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COMMUNICATION AND EUROPEAN INTEGRATION

Degree course: 
Corso di First cycle degree in Communication Sciences
Academic year when starting the degree: 
2018/2019
Year: 
2
Academic year in which the course will be held: 
2019/2020
Course type: 
Compulsory subjects, characteristic of the class
Credits: 
8
Period: 
Second semester
Standard lectures hours: 
64
Detail of lecture’s hours: 
Lesson (64 hours)
Requirements: 

A basic understading of contemporary history.

The exame will consist of an oral exam to determinate if the students have acquired and properly understood the course content.
The final mark will reflect the accuracy and qaulity of the answers (70%) as weel as the student's communicative abilities and capacity to adequately support his or her statements, analyses and opinions given duruing the exam (30%).

Assessment: 
Voto Finale

The aim of the course is to introduce and descibe from a theoretichal-practical perspective and with a multidisciplinary approach, aspects, issues and problems of communication in its connection with training processes. In particular, the course aims to show on the one hand, the various strategies adopted by the European Union to communicate with its citizens and reactions of political groups and civil society, through an analysis of the history of the European institution from the Treaties of rome to the present day.

-Overview of the main theries, definition and models of communication;
- Communication strategies and training implications;
-Problems and critical issues;
-Institutional communication: models and tools;
-Communication of the European Union: objectives, strategies and tools;
-Hitorical background on the European unification process, in particular on the relationship between European institutions and European citizens;
- Methods and tools characterizing the debate on European unification and analysis of its contribution to the dissemination of knowledge on European integration;
-The role of local authorities in conveying European citizens' needs.

The course is made of three parts:
1.The historical part will historically retrace the European integration process from the building of sovereign national states through the crisis of that institutional model at international level which led to the current need for a new international system and therefore for the European federation
2. The central part will retrace and describe the evolution of the European institutional system from the European communities to today's European Union with a focus on the development of its communication policies
3. The last part will analyze the communication methods and techniques adopted along the european integration process by institutional actors as well as by repreaentatives of various movements for the European union

1. Emilio R. Papa, storia dell'Unificazione europea, Bompiani, 2018.
2 Daniele Pasquinucci, Daniela preda, Luciano Tosi (a cura di), La stampa e l'integrazione europea, casa editrice CEDAM
3 Fabio Zucca, Autonomie locali e federazione sovranazionale. La battaglia del Conseil des Communes eìt Règion d'Europe per l'unità europea, Il mulino, 20213

Convenzionale

The course objective will be achieved through friontal lessons (a total of 64 hours) that include as presentation of specific topics. Threre will be four hours of seminars.

Lecture will meet students upon previous agreement (write to fabio.zucca@uninsubria.it) by Padiglione morselli via Dunanat 3 Varese

Professors

ZUCCA FABIO

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