CONTEMPORARY HISTORY

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Academic Year of enrolment:

2013/2014

Type of Course:

Related/Supplementary

Optional/Mandatory:

Optional

Degree:

Bachelor's Degree Programme in LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL COMMUNICATION

Disciplinary Sector:

CONTEMPORARY HISTORY

Language:

Italian

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

D'AGATA Raffaele

Hours of classroom activity:

Prerequisites:

It is assumed that participants did acquire basic knowledge about modern and contemporary history at high-school level

AF code:

40000442

Assessment Methods

Verification of learning:

Oral

Teaching period

First semester

Objectives

Becoming able to reconstruct historical processes by observing the interaction among different kinds of factors; taking account of counterfactuals; applying knowledge of past events to understanding present situations.

Contents

World War I and the Soviet revolution. Mass society, capitalist crises and totalitarian ideologies between the two world wars. The rise of democracy after World War II. Globalization, the fall of soviet communism and present-day questions.

Recommended Bibliography

a) Attendants:
Albertina Vittoria, Manuale di storia, 3: Il Novecento e il nuovo millennio, Zanichelli.
Further material will be provided during class.
b) Non attendants:
- Adding to the above: Raffaele D’Agata, Idee, potere e società. Dalla presa della Bastiglia alla caduta del Muro di Berlino (pagine 209-410)

Teaching Methods

Lessons and Labs

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