Geographical exploration
The slave trade
Some case studies of African nations: Ashanti, Ethiopia, Zulu
Colonial expansion
Panafricanism
The struggle for indipendence

- J.D. Fage, A History of Africa, 1978, Chap.III & IV

- L. Goglia - F. Grassi, Il colonialismo italiano da Adua all'impero, Laterza, chap. II.

This course focuses on the contemporary history of international relations in East Asia. Particular attention will be devoted to the positions occupied by Japan and China during the Cold War years, as well as to their interactions both with the other regional actors, the two Superpowers and Europe. The analysis of the factors generated by the bipolar order will facilitate the identification of continuity and discontinuity lines in the broader context of globalization.

The syllabus for attending students is the following:

1) Best, Hanhimaki, Maiolo, Schulze, Storia delle relazioni internazionali. Il mondo nel XX secolo e oltre, UTET 2014 (chapters: 8, 9, 10, 12, 14 e 15).
2) O. Frattolillo, Il Giappone tra Est e Ovest, FrancoAngeli 2014.
3) F. Mazzei, V. Volpi, Asia al centro, EGEA 2014 - second edition (Chapters: 2, 3, 4, 10, 12).


The syllabus for non-attending students is the following:

1) Best, Hanhimaki, Maiolo, Schulze, Storia delle relazioni internazionali. Il mondo nel XX secolo e oltre, UTET 2014 (chapters: 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14 e 15).
2) O. Frattolillo, Il Giappone tra Est e Ovest, FrancoAngeli 2014.
3) F. Mazzei, V. Volpi, Asia al centro, EGEA 2014, second edition (the full book).
4) One of the following books (free choice):
- Frattolillo, Diplomacy in Japan-EU Relations, Routledge 2013;
- Frattolillo, Interwar Japan beyond the West, Cambridge SP 2012;
- Frattolillo, L’etica dell’interessere, Mimesis 2013.

The course deals with issues relating to the history and politics of the US with special reference to the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. These two documents are central in the American political and social experience. Nowadays, with the radicalization of politics and presidential elections they become all the more relevant. Students will learn how the American system of government works and what are the prerogatives and duties of the president and of Congress. At the end of the semester, students will achieve a deep understanding of the most relevant aspects of American history and society with a special attention on foreign policy and the role of the US at the world level.

Module I
Week 1: introduzione al corso e illustrazione dei principali temi trattati. Istituzioni ed elezioni in prospettiva storica. La Dichiarazione di Indipendenza degli Stati Uniti d’America. Libertà e repubblicanesimo.

Week 2: La Costituzione: il Congresso e le sue funzioni. Discussione sui compiti e ruoli dei tre organi del governo. La politica americana oggi e le sue radici storiche. La trasformazione del concetto di libertà.

Week 3: L’Ottocento. Federazione, Unione, Nazione. La società e la politica americane e la loro trasformazione. La Guerra Civile e la Ricostruzione. La frontiera e l’espansione degli Stati Uniti.

Week 4: Le sfide politiche degli Stati Uniti contemporanei. Le elezioni del 2024: prospettive e temi principali.

Module II
Week 1: Il ruolo degli Stati Uniti a livello internazionale tra la fine dell’Ottocento e l’inizio del Novecento. La società di massa e il nuovo concetto di libertà.

Week 2: L’età progressista, il New Deal e la guerra mondiale. Affermazione degli Stati Uniti come grande potenza. Le nuove libertà americane

Week 3: Il movimento dei diritti civili, la crisi degli anni settanta e la trasformazione della società. Il nuovo millennio. 9/11. Il paese diviso e la radicalizzazione della politica: da Obama a Biden. Il 6/1/21.

Eric Foner, Storia degli Stati Uniti d'America. La «libertà americana» dalle origini a oggi, Roma, Donzelli, 2017.
Francesco Clementi e Gianluca Passarelli, Eleggere il Presidente: Gli Stati Uniti da Roosevelt a oggi, Venezia, Marsilio, 2020.
La Dichiarazione di indipendenza degli Stati Uniti d’America (Qualunque edizione)

La Costituzione degli Stati Uniti d’America. http://www.dircost.unito.it/cs/docs/stati%20uniti%201787.htm


One book among the following:

Tiziano Bonazzi, Abraham Lincoln. Un dramma americano, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2016.

