Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Cultural Studies and Modern Languages: an Introduction
This online course explored eight countries by looking at some of the slogans, books, monuments and images which emerged from them over different historical periods.
4 weeks, 3 hours per week
Gloria Visintini
Language Director (Technology Enhanced Learning)
University of Bristol
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Develop knowledge of several cultures
- Acquire familiarity with different types of cultural sources
- Gain a methodology on how to understand and read cultures
- Improve research, analytical and writing skills
- Enhance the ability to learn from peers
- Collaborate and comment on peers' work
Syllabus
Slogans: Franco Basaglia’s La libertà è terapeutica; Dolores Ibárruri’s ¡No pasarán!; Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’s Proletarier aller Länder, vereinigt euch!
Books: Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables; Dante’s Inferno; Ladislav Fuks’s The Cremator
Monuments: The Holocaust Memorial; The Obelisk of Luxor; The Bronze Horseman
Images: Bouabdellah’s video artwork ‘Belly Dancing to the Marseillaise: French Identity in Video Art’; Shepherd’s map of the Habsburg Empire; The Quauhquechollan’s cloth painting
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Issued on 15th December 2017
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