Unit MODERN HISTORY
- Course
- Sciences of education
- Study-unit Code
- GP004290
- Curriculum
- Educatore dei servizi educativi per l'lnfanzia
- Teacher
- Mario Tosti
- Teachers
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- Mario Tosti
- Hours
- 54 ore - Mario Tosti
- CFU
- 9
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2021
- Offered
- 2021/22
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Discipline storiche, geografiche, economiche e giuridiche
- Academic discipline
- M-STO/02
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- The first module aims to introduce the most significant periods, aspects, problems, events and characters relating to the time span of modern history from a general historical-geographical point of view and provide essential information on the most recent themes and trends in history modern. The second module deals with the different aspects of daily life in the past. In particular, the tmatic nuclei around which the module revolves are the family, abandoned childhood and the demographic development of the population.
- Reference texts
- Aurelio MUSI, Un vivaio di storia. L'Europa nel mondo moderno, Biblion Edizioni 2020; Giovanna DA MOLIN, Vivere nel passato. Famiglia, infanzia e società, Cacucci Editore, Bari 2020.
- Educational objectives
- The first module aims to raise awareness of the periods, aspects, problems, events and most significant characters relating to the time span of modern history from a general historical-geographical point of view. - Provide essential information on the most recent issues and trends in modern history - Propose thematic paths and information on some topics that transversally revisit various parts of the manual, with the aim of making it more reasoned and easier to read and memorize. attention also to the extra-European dimension of political and social processes - To know the changes and ruptures that have profoundly marked the history of Europe in the modern age, emphasizing changes rather than continuities and uniformities - Knowing the plurality of political models , cultural, religious and forms of the organization of society operating in European history - Reconstruct the processes that led to today's condition, identifying in European expansion, in the rise of a world economy, in the connection of contents through the emigrations of mass, in the planetary expansion of international relations, in the formation of a cosmopolitan culture, the roots of contemporaneity.
The second module intends to solicit the investigation of aspects of daily life in the past that affect the structure of families, the socio-professional articulation, the transmission of the profession from father to son. - Prerequisites
- Knowing how to place facts and events in space and time - Reorganizing data and concepts - Knowing how to read, obtain information and compare historical documents - Know the main conceptual and terminological tools of the discipline - Understanding changes and permanence of historical processes - Knowing how to evaluate the difference between the historical awareness and cultural stereotype of an event or period.
- Teaching methods
- Face-to-face with PPT
- Learning verification modality
- The evaluation is composed from n. 3 trials, 2 in progress and 1 final oral examination. The written tests consist of a written exam with multiple choice questions that aim to induce the student to consolidate gradule specific knowledge, determine the skills and concepts acquired in applying the procedures and logic skills. The first takes place in the first week of November and the second the second week of January. The test duration is 60 minutes. The written tests in stimulus ended and closed-ended consist of n. 30 questions and are evaluated in 30/30. The student who exceeds the two-course tests, getting a vote of not less than 18, relates only to the oral text adopted for the second module. Students who do not pass the course tests also report on the general, while those who pass only one of the course tests will report orally on the chapters of the general subject of the written test. The vote of the course tests you can not refuse. The final oral examination consists of an interview of 30 minutes max wants to ensure that the command of the language, the ability to use the acquired knowledge and to link them in the argument and to discuss in depth in several respects the different topics covered.
- Extended program
- During the first part of the Course will be proposed thematic tours and information on some topics that revisit across various parts of the manual, with the intent to make it more rational and easier to read and store. This will be achieved through the knowledge and the study of the following topics: The break of geographical barriers--The exploration and the discovery of America- The creation of colonial empires-Italy and Europe in the sixteenth century-The splendor of the Italian Renaissance-The Italian wars-The Protestant Reformation-The Counter-Reformation and the Council of Trent-New wars for dominance over Europe-The sixteenth century-Europe sixteenth century-The absolute monarchy in France-The parliamentary monarchy in England-Italy in the seventeenth century-The scientific revolution-The early eighteenth century-The new culture of the Enlightenment-Europe and Italy of the eighteenth century-The world to Europeans: the colonial empires-The Age of Revolutions- The first industrial revolution-The American Revolution and the birth of the United States of America-The French Revolution- The Age Napoleonic- From the Europe of Vienna to the Europe of Berlin.
The second part of the course will address the different aspects of daily life in the past; in particular, the following will be examined: the structure of the family and its breadth, the phenomenon of the abandonment of children with attention to the reasons for such a difficult choice. Attention will also be paid to the conditions of life inside the orphanages, to the bathhouse, to the written messages and to the objects of which the foundlings were corered at the time of the exhibition. Finally, in the reconstruction of demographic and social events, particular attention will be paid to eating habits, epidemics such as the Sopagnola flu that struck European countries in the two-year period 1918-19.