GENERAL GUIDELINES AND SKILLSGENERAL GUIDELINES AND SKILLS
HISTORY
At the end of the course the student knows the most important
events about the trasformationsin the history of Europe and
Italt,from antiquity to the present day,as part of the global
historyof the world;he can use an appropriate vocabolary and
interpretive categories of the actual discipline;the student
knows how to read and assess the various sources;he looks to the
history as a significant dimension to understand through critical
discussions and comparisons of a variety of perspectives and
interpretations,the roots of the present.
The starting point will be the emphasis on the temporal dimension
of each event and the ability to place it in the correct
chronological order. On the other hand, the importance of the
space should not be overlooked. In fact, history involves a
geographic dimension and human geography, in turn, requires
temporal coordinates. The two space-time dimensions must be an
integral part of learning the discipline.
Making use of the basic vocabolaryof the discipline, the student
elaborates and exposesthe topics in an articulate and attentive
way paying attention to their relationships;he also captures the
elements of affinity-continuity-discontinuity and diversity
between different civilizations. Moreover, adequate space must be
reserved for the issue of citizenship and the republican
Constitution,so that at the end of the five years, the student is
familiar with the fundamentals of our constitutional order and
will be also in relation with the activities carried out by
schools with the necessary skills,for an active and responsible
civic life.
Without detracting from the overall framework of
reference,adequate space will be reserved for activities that
bring evaluation to different type s of sources,read historical
documents or compare different interpretative thesis:that in
order to understand the ways in which scholars build their
telling of history,the variety of sources used and the contrast
of different interpretations. The student will also accrue a
method of study which will put him in a position to summarize and
outline an expository text of an historical nature. Attention
also shoul be paid to oral exposure which occurs frequently and
will be particularly desirable to keep the accuracy in placing
the events according to the correct space-time coordinates,the
coherence of the discourse and the mastery of terminology.
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES OF LEARNIG
FIRST TWO YEARS
The first two years will be devoted to the study of ancient
civilizations and the early Middle Ages. In the construction of
learnig paths,the following topics cannot be excluded:the major
civilizations of the Ancient Near East, Jewish civilization, the
Greek civilization, the Roman civilization, the advent of
Christianity, the Roman-barbarian Europe, companies and economy
in early medieval Europe, the Church in the early Middle Ages,
the birth and spread of Islam, high Middle Age's Empire and
kingdoms. The study of various topics will be accompanied by a
reflection on the nature of the sources used in the study of
ancient and medieval history and the contribution of disciplines
such as archeology, epigraphy and paleography.
SECOND BIENNIUM
The third and the fourth year will be devoted to the study of the
process of formation of Europe and its opening in a global
dimension between the Middle Ages and the modern age,starting
from the eleventh century until the beginning of the twentieth
century.
In the construction of learning paths, the following topics
cannot be omitted:different aspects of the revival of the
eleventh century, the universal powers (the Papacy and the
Empire), the Church and religious movements, late medieval
society, and in Europe,the crisis of universal powers and the
advent of territorial monarchies and feudalism;geographical
discoveries and their consequences and the final crisis of
religious Europe unity and the construction of modern states and
absolutism;economic development until the industrial revolution ,
the political revolutions of the seventeeth and eighteenth
centuries (English, American, French); the Napoleonic age and the
Restoration, the problem of nationality in the nineteeth century,
the Italian Risorgimento and Italy combined, the Western
nation-state, the social question and the labour movement, the
second industrial revolution, imperialism and nationalism, the
development of Italian state until the end of the nineteeth
century.
FIFTH YEAR
The final year is devoted to the study of the contemporary era,
from the analysis of the premises of World War I to the present
day. In the construction of learning paths, the following topics
cannot be excluded :the beginning of mass society in the West,
the Giolitti era, World War I , the Russian revolution and the
Soviet Union from Lenin to stalin, the crisis of the post-war
fascism, the crisis of 1929 and its consequences in the United
States and the world; Nazism, the Holocaust and other genocides
of the twentieth century, the World War II, Italy from Fascism to
the Resistance and the stages of construction of republican
democracy.
The historical context of the late twentieth century will be
built around three main lines:
- the "Cold War" carried out at the end of the twentieth century:
the UN, the German question, the two blocks, the age of
Khrushchev and Kennedy, the collapse of the Soviet system, the
process of formation of the European Union, the processes of
globalization, the Information revolution and the new conflict of
global world.
- the struggle for decolonization and development in Asia, Africa
and Latin America: the birth of the state of Israel and the
Palestinian question, the non-aligned movement, the resurgence of
China and India as global powers.
- the history of Italy in the second post-war reconstruction, the
economic boom, the reforms of the sixties and the seventies,
terrorism and "Tangentopoli" and the crisis of the political
system in the early 90s.
Some issues of the contemporary woeld will be examined taking
into account their nature, "Geographical "(e.g., distribution of
natural resources and energy, the dynamics migration, the
demographic characteristics of the different areas of the planet,
the relation between climate and economics). Besides, particular
attention will be devoted to deal with some of these topics in an
interdisciplinary manner, in relation to other subjects (for
example: the experience of war, society and culture in the age of
totalitarianism, the relation between intellecual and political
power).