Educational Objectives and Careers Opportunities

EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES

The degree course in Political Science and International Relations aims to provide a preparation that is useful both for employment in different functional areas within different sectors of economic activity, whether public or private, and for the pursuit of higher studies in Italy and abroad.
To this end, the course of study offers training activities aimed at imparting basic knowledge in six different subject areas: legal, economic, political, sociological, statistical and historical. In addition, the course also offers foreign language courses aimed at consolidating the language skills already acquired in secondary education, as well as introducing knowledge of specialised vocabularies and other foreign languages, including non-European ones.
The course of study is structured in two parts. One is dedicated to training activities common to all students, to which at least 66 credits are attributed among the basic and characterising disciplines present in particular in the first year. At least 12 credits are added to the list of common activities among the further training activities (further language knowledge, training placements, computer skills, knowledge useful for entering the world of work). The other part characterises and differentiates the study pathway and is dedicated to the in-depth study of specific study areas.

The articulation of the training pathway makes it possible to provide a multidisciplinary preparation, useful for understanding
- the complex dynamics of socio-political, economic, historical and legal phenomena in a European and international perspective
- the governance dynamics that characterise the system of public administrations in their
interactions with public and private operators and with European institutions.

CAREERS OPPORTUNITIES

Political Science graduates are called upon to perform managerial functions with operational, managerial and direct responsibility autonomy; functions that may increase according to the levels of experience acquired.
Within the scope of the attributions attributable to the different legal nature of the professional context
(public/private; national/international) may contribute to defining, implementing and pursuing objectives in different functional areas.
The knowledge acquired in the course of studies has a 'transversal' character, is fully attributable to the function required and is related to the training acquired in secondary school courses. In fact, legal, economic, administrative and historical knowledge typical of academic training in political science provides the right skills for the functional objectives described. Furthermore, the ability to be able to place the choices related to the function performed within the area of belonging/competence entails an ability to read the economic and social context consistent with the multidisciplinary approach of the course of study. The linguistic preparation (European languages and Oriental languages) in the disciplinary lexicons allows the described competences to be exercised also in an international context.

An analysis of the labour market, based on surveys on the employment status of graduates and consultation with organisations representing production, services and the professions, shows that the employment and professional outlets are the most varied thanks to the multidisciplinary training received by students.
In addition, the possibility of differentiating and characterising the training pathway makes it possible to direct students towards specific areas of employment, stimulate their curiosity, enhance their talents and thus provide them with profiles that are suitable both for continuing their studies and for pursuing a profession.
The employment of graduates is in the private and public sector, although in recent years there has been a greater absorption capacity on the part of the private sector. It is precisely the multidisciplinary approach that ensures a high level of adaptability to the variety of professional figures required by the labour market.