Study-unit CONTEMPORARY HISTORY
| Course name | Foreign languages and cultures |
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| Study-unit Code | 35054709 |
| Curriculum | Comune a tutti i curricula |
| Lecturer | Emanuela Costantini |
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| CFU | 9 |
| Course Regulation | Coorte 2021 |
| Supplied | 2021/22 |
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| Learning activities | Base |
| Area | Discipline storiche, geografiche e socio-antropologiche |
| Sector | M-STO/04 |
| Type of study-unit | Opzionale (Optional) |
| Type of learning activities | Attività formativa monodisciplinare |
| Language of instruction | Italian |
| Contents | eneral part: the main political, socio-economic and cultural events from the Italian unification process to nowadays. Monographic part:study of a specific issue about a country whose language is studied by the student. |
| Reference texts | Students attending the course: General part: F. Canale Cama, L'età contemporanea. Una storia globale, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2020; or R. Balzani e A. De Bernardi, Storia del mondo contemporaneo, Bruno Mondadori, Milano, ultima edizione Students attending the course: G. Sabbatucci, V. Vidotto, Il mondo contemporaneo, Laterza, Roma-Bari, last edition) Monographic course: all students One book among the following: M. E Cavallaro, La Spagna oltre l’ostacolo, La transizione alla democrazia: storia di un successo, Rubbettino, M. Nava, Storia della Germania dopo il muro, BUR, 2020 E. Garau, Margareth Thatcher: la formazione e l’ascesa, Carocci, 2020 B. Stora, La guerra d’Algeria, Il Mulino, 2009 M. Ferrari, L’incredibile storia di Antonio Salazar, il dittatore che morì due volte, Laterza, 202 A. Ferrari, la foresta e la steppa. Il mito dell’Eurasia nella cultura russa, Mimesis, 2012 |
| Educational objectives | Students are supposed to be able to understand the main events of contemporary history as well as to identify the historical roots of nowadays political, cultural and socio-economic processe. |
| Prerequisites | In order to adequately understand the subject of the lessons, students should have a clear knowledge of the time sequence Medieval history-Modern history-Contemporary history. They also should know the main events and historical processes of 19th and 20th century. |
| Teaching methods | Traditional lessons will expose the contents of the above-mentioned general and specific subject. Videos, graphs, photos, charts and maps in Power Point format will also be used. |
| Learning verification modality | Oral. |