Course description and learning objectives

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.

Final assessment

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%).