Course Topics
Concept of Culture - Society - Sociology - Community - Multiculturalism - Power - Social reality and mediated reality - Coexistence between cultures - Dynamic arts, community and symbolic imagery: theatre as a tool and metaphor for society.

Teaching format
Frontal lectures and classroom presentations by students on topics related to the course and agreed with the lecturer.

Educational objectives
The first part of the course provides the basics of sociology as a theoretical and field research discipline through studies and research of the classics; the second part focuses specifically on issues of sociology of culture in relation to the economic-political context. The expected learning outcomes are as follows: Disciplinary skills: Knowledge and ability to conceptually distinguish between culture, civilisation, social structure, aesthetics. Broad knowledge of the development of Western culture. Knowledge and understanding: Knowledge of the main sociological theories on culture and analysis of cultural phenomena in the light of classroom work. Society and culture: implications for coexistence. Assimilation of key concepts for understanding modern and contemporary culture. Ability to develop small field studies on cultural issues with a sociological slant Transversal/soft skills: interpretation of cultural phenomena in the broader context of politics and economics. Development of Autonomy of judgement and critical skills based on acquired knowledge Communication skills Through lectures, small research papers and/or summaries may be required to be presented in the classroom; students are expected to develop adequate terminology and a good level of abstraction in both written and oral expression. Learning ability: to reach a fair level of intellectual autonomy such as to be able to choose different sources of information to explore a certain topic in a scholarly manner and to continue to increase one's skills. The course requires language skills in Italian and English.

Assessment
Examination methods by which the achievement of the expected learning outcomes will be ascertained: Intermediate elements of assessment during the course are: participation in the classroom; preparation of a presentation on an in-depth topic chosen together with the lecturer (if required) + final written exam as a reworking of the experience and contents of the course. During class, students can only use the computer as a notebook, i.e. in offline mode. For non-attenders, an individual final paper is required to be submitted 20 days before the examination date on a topic to be agreed with the lecturer.

Evaluation criteria
Awarding of a single mark by written final examination. Criteria for awarding the grade - The following are considered and assessed in the written test: knowledge of the topics covered, relevance, clarity of argument, ability to analyse critically, ability to rework, reflection and ability to use appropriate terminology. - For the individual thesis, the thematic choice, the ability to coordinate the material collected, the sources, the relevance, the clarity of the argumentation, the property of language and the argumentative capacity of the same in the oral examination are assessed.