Teaching code

4S02148

Teacher

Gian Paolo Romagnani

Credits

6

Also offered in courses:

• Early Modern History - MODULO 2 of the course Bachelor's degree in Philosophy

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

M-STO/02 - MODERN HISTORY

Period

Sem. 2B dal Apr 8, 2019 al Jun 1, 2019.

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Learning outcomes

The historical approach, based on research, on the examination and criticism of the sources and their interpretation (susceptible to different solutions) is an unavoidable moment not only of the humanistic disciplines, but of all knowledge.
At the end of the course the student will have to demonstrate to be able to critically examine a source and to critically interpret a text of history (also the manual) enucleating the interpretative key, aware that the interpretations of historical facts can also be very different from each other. , but they must all be based on a correct examination of the sources.
By adopting complementary teaching methods (general history lessons, monographic lectures, seminar meetings, source analysis workshop) the course aims to provide the essential elements for understanding the reality and dynamics of European societies of ancient regimes (XVI-XVIII centuries) ) through a series of framework lessons dedicated to the main institutional and social aspects of the modern world. Facing a particular theme with a monographic character, the students will then be able to overcome the simplifications of manuals (producers of unwitting stereotypes) and the historiographical clichés, verifying the most familiar interpretative schemes on the sources and texts.

Program

Monographic part: The seventeenth century of contrasts (2nd module p)
To overcome the second part of the exam, it is necessary to deepen a research path related to a theme of the history of the modern age (in this case the history of the seventeenth century) through the reading of a historiographic text of which we must to know not only the content, but the sources from which it was written, the cultural and political context in which it was conceived, recognizing the author as a historian who bears a personal methodology and consequently a key to interpreting historical events .

Examination Methods

The oral interview focuses on the monographic part and on the in-depth readings and aims to ascertain the student's ability to read a book critically, not limiting himself to the summary, but identifying the historiographical implications (which is the author, from which training he sources is based his research, such as his interpretative theses). The oral exam is also aimed at verifying.
- The property of language
- Analytical and argumentative skills
- The ability to make connections between different themes
- The ability to formulate new problems starting from the readings made