OVERVIEW

This short seminar aims at solicting the great variety of perspectives through which look at, analyze and narrate social phenomena. Through exercises of perspective it provides the istruments to build aeffective and creative narrations in different fields: communication, journalistic and editorial.

The xpedient of such exercise will be the sea: overcoming the geographical narration in favour of a hydrographic one and analizing critically the gorcentric perspective in favour of acquatic knowledge, from the Pacific Ocean to the Mediterranean, the seminar wil offer hints for practicing such flipping of perspective. «How inappropriate is», indeed,  «to call this planet Earth, when clearly is Ocean?» wonders the oceanographer Clarke (in Favole 2020). Indeed, «writing of history without putting inside some water is leaving something behind. The human experience has never been that dry» (Worster in Van Aken 2021:143). 

AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The seminar aims at training students to talk and write about social phenomena from different Agles and through different Actions (AngolAzioni), offering novel observation perspectives as much as as pratical instruments to organize the narration (editorial, comunication, journalistic world).  the perspective chosen to train such narration is the acquatic one, secondary and minoritarian as compared to the western geocentric and telluric thinking.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

Throught the direct participation of students, the seminar provides the rudimental instruments for the elaboration of a critical approach, non conventional, inclusive and decolonial. Thanks to class exercises, both in written and oral form, the folowing objectives wil be met:

1- Development of observative and interpretative skills 

2- Exercise of critical thinking on those social phenomena

3- Drafting of short texts and and of effective oral presentations

4- Capacity to recognize and size one's own abilities: concentration, critical thiniking on a specific matter or task, complexity management and autonomy in decision making

5- Capacity to develop one's own immagination and creativity, ciritical reflections, strategic thinking, problem solving, self-consciousness and capacity to transform ideas into acttions

PREREQUISITES

None

TEACHING METHODS

Classes will be held in the seminar mode.

Homework will be assigned day by day in order to stimulate debates, activate cooperative work and practice on flipped education.

Those participating to the seminar will be called to expose orally in class their researches, individualy or in groups, according to the Didactic by project modality.

The evaluation of the students is based on presence, active participation in class and the final written essay.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

The seminar is organized accoring to the following schedule:

1. First lesson. Barriers or hinges? Construction of critical and anti-ethnocentic gaze on land and sea
2. Second participatory class. From the Pacific Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea: Western and Eastern hydrographic and socio-ecologic perspectives
3. Third participatory class. The sea that you can't see: ecological contexts and cultures by comparison, from the Alps to the sea, between commercial trails of salt and anchovies and highland coral reefs 

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Readings will be recommended and assigned on the first day

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

GAIA COTTINO (President)

MARCO AIME

SALVATORE BRUNO BARBA (Substitute)

LESSONS

LESSONS START

Yet to be defined, April

Class schedule

The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

The final exam will consist in a written essay and it will average with the quality of class participation and home/cass exercises.

ASSESSMENT METHODS

Asessment is based on presence, active participation in class and the final written essay.

Exam schedule

FURTHER INFORMATION

For further information write to gaia.cottino@unige.it