The Rights and Cultures course aims to provide conceptual tools to penetrate relationship between rights and cultures and and to acquire an appropriate cultural sensibility to deal with the difficult tasks of the intercultural mediation, in order to start virtuous paths of consolidating the social bond in respect of the 'otherness'.
Further objective is to raise awareness about complexity relationship between rights and cultures spills in the recognition of human rights.

First part.

The course starts with analysis of the complex concept of 'Otherness' to continue with observation of law that it is considered as a cultural fact and rooted in human relationships, cultural or societal. 

Second part.

The program will continue within the field of "rights and cultures", taking a particular account  human rights in the current context, characterized by cultural and legal pluralism, interlegality, informal law.

Learning outcomes:

knowledge and understanding

1. knowledge and understanding of the complex relationship between Otherness and social bond
2. knowledge and understanding of the original relationship between law and social bond
3. knowledge and understanding of the categories of cultural and legal pluralism, interrelationships, no-law
4. Understanding the difficulty of reconciling law, rights and cultures
5. knowledge and understanding of the relapse of the difficult relationship between law, rights and cultures in affirmation and recognition of human rights.

applying knowledge and understanding

1. Ability to declare in the relational context a correct interpretation of the otherness
2. ability to recognize the context of application of the categories learned of cultural and legal pluralism, interrelationships, no-law
3. ability to report the theoretical problematic of the relationship to a mediation and juridical context
4. ability to interpret and communicate the gap between expectations of rights and the formal recognition of rights

making judgements

1. Ability to employ critically the acquired knowledge
2. ability to independently evaluate concrete situations and empirical cases (even simulated)
3. Ability to overcome the ideological rhetoric that shakes the claim of human rights

communication skills

1. Ability to communicate the acquired knowledge in a clear, essential and scientifically correct way

learning skills

1. Ability to learn with autonomy and critical meaning

The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it

Materials from lectures and others materials to support individual study will be free avalaible in the blended-learning platform.

Teaching

Lectures, Working class

Attendance

Frequency. Active participation. 

Individual study is scheduled for at least 114 hours, equivalent to 19 hours per CFU. Eventual absences of lessons will have to be retrieved with an integration of individual study.

Course books

Required texts:

F. Jullien, Contro la comparazione. Lo scarto e il tra. Un altro accesso all'alterità, Mimesis, Milano 2014.

R. Cammarata, L. Mancini, P. Tincani, (a cura di), Diritti e culture. Un'antologia critica, Giappichelli, Torino 2014.

Optional texts:

Materials from lectures and others materials to support individual study that will be free avalaible in the blended-learning platform.

Assessment

Expected learning outcomes will be evaluated through oral interviews. Except for exceptional cases, the oral test provides four questions, each of which will be checked to see if the candidate has achieved the expected learning outcomes.

The expected learning results will be evaluated by means of an oral exam, based on three questions or more. The evaluation criteria and the scale of marks are as follows:

• less than 18/30: competence level insufficient. The student doesn’t reach the learning results described in “knowledge and understanding”.
• 18-20: competence level sufficient. In particular, the student attains the learning results described in “knowledge and understanding”.
• 21-23: competence level satisfactory. In particular, the student attains the learning results described in “knowledge and understanding” and in “applied knowledge and understanding”.
• 24-26: competence level good. In particular, the student attains the learning results described in “knowledge and understanding”, “applied knowledge and understanding” and “making judgments”.
• 27-29: competence level very good. In particular, the student attains the learning results described in “knowledge and understanding”, “applied knowledge and understanding”, “making judgments” and “communication skills”.
• 30-30 with honours: competence level excellent. The student fully attains the learning results described in “knowledge and understanding”, “applied knowledge and understanding”, “making judgments” and “learning skills”.

Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)

Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.

To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.

Teaching

Non-attending students are required to complete all the parts scheduled through the individual study.

Attendance

The study of the required texts must be thorough and aim at achieving the expected learning outcomes.

The expected individual study is at least 150 hours, or 25 hours per CFU.

Course books

Required texts:

F. Jullien, Contro la comparazione. Lo scarto e il tra. Un altro accesso all'alterità, Mimesis, Milano 2014.

R. Cammarata, L. Mancini, P. Tincani, (a cura di), Diritti e culture. Un'antologia critica, Giappichelli, Torino 2014.

Optional texts

Materials from lectures and others materials to support individual study that will be free avalaible in the blended-learning platform.

Assessment

Expected learning outcomes will be evaluated through oral interviews. Except for exceptional cases, the oral test provides three questions, each of which will be checked to see if the candidate has achieved the expected learning outcomes.

The expected learning results will be evaluated by means of an oral exam, based on three questions or more. The evaluation criteria and the scale of marks are as follows:

• less than 18/30: competence level insufficient. The student doesn’t reach the learning results described in “knowledge and understanding”.
• 18-20: competence level sufficient. In particular, the student attains the learning results described in “knowledge and understanding”.
• 21-23: competence level satisfactory. In particular, the student attains the learning results described in “knowledge and understanding” and in “applied knowledge and understanding”.
• 24-26: competence level good. In particular, the student attains the learning results described in “knowledge and understanding”, “applied knowledge and understanding” and “making judgments”.
• 27-29: competence level very good. In particular, the student attains the learning results described in “knowledge and understanding”, “applied knowledge and understanding”, “making judgments” and “communication skills”.
• 30-30 with honours: competence level excellent. The student fully attains the learning results described in “knowledge and understanding”, “applied knowledge and understanding”, “making judgments” and “learning skills”.

Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)

Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.

To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.

The student can request to sit the final test in English with an alternative bibliography.