00932 - Contemporary History (M-Z)

Academic Year 2015/2016

  • Docente: Fiorenza Tarozzi
  • Credits: 9
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: In-person learning (entirely or partially)
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Foreign Languages and Literature (cod. 0979)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the lessons the student has knowledge of the basic features of the political-institutional and socio-economic history of the 19th and 20th centuries. He is able to recognize the evolution of historical phenomena and events and how they influence the contemporary age.

Course contents

The lessons try to show how phenomena and events happened in Italian and International history, focusing on continuity, changes and on turning points.

Readings/Bibliography

INSTITUTIONS:

G. Sabbatucci-V. Vidotto, II Mondo contemporaneo dal 1848 a oggi, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2007

SECOND PART:

G. Vidotto, Guida allo studio della storia contemporanea, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2009

ONE VOLUME CHOSEN FROM:

P. Macry, La società contemporanea. Una introduzione storica, Bologna, II Mulino, last edition

G. De Luna, La passione e la ragione, Milano, Bruno Mondadori, 2004

A.M. Banti, Le questioni dell'età contemporanea, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2010

Teaching methods

Lectures

Assessment methods

STUDENTS WHOSE SURNAMES BEGIN with letters M-Z MUST TAKE THE EXAM WITH PROF. TAROZZI

STUDENTS WHOSE SURNAMES BEGIN with letters A-L MUST TAKE THE EXAM WITH PROF. DONDI

The exam consists of a written test that lasts one hour and is composed of 24 multiple choice questions divided in the following manner:

12 questions from the Manual and the Reader and 12 questions from texts chosen.

You must sign up for the exam on Almaesami.

The test is written. The maximum number students permitted is 50 for each exam session (there will be two sessions on the same day).

When you sign up for the exam, you must notify the course professor regarding the texts you have chosen by sending a signed e-mail with your name and surname to the e-mail address fiorenza.tarozzi@unibo.it, indicating which text you have chosen.

If you do not indicate the texts you have chosen, the enrolment will not be valid.

If you decide to withdraw from the exam, you must remove your name from the list to allow others to register. The enrolment closes automatically when there are 50 students signed up on the sub-list. The enrolment will close automatically one week before the date of the exam session. After this deadline it will no longer be possible to enrol. Requests addressed to professors to make exceptions will not be considered.

The criteria are described in the following table:

30 points with honours (lode) for 24 correct answers

30 points with 23 and 22 correct answers

28 points with 20 and 21 correct answers

27 points with 19 and 18 correct answers

26 points with 17 correct answers

24 points with 16 correct answers

22 points with 15 correct answers

20 points with 14 correct answers

18 points with 13 correct answers

 

The test must be repeated if:

in the part relating to institutions, the student has not answered at least 7 out of 12 questions correctly.

Office hours

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