| 10595517 | CHINA: HISTORIES NARRATIVES AND CULTURES [L-OR/21] [ENG] | 3rd | 1st | 6 |
Educational objectives SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES:
1. Knowledge and Understanding: the course will be aimed at providing students with the necessary critical and analytical tools, introducing them to the main themes and principal concepts of Humanities in China. The course will facilitate a gradual process of gaining knowledge and deepening understanding, familiarizing the students with this field of studies, its scientific vocabulary, the methodologies and the critical theories, in a comparative perspective which rejects Eurocentric approaches.
2. Ability to Apply Knowledge and Understanding: the course will stimulate and improve the students’ ability to apply knowledge and understanding in their study of disciplines relating to the Humanities in China in comparative perspective. Students will be asked to critically read and assess texts, analyse and comment literary and visual narratives, examine theatre plays and films applying the critical theories and the methodologies which will be elucidated and studied during the course.
3. Making judgments: Students will be sustained in the development of their knowledge and understanding capabilities to critically read the suggested bibliography and employ the theories and the materials in order to formulate coherent and autonomous judgments regarding social, artistic and cultural processes, informed by the inter-relation between aesthetics and ethics.
4. Communication skills. Particular attention will be devoted to improving students' communication skills, through oral presentations, self-narratives labs, participatory workshops and the assignment of short written essays.
5. Learning skills. The course will be delivered paying attention to develop in students the skills necessary to undertake subsequent studies with a high degree of autonomy.
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| 10595538 | POLITICS INSTITUTIONS AND CULTURES OF JAPAN [L-OR/22] [ENG] | 3rd | 1st | 6 |
Educational objectives Training objectives
The course in "Politics, Institutions and Cultures of Japan":
aims to promote critical reasoning over linguistic variability via an implementation of knowledge and understanding of the socio-cultural contest surrounding linguistic phenomena, and it will aim at developing a practical framework for reseearching linguistic minorities; it tackles the study of the cultural assets into which minority discourse is embedded and shows the wide variety of perspectives developed over the field of study, enabling the student to use the critical insight gained with the course in s multi-cultural fashion. Students are expected to extend their interests and abilities to other disciplines and several different chronological and cultural contexts.
Overview
The course strives to enquiry the political reality of today's Japan by means of a critical rethinking of the intertwining of linguistic variability in Japanese society and the covert nationalistic stances surrounding the soft power-oriented trends in contemporary governmental policies. The course will especially tackle such pivotal issues via a thorough investigation of several examples of linguistic diversity, i.e. languages of minorities in Japan, with a keen eye towards multilingualism and minor-languages groups that have emerged in the last decades under the growing influence of globalizing technological advances.
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| 10595520 | INTERNATIONAL LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS [IUS/13] [ENG] | 3rd | 1st | 6 |
Educational objectives General outcomes
The course provides knowledge relating to international law and human rights. It provides the necessary tools to understand the development of the legal regime governing international relations covering both its private and public dynamics. By having recourse to lectures, seminars and assignments students acquire knowledge and understanding of the discipline and the capacity to apply them to concrete situations.
Specific outcomes
Knowledge and understanding – The course provides to students knowledge and understanding of the main rules and institutions of international law. In particular, it allows students to understand the concepts that govern international inter-state and inter-individual relations as well as those involving the international community as a whole.
Applying knowledge and understanding – By having recourse to lectures, seminars, case law and assignments, the course allows students learn how to apply international law to concrete scenarios. At the end of the course, the students should be able to identify the rules that are applicable to concrete cases.
Making judgments – The contents and methodology of the course allow students to acquire the capacity to handle complexity and formulate judgments on the law that governs international relations. At the end of the course, the students should be able when confronted with specific scenarios to determine the most appropriate rules governing them in accordance with different objectives that may be attained.
Communication skills – The course has the purpose to strengthen the drafting skills of participants, especially improving recourse to clear, appropriate, and effective legal argumentation.
Learning skills – The course is meant to develop a high degree of autonomy of the students by providing them with the bibliographical instruments that are necessary to carry out research activities and deepen their knowledge in specific fields of international law.
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| 10600067 | Migrant Education and Community Inclusion [M-PSI/04] [ENG] | 3rd | 1st | 6 |
Educational objectives The course aims at providing students with the knowledge and understanding of the methodological, critical and practical aspects of the Discipline. It proposes geographic and disciplinary perspectives in which discipline-related projects are, or may be, activated. It shows the variability of fields of interest, enables the student to master the specific topics in order to apply them, even in other fields of study, while using the correct specific language. With the acquired knowledge, the student will be able to develop autonomous ability of connections with other disciplines in different historical periods and cultural contexts.
