Construction and Deconstruction of Culture and Communication
Course code
KOI7064.FK
old course code
Course title in Estonian
Kultuuri ja kommunikatsiooni konstrueerimine ja dekonstrueerimine
Course title in English
Construction and Deconstruction of Culture and Communication
ECTS credits
2.0
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
Outline of relevant cultural and literal aspects, methods and concepts for the analysis of intercultural communication.
Brief description of the course
1. Cultural Encounters in Films
2. Cultural Encounters in Literature
3. Constructing Culture Online
4. European Values – European Crises – an intercultural perspective from history and political science
2. Cultural Encounters in Literature
3. Constructing Culture Online
4. European Values – European Crises – an intercultural perspective from history and political science
Learning outcomes in the course
Upon completing the course the student:
- demonstrates a systematic understanding of the reconstruction and deconstruction of cultural identities in contemporary media;
- can reflect upon the shifting continuum between respecting the other (civility), protecting the stranger (hospitality) and fighting the other as an enemy (violence and enmity);
- can discuss how cultural heritage and tradition are (re)invented in contemporary discourse;
- is able to explore how otherness can be presented in social discourse and mediated communication;
- assesses approaches to interculturality from the point of view of semiotics, hermeneutic analysis and interpretivism;
- critically analyzes identitarian claims in diverse media corpora.
- demonstrates a systematic understanding of the reconstruction and deconstruction of cultural identities in contemporary media;
- can reflect upon the shifting continuum between respecting the other (civility), protecting the stranger (hospitality) and fighting the other as an enemy (violence and enmity);
- can discuss how cultural heritage and tradition are (re)invented in contemporary discourse;
- is able to explore how otherness can be presented in social discourse and mediated communication;
- assesses approaches to interculturality from the point of view of semiotics, hermeneutic analysis and interpretivism;
- critically analyzes identitarian claims in diverse media corpora.
Teacher
Claus Ehrhardt