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HISTORY OF REPUBLICAN ITALY Single discipline educational activity
Course Sheet Academic Year of enrolment:
Professor and Collaborators:
Hours of classroom activity:
Prerequisites:
It is desirable, but not necessary, that the students have already taken an exam in Contemporary History
Objectives Contents Political and social issues of Republican Italy in a transnational perspective.mt.giusti62@gmail.com m.giusti@unich.it
Extended Syllabus Political and social issues in Republican Italy.
The syllabus for students who take the exam for 9 academic credits is the following:
The syllabus aims at providing the Students in the knowledge about some themes regarding Italian history during the Republican age, starting from the second post-war period; the resumption of relations with other powers after the military defeat; Italy in the Cold War; the strategies of Italian politics aimed at legitimating the new democracy at a European and world level.
Referring to the general objectives, and taking into account the objectives referred to the Course of Study, at the end of the course the students will have to reach a critical attitude which allows them to evaluate the cause-effect relationships of the historical events; they will have to analyze the historical phenomena; to compare historical events; carry out a scientific research. As regards the specific objectives of the discipline, students will have to gain a correct command of the specific historical language referred to the studied contents; they will have to carry out an archival research; to know the historiography about specific themes; they will have to collect bibliographic material and information; to grasp connections of events; to prepare a history lesson on a set theme; to report to the working group on a specific topic; to write a text with notes; to know how to analyze a political case in a critical way.
Recommended Bibliography The syllabus for students who take the exam for 6 academic credits is the following:
The syllabus for students who take the exam for 9 academic credits is the following:
Teaching Methods Lectures for 42/63 hours. Use of computer and video-projector. Visit an archive. A film screening related to the issue. Thematic workshops. Use of an app provided by the volume History of Politics.
Evaluation methods Verification of learning:
The final assessment consists of an oral exam on the entire syllabus. The aim is to assess the students’ skills and in particular their understanding of the issues discussed during the course, their knowledge of the bibliography in the reading list, the correct command of the specific language as well as of critical and methodological abilities. The grading scale ranges from 1 to 30 with honours (cum laude): 1-17 fail, 18-21 sufficient, 22-24 fair, 25-27 good, 28-29 very good, 30-30 with honours (cum laude) excellent.
Contacts/More Information The program is the same both for attending and for non-attending students
