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MEDIEVAL MODULE
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MEDIEVAL MODULE
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Academic year 2023/2024
- Course ID
- STS0449
- Teacher
- Marta Gravela (Course owner)
- Degree course
- Cultural Heritage and Creativity for tourism and territorial development
- Year
- 2nd year
- Teaching period
- Second semester
- Type
- Affine or integrative
- Credits/Recognition
- 3
- Course disciplinary sector (SSD)
- M-STO/01 - medieval history
- Delivery
- Traditional
- Language
- English
- Attendance
- Optional
- Type of examination
- Oral
- Type of learning unit
- modulo
- Modular course
- LITERARY, HISTORICAL AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL ITINERARIES IN ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL ITALY (STS0449)
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Sommario del corso
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Course objectives
This module offers the essential tools to study medieval history. It focuses on town and mountain areas in the medieval period and provides specific notions for understanding cultural heritage in a given area.
The themes and questions, as well as the skills developed during the course, are an essential part of the degree; this teaching module aims therefore at offering specific training in the historical field, especially in the framework of the degree in Cultural Heritage and Creativity for Tourism.
In particular, the course intends to offer knowledge and develop the capacity for critical thinking regarding medieval history and cultural heritage.
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Results of learning outcomes
Knowledge and comprehension: at the end of the course, the student should know:
- problems and methods of medieval history
- problems of periodization of the medieval period and the specific terminology of the discipline
- evolution of the structures of cities and mountain areas
Applying knowledge and comprehension / Interpretating data
Students should be able to apply this knowledge to contextualize historical phenomenons and events, with the appropriate ability to analyse and interpret the sources examined throughout the course. Students will also have to make connections between the various themes taken into consideration during the course.
Communicating
The course aims to encourage active participation of attending students, in order to develop the ability to discuss and interact with colleagues. Students should learn the correct vocabulary in relation to institutions, social structures, religious development and economic process in the medieval period.
Learning outcomes
The aims to improve the students’ skill to understand the complexity of historical development.
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Program
Towns and mountains in the Middle Ages
The module presents the main social transformations in medieval history, focusing on the features of towns and Alpine territories. Through scholarly literature and collective analysis of written, material and iconographic sources, various themes will be taken into account: among them, forms and types of human settlement, architecture, demographic and economic change, forms of social stratification, political and institutional development, as well as the relationship between society and ecclesiastical institutions. Particular attention will be devoted to fieldwork and to the dissemination of knowledge on these topics.
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Course delivery
Lessons, for a total amount of 18 hours, will be held in class in English, with the support of powerpoint presentations and multimedia materials. Given their educational opportunities, it is highly recommended to attend the lessons, since they cannot be effectively replaced by any other activity. Students who will not be able to attend the course will be provided teaching material on the Moodle platform and will integrate the programme through scholarly literature.
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Learning assessment methods
The expected knowledge and skills will be tested in a question/answer oral exam. Results will be considered appropriate (with a mark on a 30 points scale), if students:
- will prove to have clearly learnt the themes of the course;
- will prove to have acquired explaining ability and good use of the appropriate vocabulary;
- will prove capable of applying the acquired knowledge to the analysis and contextualisation of specific historical moments and texts.
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Support activities
Students with disabilities or learning difficulties can find information on the university facilities, study support, and exam procedures at the following links:
SERVICES
https://www.unito.it/accoglienza-studenti-con-disabilita-e-dsa
SUPPORT
https://www.unito.it/servizi/lo-studio/studenti-con-disabilita
EXAMS
https://www.unito.it/servizi/lo-studio/studenti-e-studentesse-con-disabilita/supporto-studenti-e-studentesse-con
Suggested readings and bibliography
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- Book
- Title:
- The Middle Ages. A very short introduction
- Year of publication:
- 2014
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- Author:
- M. Rubin
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- Yes
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In addition to studying notes and sources examined in class, students will have to read the book The Middle Ages. A very short introduction and two essays which will be uploaded on the Moodle platform. Students who intend to seat the exam as ‘non attending’ must email the lecturer in order to arrange a programme.
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Notes
Attending the lessons is highly recommended.
- Enroll
- Open
- Enrollment opening date
- 01/09/2023 at 08:00
- Enrollment closing date
- 29/06/2024 at 20:00
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