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| 10595519 | VISUAL AND LITERARY CULTURES [L-ART/04] [ENG] | 3rd | 2nd | 6 |
Educational objectives This course aims to provide students with proper knowledge and competence to look, read, and understand Greek and Roman visual culture, its tools, and social impact. The chronological scope of the course extends from the Late Archaic period (6th cent. BC) to the fall of the Roman Empire (5th cent. AD). Through examining mainly sculptural and architectural data (statues, portraits, relief, private residences, religious buildings), students will be able to understand the relationship between artwork and society, and to interpret the language of visual art concerning specifically: forms of self-presentation, political and religious propaganda, expression of personal ambition. To the scope, students will be asked to read texts, describe images and monuments, and understand the messages conveyed by artworks in relation to their specific socio-cultural and political context, with particular attention to material, location, historical period, decoration' style and themes. At the end of the course the student will be familiar with methodologies, basic terminology and arguments for a comparative analysis of visual culture in two different societies, the Greek and Roman ones, throughout all of Antiquity.
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| 10599920 | Gender Race and Mobilities: Narratives and Counternarrative [L-FIL-LET/14] [ENG] | 3rd | 2nd | 6 |
Educational objectives The course aims to provide knowledge and understanding of the methodological tools of literary theory and criticism in relation to specific fields of inquiry such as gender studies, critical race theory, cultural studies, postcolonial studies, decolonial studies, and migration studies. The course will enable students to master specific theoretical approaches to different cultural forms and to read literature with a special attention to how imaginaries are forged and counternarratives are articulated in different cultures and societies. Students will learn how to apply the acquired knowledge as the foundation to better understand contemporaneity and to connect different historical, social, and geopolitical contexts through their transnational literary and cultural productions.
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| 10595515 | AFRICA AND ITS DIASPORAS: HISTORIES LITERATURES AND FILMS [L-OR/09] [ENG] | 3rd | 2nd | 6 |
Educational objectives The course "Africa and its diasporas" will be aimed at enquiring into the relationship between African/Asian/Middle Eastern forms of mobility, Africa/Europe, and other modern and contemporary transnational migratory processes. It will present students with case studies of traditional mobility and compare them to modern forms of circular and outreach migrations. It will analyze diasporic processes of individual, families and groups as rationally-motivated strategies to face hardships and politically and culturally hostile environments. The students will be asked to understand transnational mobility through relevant area literatures, films and self-narratives. The aim is to help students make their own assessments of diasporic movements, needs and practices through in-depth immersion in the cultural world of each group.
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| 10595516 | LITERARY JOURNEYS BETWEEN AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST [L-OR/12] [ENG] | 3rd | 2nd | 6 |
Educational objectives At the end of this course, students should:
• Possess a coherent knowledge and a critical understanding of postcolonial literature of the Arab world and its key historical, cultural and theoretical developments
• Be able to critically evaluate arguments and assumptions about postcolonial literature, texts, and modes of interpretation
• Identify differences and similarities in communication, values, practices, and beliefs between one’s own culture and other cultures
• Explain how categories of human diversity (such as race, gender, ethnicity, and disability) influence personal identities and can create structural and institutional inequity
• Be able to communicate arguments effectively and show a degree of independent thinking in so doing
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| 10595518 | SOUTHEAST ASIA: CULTURAL TRAJECTORIES [L-OR/21] [ENG] | 3rd | 2nd | 6 |
Educational objectives The course "Southeast Asia: Cultural Trajectories" introduces the students to the social, political and economic factors which have influenced and informed the cultural histories and trajectories of the countries of South East Asia. The course will provide knowledge and understanding of these cultural dynamics in a transnational frame, focusing on the cultures, arts, cinemas and literatures of South East Asia in the modern and contemporary times.
The course aims to provide knowledge and understanding of the methodological, critical and applicable aspects of the disciplines of cultural studies applied to the ASEAN countries; it proposes general questions and specific perspectives by focusing on their interactions on a global scale and transnational level among these countries and the rest of the world; it shows the variability of fields of interest; it enables the student to master the specific topics in order to use them and apply them in other fields of study while using the correct specific language. With the acquired knowledge the student will be able to develop autonomous ability of connections with other disciplines in the various historical epochs and cultural contexts.
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| 10595539 | JAPANESE NARRATIVES AND HUMAN RIGHTS [L-OR/22] [ENG] | 3rd | 2nd | 6 |
Educational objectives SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES:
1. Knowledge and Understanding: The course aims at introducing works of the Japanese modern and contemporary literature, which focused their narratives on aspects of the discourse on human rights, providing the students the critical instruments to analyse them in a transcultural approach. Every work will be commented within an historical frame describing the elicited social issue both in a diachronic and in a synchronic fashion, and for each of them general information will enable students to properly situate it its epoch, in its literary contest, among other works of the same literary genre and, comparatively, within the corpus of its author/authress's production.
The course will facilitate a gradual process of gaining knowledge and deepening understanding, familiarizing the students with this field of studies, its scientific vocabulary, the methodologies and the critical theories, in a comparative perspective which rejects Eurocentric approaches.
