Faculty of Political Science and International Relations

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Faculty of Political Science and International
Relations
Loc. Grand Chemin, 73/7511020 Saint Christophe
(AO)Tel. [phone] - Fax [phone]
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Educational and learning aims

• The B.A. aims to provide students with the tools
  and skills necessary to make connections linking
  theory with real world problems and ideas.
• Promotes the systematic study of politics in a
  wide variety of settings, i.e. local, national
  and international.
• The program focuses on fundamental principles,
  including issues of politics, forms of
  government, public policy, public administration,
  economics and law from both domestic and
  international perspectives
• This multi-disciplinary education will enable
  students to keep up with the internationalization
  of human relations in various areas and at
  different levels of responsibility as well as to
  cope with the concerns and the challenges posed
  by globalization and the need to govern it.

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Skills and Competences

• The BA program aims at forming professional
  political scientists.
• The graduates of the Programme will not only be
  endowed with high-level analytical and
  operational skills, but they will also be
  prepared for an open and critical vision of
  economic, political and social issues, as well as
  a breadth of cultural perspective that could
  hardly be achieved by attending a programme
  centred on a single, prevalent disciplinary
  field.
• By enabling students to understand the role of
  government at local, national and international
  levels the programme prepares graduates to become
  more effective global citizens as well as
  preparing them to pursue or advance careers in
  government service, private corporations,
  non-profit organizations, or advanced study in
  law, business, journalism, at graduate school.

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Program Structure/1

• The Bachelor degree in Political Science is
  180-ECTS credit degree completion program that
  can be completed in three years
• Each year is divided into two semesters of full
  time study
• The undergraduate program includes core and
  elective courses
• At the end of each course, students have a final
  examination, which is part of the students final
  grade
• Upon completion of all subjects, students are
  required to present a final thesis
• Thanks to partnerships with other universities
  and international institutions as well as to
  Socrates/Erasmus programmes, students are offered
  the opportunity to have an intership and/or to
  spend a semester abroad.

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Program Structure/2

• Core courses include Political Science,
  International Relations, Economics, International
  and European Union Law, Modern and Contemporary
  History, Sociology.
• Examples of elective courses are Crime and
  Justice in a national and international
  perspective, History of Medieval and Modern Law,
  International economic policy, Economic History,
  Federalism and Institutions
• Other courses Foreign languages (English and
  French), Computer Science, Business
  Administration
• Courses are currently taught in Italian and
  French but English can also be introduced on
  demand

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Partnerships

• Partner Institutions
• Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie,
  OIF (Paris, France) http//www.francophonie.org
• International Training Centre ILO (United
  Nation Agency), Torino (Italy) http//www.itcilo.o
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• Institut pour létude de la francophonie et de la
  mondialisation, Iframond (Lyon, France)
  http//iframond.univ-lyon3.fr
• Exchange programs
• Institut détudes politiques, IEP (Grenoble,
  France)
• and (forthcoming)
• University Carlos III (Madrid, Spain)
• Université Lyon 3 (Lyon, France)

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The Faculty

• Prof. Michele Vellano, Dean (m.vellano_at_univda.it)
• (International Law, International Law of Sports)
• Prof. Michele Antonio Fino, Deputy Dean
  (m.fino_at_univda.it)
• (Roman Law, History of Italian and European law)
• Prof. Laura Resmini (l.resmini_at_univda.it)
• (Economic policy, Economic Integration,
  Transition economies and Multinational
  enterprises)
• Prof. Ermanno Vitali (e.vitali_at_univda.it)
• (Political Philosophy, Multiculturalism, Human
  rights and Theory of Democracy)
• Dott. Carmine Garzia (c.garzia_at_univda.it)
• (Management, Entrepreneurship, Strategic
  Innovation and strategy dynamics and modelling)
• Dott. Paolo Gheda (p.gheda_at_univda.it)
• (Modern and Contemporary history, History of
  Religious Institutions in Europe and Italy)
• Dott. Patrik Vesan, (p.vesan_at_univda.it)
• (Political science, European studies, Multi-level
  public administration policy, EU and Italian
  Social and Labour market policies)
• About 20 adjunct professors, who are leading
  scholars and experts in their respective academic
  and professional fields.