Subject
Introduction to Culture
- code 07833
- course 1
- term Semester 1
- type FB
- credits 6
Module: Humanities
Matter: Human and cultural development
Main language of instruction: Spanish
Teaching staff
Introduction
In the event that the health authorities announce a new period of confinement due to the evolution of
the health crisis caused by COVID-19, the teaching staff will promptly communicate how this may effect
the teaching methodologies and activities as well as the assessment.
La asignatura aborda algunas cuestiones introductorias para conocer y entender con mayor profundidad el hecho cultural. Desde una perspectiva antropológica, trataremos de explicar cuáles son sus elementos característicos reflexionando acerca de algunos fenómenos culturales del mundo moderno, cuya filiación nos permita entender mejor los ejes que vertebran la realidad contemporánea. De este modo, se introduce al estudiante en uno de los conceptos fundamentales del ámbito de las humanidades.
Competencies
- E01 - Ability to provide a humanistic/cultural vision to other sciences or methods.
- E03 - Ability to appropriately use key concepts in the area of culture.
- E04 - Ability to recognise and interpret cultural manifestations.
- E05 - Ability to evaluate social issues linked to cultural diversity.
- E06 - Awareness of and respect for different points of view resulting from cultural and social diversity.
- E07 - To acquire knowledge on the different issues and problems of current cultural debate and be aware of their constant change.
- E09 - To understand the limits and forms of intercultural communication.
- G02 - To lead, cooordinate and form part of interdisciplinary work teams.
- G03 - To search for and/or administer economic resources within the framework of an institution or company, or a cultural programmes, project or service.
- G05 - To act responsibly and produce high-quality, rigorous and efficient work that benefits society.
Evaluation systems and criteria
In person
Students will need to pass a partial exam about the reading books during the semester; this test will be monographic and will deduct content for the final exam if the average grade of the group exceeds seven. Otherwise it will enter again in the final. Their total value is 30% of the grade.
The final exam will be held at the end of the semester and its value is 50% of the final grade. The minimum score on this test will be 2; any lower rating will automatically prevent the student to enhance his average score with practice notes.
Class attendance, interventions with questions concerning the agenda and participation will generally be 10% of the final grade. Practices and work done in class or at home must be delivered without exception at the date and time agreed. If the student can't get to come to class at the time, the practice will have to be sent by mail in advance. The student will never be able to deliver it later. Its value will be 20% of the grade (class attendance, interventions with questions concerning the agenda and participation are included). Similarly, the non-attendance should always be notified in advance (in case of illness or unforeseen) and through proof when there is some kind of occasional incompatibility. Otherwise, it will be considered a serious offense. Any work, practice or general text containing foreign elements in the form of plagiarism (defined in this way any undocumented note, copies of previous work or reproduction without the relevant quote from a text internet) will be considered a very serious offense and will involve the automatic fail of the subject and the loss of the immediate convocation. Thus, the student will have to necessarily occur in the next call.
Bibliography and resources
- CHOZA, J., Filosofía de la Cultura. Editorial Thémata. Sevilla, 2013, 266 pp.
- GARCÍA AMILBURU, M.; “Cultura”, en FERNÁNDEZ LABASTIDA, Francisco – MERCADO, Juan Andrés (editores), Philosophica: Enciclopedia filosófica on line, URL: http://www.philosophica.info/archivo/2011/voces/cultura/Cultura.html
- LOMBARD, Jacques; Introducción a la etnología.
- MARINA, J.A. y RAMBAUD, J.; Biografía de la humanidad. Historia de la evolución de las culturas. Ariel, Barcelona, 2018.
- POLO, L.; Quién es el hombre. Un espíritu en el tiempo, Rialp, Madrid, 1998.
- SAN MARTÍN SALA, JAVIER, Teoría de la Cultura. Editorial Síntesis, Madrid, 1999, 317 pp.
- BLOOM, A., The Closing of the American Mind. (Hay versión en castellano: El cierre de la mente moderna, Plaza y Janés, 1989).
- FUMAROLI, M., El estado cultural, Acantilado, 2006.
- TOUTAIN, F., Imitación del hombre, Malpaso, 2020.
- SANDEL, M., Contra la perfección, Marbot, 2004.
- ELIOT, T. S., El bosque sagrado, Edit. Cuadernos de Langre, 2004
- BAUMAN, Z., Amor líquido; FCE, 2000.
- BAUMAN, Z., Vida de consumo; FCE, 2007.
- POSTMAN, Divertirse hasta morir; Ediciones la Tempestad, 2012
- LILLA, M., El regreso liberal, Debate, 2018.
- CONSTANT, B., La libertad de los modernos; Alianza, 2019.
