DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Master's Degree in Sociology
Academic Year 2017/2018 - 2° Year

ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Teaching Staff

Detailed Course Content

• WORLD ECONOMY: PRESENT ISSUES AND CHALLENGES
  

  This course opens a window on the global economic and financial situation, through the guided reading, translation and discussion in English of texts that deal with a variety of economic, commercial and political issues, mainly taken from the magazine 'The Economist'. The texts deal with the causes of the crisis, the European experience, testimonies from experts such as Sir James Goldsmith: a second part present ancient and new solutions to world economic problems, studying the case of the India of Ghandi and the high technology companies of Elon Musk.

• GLOBALISATION: THE EVOLVING SCENARIO
  

  Some speeches by prominent 20th/21st century politicians: Tony Benn, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Theresa May and Winston Churchill. Studies of the social context of the various speeches and application of the critical methodology to their elucidation.

Textbook Information

• WORLD ECONOMY: PRESENT ISSUES AND CHALLENGES
  

  collection of texts available on Studium