Unit CONTEMPORARY HISTORY
- Course
- Communication sciences
- Study-unit Code
- GP003619
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Emanuela Costantini
- Teachers
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- Emanuela Costantini
- Hours
- 63 ore - Emanuela Costantini
- CFU
- 9
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2021
- Offered
- 2021/22
- Learning activities
- Base
- Area
- Discipline sociali e mediologiche
- Academic discipline
- M-STO/04
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- General part: the main political, socio-economic and cultural events from the First World War to nowadays.
- Reference texts
- Students attending the course:
General part: A. M. Banti, L'età contemporanea. Dalla Grande Guerra a oggi, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2014, pp. 473
Monographic part:
A. M. Banti, La democrazia dei follower, Laterza, 2020
or:
presentation of an Italian leader on the basis of "Invano" by Filippo Ceccarelli
Students not attending the course:
General part: L. Caracciolo, A. Roccucci, Storia contemporanea. Dal mondo europeo al mondo senza centro, Le Monnier, Firenze, 2017, pp. 324-744 or Giovanni Sabbatucci, Vittorio Vidotto, Il Novecento, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2014, pp. 471
Monographic part:
A. M. Banti, La democrazia dei follower, Laterza, 2020 - Educational objectives
- Students are expected 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 processes.
- 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 in the class.
- Other information
- Attending lessons is not compulsory, but recommended. Students are considered attending the course if present at 2/3 of the lessons.
- Learning verification modality
- The course consists of a general section and a monographic section. For the first one, students must pass one written test, consisting in a blank map, four open-ended questions and three closed questions. The test must be filled in within an hour. Students can choose to divide the program in two parts and therefore to do two tests instead of one (the first from the First World War to the Second World War (not included); the second from the Second World War to nowadays). Students attending the class will have the possibility to do the two tests during the lessons. The written test is necessary, on the one hand, to ascertain the level of knowledge acquired by students about the issues discussed during the lessons; on the other hand, to verify their ability to articulate, and exposing in a clear and understandable manner their thoughts in writing. To pass the monographic section, instead, students must pass an oral examination, of variable duration depending on the course of the examination itself.
- Extended program
- General part: it will deal with the main political, socio-economic and cultural events from the First Wolrd War to nowadays. Namely, after an introduction of the most meaningful historical processes of the 19th century (the growth and strengthening of nation states, European imperialism, the second industrial revolution, the Belle Epoque), lessons will deal with those of the 20th century (the First World War, the creation of the authoritarian and totalitarian regimes, the economic and political development of the United States, stopped by the 1929 crisis, the deottomanization process in the Middle East, the new equilibrium in Asia, the Second World War, the Cold War, the Golden Age of 1950-1973, the post-industrial age, decolonization, the Middle East issue, the fall of Communist regimes, the crisis of the First Italian Republic and the emergence of the Second, international relations after the crisis of bipolarism, 11 Sptermber 2001 and its aftermath, globalization and the emergence of new media.