CODE 66727 ACADEMIC YEAR 2020/2021 CREDITS 6 cfu anno 1 SCIENZE DELLA COMUNICAZIONE 8752 (L-20) - SAVONA SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINARY SECTOR M-STO/04 LANGUAGE Italian TEACHING LOCATION SAVONA SEMESTER 2° Semester MODULES Questo insegnamento è un modulo di: SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC HISTORY TEACHING MATERIALS AULAWEB OVERVIEW The course wishes to provide interpretative knowledge and means of the current transformations in the european societies of the twentieth century. Particularly, the role undertaken by wars will be analyzed as a catalyzing agent of the processes of geopolitical, social and cultural changes. All forms of war that hit Europe in the '900 will be analyzed: world wars, colonial wars, civil wars, wars for freedom and decolonization, revolutionary wars, global wars. AIMS AND CONTENT LEARNING OUTCOMES The class aims to provide students with notions and tools to understand the dynamics of the transformation experienced by European societies between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES Attendance and active participation in the proposed educational activities and individual study will enable the student to acquire useful knowledge and an effective ability to understand the main issues of the contemporary age, analyzed through popular writing, iconographic and audiovisual sources. At the end of the course the student must: - learn about the main periodic historical events in contemporary history - know the main historiographical theories - know the main methods of historical research - know and know how to use historical sources - being able to critically analyze contemporary historical events TEACHING METHODS The course consists of lectures for a total of 36 hours. The use of multimedia supports is foreseen. Specific lessons with a workshop approach will be dedicated to the sources useful for a social approach to contemporary history The teaching will be delivered in streaming on the TEAMS platform. The link to connect to is the following: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/team/19%3a5363800c8b2f47b1b37cfa9a674af96d%40thread.tacv2/conversations?groupId=d25d3c2d-c427-498f-af7c -ad156f336172& Two face-to-face meetings will be agreed with the students. SYLLABUS/CONTENT The program of the course provides for the deepening of the history of some key events and phenomena of the twentieth century, such as wars and migrations. Attention will also be given to some propaganda tools in the context of totalitarianisms. RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY In addition to the texts listed below, the slides used during the lessons and other didactic material inserted on the web are an integral part of the examination program. The notes taken during the lessons and the material on aul @ web are essential for the preparation of the exam as a attendant (ie those who have attended at least 75% of the lessons): E. Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century, 1914–1991, 1994 Non-attending students are also required to study: F. Caffarena, Scritture non comuni. Una fonte per la storia contemporanea, Unicopli, 2016 TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD FABIO CAFFARENA Ricevimento: On appointment fabio.caffarena@unige.it Exam Board FABIO CAFFARENA (President) CLAUDIO FERRARI ALESSIO TEI (President Substitute) AUGUSTA MOLINARI (Substitute) LUCA PERSICO (Substitute) CARLO STIACCINI (Substitute) LESSONS LESSONS START 22 February 2021 Class schedule CONTEMPORARY HISTORY EXAMS EXAM DESCRIPTION For attending students the exam consists of a paper written on the topics of the module. The exam is exclusively oral for non-attending students (ie for those who have not attended at least 75% of the lessons). The following exam dates are foreseen: Three dates: from genuary 2021 to february 2021 (for the years before 2020-2021) Four dates: from May 2021 to July 2021 One date: in September 2021 ASSESSMENT METHODS Further details and clarifications on how to prepare for the exam will be provided during the lessons. The written paper (for attending students) and the oral interview (for non-attending students) have the task of verifying that the student has acquired the basic notions and interpretative tools of the dynamics of transformation that European societies have undergone between the 19th century and the twentieth century. Exam schedule Data appello Orario Luogo Degree type Note 11/01/2021 09:00 SAVONA Orale 25/01/2021 09:00 SAVONA Orale 15/02/2021 09:00 SAVONA Orale 17/05/2021 09:00 SAVONA Orale 03/06/2021 09:00 SAVONA Orale 28/06/2021 09:00 SAVONA Orale 19/07/2021 09:00 SAVONA Orale 06/09/2021 09:00 SAVONA Orale FURTHER INFORMATION Students are invited to consult the teaching page (http://www.aulaweb.unige.it/) where all the information and teaching materials will be published Please note that any special educational needs for disabled students and SLD, also related to the examination procedures, must be previously reported to the competent DISFOR service: https://disfor.unige.it/servizi-studenti/ufficio-servizio-disabili