Unit CONTEMPORARY HISTORY
- Course
- Philosophy and psychological science and techniques
- Study-unit Code
- GP003495
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Stefania Magliani
- Teachers
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- Stefania Magliani
- Hours
- 54 ore - Stefania Magliani
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2021
- Offered
- 2021/22
- Learning activities
- Base
- Area
- Discipline letterarie, linguistiche e storiche
- Academic discipline
- M-STO/04
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- A history of the contemporary world following the general lines and with some deeper analysis of the history of health, and on the history of international humanitarianism
- Reference texts
- G. Sabbatucci-V. Vidotto, Il mondo contemporaneo dal 1848 ad oggi, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2014
Silvia Salvatici, Nel nome degli altri. Storia dell'umanitarismo internazionale, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2015
ERASMUS students:
Silvia Salvatici, Nel nome degli altri. Storia dell'umanitarismo internazionale, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2015
Jeremy Black, War since 1945, London, Reaktion Books, 2004 - Educational objectives
- Knowledge of general lines of contemporary history
Knowledge of domestic and international dynamics regarding the finding, evaluation and use of information.
Being able to correctly use the specific language of the subject.
Being able to locate events in the context, being able to directly identify causes and grasp the effects.
Being able to effectively communicate the material that has been learned. - Prerequisites
- nothing
- Teaching methods
- Traditional classes on all issues of the course.
Deeper analysis of some issues useful for professional value.
Discussions on specific themes useful to verify the level of learning and to stimulate critical skills - Other information
- Storia dell'umanitarismo is reserved at students of Scienze dell'educazione for 3 CFU
- Learning verification modality
- The exam consists in a final oral exam in the form of an interview, regarding the issues tackled in the course, aimed at evaluating the knowledge of the issues presented in the course and the reaching of learning results. The interview will also aim at evaluating the ability to communicate and organize the subject matter. The duration will cover the minimum time needed to verify the knowledge of the program and of the exam itself.
- Extended program
- > 1860-1871: the new European set-up.
> The new world powers: United States and Japan.
> Italy between the turn-of-the-century crisis and the entry into the war.
> Reasons for WWI.
> The Great War.
> The new world scenarios.
> The totalitarian regimes.
> The Second World War.
> Italy in the years after WWII.
> 1945-1990: the equilibrium owed to Yalta;
> History of international humanitarianism