POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY I

Academic year

2018/2019 Syllabus of previous years

Official course title

GEOGRAFIA POLITICA ED ECONOMICA I

Course code

FT0099 (AF:284911 AR:161826)

Modality

On campus classes

ECTS credits

6

Degree level

Bachelor's Degree Programme

Educational sector code

M-GGR/02

Period

1st Term

Where

VENEZIA

Moodle

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Contribution of the course to the overall degree programme goals

The course is inserted as a choice exam in the Bachelor's degree in History (FT5)
It integrates into the course of study by providing the spatial interpretative tools associated with the action of political and economic actors from the Middle Ages to the contemporary era

Expected learning outcomes

The expected results consist of:
- In the ability to identify the elements that led to the national territorial assemblages
- the ability to identify the subsequent global forces that have questioned their effectiveness.

Pre-requirements

A good knowledge of history from the Middle Ages to the contemporary era

Contents

The course is structured in 4 points:

1) The formation of the Nation-State
2) Imperial geographies
3) The denationalization processes
4) The transformations of the territory and the role of digital networks

Referral texts

1)S. Sassen, Territorio, autorità, diritti, Milano, Bruno Mondadori, 2008, pp. 40-261, 411-479
3)Educational material (Moodle, ISA)

Assessment methods

Examination based on a test of written questions/answers

Teaching methods

Frontal lectures with use of video and photographic material

Teaching language

Italian

Type of exam

written

2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals

This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "International cooperation" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development

Definitive programme.

Last update of the programme: 10/04/2018