Unit CONTEMPORARY HISTORY
- Course
- Humanities
- Study-unit Code
- GP005973
- Curriculum
- Classico
- Teacher
- Luca La Rovere
- Teachers
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- Luca La Rovere
- Hours
- 72 ore - Luca La Rovere
- CFU
- 12
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2017
- Offered
- 2019/20
- Learning activities
- Base
- Area
- Storia, filosofia, psicologia, pedagogia, antropologia e geografia
- Academic discipline
- M-STO/04
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- An introduction to Contemporary history. Part I. The Nineteenth century and the rise of mass society: economy, politics, cultures. Part II. Wars, totalitarianisms and democracies in the Twentieth century. Part III. The nazionationalization of the masses between Nineteenth and Twentieth Century.
- Educational objectives
- Students will acquire a general knowledge of XIX and XX century history, as an instrument to understand the reality in which they live. Attending the course, students will learn to recognize the most important events and the main trends of thought which marked the process of modernization. Students are expected to shift from a trivial view of the past as a mere sequence of fact to one based on the interpretation as the main feature of the historiographic knowledge.
- Prerequisites
- A general knowledge (high school level) of the main topics of contemporary history is highly recommended.
- Teaching methods
- Face-to-face lessons; photos, documentaries and films (DVD, Youtube, ecc.). Some of the multimedia materials used during the lessons will be uploaded on the unistudium page of the course.
- Other information
- Students are warmly invited to register to the course’s page on unistudium in order to receive every information about the course and stay in contact with the teacher.
https://www.unistudium.unipg.it/unistudium/ - Learning verification modality
- La valutazione avviene in tre momenti e si svolge, per gli studenti frequentati, in itinere: durante lo svolgimento del corso e al termine del I e del II modulo agli studenti verrà somministrato un questionario scritto con 10 domande a risposta multipla e 4 domande a risposta aperta. Il tempo a disposizione, per la prova, è di 60 minuti. Per le domande a risposta multipla lo studente otterrà un punto; per quelle a risposta aperta 5 punti (per un totale di 30 punti). La prova mira ad accertare il livello di conoscenza degli argomenti trattati nel corso; a valutare la capacità dello studente di selezionare e di organizzare le informazioni acquisite secondo un criterio di rilevanza gerarchica; a verificare la capacità di sintesi nella redazione di un breve testo scritto.
Le due prove d’esonero scritte, se superate con punteggio sufficiente (18/30), danno accesso al colloquio finale orale. Quest’ultima prova verte sul III modulo e ha l’obiettivo di verificare le conoscenze relative alla parte monografica del corso e ad accertare la proprietà di linguaggio del candidato. La prova orale, a richiesta dello studente, potrà integrare la parte scritta se la votazione riportata non sia risultata soddisfacente. La durata della prova orale, per quanto variabile, non supera, in genere, i venti minuti. Il voto finale sarà il risultato della media del punteggio riportato nelle tre distinte prove.
Gli studenti non frequentanti sosterranno l'esame oralmente. Si consiglia di suddividere il programma in due/tre parti da discutere in altrettanti appelli.
Per informazioni sui servizi di supporto agli studenti con disabilità e/o DSA visita la pagina http://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa Written exams will be held at the end of the I and II part of the course. The exam will be a written paper based on 10 multiple choice answer questions (1 point each) and 4 open answer questions (5 points each). The exam aims to assess the student’s degree of knowledge of the program of the course and his/her linguistic ability. The written exams give access to the final oral examination (III part). - Extended program
- Part I: An introduction to the history of XIX century, intended to facilitate the understanding of Nineteenth century history. The following topics will be afforded : the origins of mass politics: liberalism, democracy, socialism, nationalism. Industrial revolutions and the birth of mass society: ways of life, mentalities, values and forms of organization of the urban bourgeoisies and working classes. The “myth of progress”: science and mass culture in XIX century. A fading of religious values (?): the secularization of Western societies. International relationships at the end of XIX century: Imperialism and colonialism. Racism and anti-semitism.
Part II: Political and social history of XX century. The course will focuses on the following topics: war and modernity; the crisis of parliamentary democracies; the crisis of ’29 and the “new deal”; the industry in the age of fordism; public interventionism: the age of welfare state; the arise of totalitarian regimes (Fascism, Nazism, Stalinism); the second world war and the destruction of European jews; international relationships in the age of the Cold war; decolonization and the “third world”; the “golden age”; the end of the cold war and the “new global order”.
Part III: The nationalitazion of the masses. This part of the course focuses on the birth of the “new politics” between Nineteenth and Twentieth Century. Based on the idea of popular sovereignty, “new politics” used a variety of myths, symbols, and liturgies, linked to the national cultural traditions, with the goal of creating a “mass-individual” completely identified with the values and the aims of the National State. Arose in the century of the democratic revolutions, the “new politics” become a veritable secular religion and, as such, the cultural base for the totalitarian dictatorships of interwar Europe.