CIVICA's masters courses offer multicampus perspectives
CIVICA, the alliance of ten European universities in the social sciences of which Bocconi is a founding member, is launching this academic year's joint and multicampus courses, continuing the alliance's work towards a true European campus. The courses are one of CIVICA's many transnational experiences enabling students to pursue academic paths beyond any one institutional or national context. And this year's suite of joint course offerings for master's students includes two brand new courses.
Kicking off on September 7 was the new 'The Making of the Present: A Global History of Globalisation from St. Helena to Davos' course taught jointly by Andrea Colli (Bocconi) and Mario Del Pero (Sciences Po) which will examine the process of global integration and disintegration over the last two centuries.
The other new course is 'Policy Evaluation: Praxis and Politics', taught by Central European University's (CEU) Thilo Bodenstein with Diane Stone and Gaia Taffoni (EUI) and Ann Revillard (Sciences Po). It will illuminate fundamentals of qualitative evaluations for public policy and cover the political preconditions for the implementation of evaluations.
Also opening for enrollment this fall is the third edition of CIVICA's flagship multicampus course, 'The Future of Europe', coordinated by Bocconi's Carlo Altomonte, taught jointly by a team of faculty from alliance universities, critically exploring European policy challenges. It will involve over 100 students from Bocconi, CEU, Hertie, SNSPA, Sciences Po, LSE, and SSE. In addition to a series of live online lectures grouped into four modules, students work in transnational teams to complete a capstone assignment developing policy solutions to EU-relevant policy problems. Small teams of students from different universities work on finding a creative solution to a concrete ongoing problem. Projects then participate in the Boroli Prize Competition, funded by the Fondazione Achille and Giulia Boroli, which awards prizes to the teams with the best three capstone projects submitted in the course.
Three returning CIVICA joint courses throughout this academic year will also include "Welfare States in Transition" with Bruno Palier (Sciences Po) and Anke Hassel (Hertie School), "Diving into the Digital Public Space" with Marton Karsai (CEU) and Jean Philippe Cointet (Sciences Po médialab), which covers the use of data science methods to investigate a research question related to social and political dynamics at large; and "Gendering Illiberalism" taught by CEU's Andrea Peto with Alina Dragolea from SNSPA, unpacking the buzzword "illiberalism" and critically investigating the loopholes in the related literature.