INTERCULTURAL LAW
cod. 1003156

Academic year 2012/13
1° year of course - Second semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Diritto canonico e diritto ecclesiastico (IUS/11)
Field
Attività formative affini o integrative
Type of training activity
Related/supplementary
36 hours
of face-to-face activities
6 credits
hub: PARMA
course unit
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Learning objectives

The course aims to providing the student with the ability to deal with cultural / religious difference and manage the related profiles of legal relevance.
At the end of the course, the student will demonstrate knowledge and the ability about:
a) recognizing and dealing with the cultural and religious differences from both epistemological and conceptual points of view;
b) articulating the basic knowledge of the intercultural methodology and to translate the folk legal education of the persons into legal schemes;
c) applying the acquired knowledge and skill to concrete cases, differentiated according to the cultures and religions of the legal subjects, in a creative way and by a sufficient mastery of argumentative technics.

Prerequisites

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Course unit content

The course consists of an exposition of the basic principles governing the treatment of cultural and religious difference into Italian Law. It explains the guidelines for developing policies and strategies of legal integration between persons of different religious and cultural traditions.

Full programme

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Bibliography

M. RICCA, Culture interdette. Modernità, migrazioni, diritto interculturale (forthcoming) pp. 1-310
or, in alternative,
M. RICCA, Oltre Babele. Codici per una democrazia interculturale, Dedalo, Bari, 2008, pp. 1-351.

Teaching methods

Oral lesson

Assessment methods and criteria

Oral examination

Other information

When it will be possible, practitioners and scholars of interfaith and intercultural issues will be invited to participate in the course.