Political and Economic Geography (advanced)

The course aims to provide, to students of the master's degree course, the theoretical and analytical tools of political and economic geography to allow to develop critical thinking and interpretations of main economic and political phenomena which take place in space and landscape. Attention will be paid in particular to the themes of globalization and post-globalization, development and underdevelopment, spatial relations, international cooperation and tourism, in harmony with the more general training foreseen by the master's degree course in "Languages and Cultures for International Communication and Cooperation". Specifically, the objectives of the course include:
- gain knowledge and interpretive skills with reference to the spatial aspects of economic, political and geopolitical phenomena;
- the development of independent judgment and communication skills in an advanced argumentation and interpretation of relevant geo-economic and geopolitical phenomena.

At the end of the course the student must have developed knowledge and sensitivity functional to the use of a 'geographical and critical view' on a vast number of economic and political phenomena.