Oriental languages and civilizations

The course aims to provide learners with basic transdisciplinary knowledge about the Tibetan culture at large. The educational objectives will be modulated in compliance with the Dublin descriptors and will be based on socio-anthropological, historical-artistic and philosophical- religious aspects characterizing the culture in question. The course is theoretical-cultural. It does not require knowledge of the Tibetan language. The teaching strategies related to the course will involve the transmission of methodological techniques for optimized organization of the relationship with the study, inspired by maieutic and heuristic principles supported by didactic material designed to facilitate independent study as well as future individual insights into the topics covered by the course. The activities capable of developing critical and informed judgment skills on the part of the learners, complementing the progressive didactic narrative, will consist of critical-analytical perusal of multimedia material, meetings with experts, conferences of scholars focused on specific topics, debates in class on agreed topics. At the end of the course, learners will be able to possess an informed and holistic critical knowledge of Tibetan culture, in line with the expectations indicated by the Didactic System and the Manifesto of the Course of Studies in Oriental Languages and Civilizations, which this teaching subject will further enrich in virtue of its uniqueness.