Michael Cox, Agonie dell'impero. Il potere americano da Clinton a Biden, Milano, Vita e Pensiero, 2022

Daniele Fiorentino, Il Pluralismo culturale, Roma, Viella, 2021.

Jonathan Scott Holloway, Breve storia degli afroamericani, Bologna, Marsilio, 2022.

Arnaldo Testi, Stelle e strisce. Storia di una bandiera, Torino: Bollati Boringhieri, 2003.

Non attending students must prepare also: La Costituzione degli Stati Uniti, a cura di Fabrizio Tonello, Milano, Bruno Mondadori, 2010

The colonization of Eritrea
The first war in Africa
The conquest of Libya
The Italian colonies during the First World War
The "pacification" of Tripolitania and Cyrenaica
The Italo-Ethiopian war
Racism in the colony
"Madamato" and "meticciato"

A. Volterra, Sudditi coloniali. Ascari eritrei 1935-1941, FrancoAngeli, Milano, 2005

A.Volterra, M.Zinni, Il leone, il giudice e il capestro, Donzelli, Roma, 2021

Part One. Basic concepts. The European System of Economic Accounts (ESA). ESA 2010 innovations. Aggregate accounts (current accounts, accumulation accounts, balance sheets). Statistical measures of production’ factors (capital and labour). Production function and productivity.

Part Two. Index Numbers: definition, methods and properties, consumer price index . Dynamic and static spatial analysis of economic-productive phenomena. Definitions and measures of inequality and poverty. The measurement of well-being.

Cesare Piacentino, Elementi di Statistica Economica e Contabilità Nazionale, Aracne, Roma, 2009:
cap. 1, 2 cap. 5 § 5.1 § 5.2 § 5.5, cap. 3, 6

Schemi e appunti di contabilità nazionale secondo il nuovo sistema europeo, a cura di Mazziotta C., Di Palma F., De Castris M., 2006.
“La rilevazione dello stock di capitale” a cura di Mazziotta C., Magazzino C., 2005.
“I coefficienti tecnici nella tavola input-output”, a cura di Mazziotta C. e De Castris M., 2007.
“Le principali novità del Sec 2010”, a cura di De Castris M., 2016.
Parte seconda.
Cesare Piacentino, Elementi di Statistica Economica e Contabilità Nazionale, Aracne, Roma, 2009:
cap. 3, 6
Renato GUARINI e Franco TASSINARI, Statistica Economica, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2000:
cap. 12, § 6
Dispensa esercizi per la prova scritta:
Esercizi e soluzioni relativi alla seconda parte, a cura di Mazziotta C. e De Castris M., 2007.
Dispense integrative relative alle lezioni della parte seconda:
L’analisi della povertà: concetti e metodi, a cura di De Castris M., 2016.
Analisi statistica dei dati territoriali, a cura di De Castris M., 2016.
N.B. Le dispense integrative sono disponibili presso 4Appunti, via Chiabrera, 174, tel. 06.59605579.

The course aims at providing an outline of the evolution of economic theorizing from Antiquity to the most recent developments. A special attention will be devoted to the works of F. Quesnay, A. Smith, D. Ricardo, T. R. Malthus, K. Marx, A. Marshall, V. Pareto, J. M. Keynes. As concerns the most recent developments of economic theory a particular attention will be devoted to theories concerning money, business cycle, unemployment, financial crises. The course further aims at providing a critical awareness on the relationships among economic theory and its practical implementation in terms of public policies.

For those who attend the lectures: notes made available both at the library and at 4Appunti shop in front of the Dep.t. For those who cannot attend the lectures, please add J.M. Keynes's General Theory (1936), whatever edition.

The program is divided into two parts: the first relates to the fundamental themes and concepts of the sociology of communication; the second concerns the main theories of mass communication, paying particular attention to the role and social effects of the new media.

Specifically, the following topics will be examined:

- society and mass communication

- main theoretical perspectives

- social effects of new media

- scenarios of contemporary communication

One of the following books to choose from:

- W. Benjamin, L'opera d'arte nell'epoca della sua riproducibilità tecnica, Torino, Einaudi, 2014

- B. Chul-Han, Infocrazia. Le nostre vite manipolate dalla rete, Torino, Einaudi, 2023.

- V. Codeluppi, Vetrinizzazioni. Individui e società in scena, Torino, Bollati Boringhieri, 2021

- G. Riva, Fake news. Vivere e sopravvivere in un mondo post-verità, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2018.

