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Teaching methodology

The Jean Monnet Module on the European Culture(s), Citizenship(s) and Governance” is  taught with a methodology balancing residential and distant learning through the help of open source e-learning platform throughout one academic year.

The course is based on lecturing, class discussion and distant deepening of the topics treated in class. More specifically, the teachers will strongly encourage the development of a critical mind-set. Students will be invited to examine and deepen selected issues through topical reading and analysis. Debates will be encouraged amongst the students of the course.

Rather than an exclusively ex-cathedra course, the teacher will assume, whenever possible and in relation to the specific theme treated a facilitator and enabling role. Their different cultural, academic and professional backgrounds (also in relation to their involvement in EU related projects and activities) will constitute for the students a precious added value.

An interactive online learning environment will be put in place to structure the lectures and class presentations. It will also serve as a basis to guarantee ongoing monitored discussion on the issues dealt with.

The residential courses will be taught in different residential slots by the faculty and visiting teachers.

The first residential slot with visiting teachers will take place at the beginning of the course, the second after a period of distant deepening of the debate and research period.

The students will meet the visiting teachers a total of two times during the length of the course (first residential slot, second residential slot) and will be able to constantly interact with the faculty staff. They will be able to count on the constant presence of the academic coordinator and co-coordinator throughout the all length of the course. 

The module will make a wide use of multidisciplinary (institutional as well as academic) sources ranging from books and manuals to institutional texts and political papers.

Given the rapid evolution of the field and of the related policies and actions, the Web will represent also a valid source of information. This is true especially for the info available on Server Europa that will be a valid source for the history of the European Union, the EU decision making process, the ongoing and past initiative in the fields of culture and citizenship as well as the main loci created through ad hoc and co-financed projects and institutional actions on involving the citizens into the governance of the EU. This also serves the scope of letting the students familiarise themselves with Server Europa and with the process of searching and retrieving EU related information.

The bibliographical reference list provided in references gives an idea of the wide variety of sources, which will support the teaching of the module.