ECTS:

4

Code:

ΚΕΟΧ49

Cycle / Level:

Undergraduate

Compulsory / Optional:

Optional

Teaching Period:

Winter

Course Content:

This course is an introduction to educational practices in a broad sense that aim to form a political identity for students and young people in general, there will be specific reference to school lessons (History, Religion, etc.) which politicize in different phases of Greek history (Dictatorship of August 4, Dictatorship of Colonels, etc.). Reference will also be made to specific films, characteristic of their propaganda trend.

In more detail, reference will be made to the Triumph of the Will of Leni Riefenstahl, to Sergei Eisenstein in October and to the man with Rossellini’s cross. The way political messages are transmitted will be analyzed and propaganda will be divided into indirect and direct.

Upon successful completion of the course students are expected to be able to recognize the educational practices aimed at politicization whether they come from the school or the arts as an educational process. Extensive reference will also be made to practices of the past that aimed at distorting reality either in Greece or in the international environment. The aim is to analyze the obvious or invisible ways of shaping political consciousness through specific lessons in school and the use of other means of entertainment. The expected result is the recognition of propaganda in the broadest sense in different areas of young people's activity.