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.
Prerequisites
Requires knowledge of sociology, history and philosophy.
Course unit content
The course “Sociology of Journalism” starts with a participatory democracy research conducted, from November 2015 to June 2016, in the territory of the two former Municipalities of Sissa and Trecasali (province of Parma) united, from 2014, in a single Municipality. The fusion process required adaptations, new ways of conceiving the territory and the need to imagine strategies able to face some challenges as depopulation, pollution and isolation. The research, requested by the Municipality and conducted by the University of Parma, has brought out the experiences, interpretations, and desires of the population in relation to the context of life. The course analyzes this case study and highlights how sociological research and journalistic research use, in some cases, the same methodologies, sometimes applying them in different ways. The course is held together with Dr. Valentina Riva, co-author of the case study and the Councilor for Urbanism of the Municipality of Sissa Trecasali, Dr. Patrizia Gaibazzi.
Full programme
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Bibliography
Testi e materiali per l'esame:
Zygmunt Bauman, Voglia di comunità, Laterza, Bari, 2008.
Texts for Exam:
Alessandro Bosi, Valentina Riva, Un libro per il futuro. Sissa Trecasali Modello di partecipazione, Battei, Parma, 2017.
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.
Assessment methods and criteria
Oral test
Other information
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