Unit CONTEMPORARY HISTORY

Course
Communication studies
Study-unit Code
GP003619
Curriculum
In all curricula
Teacher
Emanuela Costantini
Teachers
  • Emanuela Costantini
Hours
  • 63 ore - Emanuela Costantini
CFU
9
Course Regulation
Coorte 2024
Offered
2024/25
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.

Monographic part: music and politics in Italian history
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:
P. Carusi, Viva l'Italia. Narrazioni e rappresentazioni della storia repubblicana nei versi dei cantautori «impegnati», Le Monnier, Firenze, 2018

Students not attending the course:
Giovanni Sabbatucci, Vittorio Vidotto, Il Mondo contemporaneo (chapters from the First World War), Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2014,;
Parte monografica:
P. Carusi, Viva l'Italia. Narrazioni e rappresentazioni della storia repubblicana nei versi dei cantautori «impegnati», Le Monnier, Firenze, 2018

Specific course-related information and teaching materials will be available on the Unistudium platform: https://www.unistudium.unipg.it/unistudium/login/index.php at the teaching page
Students with disabilities and/or with DSA who, having completed regular accreditation through SOL, have obtained access to the University services, may apply for the compensatory tools provided by the regulations (e.g., textbooks in digital format; teaching materials in accessible formats: presentations, handouts, workbooks, provided if necessary in advance of the lectures), for which see page https://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa. For the request, the student is invited to contact the teacher, who will put him/her in touch with the Department's Disability and/or DSA Contact Person (Prof. Alessandra Di Pilla: alessandra.dipilla@unipg.it).
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.
Students with disabilities and/or with DSA, after consultation with the lecturer, may request any teaching materials in accessible formats (presentations, handouts, workbooks), provided if necessary in advance of the lectures, as well as the use of other technological facilitation tools in the study phase. For general information, see the University Services at https://lettere.unipg.it/home/disabilita-e-dsa and get in touch with the Contact Person for the Department (Prof. A. Di Pilla).
Other information
Attending lessons is not compulsory, but recommended. Students are
considered attending the course if present at 2/3 of the lessons.

Students with disabilities and/or DSA: for any information about the University's services, please visit https://lettere.unipg.it/home/disabilita-e-dsa and get in touch with the Contact Person for the Department (Prof. Alessandra Di Pilla: alessandra.dipilla@unipg.it).
Learning verification modality
Oral
Students with disabilities and/or with DSA who, having completed regular accreditation through SOL, have obtained access to University services, for the purpose of conducting the tests may take advantage of the compensatory tools, dispensatory measures and inclusive technologies provided by the regulations, to be requested and agreed with the teacher well in advance of the tests. For information see https://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa and get in touch with the Department's Contact Person for Disability and DSA (Prof. Alessandra Di Pilla: alessandra.dipilla@unipg.it).
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.
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