CONTEMPORARY HISTORY
STORIA CONTEMPORANEA
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| 2020/2021 | 8 |
| Lecturer | Office hours for students | |
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| Barbara Montesi | Always after classes and by appointment |
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Course with optional materials in a foreign language
English
This course is entirely taught in Italian. Study materials can be provided in the foreign language and the final exam can be taken in the foreign language. |
Assigned to the Degree Course
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Learning Objectives
Through an approach to the cultural history and historiography related to the 20th century, the course provides students with the skills to understand and critically reflect on the contemporary socio-cultural and economic processes. It also focuses on the public use of history, with the aim of acquiring the skills of its critical reading.
Program
The course provides students with the skills to understand and critically reflect on the global socio-cultural and economic processes, through the knowledge of the use of the historiographical concept of mass consuption. The course focuses on the main topics of the history of 20th century. In particular the course addresses the issues related to the italian “economic boom” and the ideologies of market consuption, favoring the perspective of gender identity and subjectivity.
Learning Achievements (Dublin Descriptors)
Knowledge and understanding: the student acquires the knowledge of the fundamental issues of the history of the twentieth century, and of the main historiographical interpretations
Applying knowledge and understanding: The student acquires the ability to interpret historical sources and apply them to a given historiographical framework
Making judgments: the student acquires critical skills that enable him to understand and evaluate in an autonomous way the stoirographic nodes and the texts that analyze them
Communication skills: the student understands and knows how to use the specialized language of the discipline.
Teaching Material
The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it
Teaching, Attendance, Course Books and Assessment
- Teaching
Frontal lessons, support of multimedia materials.
Interview with the teacher is recommended, through questions and requests for further investigation.
- Attendance
The are no attendance requirements
- Course books
Paolo Viola, Il Novecento, Einaudi, Torino 2000
Emanuela Scarpellini, L'Italia dei consumi. Dalla Belle Époque al nuovo millennio, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2014.
- Assessment
Oral examination. The examination consists of a few questions (always three) on the study texts and the topics addressed during the lesson
- Disabilità e DSA
Le studentesse e gli studenti che hanno registrato la certificazione di disabilità o la certificazione di DSA presso l'Ufficio Inclusione e diritto allo studio, possono chiedere di utilizzare le mappe concettuali (per parole chiave) durante la prova di esame.
A tal fine, è necessario inviare le mappe, due settimane prima dell’appello di esame, alla o al docente del corso, che ne verificherà la coerenza con le indicazioni delle linee guida di ateneo e potrà chiederne la modifica.
Additional Information for Non-Attending Students
- Teaching
The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it
The teacher is available for clarification, suggestions, explanations by email and, by appointment, also via skype.
- Course books
Paolo Viola, Il Novecento, Einaudi, Torino 2000
Emanuela Scarpellini, L'Italia dei consumi. Dalla Belle Époque al nuovo millennio, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2014.
- Assessment
Oral examination. The examination consists of a few questions (always three) on the study texts and the topics addressed during the lesson
- Disabilità e DSA
Le studentesse e gli studenti che hanno registrato la certificazione di disabilità o la certificazione di DSA presso l'Ufficio Inclusione e diritto allo studio, possono chiedere di utilizzare le mappe concettuali (per parole chiave) durante la prova di esame.
A tal fine, è necessario inviare le mappe, due settimane prima dell’appello di esame, alla o al docente del corso, che ne verificherà la coerenza con le indicazioni delle linee guida di ateneo e potrà chiederne la modifica.
Notes
The student can request to sit the final exam in English with an alternative bibliography.
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