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Learning outcomes

Within the bachelor's degree courses in Literature and Philosophy, the teaching of history is of fundamental importance to provide the space-time coordinates within which the different civilizations have developed, not only European. The historical approach, based on research, examination and criticism of sources and their interpretation (susceptible to different solutions) is an inescapable moment not only of the humanities, but of all knowledge.
At the end of the course the student must demonstrate that he is able to critically examine a source and critically interpret a text of history (also the manual) enucleandone the interpretative key, aware that the interpretations of historical facts can also be very different from each other, but must all be based on a correct examination of the sources.
Adopting complementary teaching methods (general history lessons, monographic lessons, seminar meetings, source analysis laboratory) the course aims to provide the essential elements to understand the reality and dynamics of European societies of ancient regime (secc. XVI-XVIII) through a series of framework lessons dedicated to the main institutional and social aspects of the modern world.
Addressing a particular monographic theme, students will then have to be able to overcome the manual simplifications (producers of unconscious stereotypes) and historiographical clichés, verifying on sources and texts the most well-known interpretative patterns.

Program

General part: Introduction to the history of Europe in the modern age (1st module i)
A good basic knowledge of European history between 1453 and 1815; b) the ability to interpret its main moments of transformation at the economic, social, political-institutional, cultural level; c) the ability to analyze and contextualize a historical document.

Examination Methods