Institutions and Cultural Policies
Module: The keys to culture
Matter: Culture: concepts and basic experience
Main language of instruction: Catalan
Head instructor
Culture and its different expressions are an important part of the configuration of the identity of a person, a society and a people. Since after the Second World War, international institutions, civil authorities and private agents have seen the need to protect, promote and disseminate culture as a value that enriches people and is an integral part of their identity.
- Basic knowledge of the concept of culture and cultural domains.
- Concern to promote and disseminate culture.
The goal of this subject is to provide a broad overview of cultural policies and the design of agents and their recipients. At the same time, students will be provided with the tools to identify interests, needs and gaps in cultural groups and design a cultural policy at a preliminary level.
- Knowlege of the issues and problems of the current cultural debate on cultural policy.
- Analysis and synthesis of texts, reports, studies, and data on cultural policies.
- Capacity to criticise and have self-criticism on cultural policies.
- Capacity to make choices, solve problems and develop argued judgements on cultural policies.
- Work independently, with organisation and planning.
- Work successfully as a team, and have interpersonal and leadership skills.
- Work with ethical and social commitment, show respect for other cultures.
- Be creative, have initiative and entrepreneurship.
- Ability to work in an international context.
- Awareness of issues and problems of the current cultural debate, and awareness that they are under constant construction.
- Discern and understand the structures of cultural policies.
- Interpret data on cultural policies and relates them to the right theories.
- Identifies the elements of cultural heritage.
- Awarenes of the models and policies of different cultures and migrant groups.
- Ability to work in multicultural contexts.
- Skills to mediate in intercultural ennvironments.
- Defines issues of cultural inquiry that can contribute to innovation and improvement of cultural policies
- Relate concepts of heritage, territory and cultural identity.
- Enourage the cultural dimension as a resource in institutions, markets, industries.
The subject combines lectures, case studies, topical comments on cultural policies and an oral presentation of a team work.
The evaluation criteria will be as follows:
1. An essay about the Cultural Policy of a city. 30%
2. An essay about the Local Cultural Policy or privat institutions. 30%
3. Dosier of the course 30%
4. Participation class 10%
The final grade will be the average of the parcial marks
In this subject it is very inportant to make proper use of the language in the written tests, papers and oral presentations, both from the point of view of grammar and spelling and punctuation and wording. A proper use of terms specific to the discipline is also of special relevance.
The criteria to be followed before any of these errors is as follows: 0.25 will be lowered for misspelling or incorrect words in essays and exams.
2 Plagiarism is taking the ideas written by another person and presenting them as if they were one's ideas, without citing the author. Plagiarism (the term comes from the Latin word for 'kidnapping') is misleading and dishonest. Examples of plagiarism: copying, paraphrasing or summarizing someone's words without properly citing the source and without the quotation marks when citing is made.
To avoid plagiarism, you must cite the source whenever ideas written by another person are used and although the quotation is not literal and paraphrase or summarise someone else's ideas. In the literal or direct quotations one must use quotation marks and cite the source. In an academic work, it is not sufficient to state generally the literature used, but to explicitly mention the source where there ideas written by someone else come from
Plagiarism in written work of this subject is unacceptable and, therefore, any work in which plagiarism is committed will be evaluated with a zero.
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