Corso di laurea in Storia

The educational objectives of the course are:

1) providing a basic knowledge of the early modern worlds, from the age of the great discoveries to the Industrial Revolutions

2) developing understanding of the global and world history perspective

3) developing the ability to define, analyze and discuss historical and historiographical issues and topics

4) developing the ability to make comparisons at both the synchronic and diachronic levels

5) developing debate skills on historical and historiographical issues and topics

Students will be able to display their a) Knowledge and understanding b) Autonomy of judgment c) debate skills regarding:

1) Patterns of development in Early Modern History.

2) Cultural and institutional diversity among different parts of the world.

3) Historical changes in life and material culture.

The discovery of new and old worlds

The making of States and Empires in Asia, Africa, Europe, America

Religious conflicts between civilizations

Cultural, institutional and material transformations in an age of exchanges and contacts.

Frontal teaching and lab and seminar classes (36h). Flipped classroom.

Students who are not able to attend face-to-face lectures may access audio recordings (some lectures only), available on the Moodle platform along with learning material: books to study for the oral exam could be found below.

Course will be held as a seminar. Knowledge and learning skills will be mostly ascertained during the classes. The preparation will be considered adequate if students carry out satisfactorily the assigned tasks and homeworks, demonstrating that they are able to discuss the topics and problems covered by the teacher and that they have developed communication and debate skills, independent judgment and learning ability.

The evaluation is expressed in marks out of thirty (18/30 pass, 30/30 max)

Students who achieve an independent vision of the themes explored in class, combined with good critical capacity, a command of expression using precise language, will be assessed with a very good or excellent grade (28–30 and honours); a primarily mnemonic or somewhat under developed acquisition of the contents of the course, with a linguistic and logical competence which is not always adequate will be valued with a grade from fair (21–24) to good (25–27); a minimal level of understanding of the contents of the course, combined with gaps in training or inadequate linguistic and logical competence, will earn a sufficient grade (18–20); the absence of the minimal level of understanding of the course contents, combined with inadequate linguistic and logical competencies and with training gaps, will produce an insufficient grade (<18/30).

The evaluation is expressed in marks out of thirty (18/30 pass, 30/30 max)

Students with DSA or disabilities are urged to review the University's support offices:

Students with DSA are requested to inform the lecturer at the beginning of the course in order to agree on a personal learning path suited to their needs, even beyond the compensatory and dispensatory measures provided for the exam.

All attending students are required to study ALL the materials uploaded on Moodle. Non-attending-the-lab students are required to add any world history handbook (early modern section) or

Jerry H. Bentley, The Oxford Handbook of World History, Oxford University Press, Year: 2011 (early modern articles)

Early Modern History is a course taught in English dedicated to non-native Italian speakers and Italian speakers as well. Limited English proficient students will be helped with specific tools and in some circumstances they can ask to take their exam in Italian. 

The course is delivered in synchronous mode (face-to-face), with recordings, when possible. All registrations are shared on the Moodle platform with the enrolled students.