Unit name | Destination Italy: Cultural Responses to Migration |
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Unit code | ITAL20032 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | I/5 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 1 (weeks 1 - 12) |
Unit director | Professor. Glynn |
Open unit status | Not open |
Units you must take before you take this one (pre-requisite units) |
None |
Units you must take alongside this one (co-requisite units) |
None |
Units you may not take alongside this one |
None |
School/department | Department of Italian |
Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
This unit explores cultural representations of migration and migrants to Italy, from the 1980s to the present. It situates those representations in relation to Italy’s rapid transition from a country of emigration to a net receiver of migrants, and to the ways in which the experience of migration to Italy has compelled the country to recognise and tackle its colonial past. It further addresses the role of migration in shaping and reshaping Italian identity over time.
The unit will be structured around the analysis of representations in three different media: news reports focussing on distinct migration ‘crises’; cinematic texts addressing the encounter between Italians and migrants; and literary texts by migrants and ‘new’ Italians, which ‘talk back’ to Italian understandings of migrants and migration.
The unit aims to:
This unit carries a piece of Formative assessment:
1 x 15-minute group presentation
By the end of this unit, students will be able to:
Teaching will be delivered through a combination of synchronous sessions and asynchronous activities, including seminars, lectures, and collaborative as well as self-directed learning opportunities supported by tutor consultation
1 x group presentation (30%). Testing ILOs 1,2, 3, and 5
1 x 2500-word essay (70%). Testing ILOs 1-5
1 x formative group news review (required to pass). Testing ILOs 1-4.
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How much time the unit requires
Each credit equates to 10 hours of total student input. For example a 20 credit unit will take you 200 hours
of study to complete. Your total learning time is made up of contact time, directed learning tasks,
independent learning and assessment activity.
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Assessment
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The Board considers each student's outcomes across all the units which contribute to each year's programme of study. If you have self-certificated your absence from an
assessment, you will normally be required to complete it the next time it runs (this is usually in the next assessment period).
The Board of Examiners will take into account any extenuating circumstances and operates
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