Corsi di Studio del Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza

The course aims to provide or consolidate the student’s knowledge and elementary skills, needed to:
- qualify
- subsume
- define
- classify
- list
- exemplify
- understand and make rules (the rule is an information with this structure: “if X then Y”)
- make an argumentative speech (to argue means defending or attacking a thesis using other elements, called arguments).

The course aims to provide the following learning results:
- basic knowledge of the functional illocutionary characters (descriptive, directive, constitutive) and of the functional perlocutionart characters of the discourse;
- knowledge and control both of institutional language and of basic theoretical foundations in order to the general articulation and to the specificities of the most important language operations needed to give rise to an accurate learning;
- attentional focalization with respect to semantic and pragmatic perspectives within acquisitional and communicational processses of the everyday, and chiefly, legal knowledge;
- sensibility with respect to the goal to acquire and to improve skills in order to understand and to give rise to technical enunciative propositions;
- skills in order to understand enunciative propositions that are characterized by fundamental and recurring methodological significances;
- skills in order to give rise to reliable relating to the subject matter, linguistically accurate, communicatively clear and telling enunciative propositions;
- skills in order to understand frames and fundamental characters of the rule as well as skills in order to give rise to appropriate wordings of the same with specific regard to the functional and communicational side.

Taught classes, everyone of three hours. Every lesson will be divided between a theoretical moment and a practical drills on the topics of the Course; a full and pro-active partecipation is greatly suggested considering the specificities and the technical importance of the practical drills. In any case attendance is not mandatory.
From the academical year 2015 - 2016 the course (attendance is not mandatory) takes place between the end of the firsst semester of lesson and the beginning of the second semester.

Attention! Avvio alla logica (prof. Caterina): Lectures and online and interactive learning activities (specific written and virtual documents, data, exercises).

From the academical year 2015 - 2016 the requested outcomes will be verified only through periodical written exams of fifty minutes.
The test requires:
- to define three words that concern everyday language legal terms;
- to formulate three classifications, with their respective distinguishing criteria;
- to formulate examples, or frameworks based on usage, of key terms analyzed during the course or of basic legal terms;
- to understand rules in common form and to “translate” it into the canonical form ("if X then Y").

The terms to define, the sets to classify, the key terms, the rules to "translate" in canonical forms, are each time pointed out to the candidates into the form distributed at the beginning of the test.

Transitional provision: The students that have attained two, or more, failed exams in preceding tests will be, at the right time, noticed with regard to the formality of accomplishment of their following tests.

The course provides for the treatment of the following items: qualifications, subsumptions, definitions, classifications, listings, examples, rules.
The expository arrangement of the items will make reference to a recurring topical scheme to facilitate treatment and memorization (item identification, structural sides, necessary formalities of wording, and so forth). This scheme is here illustrate by the pertinent topic as regards to the qualifications: "what qualifications are"; "how qualifications are framed"; "how qualifications are worded"; "how qualfications may be"; "how qualifications must be"; "which are the harmful errors as regards qualifications that we know"; "what qualifications are for".

 

On the Department of Law website - http://www.giurisprudenza.unito.it/do/home.pl -, link ' Per chi studia con noi', sublink 'Avvio alla logica' - the educational material for the attainments of the test are freely available.
For a more detailed handling of these matters:
1) L. LANTELLA – E. STOLFI – M. DEGANELLO, Operazioni elementari di discorso e sapere giuridico, Giappichelli, Torino, 2007;
2) L. LANTELLA - R. CATERINA, Se X allora Y. I: l'universo della regola, Giappichelli, Torino, 2009;
3) L. LANTELLA - R. CATERINA, Se X allora Y. II: lavorare con le regole, Giappichelli, Torino, 2009.