Profiles
The programme is divided into two profiles:
- INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM AND EUROPEAN INTEGRATION
- INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM AND GLOBAL DYNAMICS
For a limited number of students (12), it will be possible to attend an international training programme in English called International Relations: People, Rights and Resources (PRR), which includes, within a predefined Erasmus mobility proposal, the first semester at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, the second semester of the first year at UiS-Universitet i Stavanger (Norway) and the first semester of the second year at the University of Stavanger (Norway). Leibniz Universität Hannover (Germany).
The format
The normal duration of the graduate degree programme is two years. The training organization includes lectures accompanied by exercises, case studies and interventions by experts, as well as educational initiatives of a seminar nature.
During the first year, students will have to attend courses related to all five academic disciplines that characterize the degree programme (economic, legal, political, sociological and historical fields), as well as deepening their knowledge of foreign languages. The second year of study allows the student to complete his/her specialist preparation, placing particular emphasis on internship experiences, both in Italy and abroad, aimed at experimenting with the possibilities of exploiting the different disciplines on issues of international interest, and on the work of developing the dissertation, an opportunity to synthesize and apply the knowledge acquired under the guidance of the supervisor.
In the graduate degree programme, particular attention will be paid to analyzing:
- the actors, dynamics and theories of international relations, as well as the dynamics and protagonists of the European and global economic system;
- governance policies of economic processes and their interdependencies and the processes of social transformation in the contemporary world;
- the dynamics related to the processes of European integration, the institutions of the European Union and their functioning;
- macro-regional and global dynamics, in their political, historical-institutional, social and economic dimensions.
The choice of any supernumerary courses, to be evaluated when approving the study plan, must normally be consistent with the student's educational path and possibly functional to the preparation of the dissertation. In any case, students who intend to take a supernumerary examination in a given academic discipline must have previously passed the examinations in that sector provided for as compulsory in the study plan.
To obtain a graduate degree, students must acquire at least 120 credits.
Each exam is assigned a given number of credits, the same for all students, and a grade (expressed out of 30) that varies according to the student's level of preparation.
The mark awarded in the final examination is expressed out of 110.