The Welfare State in Italy since 900
Course Program for 2023-2024 academic year - Contemporary History

Professor: Maria Teresa Giusti
e-mail: mt.giusti62@gmail.com m.giusti@unich.it

The course aims at analyzing the difficult path in constructing the Welfare State in Italy, starting from the end of the XIX century through the fascism and the in the first Republic.Volumes:
1 C. Giorgi, I. Pavan, Storia dello Stato sociale in Italia, Il Mulino, 2021 (a part)
2) M.T. Giusti, Relazioni pericolose. Italia fascista e Russia comunista, Il Mulino, 2023
3) S. Colarizi, PassatoPresente, Laterza, 2022

The students, who did not take an exam in Social History or Contemporary History in a previous three-year course of study, are requested to contact the professor in order to modify the program.
The syllabus aims at studying the birth of the Welfare State in Italy starting from the end of XIX century to the Republic age. 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; make comparisons with other disciplines on some historical aspects (such as Literature or Anthropology). 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.