Checking date: 25/03/2019


Course: 2019/2020

Policies of diversity
(18380)
Bachelor in Cultural Studies (Plan: 435 - Estudio: 364)


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Department assigned to the subject: Humanities: Philosophy, Language, Literature Theory Department

Type: Compulsory
ECTS Credits: 6.0 ECTS

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Description of contents: programme
The subject is devoted to knowing the different aspects involved in the governance of a multicultural society. The syllabus deals with the legal and daily questions concerning the coexistence among different ways of life and diverse mental and physical capacities. The subject covers a descriptive dimension, concerning the various modalities of multiculturalism in contemporary societies, and a normative dimension that affect to the legal and political options of coping with the multiculturalism. 1. Modern societies as multicultural societies: processes of migration and urban transformations. 2. Human rights and cultural diversity. 3. Visible and invisible forms of cultural discrimination. 4. The queer perspective as an analysis of the cultural diversity. 5. Controversies on the functional (menta, physiological) diversity. 6. Migrations, diaspora, and exile as contemporary conditions. 7. Cultural hybridization.
Assessment System
  • % end-of-term-examination 60
  • % of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 40

The course syllabus may change due academic events or other reasons.