Course in: SOCIAL SCIENCES

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Academic year 2023/2024
Department of Educational Sciences
Università di Genova
EQF level: 8
39° cicle
Field of study: politics, social sciences and communications psychology
Place of teaching
genova (GE), italy
Attendance methods
Full time
Languages in which the course is held
Italian, English
University formative credits
180
Cost
528
Scholarships
13 

Course contents

Curriculum: MIGRATIONS AND INTERCULTURAL PROCESSES
Integration, acculturation and identity construction processes through different levels of analysis (individual, family, group),
- Transnational migration, migrant families and young people with a migration background in social and educational contexts
- Ingroup-outgroup relationships in various contexts (educational, formative and work-related).
- Intercultural processes in the wake of migration movements both for the countries of origin and in those of arrival.
- Reception systems; forced migrations, environmental migrations and transformations following migrations in urban and rural contexts from local to global.
- Analysis of the skills of public and private social workers and development of training models
- Demographic and spatial dynamics related to depopulation and relocation processes in marginal regions.
- Displacement and relocation processes in relation to climate change and environmental emergency contexts.
- Storytelling, in all its modes and forms, as an opportunity for knowledge, analysis, interpretation of intercultural processes and inclusion.
- Relations of public administration workers with migrant children and their families; implementation of multicultural and intercultural competences in child and social service workers to think about and promote the development of inclusive communities; definition of policy models that take into account the specificities of users with a migrant background and their families, as well as the needs and practices of the institution with which the users come into contact (research theme for grant funded within D.M. 118/2023 - Azione Dottorati per la Pubblica Amministrazione).

Curriculum: PSYCHOLOGY AND COGNITIVE SCIENCES
Working memory, Intelligence, cognitive and non-cognitive abilities. Female/male differences in cognitive and non-cognitive abilities (e.g., intelligence, mathematics, anxiety). Cognitive ergonomics. Non-technical skills and high-fidelity simulation. Human-machine interaction and interaction design. Experimental pragmatic. Neuropsychology of language. Aging. Psychology of tourism. Acquisition and evolution of language. Psycholinguistics.
- Language and executive functions in typical and atypical development. School inclusion of pupils with developmental disorders. Neo-Piagetian models of cognitive development. Understanding and learning of mathematics. Cognitive processes in child drawing.
- Dehumanization and objectification in interpersonal and intergroup relationships. Prejudice, its different forms and reduction strategies. Quality of working life and psychosocial risks. Leadership. Professional development and training.
- Psychopathological disorders/symptoms, behavioural addictions and emotional (dys)regulation in middle childhood, in adolescents and adults. Attachment theory: research, clinical applications assessment methods and attachment-based treatments. Adoption. High risk adolescents. Mentalization in clinical and non-clinical groups. Risk factors and protection in couples and families.
- Safety culture, risk prevention and risk management behaviour, safety training, safety promotion, human factors and organizational resilience, accident analysis and systemic approaches in healthcare and medical research domain (research theme for grant funded within D.M. 118/2023 - Azione Dottorati per la Pubblica Amministrazione).

Curriculum: POLITICAL SCIENCES
˗ Political ideas, ideologies and political phenomena in a historical-critical perspective
˗ Human Rights promotion and protection in a local, national and international dimension
˗ Social and political changes in democratic contexts: the transformation dynamics of the political and cultural relations linked to the changes
˗ Regulation of scientific activity: between law, market and politics and its influence on research practices
- The «participated» municipal administration: an innovative strategy to promote urban security (research theme for grant funded within D.M. 118/2023 - Azione Dottorati per la Pubblica Amministrazione)

Curriculum: SOCIOLOGY
-Methodology of social research.
-Evaluation of educational and social policies.
-Visual Sociology.
-Social disparities.
-Social policies.
-The youth situation.
-Dynamics of the labour market.
-Sociology of organisations and work.
-Sociology of science and technology.
-Sociology of cultural processes and communication.
-Sociology of deviance.
-Sociology of education.
-Sociology of the family.
-Urban sociology.
-Gender studies.

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Teaching

Place of teaching
genova (GE), italy
University formative credits
180
Attendance methods
Full time
Languages in which the course is held
Italian, English

Admission requirements

Type of degree required
2nd Level Degree
Foreign language skills
English
Other educational requirements
those who have an equivalent foreign academic qualification

Admission

Available places
13
Admission
Admission selection
Cost
528 €
Scholarships
13
- 13 grants, annual grant € 16500

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