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 2018
- Offered
- 2018/19
- 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 raise awareness in terms of historical and geographical general periods, aspects, issues, events and the most significant figures in modern history related to the temporal and provide essential information on the issues and the latest trends in history modern.
The second module aims to offer an overview of the social history of modern Italy. - Reference texts
- A. MUSI, Le vie della modernità, Sansoni, Milano 2000; G.Da Molin, Storia sociale dell'Italia moderna. Editrice La Scuola, Brescia 2014
- Educational objectives
- The first module aims to raise awareness in terms of historical and geographical general periods, aspects, issues, events and personalities significant relative timeframe covered in modern history.
- To provide essential information on the issues and the latest trends in modern history.
- Propose 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.
- Pay attention to the extra-European dimension of the political and social processes.
- Know the changes and ruptures that have profoundly marked the history of Europe in the modern age, emphasizing the main changes that the continuity and uniformity.
- Know the plurality of models of political, cultural, religious and forms of organization of companies operating in European history.
- To reconstruct the processes that led to the situation today, identifying European expansion, the emergence of a world economy, the free content through mass migrations, in widening global international relations, in the formation of a cosmopolitan culture, the roots of the contemporary.
The second module aims to offer a social framework of modern Italy with particular attention to the historical evolution of the population, to the conditions of life: food, environment, diseases, health, housing structures. At the center, above all, the history of childhood, a long-held historical subject and, specifically, abundant childhood and orphans. - Prerequisites
- Knowing how to place facts and events in space and time
- Reorganize data and concepts
- Knowing how to read, obtain information and compare historical documents
-Know The main conceptual tools and terminology of the discipline
- Understand changes and permanence of historical processes
- Evaluate the difference between the historical consciousness and the cultural stereotype of an event or period - Teaching methods
- face-to-face with VHS and DVD projections
- 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
- The course is divided into two modules. The first module (6 cfu) 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.
The second module aims to offer a social framework of modern Italy with particular attention to the historical evolution of the population, to the conditions of life: food, environment, diseases, health, housing structures. At the center, above all, the history of childhood, a long-held historical subject and, specifically, abundant childhood and orphans.