Course teached as: B015716 - PEDAGOGIA DELLA COMUNICAZIONE INTERCULTURALE Second Cycle Degree in THEORIES OF COMMUNICATION
Teaching Language
Italian
Course Content
The course develops the theme of intercultural communication, the different levels that it implies as individuals, group and institutions. This last dimension is necessarily inscribed in the history of international relations. National states have built their identites around cultural patterns that have involved the selection of some parts upon others. The difficulties of the "cultural"meeting between "the West" and the Muslim world is inscribed in a system of representations, which were defined as "Orientalism" and occidentalism.
Edward Said (1978),Orientalismo, traduzione di Stefano Galli, collana Nuova cultura (n. 27), Bollati Boringhieri, 1991.
Campani G.-Stanghellini G. (2014), I populismi nella crisi europea, Pacini, Pisa
Jean Ziegler (2010), L'odio dell'Occidente, Marco Tropea Editore.
Learning Objectives
Understanding the concept of orientalism/occidentalism
Understanding the concept of culture.
Understanding the cultural relativism.
Understanding the relationship between communication and culture.
Understanding the social construction of stigma (gender, ethnicity, religious, etc ...).
Prerequisites
A basic knowledge of European and World history from the beginning of modernity.
Constant attention to current events (daily reading of newspapers).
Basic notions of social sciences (society, conflict, social movement ...).
Teaching Methods
Lectures, seminars, screenings of documentary films.
Further information
None
Type of Assessment
Oral test
Course program
The course will begin with an introduction to the key concept of orientalism/occidentalism in both historical and contemporary perspective and the actual implication of such an issue. For this we will consider the classical work of Edward Said and the recent esay of -jean Ziegler. The course will then focus on the intercultural dialogue as a political, educational and communicational perspective.