Unit CONTEMPORARY HISTORY
- Course
- Communication studies
- 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 2022
- Offered
- 2022/23
- 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:
Parte istituzionale: A. M. Banti, L'età contemporanea. Dalla Grande
Guerra a oggi, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2014, pp. 473
Parte monografica:
G. Poidomani, I Simpson e la storia. Viaggio nel tempo a bordo di un divano, Mimesis, 2016
Students not attending the course:
Parte istituzionale: L. Caracciolo, A. Roccucci, Storia contemporanea. Dal
mondo europeo al mondo senza centro, Le Monnier, Firenze, 2017, pp.
324-744 oppure Giovanni Sabbatucci, Vittorio Vidotto, Il Novecento,
Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2014, pp. 471; Parte monografica:
G. Poidomani, I Simpson e la storia. Viaggio nel tempo a bordo di un divano, Mimesis, 2016 - 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
- Oral
- 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.