- HAIDT, J. / LUKIANOFF, G., La transformación de la mente moderna; Deusto, 2019.
- PAGLIA, C., Feminismo, pasado y presente, Turner, 2016.
- MURRAY, D., La extraña muerta de Europa, Akal, 2019.
- KAISER, A., La neo inquisición, Deusto, 2020.
- HAIDT, J., La mente de los justos, Deusto, 2019.
- FERLOSIO, R., Non Olet, Destino, 2006.
Teaching and learning material
Material Austin Millán, T. Identidad cultural
austin,identidadcultural.pdf Bauman, Z. Liquid Love
baumanamorliquidoprologo,fce.pdf Bauman, Z. Cultura y construcción nacional
bauman,z.;lacultura,delaconstruccionnacionalalaglobalizacion.pdf Bauman, Z. La cultura en el mundo de la modernidad líquida
adelanto_la_cultura_en_el_mundo....pdf Bauman, Z. Tiempo puntillista
z.bauman,tiempopuntillistavidadeconsumo.pdf Bauman, Z., Tiempo puntillista
z.bauman,tiempopuntillistavidadeconsumo2.pdf Bauman, Z. Consuming Life
z.bauman,infraclasevidadeconsumo,fce1.pdf Cernuda, L., La realidad y el deseo
sielhombrepudieradecirl.cernuda.doc C. Geertz, La interpretación de las culturas
geertz,lainterpretaciondelasculturas.pdf Eliot, T.S., Tradition and the Individual Talent
tseliot,latradicionyeltalentoindividual.pdf Gadamer, H.G. Los dos tiempos
textosiyiipe,hum,gadamer,mongardini,sobreeltiempo.doc Gallego, V., Ofrecimiento (Santa deriva, 2002)
ofrecimientovicentegallego.doc Lanier, J., Contra el rebaño digital (cap. I)
j.lanier,contraelrebanodigitalcap.i.pdf Madame de Staël, El espíritu de partido
madamedestael,elespiritudepartido1796.pdf Pieper, J., El ocio y la vida intelectual (págs. 66-72)
elocioylavidaintelectualjosefpieper.pdf Postman, N. Amusing ourselves to death
n.postman,divertirsehastamorir[copiapdf].pdf Sahlins, M. Cultura y razón práctica
sahlins,marshall-culturayrazonpractica.contraelutilitarismoenlateoriaantropologica.pdf Sandel, M., Against Perfection
contralaperfeccion-michaelj.sandel.pdf Sandel, M., Contra la perfección (p. 36, final cap. I)
m.sandel,contralaperfeccionp.36,finalcap.i.pdf Sellés, J. F. Del yo personal al yo cultural
selles,delyoculturalalyopersonal.pdf Sennett, R. La tecnificación del hombre y el nuevo capitalismo
bloqueii.r.sennett,latecnificaciondelhombreyelnuevocapitalismo.doc Spaemann, R. Naturaleza y cultura
spaemann,naturalezaycultura.pdf Tema I, Definiciones de cultura
bloquei.definicionesdecultura.doc Vargas Llosa, M. Breve discurso sobre la cultura
vargasllosa;brevediscursosobrelacultura.docx Yepes, R., Cultura y antropología
yepes,s.;culturaenfundamentosdeantropologia.pdf Websites BBC (E. Bernays) The century of the self, Happiness machines
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HegxAEcNCso&t=188s E. Bernays y la publicidad, Antorchas de la libertad
https://www.revistagq.com/noticias/sexo/articulos/si-es-mujer-y-fuma-eduard-es-el-culpable/16822 El tiempo se nos va de las manos (El País)
https://elpais.com/elpais/2017/05/05/ciencia/1493985563_657372.html Erice, V. Lifeline (Ten minutes older)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJkM3cAv9bk Haidt, J, The Coddling of the American Mind
https://www.elmundo.es/papel/lideres/2019/10/01/5d92416121efa0f0458b458e.html La multitarea y los medios digitales
https://www.investigacionyciencia.es/noticias/la-multitarea-con-medios-digitales-altera-la-memoria-incluso-en-adultos-jvenes-19214 Lanier, J., Contra el rebaño digital, un manifiesto
https://elpais.com/diario/2011/12/31/babelia/1325293949_850215.html Modern Times (Ch. Chaplin, 1936)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAPilyrEzC4 Sobre los nativos digitales
https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-54554333 Tiempo: el culto a estar ocupado
https://hipertextual.com/2014/11/culto-a-estar-ocupado Tiempo libre y tiempo vacío
https://elpais.com/elpais/2014/04/09/icon/1397055895_587211.html