Course code

HIK6505.HT

old course code

HIK6505

Course title in Estonian

Identiteedid ja globaalsus

Course title in English

Identities and Globality

ECTS credits

4.0

Assessment form

Examination

lecturer of 2023/2024 Spring semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

lecturer of 2024/2025 Autumn semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

Course aims

To show different approaches from sociology, cultural studies, psychology, semiotics and social networks as possibilities to perceive identities on different levels.

Brief description of the course

The post-modern version of modernity creates a super-saturation of signs, in which, in order to orientate, one needs to interconnect with self and the surroundings. One of the results of this process is multiple identification, that will be systematically addressed during this course. A wide spectrum of identities will be questions from gender, nationality, ethnicity, geographical, cultural and political identities to cosmopolitan, virtual and cyber-space ones. The symbolic as well as practice-effect impacts will be distinguished and their place in globality addressed. In addition, the possible feedback of these formations into the dynamic structure of globality will be considered.

Learning outcomes in the course

Upon completing the course the student:
Knowledge on how identities are shaped and their meanings in the setting of vastly globalizing human world. Ability to understand ones own identity/ identities amidst others, differently formulated identities, ability to engage with others and the world.

Teacher

I.Tart

Study programmes containing that course

Theory of Culture (HIKTB/14.HT)
Theory of Culture (HIKTB/11.HT)
History (AIAJB/11.HT)
History (AIAJB/10.HT)
Theory of Culture (HIKTB/10.HT)
Theory of Culture (HIKTB/09.HT)
History (AIAJB/09.HT)
History (AIAJB/08.HT)
History (AIAJB/07.HT)
History (AIAJB/06.HT)
History (AIAJB/05.HT)
History (AIAJB/04.HT)
History (AIAJB/00.HT)