The Course of Studies in Transnational and European Legal Studies provides students with a comprehensive legal education with a strong European and international bias with a focus on the analysis and study of the legal phenomenon in its transnational and cross-border dimensions. The Course is taught in English, offering at the end the possibility of careers outside the national territory.
The specific educational objectives of the Course, in line with the objectives of the Degree Class, look at the functional interdisciplinarity of knowledge and consist in integrating basic legal knowledge with specialised skills in the sectors involved in an increasingly marked interculturality, which enable the graduate to deal with issues related to the transnationality of legal relations between private individuals as well as between them and companies, agencies and institutions at international and supranational level with methodological and philosophical-legal frameworks, knowledge of fundamental legal categories, mastery of ethical profiles, protection of rights, cultural and social promotion.
These skills are enhanced by interdisciplinary knowledge that will enable the graduate to resolve complex issues in various areas of legal services and to act in work spaces designed by public and private actors acting in an increasingly globalised scenario.
The organisation of the educational activities provides for two teaching semesters per year, separated by an appropriate interval, in order to allow for the performance of the profit examinations. The period of the lectures and examinations are defined by the Departmental Council.
For semester-long courses, the course of lectures takes place within a single semester, while for annual courses it extends over two semesters of each academic year. Each course is divided into a total number of lecture hours correlated to the number of credits assigned to each discipline, or to each module, in accordance with the University Teaching Regulations and the Teaching Regulations of the Degree Course.
Attendance of lectures is not compulsory but is in any case strongly recommended for a more effective and rapid acquisition of the preparation necessary to pass the examinations, and allows a more rapid completion of the course of study, avoiding delays in the acquisition of credits.
The help that the student can obtain from continuous participation in the lessons derives from multiple factors: active participation and interaction in order to complete learning thanks to the guidance and support of the lecturer; confrontation with course colleagues, organisation of study groups, sharing of experiences for exam preparation purposes; an hour of lecture is certainly more productive than an hour of individual study, and continuous attendance allows a better rhythm of study to be maintained; seminars, practical exercises, simulations, laboratories and other activities are organized during the course of lectures, useful for enriching and completing preparation.
Teaching activities consist of lectures and possibly also seminars, practical exercises and other training activities. Some lectures may be delivered in whole or in part via distance learning.
Classroom lectures are used for the acquisition of the theoretical knowledge required for each discipline, and constitute the main form of teaching activity.
The exercises tend to reinforce and stabilise the notions learnt during the lectures, and are intended to train students to apply the theoretical notions to concrete reality by solving problems and finding effective solutions. At the teacher's discretion, group exercises can be organised, in which the participants are divided into smaller subgroups, each of which is assigned a task to be carried out in a given time and then presented to the entire class.
The workshop is conceived as an innovative teaching methodology, involving all disciplines, as it facilitates the personalisation of the teaching/learning process and enables students to acquire 'knowledge' through 'doing'. The workshop activities are also useful for learning drafting techniques and the English language.
The seminars, which run parallel to the lectures, are part of the so-called supplementary teaching and consist of in-depth meetings in which representatives from the professional, business and university world are hosted. Through this teaching methodology, students have the opportunity to have greater contact with the operational reality and to verify the practical application of the theoretical knowledge acquired.
Teleducation is a particular distance learning methodology that uses the Internet to provide specific teaching services. E-learning generally does not replace traditional forms of teaching, but is intended as an additional service that the university offers on the global education market, addressing three types of users
(a) the 'traditional' student, who lives close to the university premises and who attends lectures on a regular basis;
b) the student with special educational needs (working student, off-campus student, foreigner, disabled student, etc.) who for various reasons cannot attend classes directly;
c) the graduate already in or about to enter the labour market who wishes to acquire specific additional skills.