90091 - Social and Cultural History of Contemporary Age

Learning outcomes

The course is addressed to students of cultural heritage; it aims to give basic knowledge of history of contemporary society and culture even with respect to material and immaterial cultural heritage. The first part of the course is methodological and historiographical, and the second part is devoted to an analysis of particularly documents and sources, that will be used for written and oral exams. At the end of the course the students will have the basic knowledge of some of the most important social transformations in Europe and in the Western World from the Industrial Revolution to the end of the 20th century including the related cultural processes. The students will acquire a basic competence in heuristics and in critical analysis of different types of sources, a knowledge of historiographical issues and methodologies of social and cultural history, and will be able to frame critically the main social and cultural events and phenomena, placing them in the general historical context.

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