Titel:
European identity in the European Union: Focus on intercultural communication, language and gender

Fakultät:
fachbereichsübergreifende Lehrveranstaltungen

Semester:
Winter 2017

VeranstalterIn:
Anné Kupila

Termin:
Mi., 18.10.2017 (10:00-16:00 Uhr); Mi, 08.11.2017; Mi., 22.11.2017; Mi., 10.01.2018 (je 12:00-14:00 Uhr)

Ort:
S06 S00 B08

Studiengang:
Institut für Optionale Studien (IOS)

Zielgruppe:
Methoden-, Selbst- und Sozialkompetenz (E1)

Kommentar:
The course will be conducted in the Internet-based learning platform Moodle and in local study groups. The course will be organised at both local and international levels so that there will be mixed groups.
The course examines, how ideas of European identity are created, reinforced and modified. This question will be studied from different viewpoints and time periods. The focus will be on the questions of intercultural communication, language and politics. Students will learn to use key concepts concerning European identity...

- Language has always played a major role in people's determination to create and maintain their identity. In the 20th century problems of language, meaning and interpretation dominated the fields of philosophy, history and social science. In the phase "Language in the formation of identity" students will deepen their understanding of the concepts of identity by the meanings and uses of language in the formation and reinforcement of identity. The topics will cover some basic elements of linguistic identity.
- The purpose of the Gender and Identities in European History theme is to deepen the understanding of how gender has formed collective identities in Europe, whether or not we are referring to gender in the biological sense or as a social and cultural construction of gender. In what way has the existence of gender conceptions shaped collective identities in different cultural settings.
- We will also examine the construction of religious identity as a means of enforcing a collective identity against an "other", as well as the way in which religious identities serve either as an instrument to facilitate the co-existence of several religions, ethnicities, and other minorities, or as an obstacle to efforts at integration.