Objectives

The aim of the course is to introduce the main concepts, approaches, methods and the central problems regarding the scientific analysis of political phenomena in order to provide students with basic knowledge for analyzing and understanding the functioning of contemporary political systems.

Program

The course will present and discuss in comparative perspective all main themes of the discipline, specifically will be analyzed the following topics: state, democracy, non-democratic regimes and regime changes, political parties, interest groups, electoral systems, parliaments, governments, bureaucracy and public policies.

1) P. Grilli di Cortona, O. Lanza, B. Pisciotta, L. Germano, Capire la politica. Una prospettiva comparata, Utet, Novara, 2020 (III edizione);

2) P. Grilli di Cortona, Lezioni di scienza politica, a cura di R. Chiarini e B. Pisciotta, Editoriale Scientifica, Napoli, 2016.

Students with 9CFU program should prepare both texts in full.
Students with 6CFU program should prepare the first seven chapters of the first text and the second text in full.

First module - Focus on English Grammar

The first module deals with some of the main grammar and morpho-syntactic structures of the English language.

Second module - American Short Stories

The second module is an introduction to the diversity of American culture through short stories and their writers. At the end of the module, students will be able to: analyze the chronological and historical development of the American short story through its most representative authors; become familiar with the act of analyzing and interpreting short stories through appropriate theoretical and methodological frameworks, acknowledging alternative interpretations and developing critical thinking; experience how literary and cultural texts can transform one’s perception and understanding of self, other and communities.

Edgar Allan Poe, “The Tell-Tale Heart” (1843)
Kate Chopin, “Desiree’s Baby” (1893)
Ambrose Bierce, “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” (1890)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper” (1892)
Jack London, “To Build a Fire” (1908)
Susan Glaspell, “A Jury of Her Peers” (1917)
Ernest Hemingway, “The Killers” (1927)
Ralph Ellison, “Battle Royal” (1947)
Shirley Jackson, “The Lottery” (1948)
Ray Bradbury, “There Will Come Soft Rains” (1950)
Joyce Carol Oates, “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” (1966)
Alice Walker, “Everyday Use” (1973)
Raymond Carver, “Cathedral” (1983)
Tim O’Brien, “The Things They Carried” (1990)
Margaret Atwood, “Lusus Naturae” (2014)

The short stories listed above may be read in any edition in English.

The course will focus on: “The Plague in Literature”.

It will tackle this topic through the analysis of three texts: “La Peste” (1947) by Albert Camus, “Le théâtre et la peste” (1938) by Antonin Artaud and “Les pestiférés” (1977, posthumous) by Marcel Pagnol.

1) Albert Camus, “La Peste”, Paris, Gallimard, 1947 (or any other paperback French edition)

2) Pierre-Louis Rey, “Camus: l’homme révolté”, Paris, Gallimard, 2006, 95 p. (available from Moodle platform or copy shop Appunti, via Chiabrera 174)

3) Alessia Berardi, “«La Peste» d’Albert Camus: une analyse de la société coloniale algérienne à travers le prisme de l’épidémie”, «Il Tolomeo», n° 22, 2020, pp. 187-202 (available from Moodle platform or copy shop Appunti, via Chiabrera 174)

4) Antonin Artaud, “Le théâtre et la peste”, in “Le Théâtre et son double”, Paris, Gallimard, 1838, pp. 21-47 (available from Moodle platform or copy shop Appunti, via Chiabrera 174)

5) Marcel Pagnol, “Les pestiférés”, in “Le Temps des amours”, Paris, Éditions de Fallois, 2004, pp. 139-194 (available from Moodle platform or copy shop Appunti, via Chiabrera 174)

Grammar Texts (optional):
1) Michèle Boulares, Jean-Louis Frerot, “Grammaire progressive du français” (niveau avancé), Paris, Clé International, 2012
Or
2) Dominique Berger, Anne Charlotte Signoret, Nerina Spicacci, “Savoir-dire, savoir-faire” (niveaux B1/B2), Bologna, Zanichelli 2008
3) Françoise Bidaud, Marie-Christine Grange, “Manuel de français intermédiaire. Corso di lingua francese (B1/B1+)”, Milano, Hoepli, 2017

Camus’s novel and grammar texts are available from: Feltrinelli Bookstore, Via V. E. Orlando, 78/81 Roma.

