CONTEMPORARY HISTORY
Stampa
Enrollment year
2017/2018
Academic year
2017/2018
Regulations
DM270
Academic discipline
M-STO/04 (CONTEMPORARY HISTORY)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Course
POLITICAL SCIENCE AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Curriculum
PERCORSO COMUNE
Year of study
Period
1st semester (02/10/2017 - 16/12/2017)
ECTS
9
Lesson hours
60 lesson hours
Language
Italian
Activity type
ORAL TEST
Teacher
ZIGLIOLI BRUNO (titolare) - 6 ECTS
ARISI ROTA ARIANNA - 3 ECTS
Prerequisites
High School final years History Programs knowledge needed (19th-21st Century).
Learning outcomes
The course aims at endowing students with critical and theoretical tools to appreciate spatial and time dimensions of historical phenomena. Main historiographical approaches and theories will be focused.
Course contents
The course is divided in 3 sections (20h each).
Section 1 (prof. Arianna Arisi Rota) aims to endow students with main coordinates to appreciate spatial and time "Long 19th Century" phenomena (focused period: 1848-1914).
Section 2 (prof. Bruno Ziglioli) will focus World War I-early 21st Century decades, on a European and global scale.
Section 3 (prof. Bruno Ziglioli) investigates one specific subject (Italian responsabilities removal in World War II). Sources, categories, approaches will be considered as far as public memories building is concerned.
Teaching methods
Frontal lectures will not merely offer an in class repetition of the text books contents, but they will provide students with main categories, processes, actors, keywords and proper language of Late Modern and Contemporary Age.
Reccomended or required readings
Section 1 and 2:
Fulvio Cammarano, Giulia Guazzaloca, Serena Piretti, "Storia contemporanea. Dal XIX al XXI secolo", Le Monnier Università, Firenze 2015.
Historical Atlas use needed.

Section 3:
Filippo Focardi, "Il cattivo tedesco e il bravo italiano. La rimozione delle colpe della Seconda guerra mondiale", Economica Laterza, Roma-Bari 2016.
Assessment methods
Oral Exam
Further information
Oral Exam
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