Teaching Workshop: Philosophy Workshop in the Prison of Bollate 1
A.Y. 2024/2025
Learning objectives
The workshop aims to provide students to address conceptual nodes that have been at the center of the history of Western thought inserted in a multidisciplinary perspective. Students will join a dialogue with other participants from the prison, through a method that recalls the disputed issues typical of medieval scholasticism, as an examination of the arguments for and against the possible solution of the problem.
Expected learning outcomes
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.
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.
Lesson period: Activity scheduled over several sessions (see Course syllabus and organization section for more detailed information).
Single course
This course cannot be attended as a single course. Please check our list of single courses to find the ones available for enrolment.
Course syllabus and organization
Single session
Responsible
Lesson period
First semester
Course syllabus
The aim of the workshop is to question the theme of personal identity. Who are we and what makes us who we are? Is there a constant element that distinguishes our identity? To what extent and how can we know who the other is? How much does each of us hide ourselves behind one or more masks?
Prerequisites for admission
No specific prerequisites
Teaching methods
The workshop involves continuous discussion on the topic with all participants, both campus students and incarcerated students, and the use of a strongly multidisciplinary approach
Teaching Resources
Reference material for each lesson will be provided to participants in photocopies; it will include a selection of philosophical texts, pieces of literature, poems and images of portraits
Assessment methods and Criteria
The 3 credits are obtained by attending at least 4/5 of the lectures. Students are asked to contribute materials with which to explore the workshop topic in more depth.
Laboratorio Professionalizzante
- University credits: 2
Humanities workshops: 20 hours
Professor:
Simonetta Stefano
Ricerca Bibliografica e redazione di un testo scientifico filosofico
- University credits: 1
Humanities workshops: 16 hours
[Seconda edizione]
Responsible
Lesson period
Second semester
Laboratorio Professionalizzante
- University credits: 2
Humanities workshops: 20 hours
Professor:
Guerri Maurizio Bruno
Ricerca Bibliografica e redazione di un testo scientifico filosofico
- University credits: 1
Humanities workshops: 16 hours
Professor(s)
Reception:
by appointment only
philosophy department
Reception:
every Monday, from 10 am to 1 pm
Department of Philosophy, first floor