Optional subject: International communication in the context of cultural epochs - ZIP 3224-PRZEDF26
The aim of the course is to show the interdependence of communication, journalism and the development of cultural and political life in Ancient India and China, the Antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, etc. After completing the course, students will be aware of the logical correlation between communication and culture: basic assumptions and cultural customs determine the forms and functions of communication, and the forms and functions of communication determine the development of culture. Individual aspects of this correlation are discussed through the prism of major historical events (Reformation, English Revolution, American Revolution, French Revolution, Spring of Nations ...), which expressed not only political but also communicative and cultural postulates.
During the course, the students develops their research skills, learns to acquire knowledge independently, using the support of a research tutor.
This course covers the following topics:
1. Culture as a space where new ideas appear.
2. Specifics of communication and formation of consciousness in the culture of the Ancient China.
3. Axiology of communication in Ancient India; glorification of the word power as a main topic of Vedas. “Let noble thoughts come to you from all directions” (Vedas) as an example of communicative openness to the world.
4. Dialogue as a way of contacting and thinking in Ancient Greece.
5. Theory and practice of oratory, Plutarch's story journalism, Herodotus’s reportage and Socrates's method as a manifestation of the ancient Greece’s communicative culture.
6. The purpose of the rhetoric according to Plato.
7. Communication in Ancient Rome.
8. Rhetorical formula of Cicero.
9. Communication in the Middle Ages: monologism, minnesang as a peculiar form of metaphorical publicism.
10. Communication in the Renaissance. Dante’s and Petrarch’s tractates as a significant stage in the evolution of journalism from the Middle Ages to the new times. Word as a synonym for culture, knowledge and charity.
11. The work of humanists as a very valuable tool for future journalism (expanding the arsenal of arguments, modeling of conceptual articles, essays, enrichment of dialogical form of thinking).
12. Influence of Enlightenment on communication. The appearance of the first newspapers. Shaping the principles of Western culture by the journalism of English, American and French revolutions. Rhetoric of the French Revolution.
13. The nineteenth century as the Press's Golden Age. Spring of Nations and journalism in Central and Eastern Europe. The beginnings of the mass press.
14. The influence of modernism on communication. Journalism and postmodernism. Crisis of macrotext.
15. The place of culture in the post-idea world, which was born simultaneously with the social networks.
Student workload:
Participation in classes in the classroom - 30 hours (1 ECTS)
Preparation for classes - 15 hours (0.5 ECTS)
Preparation to course credit - 15 hours (0.5 ECTS)
Mode
Bibliography
Bajka Z., Historia mediów, Kraków 2008.
Wolert W., Szkice z dziejów prasy światowej, Kraków 2005.
Winniczuk L., Ludzie, zwyczaje, obyczaje Starożytnej Grecji i Rzymu, Warszawa 1983.
Hudzik J.P., Wykłady z filozofii mediów, Warszawa 2017.
Thomson O. Historia propagandy, Warszawa, 2001.
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