Learning objectives

The course provides students with a learning path on the development of political systems and political thinking, with particular reference to the issues of democracy, citizenship and rights in the western political tradition. Within this framework, the discussion of current sociopolitical topics will be encouraged as an exercise in critical thinking and as a practice of public communication. At the end of the course the student should demonstrate: - to have acquired a precise knowledge of the topics addressed in the course; - to be able to expose them in an orderly and synthetic way; - to have developed the ability to formulate his/her own judgment.