Unit CONTEMPORARY HISTORY
- Course
- Foreign languages and cultures
- Study-unit Code
- 35054709
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Emanuela Costantini
- Teachers
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- Emanuela Costantini
- Hours
- 54 ore - Emanuela Costantini
- CFU
- 9
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2021
- Offered
- 2021/22
- Learning activities
- Base
- Area
- Discipline storiche, geografiche e socio-antropologiche
- Academic discipline
- M-STO/04
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- eneral part: the main political, socio-economic and cultural events from the Italian unification process to nowadays.
Monographic part:study of a specific issue about a country whose language is studied by the student. - Reference texts
- Students attending the course:
General part:
F. Canale Cama, L'età contemporanea. Una storia globale, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2020;
or R. Balzani e A. De Bernardi, Storia del mondo contemporaneo, Bruno Mondadori, Milano, ultima edizione
Students attending the course:
G. Sabbatucci, V. Vidotto, Il mondo contemporaneo, Laterza, Roma-Bari, last edition)
Monographic course: all students
One book among the following:
M. E Cavallaro, La Spagna oltre l’ostacolo, La transizione alla democrazia: storia di un successo, Rubbettino,
M. Nava, Storia della Germania dopo il muro, BUR, 2020
E. Garau, Margareth Thatcher: la formazione e l’ascesa, Carocci, 2020
B. Stora, La guerra d’Algeria, Il Mulino, 2009
M. Ferrari, L’incredibile storia di Antonio Salazar, il dittatore che morì due volte, Laterza, 202
A. Ferrari, la foresta e la steppa. Il mito dell’Eurasia nella cultura russa, Mimesis, 2012 - Educational objectives
- Students are supposed to be able to understand the main events of contemporary history as well as to identify the historical roots of nowadays political, cultural and socio-economic processe.
- Prerequisites
- In order to adequately understand the subject of the lessons, students should have a clear knowledge of the time sequence Medieval history-Modern history-Contemporary history. They also should know the main events and historical processes of 19th and 20th century.
- Teaching methods
- Traditional lessons will expose the contents of the above-mentioned general and specific subject. Videos, graphs, photos, charts and maps in Power Point format will also be used.
- Learning verification modality
- Oral.