Studying at the University of Verona

Here you can find information on the organisational aspects of the Programme, lecture timetables, learning activities and useful contact details for your time at the University, from enrolment to graduation.

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Laurea in Lingue e culture per il turismo e il commercio internazionale - Immatricolazione dal 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

2° Year   activated in the A.Y. 2020/2021

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD

3° Year   activated in the A.Y. 2021/2022

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
3rd foreign language
3
F
-
Stage
6
S
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Final exam
6
E
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ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
activated in the A.Y. 2020/2021
ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
activated in the A.Y. 2021/2022
ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
3rd foreign language
3
F
-
Stage
6
S
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Final exam
6
E
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Modules Credits TAF SSD
Between the years: 1°- 2°- 3°

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S Placements in companies, public or private institutions and professional associations

Teaching code

4S003356

Credits

6

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

SECS-P/12 - ECONOMIC HISTORY

Period

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

Learning outcomes

The course is a survey of the modern and contemporary world Economic History. What students will learn during the course will be useful to understand today's societies and economy, by placing them into their historical path, in a global and long running perspective.

Program

Which economic process characterised the modern and contemporary age? What's the connection between industrialisation and the economic development of the West? What's the relation between capitalism, globalisation and economic crises?
The course will try to answer to these and other questions by analysing the main matters of the modern and contemporary economic history. The aim of the course is to analyse the different aspects of the economic development since the late XVIII century to the beginning of the third millennium.

This course will deal with the following topics:

Productive and labour organisation
* the industrial revolutions in Europe
* Industrialisation outside Europe
* business organisation and development

The connection between capitalism, crisis and economic policies
* the evolution of finance
* XX c. economic crises and the war economy
* State intervention into national economies

New economies
* Europe: from post-war development to the crisis
* the Asiatic rise
* the boundaries of the economic development


Reference texts
Author Title Publishing house Year ISBN Notes
Ennio De Simone Storia economica. Dalla Rivoluzione Industriale alla Rivoluzione Informatica (Edizione 5) FrancoAngeli 2016 8891708372

Examination Methods

Attending students:
Written exam: three open questions (personal notes and handbook De Simone)

Not attending:
Written exam: three open questions (handbook De Simone).

In order to pass the exam, all three answers need be sufficient. Every answer can obtain a maximum of 10 points (with a minimum threshold of 6 point as pass mark).

IMPORTANT: Due to the current COVID emergency, the exam will be oral.

How:
- 3 questions, with a sufficient answer in all. No more that 3 questions per student are allowed.

Where and when:
- Zoom. Students enrolled will receive a notification with the time for the connection and the credentials the previous day. Students shall connect at the indicated time, with the microphone off and wait to be called.
- Absence: Students must unsubscribe from the exam list or let the teacher know the day before (by 10 am) they will not partecipate to the exam, Those who won't be online when called, will receive the failure grade (not absence).

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