27276 - Laboratory (1) (Cont.)

Learning outcomes

By the end of the workshop students will be able to plan a research path, collecting, selecting and organizing data and documentary information thanks to the specific tools acquired during the course unit; they will be able to analyse documentary, material and iconographic sources in a critical light and from a diachronic perspective. They will able to write a short text without assistance. They will have learned to be methodologically rigorous and precise. Attuned to group work, they will have learned judgment on a professional, human and ethical plane.

Course contents

In the first part of the Laboratory, common to all the students of the degree course in History, will be examined the bibliographic tools of general interest, also in their digital versions, useful for the preparation of a thesis in the historical disciplines, for a total of 12 hours.

First part, October: 2, 3, 9, 10, 16, 17 october 2023 - . 1-3 pm Aula Morandi

First part, February: 5, 12, 19 february 2024 - h. 1-3 pm Aula Gualandi and 6, 13, 20 february 2024 - h. 1-3 pm  Aula Specola.

The second part of the activity of the Laboratory includes specific lessons on the area of the Modern and Contemporary History, for a total of 18 hours. We will cover the following issues:

1. The choice of the subject
2. Creation and analysis of the bibliography
   
3. The retrieval of the sources
   
4. The creation of a bibliographic archive
   
5. Analysis of evidence
6. Writing the dissertation

Readings/Bibliography

Paola Italia, Scrivere all'Università. Manuale pratico con esercizi e antologia di testi, Milano-Firenze, Mondadori Education - Le Monnier Università, 2014

Claudio Pavone, Prima lezione di storia contemporanea, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2007

Stefano Cavazza, Paolo Pombeni (a cura di), Introduzione alla Storia contemporanea, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2020

Teaching methods

Lectures

Assessment methods

Written essay

Teaching tools

Power Point

Office hours

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