| CODE | TTC1108 | ||||||
| TITLE | Maltese Cultural Identity | ||||||
| UM LEVEL | 01 - Year 1 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | ||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | ||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Institute for Tourism, Travel and Culture | ||||||
| DESCRIPTION | The study-unit will seek to explore the evolution of a Maltese ethnic peasant society and lifestyle, and national consciousness across time based primarily on the development of an urban culture, and the emergence of a Maltese polity including industrial and maritime aspects and its relevance to our tourism industry. Study-unit Aims: This study-unit will overview insightfully how an insular or national self-identity slowly arose over time and what came to characterize its lifestyle, value system/s, norms, associations and attachments, in rural, urban and regional contexts, including folklore and festival, religious and secular, economics and governance. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Evaluate what constitutes Maltese cultural identity as well as to identify and assess how it is lived, imagined and manifested in individual, collective and institutional contexts; - Evaluate the forces of ‘otherness’, including modernization, in nation-making and self-preservation, including the role played by collective memory. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to realize what national culture and identity mean and how these evolve and change over time. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: - B. Anderson, Imagined Communities, Verso, London, 1991. - C. Cassar, Society, Culture and Identity in Early Modern Malta. Mireva, Malta, 2000. - C. Cassar, A Concise History of Malta. Mireva, Malta 2000, 2002, 2000. - P. Connerton, How Societies Remember, C.U.P., Cambridge, 1989, 2000. - H. Frendo and O. Friggieri eds, Malta: Culture and Identity, Ministry for Justice and the Arts, Malta, 1994, 2000. - K. Gambin ed., Malta: Roots of a Nation , Heritage Malta, Malta, 2004, 2000. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture and Fieldwork | ||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Carmel Cassar James Sultana |
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The availability of optional units may be subject to timetabling constraints. Units not attracting a sufficient number of registrations may be withdrawn without notice. It should be noted that all the information in the description above applies to study-units available during the academic year 2023/4. It may be subject to change in subsequent years. |
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