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Single discipline educational activity
Course Sheet Academic Year of enrolment:
Professor and Collaborators:
Hours of classroom activity:
Prerequisites:
Students who intend to take the Course should have a good general knowledge of the most significant, periodizing facts of the general history of modern Europe.
Objectives Contents The Course is based on the study of modern European history, projected to conquer the world, which provided to transform it irreversibly and to transmit its fundamental values, which also represented the weapons of that same conquest: capitalism, the composite State and political and social pluralism.
The elements to undertake that conquest were some institutions and power, like the Church, rival of politics; a military ruling class founded on birth and land ownership, often rebellious; a plurality of urban organizations, of legal
The modern age culminates at the end of the nineteenth century, in the so-called age of imperialism, before the incredible European suicide in the first half of the twentieth century. Consequently, it is no longer important to consider the contemporary age as the completion of modern history, but rather to distinguish modernity from a postmodern time that opens with world wars and coincides with the end of European dominance and the failure of its identity.
In part two of the Course the characteristics of the Abruzzo in the modern Southern Italy will be studied, as a peculiar part of Mediterranean Europe, through the deepening of the juridical, political, administrative and economic-productive dynamics.
Extended Syllabus For students who attend lessons the program of study includes:
The social resources of Europeans; political systems; the discovery of complexity; wars, factions and politics; monarchies, republics and reformist policies; the flexibility of European weapons; the revolution and the counter-revolution; the overwhelming power of Westerners
Political, institutional, economic and social aspects of the Abruzzi affair in the history of modern Europe. Public and private institutions and powers; Modern state and monarchical sovereignty; the center / periphery relationship; city and countryside; economy and society; feudalism and underdevelopment.
For those students who do not attend the lessons in addition to the program of study outlined above they must also undertake a careful study of :
Recommended Bibliography Reading materials:
Additional materials to be carried out by NON-ATTENDING STUDENTS:
Recommended readings:
Teaching Methods The Course consists of 8 ECTS corresponding to 48 hours of frontal activity carried out in the first semester and divided into 2 weekly lessons of 2 hours each in line with the academic calendar.
Evaluation methods Verification of learning:
The assessment of the level of acquisition achieved by students will be done through an oral exam to be given at the end of the Course. The exam will be based on the contents of the study program and aimed at ascertaining the degree of preparation achieved by the students, their ability to critically analyze the topics covered; their level of discursive organization, the quality and effectiveness of their acquisition, the level of coherence they have reached in describing events and historical phenomena together with corresponding chronological coincidence.
Contacts/More Information Attendance at lessons is optional.
During the scheduled office hours, students will have the opportunity to receive further clarifications, both on merit and method, on the nature and the training objectives of the Course.