The program is divided into three parts. A first theoretical part will illustrate, in a diachronic key, the morphosyntactic foundations of modern French and some essential phases in the evolution of the French language. A second part will focus on institutional relations between France and the French-speaking world, with particular attention paid to the question of language in the French-speaking South (Africa, the Caribbean and Pacific region). Finally, a third part will focus on the linguistic and discursive analysis of enunciation in the transnational context and will be carried out on a selection of authentic texts indicated in the program and available on Moodle. All texts studied in class will be part of the exam.
As Level B1 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) is an essential requirement to register the final exam grade, students who need to pass the B1 test are recommended to check well in advance the class schedule and the exam dates at the Roma Tre University Language Center (CLA).
Those students who already have a language certificate of the above-mentioned level are invited to contact the University Language Center for possible validation of such certificate.

General textbook:
1) Michel Tétu, Qu’est-ce que la francophonie, Vanvers, Hachette, [1997] 2019, Parties I, III (per tutti).

Chapters on the history of French language in France:
2) Françoise Gadet, Ralph Ludwig, Le français au contact d'autres langues, Paris, Éditions Ophrys, 2015, pp. 25-41 (downloadable on Moodle).
3) Lise Gauvin, La fabrique de la langue. De François Rabelais à Réjean Ducharme, Paris, Seuil, 2004, pp. 22-35 + pagine del cap. 3 fornite su Moodle (downloadable on Moodle, compulsory for non-attending students).

Chapters on the French language in the French-speaking world:
4) Françoise Gadet, La variation sociale en français, Paris, Ophrys, 2007, pp. 13-33 (downloadable on Moodle, to all students).
5) Lise Gauvin, La fabrique de la langue. De François Rabelais à Réjean Ducharme, Paris, Seuil, 2004, ch. VII (downloadable on Moodle, to all students).

Critical and methodological readings on socio-institutional and socio-discursive approaches to the French-speaking world, namely “francodoxie” (downloadable on Moodle)
6) François Provenzano, ch. 2 : "Qu’est-ce que la francodoxie?", in "Vies et mort de la francophonie. Une politique française de la langue et de la littérature", Bruxelles, Les impressions nouvelles, coll. Réflexions faites, 2011, pp. 55-70 (downloadable on Moodle, to all students).
7) Ruth Amossy, ch. 4: "Images de soi, images de l'autre: 'je' / 'tu' ", in "La présentation de soi. Ethos et identité verbale", Paris, PUF, 2010, pp. 103-130 (downloadable on Moodle, to all students).

Texts/discourses to be analysed (downloadable on Moodle, except for Fatou Diome’s book, to be acquired):
- Discours d'Onésime Reclus (extracts) + reading from Pinhas (downloadable on Moodle, compulsory for non-attending students).
- Discours de Nicolas Sarkozy à la jeunesse de Dakar (2007) + one of the two critical readings "L'Afrique répond à Sarkozy" downloadable on Moodle (1. Ngalasso, 2.Th. Obenga).
- Frantz Fanon’posture in "Peau noire, masques blancs", selected texts (chapter 1 to be read for non-attending students, downloadable on Moodle).
- Discours sur la dette, Thomas Sankara (1987).
- Marianne porte plainte!, Fatou Diome (Albin Michel: 2017) – to be acquired (-10% at the librairie Stendhal for all students from Roma Tre).

Compulsory for 12 CFU exam:
Tzvetan Todorov, Nous et les autres. La réflexion française sur la diversité humaine, Paris, Seuil, 1989, pp. 21-34, 133-194 (downloadable on Moodle).

Grammar manuals recommended for developing language skills (not requested at the examination):
- Michèle Boulares, Jean-Louis Frerot, "Grammaire progressive du français (niveau avancé)", Paris, Clé International, 2012.
Or
- Dominique Berger, Anne Charlotte Signoret, Nerina Spicacci, "Savoir-dire, savoir-faire (niveaux B1/B2)", Zanichelli 2008.
or
- Françoise Bidaud, Marie-Christine Grange, "Manuel de français intermédiaire. Corso di lingua francese (B1/B1+)", Hoepli, 2017 (downloadable materials and "corrigés" on the official website).

