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Description

The Transnational/Inter-institutional Postgraduate Studies Programme (PSP) “Literary Citizenship, Public Sphere and Cultural Democracy” is a one-year course (60 ECTS), taught exclusively online in the English language.

The number of admitted students to the programme is set at a maximum of fifty-five (55), up to fifty (50) from European Union countries and up to five (5) from non-European Union countries per cycle of study. The minimum number of admitted students for the Programme to operate is ten (10).

The central goal of the PSP is to highlight the role played by literature as an organic part of cultural mediation in the public sphere, as a communicative tool between different “borders”, “contact zones” or even conflicting concepts of culture. Other aims include the specialisation and education of new “cultural mediators” in an interdisciplinary, inter-scientific field, so that they function effectively, contributing to a productive model that focuses on diversity, otherness and hybridity as a resource for development, innovation and creation. Embedded in the field of Public and Applied Literary and Cultural Studies, the PSP mainly examines the notions of literary citizenship and cultural democracy, in terms of accessibility  of cultural products, participation and collaboration, while attempting to combine them with applied skills.

Upon successful completion of the programme, graduates are expected to have acquired:

  • Specialized and profound knowledge of literary theory, cultural studies and the structural dynamics of public sphere.
  • A critical understanding of contemporary scholarly approaches regarding the constructs of citizenship, cultural democracy and civic participation.
  • Command of the methodological tools essential for interdisciplinary research within the Humanities and Social Sciences.
  • Acute awareness of contemporary scientific and societal debates concerning the dialectical relationship between culture, democracy and public discourse within both national and international contexts.

The Diploma of Postgraduate Studies “Literary Citizenship, Public Sphere and Cultural Democracy” is jointly awarded by the Department of Philology of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Patras and by the Department of European, American and Intercultural Studies of the School of Humanities and Philosophy of Sapienza University of Rome.