Political Science and Government (GOV) 24 months Postgraduate Programme By University of Milan |TopUniversities
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Programme Duration

24 monthsProgramme duration

Main Subject Area

PoliticsMain Subject Area

Programme overview

Main Subject

Politics

Degree

MA

Study Level

Masters

Study Mode

On Campus

The Master's degree course in Political Science and Government aims to provide an advanced multidisciplinary education in the fields of political science, law, history and socio-economics, with a focus on the dynamics of national, sub-national, supranational and international political systems and their institutional and social articulations, as well as on the historical evolution of institutional forms, political representation and public opinion. This enables students to acquire an in-depth knowledge of the rules and dynamics that characterise the functioning of legal and political institutions and the critical tools needed to evaluate legislative and government action. Alongside the analysis of the various contexts in which public policies are formed, students are offered the opportunity to deepen their knowledge of specific geographical areas of particular interest and topicality and to examine the subject of fundamental rights.


Graduates will be able to understand the functioning of political and government institutions and to master the dynamics from a legal-formal and decision-making perspective. Specific attention is paid, first of all, to the relations between the different levels of public decision-making (local, national, supranational); to the different profiles of legality; to the articulations of territorial representation (through the electoral instrument) and functional representation (through mechanisms of ?policy pressure?); to public-institutional relations (?public affairs?). The aim is also to provide an interdisciplinary preparation that, alongside the analysis of political institutions, addresses the issue of fundamental rights, including the new declinations of personal rights as a consequence of the development of biotechnologies and in geographical contexts other than the Euro-Atlantic ones.


The aim is to impart a vocabulary, an approach and general knowledge on the comparative dimension of institutional and rights protection models, not dissociated from the acquisition of fundamental criteria for the evaluation of empirical evidence. In addition to a number of courses in the legal, political and linguistic fields, intended to provide the main basic knowledge from a multidisciplinary perspective, there are, starting from the first year, training courses differentiated by curriculum that concern the study of cultural, political-institutional, socio-economic, geo-political and historical-institutional contexts, including non-European ones. In the second year of the course, for all subject areas, adequate space is provided for professionalising internships, which are useful for perfecting the course of study.


A common area for the various subject areas is dedicated, also within the individual courses, to the methods for preparing the final thesis from the point of view of both methodology and source research. The various thematic paths, despite their specificity, are capable of leading to several professional outlets, given the project and the perspective of broad cultural openness to which they are informed. Added to this is the aim of international transparency, aiming at an easily readable and comparable degree system, and the international mobility of students.


The Master's degree course facilitates the development of transversal skills and competences - linked in particular to the dimension of communication and interpersonal relations - in order to complete the student's education with a set of ?soft skills? that will facilitate their access to the world of work.


These skills can be acquired through characterising or related teaching activities, laboratories or curricular internships/internships and further training activities. Through optional didactic paths it is possible, for example, to acquire specific competences in the fields of the development of civic sense and the culture of legality, the approach to the themes of environmental sustainability, equality, memory, European integration, the protection of European values and cultural rights, geography and economic development, decision-making and political dynamics of non-European societies and civic participation.


The Master's programme reinforces the culture of multilingualism and knowledge of languages other than Italian thanks to an educational offer that allows students to opt not only for the study of English, but also of other European languages. Multilingualism is also enhanced through seminar lectures by foreign lecturers and the constant expansion of the foreign exchange offer. The possibility of also writing the dissertation in a foreign language is a further factor in the application of language skills. The Master's degree course encourages an approach to the world of work by offering curricular internships in the fields of public administration, consular relations, the non-profit world, immigration and development cooperation policies, business and private work (professional and trade organisations).

Programme overview

Main Subject

Politics

Degree

MA

Study Level

Masters

Study Mode

On Campus

The Master's degree course in Political Science and Government aims to provide an advanced multidisciplinary education in the fields of political science, law, history and socio-economics, with a focus on the dynamics of national, sub-national, supranational and international political systems and their institutional and social articulations, as well as on the historical evolution of institutional forms, political representation and public opinion. This enables students to acquire an in-depth knowledge of the rules and dynamics that characterise the functioning of legal and political institutions and the critical tools needed to evaluate legislative and government action. Alongside the analysis of the various contexts in which public policies are formed, students are offered the opportunity to deepen their knowledge of specific geographical areas of particular interest and topicality and to examine the subject of fundamental rights.