For beginners (A1/A2):
- Berger/Spicacci/Bergamaschi, "Savoir-dire Savoir-faire (A1/A2/B1)", Zanichelli, 2016 (materiale multimediale e «corrigés» scaricabili dal sito ufficiale);
or
- Françoise Bidaud, Marie-Christine Grange, Jean-Pierre Seghi, "Manuel de français. Corso di lingua francese (A1/A2)", Hoepli, 2012 (CD audio + mp3).

Course contents
Module I: Language
Grammar contents:
Revisión de los tiempos de pasado del indicativo
Revisión de los tiempos del imperativo
Conectores del discurso
Pretérito Perfecto de Subjuntivo, Pretérito Imperfecto de Subjuntivo, Pretérito
Pluscuamperfecto de Subjuntivo: Morfología y usos
Repaso del Condicional Simple
Condicional Compuesto. Morfología y usos
Los relativos adverbiales
Por y para
Oraciones independientes: contraste indicativo/subjuntivo
Oraciones relativas: contraste indicativo/subjuntivo
Oraciones sustantivas: verbos de percepción, pensamiento, verbos de sentimiento, deseo, voluntad, verbos de mandato, ruego, prohibición …
Ser, estar, parecer + que: contraste indicativo/subjuntivo
Oraciones adversativas
Oraciones causales
Oraciones consecutivas
Oraciones finales
Oraciones condicionales
Oraciones concesivas
Oraciones temporales
Oraciones de modo
Oraciones de lugar
Oraciones comparativas
Verbos de cambio
Note: the language module concerns the grammatical and morphosyntactic contents that students will have to study in order to pass the written test (B1) intended for all students.
Maria Vittoria Calvi, ¡ENHORABUENA! Curso y gramática de español para italófonos. Niveles B1 B2, Seconda edizione, Zanichelli, Bologna, 2020.

Modulo II: Fraseologia e Paremiologia
Contenuti teorici:
Historia del nacimiento del estudio de las unidades fraseológicas y paremiológicas
Máximos exponentes
Definición de las UF
Características de las UF (idiomaticidad, fijación, sentido figurado, brevedad, presencia de arcaísmos …
Clasificación de las UF
Las locuciones
Las colocaciones
Las paremias
Los enunciados fraseológicos
Análisis contrastivo
Ejemplos y aplicación práctica

TEXT FOR THE PREPARATION FOR THE EXAM:
Luisa A. Messina Fajardo, Apuntes de fraseología, paremiología, traducción y didáctica del español, Avant editorial, Barcelona, 2017.
Alessia A. S. Ruggeri, Chi dice donna. . . dice tutto! Aprende a conocer a la mujer a través de las unidades fraseológicas italianas y del léxico común, Editorial Académica Española, Riga, 2020.


Introducción
Primera parte: fraseología, paremiología y didáctica
Capítulo 1: fraseología y cultura en la didáctica del español
1.1. Introducción
1.2. ¿por qué se debe estudiar la fraseología?
1.3. Lexicultura y frasecultura
Conclusiones
Capítulo 2: traducción de las unidades fraseológicas
2.1. introducción
2.2. las unidades fraseológicas como pretextos del acto de habla
2.3. traducción de las unidades fraseológicas
Conclusiones
Capítulo 3: la metáfora en las unidades fraseológicas
3.1. Introducción
3.2. Fraseología y metáfora
3.3. Metáforas de la vida cotidiana
3.5. Las paremias en los diálogos de la vida cotidiana
Conclusiones
Capítulo 4: el arcaísmo y la recreación de las paremias
4.1. Introducción
4.2. El refrán y el arcaísmo
4.3. La creación paremiológica
Conclusiones

Capítulo 5: la brevedad en las paremias y en el microrrelato
5.1. Introducción
5.2. Definición de brevedad
5.3. La brevedad en las paremias
Conclusiones

Quinta parte: fraseología y lenguajes especiales
Capítulo 16: los lenguajes especiales: el lenguaje político
16.1. Introducción
16.2. Los lenguajes especiales: características
16.3. El lenguaje político
16.4. Características del lenguaje político
16.4.1. la sintaxis
16.4.2. el léxico
16.4.3. la metáfora
16.5. Otros rasgos del lenguaje político
16.5.1. el contexto
Conclusiones finales

Module III Culture
The module focuses on the study of special languages and political language. The characteristics and analysis of the political discourse.
REFERENCE TEXT:
Messina Fajardo, L. A., El lenguaje político. Características y análisis del discurso político, Maggioli editore / Apogeo education, Milano, 2016.

