Catalogo dei Corsi di studio

This course introduces students to the fundamental issues, methods, and concepts of ethnology and cultural anthropology. Students will be expected to be able to use ethnographic and comparative approach as a method for documenting and understanding cultural diversity and processes of culture change in today’s global world. Furthermore, students will learn the relevant cultural factors for analysis of gift exchange. Students should be able to use the knowledge and skills acquired: a) to critically analyse and evaluate anthropological texts; b) to improve communication skills through structured papers and/or oral presentations

The course is designed for third-year students enrolled in the Degree Course of Communication, Technologies and Digital Cultures.
The purpose of this course is to offer an in-depth study on the relationship between media and society in Italy, from a historical and social point of view. Within the sphere of the studies on media/history – a fairly new area open to contributions coming from different branches of learning –, the history of radio and television will be followed with reference to socio-cultural transformations which accompanied the development and defined the current institutional configuration of the two media. Like this, students will be provided with the essential elements to understand ways of action, social roles, and change dynamics of the traditional audiovisual media, relating to different cultural contexts.

The course aims to offer the student the means to construct research designs and the suitable technique to answer to the cognitive demand/ question the researcher poses. Students will learn how to collect data --- individual and aggregate; to choose the proper techniques to analyse it; to illustrate the data as well as to utilise and assess data research.
Not only is this knowledge useful for students and future researchers, but also for those who intend to commission research, as they need to be able to judge the competence of the agencies that will carry it out, as well as the reliability of the data collected by other researchers.

The teaching aims to give basic methodological notions and main survey techniques, particularly in reference to communication and texts’ hermeneutics.
Examples from empirical research will be used to substantiate the theory.

Against the backdrop of the current dramatic change of television landscapes (digital spreading, multi-channel environment, proliferation of screens and platforms) the course aims primarily to point out the presence and impact of television on the everyday life, putting the focus on the human experience of time and place, and the ways it has been significantly modified by the televisual medium as technology and cultural form. The course aims to retrace the different evolutionary paths and patterns of the medium over the half-century and more of its history, bringing to light the nexus of interdependence between television evolution and processes of social and cultural change taking place outside the mediasphere. A specific focus will be devoted to the relations between TV and politics, through the evolution of the talk show, that, hovering between influences of power and democratization opportunities, represents some of the most characteristic features of the Mediaevo.

The main objective of the course is to consolidate the basic knowledge of film history (social, economic and cultural aspects included) to study the expressive platform of the cinematic medium and their evolution over time. Some hermeneutics and practical aspects of the aesthetics of cinema and social theory will also be discussed, which will take into account the constitution and functioning of the cinematographic and, more generally, the audio-visual language.

General objective
The course aims to provide the foundations of sociology through a theoretical-conceptual preparation related to sociological discipline developed in the historical sense (historical and social origins of the birth of sociology), authorial (classical authors and currents of study), conceptual (guiding concepts of the discipline) , methodological (general lines and applications in research already carried out). Through lectures, in-depth seminars with experts and privileged witnesses and exercises / simulations, the course aims to provide knowledge and skills related to theories and techniques of observation and analysis of social phenomena, with particular attention to those of the current society, to the end of knowing how to read and interpret social dynamics starting from their foundations: social actors and facts, persistence and social change, reference to traditional and emerging paradigms.

Specific objectives
At the end of the course the students will learn:
(Dublin Descriptor 1) knowledge related to: main sociological theories (traditional and emerging); analysis of the main social phenomena (origins, evolution, factors of persistence and change); themes of analysis in the analysis of contemporary society (including globalization, social inequalities, individualization, digital-technological communication, migration);
(Dublin Descriptor 2) skills needed to analyze the main characteristics of social theories and processes by providing analysis models applicable to different spaces and times in cultural, political and economic terms. The development of specific skills in the application of the theoretical models to the instruments of observation and interpretation will be verified with in-depth study in specific case studies: among these, cultural diversity in migration and integration processes and the assumption of the paradigm of social and economic sustainability.

Moreover, at the end of the course the students will have
(Dublin Descriptor 3) critical and judgmental skills with respect to the processes of social change, to its social actors and to the factors of reading the transformations read in a historical and comparative sense, through the analysis of case studies, simulations and lesson techniques overturned and self-directed learning;
(Dublin Descriptor 4) ability to correct the argumentative expression of the knowledge through the solicitation of the teachers to intervene during the lesson by assuming a self-directed role, the presentation of the activities carried out for the realization of case studies and the final oral exam;
(Dublin Descriptor 5) ability to deepen the study and knowledge of the evolutionary scenarios of social processes in an autonomous way, having acquired the knowledge related to the theoretical models and their evolution, but also to the collection, selection and systematization of the sources of analysis and interpretation for purposes of professional use as well as training.

General objective
The course aims to provide the foundations of sociology through a theoretical-conceptual preparation related to sociological discipline developed in the historical sense (historical and social origins of the birth of sociology), authorial (classical authors and currents of study), conceptual (guiding concepts of the discipline) , methodological (general lines and applications in research already carried out). Through lectures, in-depth seminars with experts and privileged witnesses and exercises / simulations, the course aims to provide knowledge and skills related to theories and techniques of observation and analysis of social phenomena, with particular attention to those of the current society, to the end of knowing how to read and interpret social dynamics starting from their foundations: social actors and facts, persistence and social change, reference to traditional and emerging paradigms.

Specific objectives
At the end of the course the students will learn:
(Dublin Descriptor 1) knowledge related to: main sociological theories (traditional and emerging); analysis of the main social phenomena (origins, evolution, factors of persistence and change); themes of analysis in the analysis of contemporary society (including globalization, social inequalities, individualization, digital-technological communication, migration);
(Dublin Descriptor 2) skills needed to analyze the main characteristics of social theories and processes by providing analysis models applicable to different spaces and times in cultural, political and economic terms. The development of specific skills in the application of the theoretical models to the instruments of observation and interpretation will be verified with in-depth study in specific case studies: among these, cultural diversity in migration and integration processes and the assumption of the paradigm of social and economic sustainability.

Moreover, at the end of the course the students will have
(Dublin Descriptor 3) critical and judgmental skills with respect to the processes of social change, to its social actors and to the factors of reading the transformations read in a historical and comparative sense, through the analysis of case studies, simulations and lesson techniques overturned and self-directed learning;
(Dublin Descriptor 4) ability to correct the argumentative expression of the knowledge through the solicitation of the teachers to intervene during the lesson by assuming a self-directed role, the presentation of the activities carried out for the realization of case studies and the final oral exam;
(Dublin Descriptor 5) ability to deepen the study and knowledge of the evolutionary scenarios of social processes in an autonomous way, having acquired the knowledge related to the theoretical models and their evolution, but also to the collection, selection and systematization of the sources of analysis and interpretation for purposes of professional use as well as training.

The course will reconstruct the historical process of formation of the scientific method, with particular reference to the social sciences.