MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN HISTORY

Acquisition of the fundamental themes of the history of the twentieth century, with particular reference to the processes of social and political modernization in European countries and to the conflicts and class contradictions that characterized them.

According to the Dublin descriptors, the Course intends to pursue the following aims:

1) knowledge and understanding skills that reinforce those achieved in the first cycle; ability to elaborate and/or apply original ideas, in a research context.

2) ability to apply knowledge and understanding and problem-solving skills to new or unfamiliar topics set in broader (or interdisciplinary) contexts related to their field of study

3) ability to integrate knowledge and make judgements on the basis of information that is not necessarily complete

4) ability to communicate one's knowledge clearly and unambiguously to specialist and non-specialist interlocutors

5) ability to pursue research independently.

Eric Hobsbawm, Il secolo breve 1914/1991, Rizzoli, Milano 2012, pp. 1-674.

Silvio Pons, La rivoluzione globale. Storia del comunismo internazionale 1917-1991, Einaudi, Torino 2012, pp. 1-400

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