THE MANDATORY PARTS ARE:
Introducción
El discurso político: herramientas de análisis
CAPÍTULO 1 LOS LENGUAJES ESPECIALES. EL LENGUAJE POLÍTICO

Module I
Maria Vittoria Calvi, ¡ENHORABUENA! Curso y gramática de español para italófonos. Niveles B1 B2, Seconda edizione, Zanichelli, Bologna, 2020.
Module II
Luisa A. Messina Fajardo, Apuntes de fraseología, paremiología, traducción y didáctica del español, Avant editorial, Barcelona, 2017.
Module III Cultura
Messina Fajardo, L. A., El lenguaje político. Características y análisis del discurso político, Maggioli editore / Apogeo education, Milano, 2016.

The course consists of two parts: German grammar and German Regional Studies (Landeskunde).
1. German Grammar and its structure and syntax. Course materials consist of extensive vocabulary-building exercises and texts that address a broad range of cultural topics.
2. The coursebook “Zur Orientierung” covers the political, social and cultural history of Germany from the Nazi “Third Reich” to the present. Among the themes that we explore are the radical transformations of the country after the Berlin Wall.

H. DREYER , R. SCHMITT, Lehr- und Übungsbuch der deutschen Grammatik. Die Gelbe Aktuell, Verlag für Deutsch
Zur Orientierung, Basiswissen Deutschland, Hueber Verlag

The course aims at providing students with an understanding of the history of Latin America from the processes of independence to the to the 2000s. At the end of the course, students will have an in-depth knowledge of the problems and events dealt with during the lessons and to be able to appropriately contextualize them over the chronological period studied.

The course addresses (among others) these key topics:

- The idea of Latin America
- The process of independence
- The construction of national states and the affirmation of the primary-export model
- The English and North American presence
- Migrations and Latin America
- The Crisis of the Liberal State
- Relations with Europe and the United States in the 1920s and 1930s
- The emergence of the populist state
- Cold War and Latin America
- The Cuban Revolution
- The 1960s: crises, reforms, revolutions
- The counter-revolutionary cycle. The National Security Doctrine, military dictatorships and the neo-liberal state
- The Plan Condor and human rights violations in the Southern Cone
- Democratic transitions
- Internal armed conflicts and peace processes in Central America and Colombia
- The indigenous question
- Regional integration processes
- The turn of the century and the challenges of the new millennium

Attending students should study the text:

- Loris Zanatta, Storia dell'America Latina contemporanea, Laterza, 2017 ss.

Students will have to prepare an oral presentation during the course.




Non-attending students will have to study the following texts:

- Loris Zanatta, Storia dell'America Latina contemporanea, Laterza

- Raffaele Nocera, Stati Uniti e America Latina dal 1823 ad oggi, Carocci

The course aims at exploring the History of the Islamic world in its genesis with a special focus on it historical origin, in order to provide the students with:

a. A methodological introduction to the history of Islam and the Muslim majority countries, aiming at a critical approach, aware of the dangers of prejudices and misrepresentations. Hence, students will be introduced to the question of Orientalism, and its persistence until today, then the question of periodization of History from an Islamic viewpoint, looking in a diachronic way, at eras of the Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Region where Islam was born and developed in the first instance.
b. Basic elements of Islamic studies: creed, texts, pillars, umma, jihad, Law (shari'ah). Moreover, students will study the notions of: authority, Shi'a and Sunna, Caliphate and Imamate; Dhimma; Everyday Islam.
c. Outline of politico-institutional History of Islam from the Unity of the Caliphate until the fragmentation and the Ottoman Empire, highlighting the plurality of experiences of the Islamic States.
d. An Introduction to the basic themes of Modern and Contemporary History of Muslim Majority Countries, with a special focus on Middle East and North Africa.

For those attending the course:

- Appunti delle lezioni
- Lorenzo Declich, Islam in 20 parole, Bari-Roma: Laterza 2016.
- Pier Giovanni Donini, Il mondo islamico. Breve storia dal Cinquecento a oggi, Bari-Roma: Economica Laterza, 2015 (o altre edizioni).
- Short articles available in pdf from https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/122G5xn30mQ13pp4l2xlMA3ShjkbQgbAR, including:
- Anna Bozzo, L’Islàm questo sconosciuto.
- EW Said, Orientalismo, “Introduzione”.
- G. Endress, Introduzione alla storia del mondo musulmano, Capp. 1-3-6.

