HISTORY AND CULTURE OF THE AMERICAS FOR A JOURNALISTIC APPROACH
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- Students of a three-year degree course in Communication Sciences.
- Students of the Master's degree course in Communication Sciences and Techniques
- Debate in plenary
- First exercise: title of a journalistic article referring to in-depth information on the topics covered.
- Second exercise: Journalistic article referring to in-depth analysis on the topics covered.
Deepen the socio-political and cultural knowledge of the Americas, capable of interpreting the continental reality so geographically distant but so close to the history and culture of Europe and, at the same time, useful for a more careful journalistic writing.
The construction of the idea of "American Continent" between Anglo-Saxons and Latins in a global context between East and West to arrive at the Europe of America: these will be the first thematic approaches, together with a continental geopolitical gaze with a semantic revision in the journalist writing addressed to the Americas.
From Constantinople to Granada and, finally, to Guanahani, later baptized as San Salvador: a route that sanctioned the Treaty of Tordesillas in a conquest that did not discover America.
The creation of American Nations between Europeans and Amerindians through men and facts that marked continental history: Francisco de Miranda, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Simón Bolivar, José de San Martín, François-Dominique Toussaint Louverture, Benito Juárez and others.
Haiti (the first free nation of free men); United States of North America (the thirteen colonies): two stories that are intertwined with European history.
Cuba (Castro); Guatemala (Arbenz); Paraguay (López); Chile (Allende); Bolivia (Morales); Panama (Noriega); Argentina: (Perón); Brazil (Lula); Venezuela (Chávez): Pan-Americanism or Monroe Doctrine?
The seminar will be enriched with a look at the gastronomic culture, music and arts of the Americas: in a mix of cultural syncretisms between continental society and politics.
A detailed bibliography will be suggested on the side, if the student wants to deepen the issues addressed during the seminar.
- Studies and insights into historical cases related to contemporary news.
- Laboratory teaching.
- Exercise of journalistic texts.
The seminar SRORY AND CULTURE OF THE AMERICAS, FOR A JOURNALISTIC APPROACH, of 16 hours, will be carried out in 8 lessons of two hours per week each.