2. Ability to Apply Knowledge and Understanding: the course will stimulate and improve the students’ ability to apply knowledge and understanding in their study of disciplines relating to Japanese modern and contemporary literature focused on social issues, in a comparative perspective. Students will be asked to critically read texts, analyse and comment literary and visual narratives, examine theatre plays and films applying the critical theories and the methodologies which will be elucidated and studied during the course.
3. Making judgments: Students will be sustained in the development of their knowledge and understanding capabilities to critically read the suggested bibliography and employ the theories and the materials in order to formulate coherent and autonomous judgments regarding social, artistic and cultural processes, informed by the inter-relation between aesthetics and ethics.
4. Communication skills. Particular attention will be devoted to improving students' communication skills, through oral presentations, self-narratives labs, participatory workshops and the assignment of short written essays.
5. Learning skills. The course will be delivered paying attention to develop in students the skills necessary to undertake subsequent studies with a high degree of autonomy.
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| 10606350 | Global Constitutionalism: Asia-Pacific Perspectives [IUS/21] [ENG] | 3rd | 2nd | 6 |
Educational objectives he course aims at providing the students with a general understanding of major developments, recent trends and challenges embedded in the democratic processes in the contemporary world, focussing on Asian Countries (India, China with Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia).
The course seeks to achieve the following objectives:
I. providing instruments for the comprehension of constitutional transitions and democratization, employing both the diachronic and synchronic methods of analysis typical of comparative constitutional law.
II. enabling students to familiarize themselves with some recent trends in the development of rule of law and democratic pluralism in Asia
III. Encouraging students to look critically at the various experiences of democracy and democratization processes in different social, political, ideological, and global contexts.
Why the Focus on Asia?
In the early 21st Century, Asian countries have developed increasingly vibrant practices of constitutional law and the overall intent of the course is that of offering an up-to-date and in-depth comprehension of recent institutional transformation occurring in the most important Countries in Asia – India, China and Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia - and appreciate the original Asian contributions to the ideologies of constitutionalism.
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| 10595521 | MEDICAL HUMANITIES [MED/02] [ENG] | 3rd | 2nd | 6 |
Educational objectives The course in Medical Humanities is aimed at achieving:
- knowledge and understanding regarding the concepts of health, illness, treatment and medical care in a historical diachronic perspective, privileging socio-cultural comparative approaches to the study of the history of medicine;
- capacity to apply knowledge and understanding in relation to the History of Global Medicine. In particular, students will be taught the fundamental histories of medicine in East and West and will acquire notions on the history of medicine in different countries in a historical frame which goes from the ancient to the present times.
-acquire knowledge and understanding on bioethics and medicine;
- be able to analyse and understand the most significative questions regarding bioethics in a global and interconnected dimension;
- gain capacity to critically assess the structural questions relating to the fields of the bioethical principles, starting from the awareness of the inequalities in the sphere of health, gender inequality, the global epidemics of chronic pathologies and the related difficulties in dealing with these issues due to the growing socio-economic problems, jointly affected by the cultural and demographic changes linked to the ageing of the population and the mobility of people.
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| 10595522 | GLOBAL HEALTH [MED/42] [ENG] | 3rd | 2nd | 6 |
Educational objectives The course aims to provide the theoretical bases of reference in the relationship between 'Health' and 'Globalization' through the proposal and explanation of the following concepts and approaches: 'Health as a right' internationally recognized; the 'Social Determinants of Health'; 'Inequities in health and care' (among different countries and within individual countries); the role of 'Health Systems'. Participants will have to learn to recognize the interrelationships among these concepts and to become aware of the importance of the 'Health Promotion' approach, with particular reference to the activation of ‘Intersectoral policies’ and ‘Empowerment’ (individual and community) for Health.
Various case studies will be used for these purposes.
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| 10599975 | Constitutional Law [IUS/08] [ENG] | 3rd | 2nd | 6 |
Educational objectives The course aims at providing students with the knowledge and understanding of the methodological, critical and practical aspects of the Discipline. It proposes geographic and disciplinary perspectives in which discipline-related projects are, or may be, activated. It shows the variability of fields of interest, enables the student to master the specific topics in order to apply them, even in other fields of study, while using the correct specific language. With the acquired knowledge, the student will be able to develop autonomous ability of connections with other disciplines in different historical periods and cultural contexts.
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| 10600391 | Ethnopsychiatry [MED/25] [ENG] | 3rd | 2nd | 6 |
Educational objectives The course aims at providing students with the knowledge and understanding of the methodological, critical and practical aspects of the Discipline. It proposes geographic and disciplinary perspectives in which discipline-related projects are, or may be, activated. It shows the variability of fields of interest, enables the student to master the specific topics in order to apply them, even in other fields of study, while using the correct specific language. With the acquired knowledge, the student will be able to develop autonomous ability of connections with other disciplines in different historical periods and cultural contexts.
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