Third inter-faculty course on gender and diversity issues starts in the spring semester

The third edition of the optional inter-faculty course coordinated by USI Equal Opportunities Service "Interdisciplinary approaches to gender and diversity' and funded by the BAREVA Foundation will be held in the spring semester 2025.

The course, worth 3 ECTS is part of the Bachelor of Communication programme, and it aimed at bachelor students of all Faculties. It draws on the multidisciplinary expertise of lecturers from USI and other universities.

Using an interdisciplinary approach, the course invites reflection on the concept of gender and diversity declined in all academic disciplines and is structured as follows:

• Thinking - Introducing students to the key concepts of gender and diversity studies.
• Seeing - Enabling students to confidently apply the key concepts of gender and diversity studies through the analysis of case studies.
• Making - Present the cross-cutting nature of gender and diversity studies and their relevance to a variety of professional and academic fields.
• Managing - Illustrating how the concepts of gender and diversity are concretely applied by researchers and practitioners in media and communication, economics and management, data science and informatics, architecture and design.

The course includes seminarial lectures, and can be followed in person or via Microsoft Teams (only for student of the Academy of Architecture). The lectures will take place on the WEST Campus, in Lugano.

To enrol, please follow the procedures of your Faculty.

Further details and information on scheduling are on the course page or by writing to [email protected]