Graduates will be able to understand the functioning of political and government institutions and to master the dynamics from a legal-formal and decision-making perspective. Specific attention is paid, first of all, to the relations between the different levels of public decision-making (local, national, supranational); to the different profiles of legality; to the articulations of territorial representation (through the electoral instrument) and functional representation (through mechanisms of ?policy pressure?); to public-institutional relations (?public affairs?). The aim is also to provide an interdisciplinary preparation that, alongside the analysis of political institutions, addresses the issue of fundamental rights, including the new declinations of personal rights as a consequence of the development of biotechnologies and in geographical contexts other than the Euro-Atlantic ones.


The aim is to impart a vocabulary, an approach and general knowledge on the comparative dimension of institutional and rights protection models, not dissociated from the acquisition of fundamental criteria for the evaluation of empirical evidence. In addition to a number of courses in the legal, political and linguistic fields, intended to provide the main basic knowledge from a multidisciplinary perspective, there are, starting from the first year, training courses differentiated by curriculum that concern the study of cultural, political-institutional, socio-economic, geo-political and historical-institutional contexts, including non-European ones. In the second year of the course, for all subject areas, adequate space is provided for professionalising internships, which are useful for perfecting the course of study.


A common area for the various subject areas is dedicated, also within the individual courses, to the methods for preparing the final thesis from the point of view of both methodology and source research. The various thematic paths, despite their specificity, are capable of leading to several professional outlets, given the project and the perspective of broad cultural openness to which they are informed. Added to this is the aim of international transparency, aiming at an easily readable and comparable degree system, and the international mobility of students.


The Master's degree course facilitates the development of transversal skills and competences - linked in particular to the dimension of communication and interpersonal relations - in order to complete the student's education with a set of ?soft skills? that will facilitate their access to the world of work.


These skills can be acquired through characterising or related teaching activities, laboratories or curricular internships/internships and further training activities. Through optional didactic paths it is possible, for example, to acquire specific competences in the fields of the development of civic sense and the culture of legality, the approach to the themes of environmental sustainability, equality, memory, European integration, the protection of European values and cultural rights, geography and economic development, decision-making and political dynamics of non-European societies and civic participation.


The Master's programme reinforces the culture of multilingualism and knowledge of languages other than Italian thanks to an educational offer that allows students to opt not only for the study of English, but also of other European languages. Multilingualism is also enhanced through seminar lectures by foreign lecturers and the constant expansion of the foreign exchange offer. The possibility of also writing the dissertation in a foreign language is a further factor in the application of language skills. The Master's degree course encourages an approach to the world of work by offering curricular internships in the fields of public administration, consular relations, the non-profit world, immigration and development cooperation policies, business and private work (professional and trade organisations).

Admission Requirements

5.5+
72+
Admission requirements:
Knowledge and skills required for admission
There are two types of admission requirements:
1. Candidates must have a degree in one of the following classes, pursuant to Ministerial Decree 270/2004:
L-16 Administration;
L-36 Political Science and International Relations;
L-14 Legal Services;
L-01 Cultural Heritage Studies;
L-05 Philosophy;
L-10 Humanities;
L-11 Modern Languages and Civilizations;
L-12 Language Mediation;
L-15 Tourism;
L-18 Business Administration;
L-19 Education and Training Studies
L-20 Communication;
L-21 Town, Regional and Environmental Planning;
L-24 Psychology;
L-31 Computer Science;
L-32 Environmental Sciences;
L-33 Economics;
L-37 Peace Studies;
L-39 Social Service;
L-40 Sociology;
L-41 Statistics;
L-42 History;
L-43 Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage.
As governance applies to multiple fields of activity, the Academic Board may also admit graduates in classes other than the above, on justified grounds.
2. Meeting certain curricular requirements, i.e. having earned a number of credits not lower than 60, equally distributed across the three legal, economic and socio-political macro areas, in the following academic fields:
IUS/08 - Constitutional Law
IUS/09 - Institutions of Public Law
IUS/10 - Administrative Law
IUS/13 - International Law
IUS/14 - European Union Law
IUS/21 - Comparative Public Law
M-STO/04 - Contemporary History
SECS-P/01 - Political Economy
SECS-P/02 - Economic Policy
SPS/01 - Political Philosophy
SPS/02 - History of Political Doctrines
SPS/03 - History of Political Institutions
SPS/04 - Political Science
SPS/06 - History of International Relations
SPS/07 - Sociology
SPS/08 - Sociology of Culture and Communication
SPS/09 - Sociology of Economics and Labour
SPS/11 - Sociology of Political Phenomena
and adequate knowledge based on grades achieved in the exams in individual subject areas.

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