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Study programmes 2010-2011Last update : 11/04/2011
ANTH0012-1  Intercultural relations and acculturation processes
Duration :  30h Th
Credits/ECTS :  
Master in French and Romance Languages and Literatures : French as a Second Language, Professional Focus, 1st yearFirst semester4
Master in Information and Communication, Professional Focus in Journalism, 1st yearFirst semester4
Master in Information and Communication, Professional Focus in Cultural Mediation and Book-related Professions, 1st yearFirst semester4
Master in Psychological Sciences, in-depth approach, 2nd yearFirst semester3
Master in Psychology, professional focus in social, work and organizations psychology, 2nd yearFirst semester3
Master in Psychology, Professional Focus in Clinical Psychology : Psychotherapeutic Process and Change, 2nd yearFirst semester3
Master in Psychology, Professional Focus in Clinical Psychology : Cognitive-Behavioural Psychotherapeutic Approach, Clin, 2nd yearFirst semester3
Master in Psychology, Professional Focus in Cognitive and Behavioural Neurosciences, 2nd yearFirst semester3
Holder(s) :  Chris Paulis
Language :  French language
Course contents :  Theme: it is when different cultures encounter one another that adaptive processes are put into place, ranging from the greatest integration to the deepest rejection. Demands for identity, resistance and exchanges, in social structures and cultural practices allow both the limits and the flexibility of cultures to be understood.
The main subject covered changes each year.
Study subject: discoveries, conquests, colonies, the media, tourism, exile, working abroad, immigration, ethnic diversity as well as gender, normalities and abnormalities established since the dawn of time, development strategies, models of communication, recognition and protection between different cultural groups and at all levels and in all sociocultural systems. These are the theoretical and empirical terms which are studied during this course. Representations are an important basic concept in analysis.

Reference works:
-reference works - thematic
- list distributed or dictated during the first classes

Class methods:
- theory (classes, publications)
- empirical (experiments) individual work, diverse experiments
- active student participation
- work on documents
- compulsory conferences
- conferences and debates (within and outside class)

Running theme 2009-2010: men and women in a process of interculturalisation 2008-2009: group memory
Course objective :  - theory: the study of a research method which is specific to a discipline (social anthropology), research and design, understanding intercultural modalities, either differentiated or gender-specific, work on the subject/object, relationship with the other, interculturality.
- empirical: understanding of the subject, encountering a different 'other', individual positioning, distancing, critical reading of the sociocultural construction of representations and roles.
Organization :  See http://cipl82.philo.ulg.ac.be/horaires
Assessment :  Active participation - written work, prerequisite for the oral examination.
- an oral exam at the end of the year Written work:
methods will be explained during the first class, and will be explained again at every session and upon student request.
Contacts :  Replacement lecturer Chris Paulis, head of research, Department for Information and Communication Faculty of Philosophy and the Arts, Place du 20 Août, 7, Building A-1, ULg, 4000 Liège Tel. 04/366 33 30 E-mail: C.Paulis@ulg.ac.be Surgeries adjusted each year (not during the holidays) Secretariat Anne-Marie d'Acchille Tel. 04 366 32 79
Remarks :  Attendance at classes is compulsory.
Eating, drinking and smoking are forbidden in class as is the use of mobile phones, personal stereos, computers etc.


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