CONTEMPORARY HISTORY
Academic Year 2023/2024 - Teacher:
MELANIA NUCIFORA
Expected Learning Outcomes
According to the Dublin
descriptors, students, at the end of the course, will demonstrate:
1) knowledge and understanding
of the main
events and processes characterizing the Twentieth Century from the Big War to
the crises of the Seventies, with reference to the main historiographical interpretations.
2) ability to apply knowledge in
order to demonstrate a professional approach and possess adequate skills both
to conceive and support arguments and to solve problems in one's field of study
5) learning skills necessary
to undertake subsequent studies with a high degree of autonomy.
Course Structure
The course, divided in three modules, is articulated partly in lectures
and partly in seminary class work. During the seminars, students will work in
groups reading texts, presenting and discussing their readings and historical
sources. Assessment test will be scheduled at the end of each module.
Required Prerequisites
No prerequisites required
Attendance of Lessons
Attendance is not compulsory
Detailed Course Content
The course is articulated in three modules:
Module
A (5 ECTS)
The First World War; The Russian Revolution; Europe between Democracy
and Authoritarianisms; The Sovietic Communism; Fascism and Nazism; United
States and New Deal; Economy and Society between the two Wars; the Second World
War; Bipolarism and Cold War; Decolonization; the Middle East; the West; The
Communist World; the Turning Point of the Seventies.
Module
B (2 ECTS)
Review of the most important historiographical interpretations on XX
century’s main issues.
Module
C (2 ECTS)
Monographic course about Cold World.
Textbook Information
Module A
(5 ECTS)
A. M. Banti, L'età contemporanea. Dalla Grande Guerra a oggi, Bari, Laterza,
2009, pp. 471.
Module B (2 ECTS)
A. M.
Banti, Le questioni dell'età contemporanea, Bari,
Laterza, 2010, all chapters except 1, 2, 4 e 15, pp. 43-59; pp. 78-299.
Module C
(2 ECTS)
- B. Bongiovanni, Storia della guerra fredda, Bari, Laterza, 2009, pp. 164.
