Unit name | Modern Italy |
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Unit code | ITAL10033 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | C/4 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 4 (weeks 1-24) |
Unit director | Professor. Glynn |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
Must have Italian language competence |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | Department of Italian |
Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
This unit is designed to provide an introduction to the politics, culture and society of Italy from World War I to the present day. The unit works chronologically and is based around certain key texts which will be studied in detail in the seminars which accompany the lectures. The lectures will provide a broad historical, cultural and social introduction to each period. Students will be expected to engage with the history of Italy and with the use of a series of different kinds of text – film (documentary and fiction), novels, memoir, theatre, and journalism.
Students will:
Teaching will be delivered through a combination of synchronous sessions and asynchronous activities, including seminars, lectures, and collaborative as well as self-directed learning opportunities supported by tutor consultation
2 x online tests (10% each), ILO 1
1 x 1000-word commentary (30%), ILO 3
1 x 2000-word commentary (50%), ILOs 1-5
Paul Ginsborg, A History of Contemporary Italy 1943-1988, Penguin, London, 1990.
Paul Ginsborg, Italy and its Discontents: 1980-2001, Penguin, London, 2001.
Christopher Duggan, A Concise History of Italy, CUP, Cambridge, 2014
John Foot, Modern Italy, Palgrave, London, 2014
Mary Wood, Italian Cinema, Bloomsbury, London, 2005.
Italian Cultural Studies: An Introduction, ed. David Forgacs and Robert Lumley, OUP, Oxford, 1996.