Unit CONTEMPORARY HISTORY
- Course
- Cultural heritage
- Study-unit Code
- GP005305
- Curriculum
- Archeologia
- Teacher
- Paolo Raspadori
- Teachers
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- Paolo Raspadori
- Hours
- 54 ore - Paolo Raspadori
- CFU
- 9
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2021
- Offered
- 2022/23
- 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 section: the major political and institutional events and the most important economic, social and cultural processes that occurred in the Western world from the revolutions of 1848 to the fall of Communist regimes will be concisely examinated. Monographic section: through the analysis of the pictorial representations of the European aristocracy and bourgeoisie from the eighteenth to the end of the nineteenth century, the ways in which social and cultural elites imagined gender relations, love and sexuality will be explained.
- Reference texts
- General section: student choice of Roberto Balzani, Alberto De Bernardi, Storia del mondo contemporaneo, Milan, Bruno Mondadori, 2003 or Lucio Caracciolo, Adriano Roccucci, Storia contemporanea. Dal mondo europeo al mondo senza centro, Florence, Le Monnier, 2017 (only from pag. 48 on). Monographic section: Alberto Mario Banti, Eros e virtù. Aristocratiche e borghesi da Watteau a Manet, Rome-Bari, Laterza, 2016.
- Educational objectives
- It is expected that students, on one hand, learn to critically interpret the main events occurred during two last centuries in the West and are able to detect the historical roots of political and socio-economic contemporary processes. On the other hand, it is expected that students are able to understand that gender inequality is not the remains of ancient times, but an important item of the concepts that underlie the Western world.
- Prerequisites
- To be able to sufficiently understand the contents of the course, students must know the time partition among medieval, modern and contemporary history. 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 lectures regarding issues of general and monographic sections described above. They will be enriched by audiovisual and film screenings and by the illustration of graphs, photos, charts and maps presented in Power Point format.
- Other information
- To prepare the general and the monographic sections the attendance of lessons is strongly recommended. Students who attend the course only up to 6 credits, will have to take, on the exam, only the general section.
- Learning verification modality
- The course consists of a general section and a monographic section. For students attending the course, the exam will be held only orally. For not attending students, they must pass two written tests, instead, relating to the general section. Each test consists of five open-ended questions and fifteen closed questions. The first test deals with the history of the nineteenth century (1848-1914) and the second one that of the twentieth century (1914-1992). Each test must be filled in within 90 minutes. The written tests are necessary to, on the one hand, ascertain the level of knowledge acquired by not attending 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 (and also the general one for students attending the course), 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 also of the general one for students attending 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 the recommended text.
- Extended program
- General section: the major political and institutional events and the most important economic, social and cultural processes that occurred in Western world from the revolutions of 1848 to the fall of comunist regimes will be concisely examinated. In particular, the course will focus on the expansion and consolidation of nation States, the European imperialism, the second industrial revolution, the Belle Èpoque, the two World Wars, the crisis of the Thirties, the Cold War, the economic growth in the period 1950-1973, the advent of the post-industrial era, the collapse of communism. Monographic section: through the analysis of the pictorial representations of the European aristocracy and bourgeoisie from the eighteenth to the end of the nineteenth century, the ways in which social and cultural elites imagined gender relations, love and sexuality will be explained. In the great paintings of Watteau and Manet, Sargent, Millais and Velàsquez, one will recognize entire symbolic worlds of the love, marital and erotic life of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.