DEAF CULTURE 2 MOD. 2

The course is part of the Cultural and Literature path within the degree in Languages, Civilizations and Language Sciences and aims to provide students with research methods to know directly and in the field the complexity of the deaf community and the deaf culture, this to complete the three years of study carried out.
The course aims to develop the knowledge of the Deaf Community through a field approach and the use of quality social research techniques.
The course aims to make students autonomous in identifying topics of central concern to the Italian Deaf Community, investigating some sensitive issues in order to describe the evolution and the instances of changing.

1. Knowledge and understanding

The student knows how to deepen the socio-anthropological qualitative research methodologies by knowing how to apply to the specific characteristics of the deaf community and to the Sign Language.
The student knows the various technologies useful to such research, such as the preparation of accessible audiovisual material.
The student knows the Deaf people through field research starting from their individual stories to understand the historical and social values and to be able to argue from a sociolinguistic and cultural point of view.

2. Applying knowledge and understanding

The student is able to set up a research project and choose the most appropriate methodologies to investigate the main features of the Deaf Culture
The student is able to understand the historical and educational value emerging from the Deaf Community's stories.

3. Making judgements:

The student will be able to recognize and report with appropriate historical and social reflections and by arguing with concrete examples, the biographical contributions emerged from the encounter with the Deaf Community.

4. Communication skills:

The student is able to to interact as a researcher/interviewer with the memebers of the Deaf Community using their own cultural and linguistic skills.
The student is able to explain with terminological and arguable properties through the use of accessible audiovisual material both in Italian and in the Italian Sign Language, the outcomes of the field research and the encounter with the Deaf community.


5. Learning skills:

The student is able to take notes.
The student is able to select bibliographic sources and electronic resources in the field of Deaf Culture.
The student is able to apply these skills to subsequent studies to stay up to date and connected to the deaf community.

The student is required to have passed the course of Deaf Culture 1
The student is required to have passed the course of Deaf Culture 2 if attending Deaf Culture 3.

• Methodological in-depth analysis on social research applied to the Deaf community and writing of a research project
• Field research encountering the Deaf Community
• How to make an audiovisual product accessible in Italian and in Italina Sign Language
• Analyze the Deaf Culture through the Deaf Gain concept
• The emancipation of the italian and international Deaf Communities and the concept of disabilities
• Biographies and Life stories of Deaf people
• In-depth analysis of the different artistic expressions typical of the national and international Deaf Communities like visual arts, poetry, storytelling, theater and movies

To purchase texts and other materials please wait the start of the lessons.

- Zaghetto A. (a cura di) Nuove prospettive sulla produzione artistica in Lingua dei Segni Italiana (LIS), Perugia, Guerra Edizioni, 2013.
- Russo Cardona T., Volterra V. (a cura di), Le lingue dei segni. Storia e Semiotica, cap. 5.

One choice between:
- Wirth R. con Ruggeri C., Il silenzio è stato il mio primo compagno di giochi. La mia storia vera., Newton Compton, 2015.
- Milani G., "Sordo troppo presto", Pluriversum Edizioni, 2018.
- Avati T. "Il silenzio del mondo", NeriPozza, 2022
- Mottinelli M. "Non ti sento ma ti ascolto", Armando Editore 2021

Other articles and material will be available online.

ADDITIONAL TEXTS FOR NON-ATTENDED STUDENTS
Please contact the teacher
- Mottinelli M. "Non ti sento ma ti ascolto", Armando Editore 2021
One choice between:
- Wirth R. con Ruggeri C., Il silenzio è stato il mio primo compagno di giochi. La mia storia vera., Newton Compton, 2015.
- Milani G., "Sordo troppo presto", Pluriversum Edizioni, 2018.
- Avati T. "Il silenzio del mondo", NeriPozza, 2022

The examination involves two parts: i) a group or individuale research consisting in interviewing deaf people, a paper and an accessible 10-15 minute film presented in class and sent to the teacher beforehand,ii) an oral examination aiming at verifiyng the understanding of the required books, the contents discussed during the course and the ability to express the logical connections between the various experiences lived by the members of the Deaf Community.
The final score will be composed for 1/2 by the result of the group work and for 1/2 by the result of the oral part

Those attending Deaf Culture 2 will follow the mod. 1

Lectures and use of audiovisual materials.

Italian

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