Those non attending must read one of the following:

- Carole Hillenbrand, Islam. Una nuova introduzione storica, Torino: Einaudi, 2016.
- G. Filoramo (a cura di), Islam, Roma-Bari: Laterza, ultima edizione.

We will also consult this translation of the Qur'an:
Il Corano, traduzione e cura di A. Bausani, Milano, BUR.

The course aims to provide an adequate overview of the main issues of political, economic and social history that affected Russia and Central and Eastern Europe during the 19th and 20th centuries.

1) The imperial dimension of Central-Eastern Europe between XVIII and XX centuries; 2) The Balkans and the Ottoman Conquest; 3) The Transformations of Russia up to the First World War; 4) National Revival in the Balkans; 5) Nationalism and Multiethnic Realities in Central Europe; 6) What Modernisation? Social, economic and national issues in Eastern Europe between World War I and World War II; 7) The Bolshevik Revolution; 8) Stalinism and the Soviet State; 9) World War II and the birth of a new limes in Europe; 10) The communist system and the Cold War; 11) Crisis and end of communism; 12) From the Urals to Trieste: an endless transition?; 13) The challenges of the new Russia and the present world.

Giulia Lami, Storia dell'Europa orientale. Da Napoleone alla prima guerra mondiale, Firenze, Le Monnier Università, 2019.

Giovanna Cigliano, La Russia contemporanea. Un profilo storico, Roma, Carocci, 2013.

Stefano Bottoni, Un altro Novecento. L'Europa orientale dal 1919 a oggi, Roma, Carocci, 2021.

Comparative Analysis

Influential Cultural and Political Elements in Legal Systems
Impacts of Historical Transformations on Law

Current Legal Systems:
Common Law
Civil Law
Mixed Systems
Traditional Systems

Fundamental Legal Principles in Legal Systems
Analysis of Legal Cases: Contracts, Civil Liability, Human Rights

the textbooks mentioned during the lectures

Syllabus

The course will be divided into two parts:
General part:
1.The object and the method 
2.The great models of comparative law: civil law and common law
3.The forms of state and government
4.Fundamental rights and constitutional interpretation 


Special part:

Fundamental rights in the field of intercultural research 
1. Pluralist principle and cultural relativism 
2. Looking East; 2.1. …Looking to the African continent; 2.2. …Looking to Latin American countries 
3. The dual nature of the dignity-rights relationship: some examples 

Bibliography

Students that will attend the lectures must study: 

 G. Morbidelli, M. Volpi, G.Cerrina Feroni, Diritto costituzionale comparato, Giappichelli, Torino, 2020.
S. Bonfiglio, Costituzionalismo meticcio. Oltre il colonialismo dei diritti umani, Giappichelli, Torino 2016.

First module - Focus on English Grammar

The first module deals with some of the main grammar and morpho-syntactic structures of the English language.

Second module - American Short Stories

The second module is an introduction to the diversity of American culture through short stories and their writers. At the end of the module, students will be able to: analyze the chronological and historical development of the American short story through its most representative authors; become familiar with the act of analyzing and interpreting short stories through appropriate theoretical and methodological frameworks, acknowledging alternative interpretations and developing critical thinking; experience how literary and cultural texts can transform one’s perception and understanding of self, other and communities.

Edgar Allan Poe, “The Tell-Tale Heart” (1843)
Kate Chopin, “Desiree’s Baby” (1893)
Ambrose Bierce, “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” (1890)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper” (1892)
Jack London, “To Build a Fire” (1908)
Susan Glaspell, “A Jury of Her Peers” (1917)
Ernest Hemingway, “The Killers” (1927)
Ralph Ellison, “Battle Royal” (1947)
Shirley Jackson, “The Lottery” (1948)
Ray Bradbury, “There Will Come Soft Rains” (1950)
Joyce Carol Oates, “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” (1966)
Alice Walker, “Everyday Use” (1973)
Raymond Carver, “Cathedral” (1983)
Tim O’Brien, “The Things They Carried” (1990)
Margaret Atwood, “Lusus Naturae” (2014)

The short stories listed above may be read in any edition in English.