Università Roma Tre

The course aims to provide knowledge and skills needed to improve a critical understanding of historical becoming and to develop an interpretative approach to the matter, suited to the analysis of the general problems of historiographic hermeneutics, the temporal and logical links of cause and effect and the long-term relationships between past and present.

Knowledge and understanding:
Acquiring knowledge of the main processes of the modern age and of the fundamental tools of historiographic methodologies: periodizations, personalities, interpretations recognized by the historiographic "canon".

Applying knowledge and understanding:
Understanding the usefulness of the historical perspective for the analysis of social and political phenomena and proving the ability to use the acquired critical tools by connecting them to the interpretation of historical sources and texts.

Making judgements:
Putting in practice the one's own judgment skills by a non-passive learning over the contents of texts and historiography sources.

Communication skills:
Getting abilities and skills in order to express complex political and social situations by acquiring new communication skills.

Learning skills:
Strengthening the acquired knowledge of the key phenomena of modern history and the fundamental concepts of reflection and historiographic methodology related to the modern age.