EXPECTED LEARNING OUTCOMES
The acquisition of a secure awareness of the main thematic nodes of the contemporary age-social, economic, political and religious-and of their transformations and interrelationships, placing them in the relevant time frame. The acquisition of appropriate conceptual background and corresponding expressive vocabulary. The ability to read contemporary reality in a diachronic and processual dimension.
THE ABILITY TO APPLY KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
The student/student must demonstrate the ability to recognize the complexity of phenomena and to connect the different planes-economic, political, social, cultural-that connote historical processuality; he/she must also demonstrate the ability to grasp the different scaling of the phenomena themselves (macro/micro).
ADDITIONAL EXPECTED LEARNING OUTCOMES
Autonomy of judgment:
The student is expected to develop the ability to reason about phenomena from circumstantial considerations, evaluating the sources of information, exercising a critical sense free from ideological or common sense simplifications.
Communication skills:
Be able to express oneself with appropriate terminology with respect to different historical phenomena.
It is important to have a general knowledge of the main events and processes of contemporary history of the 19th-20th centuries, which should be acquired in the last year of high school. At the very least, knowing how to chronologically place phenomena such as the industrial revolution, political liberalism, imperialism, decolonization, globalization etc. is essential.
The course is taught in a “face-to-face” mode, making frequent use of historical sources and documents to be projected and analyzed in the classroom.
The exam is conducted orally in Italian, with exceptions to be agreed upon.
The teacher will assess both the body of knowledge acquired and the adequacy of the communicative register used, as well as the ability to connect the different planes-economic, political, social, cultural-that connote historical phenomena.
A.M. Banti, L'età contemporanea. vol. 1: Dalle rivoluzioni settecentesche all'imperialismo, Laterza, Roma- Bari (any edition).
A.M. Banti, L'età contemporanea. vol. 2: Dalla Grande Guerra a oggi, Laterza, Roma-Bari (any edition).
1. Eighteenth-century revolutions and the political subject
2. Industrial revolution and the market
3. Political liberalism and the Nation in the long Nineteenth century
4. Democracy: ideality and institutions
5. Scientific culture and humanistic culture
6. Colonialism and Imperialism
7. World wars and Revolutions
8. the great transformation of the 1950' and 1960'
9. Global scale and national scale at the end of the 20th century
10. The challenges of the present
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