Learning objectives
The primary objective of the course is to enable students to acquire a critical knowledge of the relational and communicative dynamics underlying intercultural and inter-religious dialogue in Modern society.
At the end of the course, students are able to:
A) Knowledge and understanding
- Understanding of the building blocks of institutions, the structural prerequisites of communication, the conceptual bases of culturalité and the principles of intercultural communication and the communication technologies that mark its milestones in modern society.
- Knowing of the institutional actors and the issues that contribute to the tradition of intercultural communication, placing them in the different historical phases in which they have developed through the specific study of sources (essays, documents, literary and translation texts).
B) Applied knowledge and understanding
- Contextualization and critical interpretation of the sources in the light of the key theoretical models of media culture and cultural industry with the help of tools of translation.
- Recognizing of cultural identities in dialogue and/or conflict with each other through analysis of specific case studies in the early twentieth Century.
- Applying of acquired skills to compare and formulate new case studies of interculturality and to develop linguistic examples of translation as a form of intercultural communication.
C) Autonomy of judgment
- Formulating of critical thoughts on the positive aspects of interculturality.
- Assessing, based on knowledge of the historical background presented in class, of intercultural conflicts and cultural prejudices at the centre of contemporary historical and political debate.
D) Communication skills
- Exposing of the fundamental stages of the tradition of interculturality.
- Communicating in appropriate language appropriate to the subject matter of dialogue and intercultural conflict in the light of contemporary debate.
E) Ability to learn
- Conducting of a web-based bibliographic search on the topics presented in the course
- Critical and autonomous investigation of issues related to dialogue and conflict between different cultures involving different institutional actors