Unit MODERN HISTORY
- Course
- Sciences of education
- Study-unit Code
- GP004290
- Curriculum
- Educatore dei servizi educativi per l'lnfanzia
- Teacher
- Mario Tosti
- Teachers
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- Mario Tosti
- Francesca Guiducci
- Hours
- 30 ore - Mario Tosti
- 24 ore - Francesca Guiducci
- CFU
- 9
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2023
- Offered
- 2023/24
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Discipline storiche, geografiche, economiche e giuridiche
- Academic discipline
- M-STO/02
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- The first module intends to introduce from a general historical-geographical point of view the most significant periods, aspects, problems, events and characters related to the time span of modern history and provide essential information on the most recent themes and trends in history modern.
The second module aims to offer elements of knowledge on the history of women in Europe in the modern age. - Reference texts
- Aurelio MUSI, Un vivaio di storia. L'Europa nel mondo moderno, Biblion Edizioni 2020; F.Bellucci, A.F.Celi, L.Gazzetta ( a cura di), I secoli delle donne, Biblink Editori, Roma 2019; or: G.Bock, Le donne nella storia europea, Editori Laterza, Bari-Roma 2023. Students with disabilities and / or with SLD, after consultation with the teacher, can request any didactic materials in accessible formats (presentations, handouts, exercises), provided if necessary in advance of the lessons, as well as the use of other facilitating technological tools in the study phase. For general information, consult the University Services on the page https://lettere.unipg.it/home/disabilita-e-dsa and contact the Department Coordinator.
- Educational objectives
- The first module intends to introduce from a general historical-geographical point of view the most significant periods, aspects, problems, events and characters relating to the time span of modern history. - Provide essential information on the most recent themes and trends in modern history.- Propose thematic itineraries and information on some topics that transversally revisit various parts of the manual, with the intention of making it more reasoned and easy to read and memorize.- Lend also pay attention to the extra-European dimension of political and social processes.- Know the changes and ruptures that have profoundly marked the history of Europe in the modern age, emphasizing the changes rather than the continuities and uniformities.- Know the plurality of political models , cultural, religious and forms of organization of society operating in European history.- Reconstructing the processes that have led to today's condition, identifying in European expansion, in the rise of a world economy, in the connection of contents through the emigration of mass, in the global expansion of international relations, in the formation of a cosmopolitan culture, the roots of contemporaneity. The main objective of the second module is to enable students to acquire the basic historical and historiographical elements for understanding some of the main analytical categories of women's history and gender studies. The aim is also to learn some important themes of history through a direct perspective on the female educational sphere. At the end of the course the students will have acquired the analytical and methodological understanding of the subject matter focused on the themes of education, work and the presence of women with particular attention to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. As part of the acquisition of communication skills, students will develop the ability to critically discuss the topics covered in the course and the ability to make independent judgments thanks to class discussions at the end of each lesson.
- Prerequisites
- Knowing how to place facts and events in space and time - Reorganizing data and concepts - Knowing how to read, obtain information and compare historical documents - Know the main conceptual and terminological tools of the discipline - Understanding changes and permanence of historical processes - Knowing how to evaluate the difference between the historical awareness and cultural stereotype of an event or period.
- Teaching methods
- Face-to-face with PPT
- Other information
- Students with disabilities and/or DSA: for any information on University services, consult the page https://lettere.unipg.it/home/disabilita-e-dsa and get in touch with the Department Contact Person. There is no specific program for particular groups of students (e.g. Erasmus students, attending/non-attending students)
- Learning verification modality
- The evaluation is composed from n. 3 trials, 2 in progress and 1 final oral examination. The written tests consist of a written exam with multiple choice questions that aim to induce the student to consolidate gradule specific knowledge, determine the skills and concepts acquired in applying the procedures and logic skills. The test will be taken using the LibreEOL - Exams OnLine platform. The first takes place in the first week of November and the second the second week of January. The written tests in stimulus ended and closed-ended consist of n. 30 questions and are evaluated in 30/30. The student who exceeds the two-course tests, getting a vote of not less than 18, relates only to the oral text adopted for the second module. Students who do not pass the course tests also report on the general, while those who pass only one of the course tests will report orally on the chapters of the general subject of the written test. The vote of the course tests you can not refuse. The final oral examination consists of an interview of 30 minutes max wants to ensure that the command of the language, the ability to use the acquired knowledge and to link them in the argument and to discuss in depth in several respects the different topics covered.
Students with disabilities and / or with SLD: for the modality of carrying out the verification tests, students can take advantage of inclusive technologies, compensatory tools and dispensatory measures provided for by the legislation. Technologies, tools and measures must be requested and agreed with the teacher well in advance of the tests. For general information, consult the University Services on the page https://lettere.unipg.it/home/disabilita-e-dsa and contact the Department Coordinator. - Extended program
- During the first part of the Course will be proposed thematic tours and information on some topics that revisit across various parts of the manual, with the intent to make it more rational and easier to read and store. This will be achieved through the knowledge and the study of the following topics: The break of geographical barriers--The exploration and the discovery of America- The creation of colonial empires-Italy and Europe in the sixteenth century-The splendor of the Italian Renaissance-The Italian wars-The Protestant Reformation-The Counter-Reformation and the Council of Trent-New wars for dominance over Europe-The sixteenth century-Europe sixteenth century-The absolute monarchy in France-The parliamentary monarchy in England-Italy in the seventeenth century-The scientific revolution-The early eighteenth century-The new culture of the Enlightenment-Europe and Italy of the eighteenth century-The world to Europeans: the colonial empires-The Age of Revolutions- The first industrial revolution-The American Revolution and the birth of the United States of America-The French Revolution- The Age Napoleonic- From the Europe of Vienna to the Europe of Berlin. The second module aims to explore the history of women as a history of their education and training. A genre story that deals with issues relating to the history of work, violence, power and family and property dynamics, especially in the chronological period from the seventeenth to the early nineteenth century.
- Obiettivi Agenda 2030 per lo sviluppo sostenibile
- Among the objectives of the 2030 agenda that the course intends to pursue are issues relating to gender equality, labor justice and equal dignity, as well as offering a contribution, in a historical key, to reduce inequalities.