Teaching Workshop

The workshop aims to present the main authors and research in the field of cultural anthropology on the process of globalization and the consequent intercultural dynamics of contemporary societies. The workshop will allow students to get analytical tools in order to: apprehend today's
globalized and multicultural societies; acquire an array of concepts and a scientific lexicon in order to be able to critically think and talk about some key phenomena, as: the new migration flows, the globalization of culture and communication flows, transnationalism, the processes of "homologation" and hybridization.

The workshop aims to develop the following skills:

Critical thinking skills:
By the end of the workshop, students will display a sufficiently independent critical approach in selecting and interpreting the notions that are most relevant their area of study and to the broader socio-cultural context in which they operate

Communication skills:
By the end of the workshop:
- students will be able to effectively communicate the acquired knowledge and disseminate it to the general public;
- student will have developed basic IT skills concerning knowledge preservation and transfer.

Learning skills:
By the end of the workshop, students will have developed the learning skills required to continue their studies in keeping with their own research interests. In order to meet this objective, students will also develop relevant skills in the independent interpretation of sources and in the use of basic IT tool for bibliographic research.