History and media
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The teachings of the three-year curriculum, constitute the essential conceptual heritage to tackle the issues proposed in the course.
The students’ knowledge will be assessed through an oral interview. The students are required to argue and critically analyse the texts and to critically compare the “traditional History” with the one reconstructed by the media (press, tv, web).
The final mark is calculated in 30ies. It will take into account the accuracy and quality of the responses (60%), as well as communication skill and the ability to adequately justify statements, analyzes and opinions shown during the interview (40%).
The course aims of analyzing the disclosure, or lack of interest (more or less instrumental) of specific historical themes through the use of some of the major media.
The course will be organized by topics and the lessons will be divided basically into two parts: every week there will be a historical and historiographical lesson that aims to contextualize each topic, and there will be a “practice” lesson: the students will have to write articles, editorials about the historical or historiographical subject explained by the lecturer or will have to debate how the media (press, tv, web) have addressed the historical or historiographical subject explained by the lecturer.
The course aims therefore at making the students able to analyze and evaluate the proposed historical themes and, above all, to compare the different way of making and spreading History.
The expected learning outcomes are:
• Knowledge and understanding of the historical period;
• Ability of arguing the historical and historiographical themes;
• Ability of interpreting the historical and historiographical themes.
"Worlds at War", from the ancient regime to the development of the modern world (sec. XV-XX):
- Ancien Regime: European and the Extra-European political system
- the European conquest of the world
- The European "weapons" and their flexibility over the centuries
- The discovery and confrontation with the complexity
- The debate on peace and war
- Towards the end of Western "superpower".
Required texts.
Students are expected to have studied the following books:
- PAOLO VIOLA, l’Europa moderna. Storia di un’identità, Einaudi (limitatamente alle pagine VII-73);
- WILLIAM MONTGOMERY WATT, Breve storia dell’Islam, il Mulino;
- BERNARD LEWIS, l’Europa e l’Islam, Laterza
- BERNARD LEWIS, Le molte identità del Medio Oriente, il Mulino.
Students are expected to have read the following book:
- CORRADO FORMIGLI, Il falso nemico. Perché non sconfiggiamo il Califfato nero, Rizzoli 2016.
Frontal lessons: the lecturer explains the contents of the course and interacts with the students through discussions, debates and group works. Once a week a specific task will be assigned and will be correct by the lecturer; the correction will be read and discussed in the classroom with the students.
OFFICE HOURS:
Every Friday, from 4,30 p.m. to 7.30 p.m. at the DiSTA Department (Via Mazzini, 5 – Varese).
It is recommended to contact the lecturer via e-mail.
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Degree course in: SCIENCE AND TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION