 48 lectures; 6 hrs per week; 6 credits; elective

The course esamine the phenomenon of global transformations in its political, economic, legal and social dimenions. The debate for and against globalization is analysed in details in relations to its historical development and future prospect. A particular is on the relation between globalization and democracy.

Other activities: teaching classes, class discussions, simulations, presentations by practitioners

Textbooks:

Held, D., and McGrew, A., Globalization/Anti-Globalization, Cambridge: Polity, 2002; Bhagwati, J., In Defence of Globalization, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004;

Zolo, D., Globalization: An Overview, Colchester: European Consortium for Political Research Press, 2008;

Held, D., Global Covenant. The Social Democratic Alternative to the Washington Consensus,

Cambridge: Polity, 2004.

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PS3-TPLJ33-B: THEORY AND PRACTICE OF THE LANGUAGE OF JOURNALISM III year; fall semester; 64 lectures; 6 hrs per week; 8 credits

The course is divided into four modules:

1. the techniques of journalistic language: journalistic news, facts and comment, writing

techniques, types of journalism;

2. multimedia journalism: information on the Internet, the post-Internet daily newspaper,

Internet writing techniques, blogs and citizen journalism;

3. the objectiveness of information: objectiveness and objectivity, new journalism vs. scientific journalism, journalistic method, obscurity and clarity of language;

4. photojournalism: words and images in telling the news, photojournalism and the question of

objectiveness, freedom of information and the right to privacy.

Assessment: oral exam

Professor: Anselmi

Textbooks:

V. Sabadin: L’ultima copia del New York Times;

A. Papuzzi, Professione giornalista. Tecniche e regole di un mestiere, Donzelli, Roma, 2003; M. Baldini, Popper, Ottone e Scalfari.

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