L00935 - HISTORY OF THE ADRIATIC AND MEDITERRANEAN

courses

ID:

L00935

Duration (hours):

48

CFU:

SSD:

STORIA MODERNA

Located in:

PESCARA

Url:

Course Details:

MODERN LANGUAGES FOR MANAGEMENT AND INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION/CORSO GENERICO Year: 1

Year:

2025

Course Catalogue:

https://unich.coursecatalogue.cineca.it/af/2025?co...

Date/time interval

Primo Semestre (01/10/2025 - 15/01/2026)

Course Objectives

The program is organized to meet the following objectives:1) lead the student to take possession of the keys to reading the past;2) educate the student in reflection and critical thought;3) put the student in a position to evaluate the complexity of historical realities in the long duration of the historical space of the Mediterranean, without ideological conditioning or misleading schemes;4) at the end of the program the student must be able to understand, through the forms of historical knowledge, the world in which he lives and, consequently, to see those political, economic and social changes that make it possible to predict possible future horizons.

Course Prerequisites

Students should have a good basic knowledge of the most important events in modern and contemporary history.

Teaching Methods

The Course is divided into 8 ECTS, equal to 48 hours of frontal activity carried out in the second semester and divided into 2 weekly lessons of 2 hours each in line with the academic calendar.The lectures are connected to a strong interactive component between teacher and students.The topics covered by the teaching program will be clarified in the exercises, also with the aid of relevant historiographic knowledge tools (textual, visual, audio-visual, linguistic, etc.).Seminars conducted by authoritative historians will also be organized, in which specific themes of the modern and contemporary Mediterranean history will be explored.

Assessment Methods

The assessment of learning includes an oral exam to be given at the end of the Course. The exam will test students on the contents of the reference texts adopted for the Course, by the students who are attending as well as those not attending lessons.It is aimed at ascertaining:1. the level of knowledge acquired by the students;2. the mastery, on their part, of the fundamental historical notions of the modern age and of the contemporary context;3. the acquisition of the language specific to the sector and the degree of organization of the discursive system;4. the ability to critically analyze the topics covered;5. the quality and effectiveness of the exposure;6. the level of specialized lexical skills;7. the ability to maintain a balanced periodization, narration and historiographic interpretation;8. the basic consistency between the description of the facts and their chronological-temporal correspondence.

Texts

E. Ivetic, L. Mascilli Migliorini, Il destino del mare. Napoli e Venezia, Bologna, il Mulino, 2025
M. Trotta, Adriatico. Per un paradigma storiografico tra cultura e indentità, Milano, Biblion, 2025

One of the principle objectives of this Course is an in-depth examination of the identity and structural characteristics of the geo-historical space of the modern and contemporary Mediterranean, in particular of the Adriatic, a small Mediterranean, and its continuous evolution within the world-system.Moreover, the Course aims at providing an outline of the historical periods of a multifaceted Mediterranean, the theater of violent clashes between remote antagonistic civilizations, but also a profitable crossroads of sea routes and commercial relations, where people over the centuries have become used to living in collectivity, to mingling with each other, and to the intermittent clashes between unity and diversity, between understanding and intolerance.

Course Language

Italian

More information

Class attendance is not mandatory.During the scheduled weekly office hours, students will have the opportunity to receive further explanations, both on merit and method, on the nature and the training objectives of the course.