Unit CONTEMPORARY HISTORY
- Course
- Philosophy and ethics of relationships
- Study-unit Code
- GP005071
- Curriculum
- Filosofia
- Teacher
- Paolo Raspadori
- Teachers
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- Paolo Raspadori
- Hours
- 36 ore - Paolo Raspadori
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2020
- Offered
- 2020/21
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Discipline classiche, storiche, antropologiche e politico-sociali
- Academic discipline
- M-STO/04
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- The major political and institutional events and the most important economic, social and cultural processes that occurred in Western world from the revolutions of 1848 to the coming of globalization will be concisely examinated.
- Reference texts
- Lucio Caracciolo, Adriano Roccucci, Storia contemporanea. Dal mondo europeo al mondo senza centro, Florence, Le Monnier, 2017 (only from pag. 48 onwards).
- Educational objectives
- It is expected that students learn to critically interpret the main events occurred during two last centuries in the West and are able to detect the historical roots of political and socio-economic contemporary processes.
- Prerequisites
- To be able to sufficiently understand the contents of the course, students must know the time partition among medieval, modern and contemporary history. Furthermore, students must have learnt, during the years of high school, the basic knowledge of the major historical events and processes occurred in the West in the nineteenth and the twentieth century.
- Teaching methods
- The course consists of lectures regarding issues described above. They will be enriched by audiovisual and film screenings and by the illustration of graphs and photos, presented in Power Point format.
- Other information
- To prepare the general section the attendance of lessons is strongly recommended.
- Learning verification modality
- Students must undergo an oral examination, of variable duration depending on the course of the examination itself. The interview aims to verify the levels of knowledge and understanding reached by students with regard to the themes of the course and, at the same time, their capability to communicate with an appropriate language what they have learnt by the lessons and the reading of the recommended text.
- Extended program
- The major political and institutional events and the most important economic, social and cultural processes that occurred in Western world from the revolutions of 1848 to the coming of globalization will be concisely examinated. In particular, the course will focus on the expansion and consolidation of nation States, the European imperialism, the second industrial revolution, the Belle Èpoque, the two World Wars, the crisis of the Thirties, the Cold War, the economic growth in the period 1950-1973, the advent of the post-industrial era, the collapse of communism.