Unit CONTEMPORARY HISTORY
- Course
- Philosophy and ethics of relationships
- Study-unit Code
- GP005071
- Curriculum
- Filosofia
- Teacher
- Paolo Raspadori
- Teachers
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- Paolo Raspadori
- Hours
- 36 ore - Paolo Raspadori
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2023
- Offered
- 2023/24
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Discipline classiche, storiche, antropologiche e politico-sociali
- Academic discipline
- M-STO/04
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- The course, on one hand, aims to investigate the crisis of Western hegemony that, in recent decades, has helped to call into question the unitary, progressive and linear view of history. A concept of history and historical time seen as a unified, future-oriented progressive development. On the other hand, it intends to find answers to questions about what history historians should and can tell and why it is important for them to do so.
- Reference texts
- Vittorio H. Beonio-Brocchieri, Immagini del tempo e della storia nella modernità. Uno sguardo critico, Rome, Carocci, 2022; David Armitage, Jo Guldi, Manifesto per la storia. Il ruolo del passato nel mondo d'oggi, Rome, Donzelli, 2016. Students with disabilities and/or SLD, in consultation with the teacher, may request any teaching materials in accessible formats (presentations, lecture notes, workbooks), provided if necessary in advance of the lessons, as well as the use of other technological tools to facilitate study. For general information, please refer to the University Services at https://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa.
- Educational objectives
- It is expected that students, on one hand, understand how the linear and progressive view of history, seemingly hegemonic for nearly two centuries, actually appeared fragile and uncertain from its origins (i.e., from the late eighteenth century). On the other hand, it is expected that students are able to recognize what the civic task of history is today and whether reflection on the past is still useful for those who are responsible for deciding the present.
- Prerequisites
- To be able to sufficiently understand the contents of the course, students must know the principal features of contemporary age. Furthermore, students must have learnt, during the years of high school, the basic knowledge of the major historical events and processes occurred in the West in the nineteenth and the twentieth century.
- Teaching methods
- The course consists of two parts. The former consists of lectures regarding issues about contents described above. They will be enriched by audiovisual and film screenings and by the illustration of graphs and photos, presented in Power Point format. The later will be held in form of seminar, inviting students to choose a reading about a topic concerned with the lectures and expose it through a classroom discussion (with the aid of a short written text).
- Other information
- To prepare the exam the attendance of lessons is strongly recommended. Students with disabilities and/or SLD: for any information on University services, contact the Disability and/or DSA Department Coordinator.
- Learning verification modality
- To pass the exam, attending students must undergo an oral examination, of variable duration depending on the course of the examination itself. The interview aims to verify the levels of knowledge and understanding reached by students with regard to the themes addressed during the course and, at the same time, their capability to communicate with an appropriate language what they have learnt by the lessons and the reading of a recommended text.
Attending students must also participate in a seminar work, that will be held in the last phase of the course, where their capabilities of critical analysis and reworking of a written text (with regard to one topic analyzed) will be tested. Furthermore, students must be able to present the subject of that text to their colleagues and the teacher. With the accomplishment of this activity, the attendees will be required to discuss only one reference textbook in the oral examination. Students not able to attend lessons must prove to have got the knowledge provided by the course in an oral exam, preparing themselves on both of the recommended textbooks. Students with disabilities and/or with SLD who, having completed regular accreditation through SOL, have obtained access to University services, can apply for compensatory tools, dispensatory measures and inclusive technologies ensured by law, to be requested and agreed with the teacher well in advance of tests and exams. For general information, consult the page https://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa and contact the Disability and/or SLD Department Coordinator. - Extended program
- The course, on one hand, aims to investigate the crisis of Western hegemony that, in recent decades, has helped to call into question the unitary, progressive and linear view of history. A concept of history and historical time seen as a unified, future-oriented progressive development and which owe their emergence to the assertion of European dominance over the rest of the world and the start of that radical transformation of the relationship between man and nature that we call the Industrial Revolution. On the other hand, it intends to find answers to questions about what history historians should and can tell and why it is important for them to do so.