Unit CONTEMPORARY HISTORY
- Course
- Communication studies
- Study-unit Code
- GP003619
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Emanuela Costantini
- Teachers
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- Emanuela Costantini
- Hours
- 60 ore - Emanuela Costantini
- CFU
- 8
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2025
- Offered
- 2025/26
- Learning activities
- Base
- Area
- Discipline sociali e mediologiche
- Sector
- M-STO/04
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- Institutional/general art: major political/institutional events and the most important economic, social, and cultural processes from World War I to the present. Monographic part: Carosello
- Reference texts
- All students are encouraged to use the Historical Atlas and Dictionary to support their preparation. Attending students: General part: A. M. Banti, L'età contemporanea. Dalla Grande Guerra a oggi, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2014, pp. 473 Parte monografica:P. Dorfles, Carosello, Il Mulino, Bologna, 1998 Studenti non frequentanti: Parte istituzionale: Giovanni Sabbatucci, Vittorio Vidotto, Il Mondo contemporaneo (capitoli dalla Prima guerra mondiale in poi), Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2014; Monographic part: P. Dorfles, Carosello, Il Mulino, 1998 Specific information about the course and teaching materials will be available on the Unistudium platform: https://www.unistudium.unipg.it/unistudium/login/index.php on the page dedicated to teaching Students with disabilities and/or SLDs who, having completed regular accreditation through SOL, have obtained access to University services, may request the compensatory tools provided for by law (e.g., textbooks in digital format; teaching materials in accessible formats: presentations, handouts, exercise books, provided in advance of lessons if necessary), for which please see the page https://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa. To make a request, students are invited to contact their professor, who will put them in touch with the Department's Disability and/or SLD Coordinator (Prof. Alessandra Di Pilla: alessandra.dipilla@unipg.it).
- Educational objectives
- Students are expected, on the one hand, to learn to critically interpret the main events that have taken place in the contemporary West and to be able to trace the historical roots of modern political, cultural, and socio-economic processes.
- Prerequisites
- In order to fully understand the topics covered in this course, students must have a clear understanding of the temporal divisions between medieval, modern, and contemporary history, as well as have acquired, during their schooling, a basic knowledge of the main historical events and processes that took place in the West during the 19th and 20th centuries.
- Teaching methods
- The course will consist of lectures focusing on the general and monographic topics outlined above. The lectures will be enriched by the use of videos, photos, graphs, tables, and maps presented in PowerPoint format. Students with disabilities and/or SLDs, after consulting with the instructor, may request teaching materials in accessible formats (presentations, handouts, exercise books), provided in advance of the lessons if necessary, as well as the use of other technological aids to facilitate their studies. For general information, consult the University Services at https://lettere.unipg.it/home/disabilita-e-dsa and contact the Department Representative (Prof. A. Di Pilla).
- Other information
- Attendance is not compulsory but recommended. Students who attend two-thirds of the lessons are considered regular attendees. Non-attending students will have to prepare a different basic textbook, as specified in the textbooks section. Students with disabilities and/or SLDs: for information on University services, please visit https://lettere.unipg.it/home/disabilita-e-dsa and contact the Department Representative (Prof. Alessandra Di Pilla: alessandra.dipilla@unipg.it).
- Learning verification modality
- Oral exam on reference texts Students with disabilities and/or SLDs who, having completed regular accreditation through SOL, have obtained access to University services, may use compensatory tools, dispensatory measures, and inclusive technologies provided for by law for the purposes of taking exams. These must be requested and agreed upon with the instructor well in advance of the exams. For further information, please visit https://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa and contact the Departmental Representative for Disabilities and SLDs (Prof. Alessandra Di Pilla: alessandra.dipilla@unipg.it).
- Extended program
- Institutional/general section: this section will briefly cover the main political and institutional events and the most important economic, social, and cultural processes from World War I to the present day. In particular, after a brief introduction to the main historical processes of the 19th century (the expansion and consolidation of nation states, European imperialism, the second industrial revolution, the Belle Époque), the course will move on to present the most significant moments in 20th-century history, from World War I to the rise of authoritarian and totalitarian regimes in Europe; from the development of the United States, interrupted by the crisis of 1929, to the dynamics of de-Ottomanization in the Middle East and the maturation of new balances in Asia; from World War II to the Cold War; from the economic growth of the period 1950-1973 to the advent of the post-industrial era; from decolonization to the emergence of the Middle East question; from the collapse of communism to the crisis of the First Republic and the emergence of the Second; from the evolution of international relations after the collapse of bipolarism to September 11, 2001, and its consequences; from globalization and the emergence of the world of new media to a look at the current reality.