Università Roma Tre

The course aims at giving the general knowledge of the transformation of economy, society and institutions of the last two centuries. At the end of the course, the students will be provided with some key interpretations of contemporary modernity, taking as starting point the first industrial revolution and the shift from absolute State to liberal constitutional State, and as final step the globalization and the end of bipolarism between eastern and western blocks. During the first lessons we will propose some methodological issues related to the interdisciplinary approach at the historical research and at periodization about socio-economic and institutional and political history.

The introducing lessons (video) deal with the issues of methodological and historiographical methods of investigation – use of interpretation of sources – and critically deal with the interpretations of XX Century.
The commented slides analyse thoroughly some the greatest issues of the XX Century history, either those about the dynamics of international politics or those regarding the great social, political and cultural changes happened in the past century. During the lessons, through the examination text Insegnare il Novecento, will be provided online some proposals about
research in history and cinema that plan the integration of teaching material by suggested movies, documentaries and film-fiction.
The teaching unity furthermore allow the students to the Citizenship Education based upon the peace values and cultural diversity and bring them to a strict confrontation with new challenges of globalization and migrations and even before with the crisis of nation-state and traditional schemes. By using the examination text Educare alla pace e alla diversità
culturale per fondare una nuova cittadinanza consapevole e solidale, we will propose the examination of the recent rules of United Nations, Unesco and European Union in the field of education peace, cultural diversity and human rights.

C. F. Casula, Insegnare il Novecento, Anicia 2014