CONTEMPORARY HISTORY
(objectives)
The course aims to offer a general overview of the main aspects of the contemporary world, with special regard to Italy and Europe. The course will underline the cultural history and especially the history of racism and the integration issues and challenges, relating to people coming from different cultures and religions. In line with the general goals of the CdS, the course will deepen the dynamics of inclusion/exclusion in Italy and Europe.
Knowledge and understanding - Understand the main aspects of the contemporary history - Understand and be able to use the categories of the contemporary history Applying knowledge and understanding - Understand the socio-economic and cultural dynamics of the contemporary history - Understand the importance of the cultural history in the contemporary world Making judgements - Be able to link Italian history to global history - Be able to use historical knowledge to understand contemporary events Communication skills - Be able to describe the historical issues discussed during the course Learning skills - Be able to use the historiographical tools in an analysis of the contemporary society.
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Code
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22910165 |
Language
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ITA |
Type of certificate
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Profit certificate
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Credits
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6
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Scientific Disciplinary Sector Code
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M-STO/04
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Contact Hours
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36
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Type of Activity
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Core compulsory activities
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Group: A - L
Teacher
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IMPAGLIAZZO MARCO
(syllabus)
The course examines the fundamental moments and aspects in contemporary 19th and 20th century history, starting with the revolutionary risings of 1948 and the formation of the European nation states, up to recent events. Special attention will be given to World History and to framing events in a global perspective. The topics of minorities and international migrations in our age, particularly to and from Italy, will be the focus of specific in-depth analysis.
(reference books)
Attending students
Lucio Caracciolo, Adriano Roccucci, Storia contemporanea, Le Monnier-Mondadori, 2017 (some chapters)
V. De Cesaris-M. Impagliazzo (a cura di), L’immigrazione in Italia da Jerry Masslo a oggi, Guerini e associati, 2020 Non-attending students Lucio Caracciolo, Adriano Roccucci, Storia contemporanea, Le Monnier-Mondador (full) V. De Cesaris-M. Impagliazzo (a cura di), L’immigrazione in Italia da Jerry Masslo a oggi, Guerini e associati, 2020
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Dates of beginning and end of teaching activities
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Delivery mode
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Traditional
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Attendance
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not mandatory
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Evaluation methods
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Written test
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Group: M - Z
Teacher
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Ridolfi Maurizio
(syllabus)
The course includes a manual section, which aims to offer an exhaustive picture of the political-institutional, socio-economic and communicative-media transformations in the historical processes that have marked the last two centuries, between 1848 and the present time, with attention to the roots of modernity in the nineteenth century and to the challenges of the twenty-first century. It moves from Italy with a transnational history approach, in the European and Mediterranean, Atlantic and intercontinental areas, enhancing global interactions and interdependencies; first of all through attention to the phenomena of the secular emigration of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and the recent immigration to Italy and Europe. The course also develops thematic paths that allow to enhance the role of the sources (archival, written, oral, audio-visual, online) in "making history". The monographic course developes paths concerns the history of childhood through the conflicts of the twentieth century, up to the wars of our time, the "child soldiers" and migrant children.
(reference books)
The course focuses on the manual volume of Maurizio Ridolfi, Storia della politica. Italia e Italiani in prospettiva transnazionale nei secoli XIX-XXI, Milano, Pearson, 2020 [ISBN: 9788891913654]. Storia della politica - Digital Edition [ISBN: 9788891913661], MyLab - student access.
The thematic in-depth text is the following: Bruno Maida, L’infanzia nelle guerre del Novecento, Turin, Einaudi, 2017.
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Dates of beginning and end of teaching activities
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Delivery mode
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Traditional
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Attendance
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not mandatory
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Evaluation methods
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Written test
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