ADDITIONAL EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES
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- Learning objectives
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In order to get the workshop’s/seminar’s credits, students must attend at least the 75% of the classes and pass a final exam. The type of exam (a written essay, an exercise in class, an oral examination) will be determined by the instructor in agreement with a permanent faculty member. The qualification (pass/fail) will be automatically acknowledged by the Academic office after receiving the communication by the instructor.
Among the learning objectives we find:
- knowledge of the main methodologic tools necessary to understand the cultural context of the historical events under scrutiny;
- understanding of the key role of scientific knowledge in contemporary societies;
- knowledge of the methodologies related to the codes and modalities necessary to the production of contemporary storytelling;
- capacity to elaborate an output to test the student’s own presentation and analytic skills;
- capacity to adopt and manage the interdisciplinary methodologic tools for the study of the relationship between History and Science, in order to elaborate projects of cultural development;
- capacity to identify and translate into a discourse the values related to the image and identity of a content, object or brand.
CULTURAL DIPLOMACY (2 credits – 16 hours): study of the origins, evolution, aims, and professional perspectives of the Italian cultural diplomacy in the European and extra-European countries through the assessment of the actions implemented by some cultural institutions (tools, planning, events) and the simulated organization of a cultural event.
SOURCES FOR THE HISTORICAL RESEARCH (2 credits – 16 hours): identification, understanding, selection, analysis and use of different kinds of historical sources for the preparation of an output in order to assess the student’s analystic and presentation skills.
THE WAR OF VIETNAM AND THE CULTURAL EFFECTS OF THE CONFLICT (4 credits – 32 hours): reconstruction of the genesis, dynamics, and consequences of the War of Vietnam ̶ which represented a watershed for a generation and the triggering event of a large-scale cultural and political domino effect ̶ in order to assess the consequences of the conflict in cultural, artistic, and journalistic terms.
FORMAT WRITING (4 credits – 32 hours): development of the writing skills to create an original content or format for the television (from ideation to structuring), with particular attention to the preparation of a Pitch and the realization of a sizzle reel or a moodboard.
HISTORY AND WRITING OF A SCIENTIFIC ARTICLE (4 credits – 32 hours): the students are oriented in the dynamics of the scientific publication, examined in historical perspective and through the simulation of the writing and publication of a manuscript. The aim is to track the reverse path of a scientific news by looknig back to the analysis of the sources.
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The educational aims of the course will be achieved through lectures.
Registration to the workshops/seminars is reserved to the students in their second year of the degree in “History and Stories of the Contemporary World”.
Students must register online and fill out all the fields with the information required.
To schedule a meeting with the instructor, students are required to send him/her an e-mail.