Study-unit MODERN HISTORY

Course name Philosophy and psychological science and techniques
Study-unit Code 40007212
Curriculum Comune a tutti i curricula
Lecturer Filippo Maria Troiani
CFU 5
Course Regulation Coorte 2023
Supplied 2025/26
Sector M-STO/02
Type of study-unit Opzionale (Optional)
Type of learning activities Attività formativa monodisciplinare
Language of instruction Italian
Contents In the first part of the course the evolution of the European civilization will be faced by the end of Four hundred to the Napoleonic empire, weaving I space him/it political with the social, economic and cultural stories. In the second will deepen the specific theme the First Industrial Revolution in Europe with its social and cultural consequences.
Reference texts The recommended texts are: for general history; G. Gullino, G. Muto, R. Sabbatini, A. Caracausi, Storia moderna. Handbook for Universities, EDISES, 2014. For the second module La dispensa A. Giardina, G. Sabbatucci, V. Vidotto, La Rivoluzione industriale. Documents and Problems, Laterza, which will be available to students at the Morlacchi Library.
Educational objectives To know the changes and the breakups that have marked deeply the history of Europe in the modern age, underlining the changes more than the continuities and the uniformities, to analyze the multiplicity of the political models, cultural, religious and of the working forms of the organization of the society in the European history. To reconstruct the trials that have brought to the today's condition, individualizing in the European expansion, in to rise of a world economy, in the connection of the contents through the emigrations of mass, in the planetary widening of the international relationships, in the formation of a cosmopolitan culture, the roots of the contemporaneity.
Prerequisites With the purpose to understand and to face the course the student must possess the general notions concerning the chronological arc taken in examination by the course (1492 -1820), to know how to connect facts and events in the time, to reorganize data and concepts to know the principals conceptual and terminological tools of the discipline.
Teaching methods Frontal lessons with projections of slide and breves filmed that they reassume the treated contained principals.
Other information During the carrying out of the course you/they will have made of the students on the base UNISTUDIUM the materials used in the frontal lessons available.For urgent communications and appointments to write mail to the address filippo.troiani@unipg.it
Learning verification modality The evaluation consists of a final oral exam. The final oral exam consists of a 30-minute max interview related to the entire program of the course that aims to ascertain the knowledge of the topics covered and the mastery of the language, the ability to use the acquired knowledge and to connect it in the argument beyond the ability to discuss and deepen in various respects the different topics covered in the first and second module.
Extended program The course is separated in two parts. In the first one you/they will be faced the changes and the breakups that have marked deeply the history of Europe in the modern age, underlining the changes, the plurality of the political models, cultural, religious and of the forms of the organization of the society. Such objective will be reached through the knowledges and the study of the followings matters: The breakup of the geographical barriers - the explorations and the discovery of America - the birth of the colonial empires Italy and Europe in Five hundred - the shine of the Italian Renaissance - the wars of Italy - the Protestant Reform - the Controriforma and the Council of Trento - new wars for the predominance on Europe Six hundred - Six hundred Europe - the absolute monarchy in France - the parliamentary monarchy in England - Italy in Six hundred - the scientific revolution The first Seven hundred - the new culture of the Enlightenment - Europe and Italy of the Seven hundred one The age of the Revolutions - the first industrial Revolution - the American Revolution and the birth of the United States of America - the French Revolution - The Napoleonic age. In the second will be presented the theme of the birth and development of the first industrial revolution in Europe
Obiettivi Agenda 2030 per lo sviluppo sostenibile Among the objectives of the 2030 agenda that the course intends to pursue are issues related to respect and equality among peoples, equal dignity, and the result of achieving, in a historical key, an effective reduction of inequalities.