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Type D and Type F activities
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Laurea in Lettere - Enrollment from 2025/2026COMPETENZE TRASVERSALI
| years | Modules | TAF | Teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1° 2° 3° | FAI Activities | F |
Edoardo Bianchi
(Coordinator)
|
| 1° 2° 3° | Series of conferences Don Nicola Mazza University College | F |
Alessandra Zangrandi
(Coordinator)
|
| 1° 2° 3° | Business English for everybody | F |
Serena Dal Maso
(Coordinator)
|
| 1° 2° 3° | Russian for everybody | F |
Serena Dal Maso
(Coordinator)
|
| 1° 2° 3° | Intercomprehension laboratory between the Romance languages | F |
Alessandra Zangrandi
(Coordinator)
|
| 1° 2° 3° | Laboratory to introduce the study of Ancient Greek | F |
Dino Piovan
(Coordinator)
|
| 1° 2° 3° | Books and writings of the Greek world | F |
Paolo Scattolin
(Coordinator)
|
| 1° 2° 3° | Music in History | F |
Vincenzo Borghetti
(Coordinator)
|
| 1° 2° 3° | Discovery and re-discovery of a city: Verona in the heart of the Roman Empire | F |
Riccardo Bertolazzi
(Coordinator)
|
The History of science (p) (2022/2023)
Teaching code
4S01268
Teacher
Coordinator
Credits
6
Language
Italian
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
M-STO/05 - HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Period
2 A, 2 B
Learning objectives
The aim of the course is to deepen the knowledge about the eighteenth-century reflection on the evolutionary mechanisms on the conceptions of nature, of man and of society, in an interdisciplinary perspective.
Prerequisites and basic notions
No cognitive prerequisites are required
Program
THE POLITICS OF EVOLUTION: theories of species and their social uses
Preface: Scientific ideologies and biopolitics
Variation and persistence of the living forms in the Seventeenth century
1. John Ray and the idea of perfect adaptation
2. Robert Hooke and the revolutions of the globe
Variation of the species in the Eighteenth century
3. De Maillet, libertinism, eternalism
4. Linnaeus and the economy of nature
Pre-darwininian transformism
5. Lamarck, Erasmus Darwin
6. Cuvier and biological fixism
Charles Darwin
7. The crisis of Natural Theology
8. Human evolution: emotions and intelligence
9. Social darwinism and Marx's reaction
The evolution in the Twenteeth century
10. The New Synthesis
11. Steven J. Gould
Anti-darwinian and anti-selectionism
12. The Intelligent design hypothesis
13. Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini against panselectionism
PREPARATION OF THE EXAM
Working on Barsanti's textbook, students should devote particolar attention to distinguishing between Lamarcks' and Darwin's views of the evolutionary mechanism.
Bibliography
Didactic methods
The classroom meetings include, in the first part, a frontal lesson enriched by slides that allow you to read and comment on texts, visual representations, original documents. In the second part, students are asked to discuss in seminar the texts that the teacher will make available in Pdf format on the online platforms well in advance.
Learning assessment procedures
During the traditional oral interview the Professor will ask the student to discuss verbally two or more topics of the programme.
International students and students that do not intend to partecipate to the lectures are kindly requested to get in contact with the Professor as soon as possible.
Evaluation criteria
The objective of the exam consists in verifying the level of achievement of the previously indicated educational objectives. In particular, by asking the student to illustrate two or more points of the program, the teacher will evaluate the breadth and accuracy of the contents acquired by the student, the clarity and logic of the argument, the autonomy and originality of the thought. The active participation of the student in class work will be an important element of evaluation.
Criteria for the composition of the final grade
The final grade is unitary and refers both to the study carried out and to the participation in class work.
Exam language
Italiano
