VERY VERSILIA: Beyond Cinqueterre, Capturing Images in Italian Lyfestyle
VERY VERSILIA: Beyond Cinqueterre, Capturing Images in Italian Lyfestyle
LS SO CI 200 CULTURAL INTRODUCTION TO ITALY 1 CREDIT HOUR (45 lecture and field trips hours)
The study of the culture of Italy helps the student to acuire a deep awareness of both the cultural unit and diversity of the people of Italy. Majors themes of Italian Culture and thought are presented in historical contexts and brought to life through guided tours and visits to churches, synagogues, museums, palaces as well as other significant sites to understand presentday Italy.
The territory of Versilia (Lucca) covers an area of about 160 square kilometers on the northwestern coast of Tuscany. The cultural development and lifestyle of Versilia will be analyzed through lectures and site visits. The diversity of cultural patterns in different learning contexts home, school, work, media, gender relations, intercultural settings are described, analyzed and compared. How culture creates meaning for its members and how are values interpreted by immigrants, visitors, tourists.
New conditions for learning and present concerns (equality, immigration, the European dimension, globalization and sustainable development) create new lifestyles which are discussed within the framework of a multicultural society with its current problems and possibilities. The aim of the course is to teach students how to become active visitors and not passive tourists. How to learn from a culture and how to understand the deeper strata beyond stereotypes
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VERY VERSILIA: Beyond Cinqueterre, Capturing Images in Italian Lyfestyle
