Unit CONTEMPORARY HISTORY
- Course
- Cultural heritage
- Study-unit Code
- GP005305
- Curriculum
- Archeologia
- Teacher
- Emanuela Costantini
- Teachers
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- Emanuela Costantini
- Hours
- 54 ore - Emanuela Costantini
- CFU
- 9
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2019
- Offered
- 2020/21
- Learning activities
- Base
- Area
- Discipline storiche
- Academic discipline
- M-STO/04
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian.
- Contents
- General part: the main political, socio-economic and cultural events from the Italian unification process to nowadays.
Monographic part: the Beatles and Western popular culture - Reference texts
- Students attending the course:
General part:
F. Canale Cama, L'età contemporanea. Una storia globale, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2020;
or R. Balzani e A. De Bernardi, Storia del mondo contemporaneo, Bruno Mondadori, Milano, ultima edizione
Monographic part:
F. Fasce, La musica nel tempo. Storia dei Beatles, Einaudi, 2018
Students not attending the course:
General part: Giovanni Sabbatucci, Vittorio Vidotto, Il mondo contemporaneo da 1848 a oggi, Laterza, Roma-Bari, last edition or L. Caracciolo, A. Roccucci, Storia contemporanea. Dal mondo europeo al mondo senza centro, Le Monnier, Firenze, 2017, pp. 52-744; Monographic part:
- parte monografica: F. Fasce, La musica nel tempo. Storia dei Beatles, Einaudi, 2018
Students having a 6 CFU exam can choose if excluding the 19th century part or the monographic part. - Educational objectives
- Students are supposed 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
- 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 Italian unification process to the First World War; the second from the period after the The First World War to nowadays). Students attending the class will have the possibility to do the test 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 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 of the monographic section and, at the same time, their capability to communicate with an appropriate language what they have learnt by the lessons.
- Extended program
- General part: it will deal with the main political, socio-economic and cultural events from the unification of Italy to nowadays. Namely, 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) and 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 Septermber 2001 and its aftermath, globalization and the emergence of new media
Monographic part: the Beatles