INTERCULTURAL RELATIONS WITH THE UNITED STATES
RAPPORTI INTERCULTURALI DEGLI STATI UNITI
| A.Y. | Credits |
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| 2016/2017 | 8 |
| Lecturer | Office hours for students | |
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| Alessandra Calanchi | on appointment |
| Teaching in foreign languages |
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Course partially taught in a foreign language
This course is taught partially in Italian and partially in a foreign language. Study materials can be provided in the foreign language and the final exam can be taken in the foreign language. |
Assigned to the Degree Course
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Learning Objectives
Create continuities with previously acquired knowledge;
Acquire specific jargon;
Acquire critical instruments of analysis;
Speak fluently in English about US (inter)cultural topics
Program
Classes are structured in 5 weeks; each of them is devoted to a theme which will be studied from a different perspective. American Studies are in fact experiencing a serious process of redefinition, and this is a challenge to make them become a truly international, transnational, and interdisciplinary area of research and cross-dialogue. Since we are more and more encouraged to include the global as the horizon of thinking and to interact with the so-called mediascapes, the aim of this course is, in particular, to look at the way American Studies can react to and actually (re)define themselves in relation to social sciences, border studies and postcolonial studies, music and film studies.
Bridging Courses
It is advisable that the studens have a basic knowledge of US history and geography
Learning Achievements (Dublin Descriptors)
Understand the different cultures and identities
Be able to distinguish between different genres and authors;
Find intersections and interfaces between disciplines (history, geography, film studies, political science, etc.);
To be able to apply the methodology of study and research to many aspects of culture
Teaching Material
The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it
Supporting Activities
articles, conferences, films
Teaching, Attendance, Course Books and Assessment
- Teaching
lectures, class discussion
- Attendance
Attentance is encouraged but not compulsory
- Course books
Texts
http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/gilded/empire/text1/turner.pdf
http://www.tc-america.org/issues-information/us-turkey-relations-27.htm
Films
Altar, Canadian Bacon, The Second Civil War
More material will be inserted in "Blended" website
- Assessment
Written exam
- Disabilità e DSA
Le studentesse e gli studenti che hanno registrato la certificazione di disabilità o la certificazione di DSA presso l'Ufficio Inclusione e diritto allo studio, possono chiedere di utilizzare le mappe concettuali (per parole chiave) durante la prova di esame.
A tal fine, è necessario inviare le mappe, due settimane prima dell’appello di esame, alla o al docente del corso, che ne verificherà la coerenza con le indicazioni delle linee guida di ateneo e potrà chiederne la modifica.
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