Duration
30h Th
Number of credits
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit 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 intercultural space is variable, temporary or permanent, it is built by will or chance encounters, cultures and interests at stake
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.
Running theme :
2012-2013 : Codes, standards and interculturality
2011-2012 : Languages and interculturality
2010-2011 : Construction of intercultural conflict
2009-2010 : Men and women in a process of interculturalisation
2008-2009: Group memory
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
Objectives :
- 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.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
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)
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)
Works :
- reference works - thematic
- list districuted or dictated during the first classes
Recommended or required readings
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Assessment methods and criteria
- active participation
- written work, prerequisite for the oral examination.
- an oral exam at the end of the year Written
Written work :
methods will be explained during the first class, and will be explained again at every session and upon student request.
Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
Attendance at classes is compulsory.
Schedule : Tuesday from 2 pm to 4 pm
Remark : Eating, drinking and smoking are forbidden in class as is the use of mobile phones, personal stereos, computers etc.
Contacts
office 2/25A
Address : Department of the arts and sciences of communication, Faculty of Philosphy and Letters, Place du 20 Août, 7, Building A-1, ULg, 4000 Liège
Phone : 04/366 33 30
E-mail : C.Paulis@ulg.ac.be
There is someone on duty each year (not valid during holidays)