- Docente: John Patrick Leech
- Credits: 6
- SSD: L-LIN/12
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Forli
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Intercultural and Linguistic Mediation (cod. 8059)
Learning outcomes
Course contents
The course will include a series of lectures on the following topics:
- the past, memory and the construction of identity (with particular reference to the "heritage" movement in Britain);
- different museum types and the appropriate communicative strategies for each;
- text types in museum communication;
- the problem of the audience in museum
communication;
- the translation of museum texts;
- museum web sites.
The course will also include a series of seminars with student
participation and the analysis of case studies.
Readings/Bibliography
Hooper-Greenhill, Eilean, The Educational role of the museum, 1999.
Hooper- Greenhill, Eilean, Museums and the Shaping of Knowledge, 1992
Burcaw, G. Ellis, Introduction to Museum Work, 1997
Ambrose, Timothy, Museum Basics, 2007
Sherman David and Rogoff, Irit, Museum culture, 1994
Teaching methods
Lectures and seminars with student participation.
Assessment methods
Oral exam based on a discussion of texts on museum communication
and an analysis of the communicative strategies of a museum chosen
by the student in consulation with the lecturer.
Teaching tools
Video, internet, power point, visite ed analisi di musei
locali.
Office hours
See the website of John Patrick Leech