Learning objectives
A) Knowledge and understanding: the course aims at providing the student the ability to face cultural / religious difference and to manage the related profiles of legal relevance.
B) Knowledge and understanding skills applied:
At the end of the course, the student will have acquired the ability to recognize and treat cultural and religious difference from an epistemological and conceptual point of view;
to articulate the interpretative capacity of situations and legal cases characterized by cultural differences; apply the skills acquired to concrete cases, differentiated into
reason of the cultures and religions belonging to the subjects of law, in a creative way and with sufficient mastery of the exhibition techniques
C) Autonomy of judgment: the course aims at giving students the conceptual and categorical tools useful for a first qualification about the religious, political and social phenomena of the globalized world.
D) Communication skills: the course aims at providing the basic notions of categorization according to the religions understood as languages of contemporaneity
E) Ability to learn: the course aims aims at providing students with the basics to orient themselves in the world of media, and international cultural institutions, Italian so as to make them as independent as possible and objective about the analysis strategies and the judgments related to this complex and culturally distant reality
Prerequisites
None
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
Introduction of the course and the program: terminology and useful concepts: religion, culture, institutions.
Human Rights
Processes of Secularization
Legal Traditions of the world
Interculture and Institutional Pluralism
Bibliography
M. Ricca, Oltre Babele, Dedalo, Bari, 2008
+
G. Anello, Teologia linguistica e diritto laico, Mimesis, Milano, 2015
(or another book of the same author, in press)
Teaching methods
TActivities will take place online through the "Teams" and "Elly" platforms. Lessons will be held in both synchronous (via Teams) and asynchronous mode (uploaded on the Elly page of the course). During the lessons presentation by the professor will alternate with interactive moments with the students. To promote active participation in the course, individual and group activities will be planned, through the use of Elly
Assessment methods and criteria
A) Evaluation of attending students will be made during the course through written tests(short essays, project work, research reports, etc.) and at the end of the course through an on-line interview
B) Non attending students are expected to discuss arguments of the lessons considering the different blocks of issues. Students can begin the oral exam discussing a paper previously submitted by email to the professor.
The evaluation consists of an interview aimed at verifying the knowledge and concepts, the capability to express concepts and contents of the teaching, the interest in scientific investigation
Other information
none.
