POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY

In alignment with the Dublin Descriptors, it is expected that students will have acquired the following competencies by the end of the course:

1. An understanding of the essential elements required to comprehend the underlying mechanisms of politically relevant phenomena. The principal theoretical and research perspectives on essential topics in the discipline will be recalled, including political cultures and identities, socio-political fractures, organisational forms (parties, pressure groups and political movements), political participation, electoral behaviour and public opinion. 

2. The ability to apply knowledge using different conceptual and methodological tools, with a focus on the historical evolution of the discipline and its theoretical-methodological distinctiveness. 

3. The capacity for autonomous judgement with respect to contemporary socio-political phenomena, and the ability to present points of view and/or positions.

4. The proficiency in communication to convey information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialist and non-specialist interlocutors.

5. The capacity to learn and develop a method of study, characterized by a sufficient degree of autonomy, in order to undertake further studies.

The teaching syllabus supports the goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, especially for the goals: 4. QUALITY EDUCATION; 5. GENDER EQUALITY; 16. PEACE, JUSTICE AND SOLID INSTITUTIONS. Awareness-raising with respect to the goals will be supported through reflection on these issues in lectures and seminars across the course.