13724 - History of Contemporary Italy (1)

Academic Year 2008/2009

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Rimini
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Fashion Cultures and Techniques (cod. 0955)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the module students will have a basic knowledge of italian society history between the Nineteenth and the Twentieth Century and of the most important political, social, economical and cultural transformations since national unity to the second post-war period through the analysis of memories, autobiographies, diaries and photographic documents from private and public archives

Course contents

Methods and sources of social history and young people's history

Historiographical problems

Cultures and youth costumes

Consumptions, trends and images value

Fight policy and Social Commitment

Models of education, feelings and emotional behaviour

Readings/Bibliography

D. Calanca, Identità familiari 1920-1980, Bononia University Press, Bologna 2008

D. Calanca, Non ho l'età. Giovani moderni negli anni della rivoluzione, Bononia University Press, Bologna 2008

P. Sorcinelli, A. Varni (a cura di), Il secolo dei giovani. Le nuove generazioni e la storia del Novecento, Donzelli, Roma 2004 (capp. I, III, V, VI, VIII)

Teaching methods

Lessons, seminars, practices.

Assessment methods

Oral exam. In addition to recommended readings a research of unpublished photographic documents from family photo album is request, according with the teacher, in collaboration with imaGo online Laboratorio di Ricerca Storica e di Documentazione Iconografica sulla Memoria del Quotidiano (http://imago.rimini.unibo.it) and with Archivio delle voci (www.archiviodellevoci.eu).

Students have to prove their knowledge of Twentieth Century History at least on the most relevant political, social and economic facts, as part of their studies prior to attending University. For this reason an entrance test is expected in the form of a written questionnaire to be undertaken by the students during the first days of lessons.

Those who do not submit or pass this written test, must prove their knowledge during subsequent oral exams.

If necessary for the preparation on Twentieth Century History the follow handbook is recomended P. Sorcinelli, D. Calanca, D. Pela, Storie , La Nuova Italia- RCS Scuola, Milano, 2003, vol. III, or any other Twentieth Century History handbook for high school students.

Teaching tools

Multimedia tools

Digital resources on the net

Links to further information

http://www.storiaefuturo.com

Office hours

See the website of Daniela Calanca