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Laurea in Lingue e letterature straniere - Enrollment from 2025/2026

The Study Plan includes all modules, teaching and learning activities that each student will need to undertake during their time at the University.
Please select your Study Plan based on your enrollment year.

CURRICULUM TIPO:

1° Year 

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
1 module to be chosen between the following
3rd foreign language B1 level
3
F
-

2° Year   activated in the A.Y. 2021/2022

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
1st foreign language
2nd foreign language
1st foreign literature
2nd foreign literature
1 module to be chosen between the following

3° Year   activated in the A.Y. 2022/2023

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
1 module among the following (philology related to 1st or 2nd foreign language)
6
C
M-FIL/04
1 module between the following
Final exam
6
E
-
ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
1 module to be chosen between the following
3rd foreign language B1 level
3
F
-
activated in the A.Y. 2021/2022
ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
1st foreign language
2nd foreign language
1st foreign literature
2nd foreign literature
1 module to be chosen between the following
activated in the A.Y. 2022/2023
ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
1 module among the following (philology related to 1st or 2nd foreign language)
6
C
M-FIL/04
1 module between the following
Final exam
6
E
-
Modules Credits TAF SSD
Between the years: 1°- 2°- 3°

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Teaching code

4S002901

Credits

6

Also offered in courses:

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

M-STO/04 - CONTEMPORARY HISTORY

Period

II semestre (Lingue e letterature straniere) dal Feb 15, 2021 al May 29, 2021.

Learning outcomes

The aim of the course is to provide students with the historical skills to frame and contextualize the cultural phenomena they face in the other courses of their Degree Courses, that is to say the basic knowledge of the events and processes of transformation of political, social, economic and cultural structures from the beginning of the 20th century to today. At the end of the course students will develop the ability to critically analyze historical processes and socio-cultural transformations of the contemporary age and will be able to reason in a diachronic way, placing events in their different temporalities.

Program

Requirements in advance: Good knowledge of Italian language (reading). Elementary knowledge of Early Modern European History

Course description:
The course deals with the period between the Great War and the present day and analyzes national and international processes of formation of the contemporary world

Teaching method: Lessons; seminars

Books (attending and not attending students):
1) T. Detti e G. Gozzini, Storia contemporanea. VOL. II, IL NOVECENTO, Pearson, 2017

2) One of the following books:
- C. Clark, I sonnambuli. Come l’Europa arrivò alla Grande Guerra, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2013
-M. Del Pero, Libertà e impero: gli Stati Uniti e il mondo, 1776-2006, Laterza, Bari-Roma 2008
- K.K. Patel, Il New Deal. Una storia globale, Einaudi, Torino 2016
- J.M. Keynes, Le conseguenze economiche della pace, Adelphi, Milano, 2007
- B. Droz, Storia della decolonizzazione nel XX secolo, Bruno Mondadori, Milano 2007
- E. Hobsbawm, Viva la revolución. Il secolo delle utopie in America latina, Rizzoli, 2016
- F. Romero, Storia della guerra fredda: l’ultimo conflitto per l’Europa, Einaudi, Torino 2009

Reference texts
Author Title Publishing house Year ISBN Notes
G. Sabbatucci, V. Vidotto Storia contemporanea. Dalla Grande Guerra a oggi (Edizione 5) Laterza 2020

Examination Methods

Oral exam with zoom

Students with disabilities or specific learning disorders (SLD), who intend to request the adaptation of the exam, must follow the instructions given HERE