Learning objectives
Knowledge and understanding: is encouraged and required capacity for analytical understanding of the texts according to criteria of logical rigor and philological. It also requires capacity for synthesis. Overall, knowledge of the topics covered will not be reduced to their repetition, but attitudes highlight the reinterpretation staff realized with appropriate language discipline.
Ability to apply knowledge and understanding: the knowledge required is not a merely descriptive. The student will demonstrate personal attitudes in the solution of the questions raised. She will develop a critical original locations within the agenda.
Making judgments: Requires independent judgment on the matters proposed and ability to use on their own methods of sociological research proposals. The course calls for students to develop individual judgments and in small groups.
Communication skills: will be carried out during the course and required in the exam. The study narrative interview as a technique for qualitative research and simulations to be carried out during lessons in order to learn the use intended to exercise the student's communication skills.
Learning skills: the study of the city as a communication system has the secondary purpose of expanding the concept of mass media and enrich the learning ability of the company to future demands of professional journalism and publishing.
Prerequisites
Requires knowledge of sociology, history and philosophy.
Course unit content
The city as a communication system
In the story, the city was conceived as a system of communicative relations between individuals. As a result, assuming the form that came on time and in different societies has always confirmed the Aristotelian idea of man as a political animal, adapted to living in the polis.
With the advent of industrial society, this way of understanding the city decays and says quite an urban concept that expresses a vision of a functional type of life.
The course analyzes this type of change and, in the second part, compares it with the processes of de-nationalization and globalization that affect the nation-states in order to problematize the following question: what kind of relationship currently exists between the state, the city- region, the medium-sized cities and small cluster peripheral?
Full programme
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Bibliography
Bosi A, "Il caso Parma. Politica e Società", Battei, Parma, 2012;
Pagnotta F. (a cura di), "L'età di Internet. Umanità, cultura, educazione", Le Monnier, Firenze, 2013;
Pozzi A., "Giovani e opportunità oggi. Per una lettura critica sulle proposte del territorio di Parma e Provincia", Mup, Parma, 2013;
Sassen S., "Una sociologia della globalizzazione", Einaudi, Torino, 2008.
Teaching methods
The course includes: front lessons, discussions on the topics covered in the lectures, focus group on detailed arguments; moments with laboratory simulations and case studies.
The examination includes discussion of a written essay and an oral examination on the texts indicated during the course and on the topics covered.
Assessment methods: During the course, the interview and testing laboratory. At the exam, the written and the oral.
Assessment methods and criteria
Oral test
Other information
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