Intercultural and Linguistic Mediation

ALESSIA CECCARELLI
ALESSIA CECCARELLI

A) Knowledge and understanding

- Students will be required to demonstrate basic knowledge and understanding of the topics covered during the course and presented in the reference bibliography; they will be able to prove to possess abilities of analysis, reflection and comparison concerning the main areas of modern history.

B) Applying knowledge and understanding

- Students will be able to demonstrate the full understanding of the syllabus of the course; they should apply the knowledge acquired to relevant issues in a thoughtful and critical way; they will be able to demonstrate they possess the appropriate skills to build and support arguments related to the topics covered by the course, and to apply the suitable techniques and methods to the field.

C) Making judgements

- Students will be able to express judgments in an autonomous form, on the basis of examples provided in the lectures and/or in the bibliographic resources provided, and prove to be able to find and interpret data in order to formulate answers to general – both concrete and abstract – problems.

D) Communication skills

- Students will be able to communicate information, ideas, problems and related solutions; to demonstrate adequate capacity of synthesis and expressive ability in the light of the specific terminology.

E) Learning skills

- Students will develop the skills necessary to undertake further studies with a certain degree of autonomy.

Students will acquire a solid knowledge of the early modern period (topics, categories, historiography) and will be able to analyzed the related sources, developing communication and critical thinking skills

Course unit without requirements

The course aims to provide knowledge and understanding of the methodological and critical aspects, applicable to the various disciplines that characterize its interdisciplinary aspect, modulated in relation to potential job opportunities

1. C. Capra, Storia moderna, 1492-1848, Le Monnier, 2021 (HANDBOOK of Early Modern History, from the late 15th century to the Congress of Vienna).

2. Careful READING of a book included in the following list:
- F. Braudel, Il Mediterraneo. Lo spazio, la storia, gli uomini, le tradizioni, Milano, Bompiani, 2017;
- P. Burke, La storia culturale, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2009;
- C. M. Cipolla, Vele e cannoni, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2001;
- N. Elias, La società di corte, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2006;
- P. Hazard, La crisi della coscienza europea, Torino, UTET, 2007;
- A. Koyré, Dal mondo del pressappoco all’universo della precisione, Torino, Einaudi, 2000;
- J. A. Maravall, La cultura del Barocco: analisi di una struttura storica, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2004 (about 300 pp. of your choice);
- E. Sereni, Storia del paesaggio agrario italiano, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1996 (about 300 pp. of your choice);
- T. Todorov, La conquista dell'America: il problema dell’altro, Torino, Einaudi, 1984;
- M. Weber, L’etica protestante e lo spirito del capitalismo, Milano, Rizzoli, 2009.

3. Additional materials will be indicated or provided during the course (see the course's Google Classroom board).

Frontal lessons

Non-attending students are admitted to the exam

Oral exam

-What does it mean ‘old regime’ and ‘modern state’?
-What does it mean ‘crisis and new role of the Mediterranean’ (XVI-XVII centuries)?
-What does it mean ‘iron century’?
-Please, speak about the ‘glorious revolution’
-Please, speak about the idea of religious tolerance, from the Peace of Augsburg (1555) to the Peace of Westphalia (1648)
-What does it mean ‘Enlightened absolutism/despotism’?
-Please, speak about the American independence
-What was the ‘Civil Constitution of the Clergy’ (during the French revolution)?
-Please, speak about Napoleon's reforms