Social Work

OBIETTIVI FORMATIVI To promote the critical understanding of theories, methodologies and research settings concerning cultural anthropology, historical anthropology and anthropology of development, with particular attention to the problems and the challenges of a globalized and multicultural world. The main goal is to allow students to acquire effective skills useful for the cultural analysis of social and local contexts; another main goal is addressed to enable students to use the anthropological knowledge professionally and in an interdisciplinary perspective. The course program is structured according to two itineraries: INTRODUCTION TO CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY: Understanding of theories and methodologies regarding cultural anthropology with specific reference to human rights; to promote an intercultural and interdisciplinary vision and to foster the safeguard of the community historical memory HUMAN RIGHTS AND SOCIAL POLICIES: The human rights will be faced from an intercultural perspective; a focus will be earmarked to the Italian Constitution and legislation, as well as for European and international declarations and conventions. These themes will be addressed through a series of meetings with scholars and experts of the international university group "European Citizenship and Mediterranean Identity" CEIM . Prof. Sonia Giusti and prof. Paolo Palmeri will be involved in the course related to historical and development anthropology. CONOSCENZE E COMPETENZE By the end of the course, the student will be able to: - know the theories and methodologies characterizing cultural anthropology and ethnographic practice: - possess good historical and cultural analysis skills of social and local contexts that are increasingly characterized as multicultural; - use anthropological knowledge in the context of future professional practice and graft them on the skills acquired in other disciplines; - expand its analysis and intervention tools that characterize its professional practice; - interpret the needs of the territories and carry out an analysis of the socio-cultural contexts in which it operates; - possess capacity for autonomy and judgment, communicate what has been learned and identify specific paths of knowledge regarding the issues and problems posed by the modern multicultural society in the context of further training and professional paths; - correctly use the concepts and methods of the anthropological discipline in an interdisciplinary perspective that allows to decode the elements that constitute the complex contemporary society and the social, historical, cultural, economic and political phenomena that determine it. - develop the skills of observation, decoding and interpretation of historical-cultural and socio-economic processes that occur in the contexts of daily life and in the realization of a fruitful intercultural dialogue.