Identity(-ies)

6 ECTS credits
150 h study time

Offer 1 with catalog number 1020819ANW for working students in the 2nd semester at a (A) Bachelor - preliminary level.

Semester

2nd semester

Enrollment based on exam contract

Impossible

Grading method

Grading (scale from 0 to 20)

Can retake in second session

Yes

Enrollment Requirements

NOTE: registration for this course is only possible for working students. Day students can register for courses whose code ends with an R. At Inschrijven / studentenadministratie@vub.be you must be registered at the VUB as a working student for the current academic year.

Taught in

Dutch

Faculty

Faculty of Languages & Humanities

Department

History, Archaeology, Arts, Philosophy and Ethics

Educational team

Marc Van Den Bossche (course titular)

Activities and contact hours

26 contact hours Lecture
30 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals
130 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study

Course Content

This course discusses some themes that are important in contemporary cultural philosophy, but also play a role in public debate today: identity, diversity, community, cosmopolitanism, pluralism, religion, and decoloniality are the central themes discussed. The course begins with the question of the role of imagination in bringing about thinking about and dealing with identity and diversity. The course shows that a purely Eurocentric view can no longer suffice to understand and do justice to the complexity of contemporary debates. Authors covered: Charles Taylor, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Walter Mignolo, Gloria Anzaldua, Fatima Mernissi, Boaventura de Sousa Santos and others.

Course material

Digital course material (Required) : Slides en eigen lesnotities, Canvas
Digital course material (Required) : De docent stelt teksten ter beschikking

Additional info

Learning Outcomes

General competencies

The student can use the philosophical tools provided by the course to think critically about contemporary philosophical problems.

Grading

The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Oral Exam determines 50% of the final mark.
SELF Paper determines 50% of the final mark.

Within the Oral Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:

Oral exam with a relative weight of 1 which comprises 50% of the final mark.

Note: In de vakgroepen uit L&W (Wijsbegeerte/Moraalwetenschappen, Communicatiewetenschappen)wordt deze cursus mondeling ondervraagd.

Within the SELF Paper category, the following assignments need to be completed:

Paper with a relative weight of 1 which comprises 50% of the final mark.

Note: Studenten wijsbegeerte dienen bovendien een scriptie in te leveren over één van de behandelde thema's.

Additional info regarding evaluation

The 4 ECTS version of this course involves an oral examination. Three questions are asked, one counting for 10 points, two for 5 points. For the 10-point question students need to prepare an oral presentation based on their own reading on one or a couple of the themes discussed.

The 6 ECTS version of this course requires students to write a paper of min. 4000 and max. 5000 words. At the exam, this paper counts for 10 points, and is briefly discussed. Apart from this, two questions for 5 points are also asked. Without submission of the paper, the student cannot enter the exam. De deadline is the Sunday that follows that last session of the second semester. The paper can only be submitted via e-mail to the lecturer (not on paper).

Allowed unsatisfactory mark

The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.

Academic context