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 Prerequisites
High School final years History Programs knowledge needed (19th-21st Century).
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. Selected case studies taken from italian and World history will be focused.
The teaching offer will include a tutoring service which will consist of weekly online meetings 6.00 to 7.30 pm, starting from mid-October. It will also include 10 evening online streaming lectures designed for students-workers (8.00 to 9.30 pm). The evening course aims at providing with the basic knowledge students who cannot attend the 30 ordinary lectures-package. The evening course is based on a selection of topics, while the ordinary package, being more complete, is meant for full time students.
The meetings schedule of the tutoring service and of the evening lectures, as well as teachers’ and tutors’ office hours, will be available at the start of the first semester.
Assessment Methods
Oral Exam (general and monographic parts assessed in the same exam session) aiming at assessing students' ability in matching causes and effects of the phenomena focused in the course. Appropriate reconstruction of historical processes and their chronology will be also verified.
Texts
Section 1 and 2: Fulvio Cammarano, Giulia Guazzaloca, Serena Piretti, "Storia contemporanea. Dal XIX al XXI secolo", Le Monnier Università, Firenze, 2015.
Section 3: Raffaele Nocera, "Stati Uniti e America Latina dal 1823 a oggi", Carocci, Roma, 2009.
Historical Atlas use needed.
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. Arianna Arisi Rota) will focus World War I-early 21st Century decades, on a European and global scale. Section 3 (prof. Anna Ferrando) investigates one specific subject (The historical and political relations between the United States and Latin America from 1823 to the present). Interpretative approaches, periodizations and sources will be considered.
