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.

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 introducing to the specific tools and methods of research in Modern and Contemporary History. Activities by students, even in small groups of 2-4 people, in which they will be called to use the tools and methods described in the lectures, in constant contact with the teacher of the course. This practice activity will be aimed at writing a short essay (20,000 characters) on a theme concerning Modern and Contemporary History.

Assessment methods

The assessment will take place in the form of an oral interview.

Starting from the results of short written essay (which must be delivered at least one week before the exam), the assessment will verify:

1. A good mastery in the use of general tools for historical studies and specific tools for Modern and Contemporary History.

2. A good command of the methods of research in Modern and Contemporary History.

3. A good mastery of the means of written expression of a research in Modern and Contemporary History.

The possess of this knowledge and skills will lead to an assessment of suitability.

Teaching tools

In the lectures we will use PowerPoint slide shows, which will be published on the website of the course, on the platform Virtuale.

Office hours

See the website of Carlo De Maria