Course 2024-2025 a.y.

30675 - GLOBAL HISTORY AND AFFAIRS

Department of Social and Political Sciences

Course taught in English

Class timetable
Exam timetable
Go to class group/s: 45
BIG (8 credits - II sem. - OB  |  M-STO/04)
Course Director:
ANDREA COLLI

Classes: 45 (II sem.)
Instructors:
Class 45: ANDREA COLLI


Suggested background knowledge

None

Mission & Content Summary

MISSION

The course aims to address from a global perspective the emergence, transformation and nature of the interaction among polities in a long-term, multi-secular perspective. The perspective of the course will include elements of global history, history of international relations, and the evolution of the World’s geopolitical orders in time. A unique feature of the course will be, alongside frontal lectures by the instructors and guests, the presence of sessions dedicated to the direct analysis of historical sources and materials, in order to provide the students some insights into “the historian’s toolkit”

CONTENT SUMMARY

1) From hunter-gatherers to the first empires

2) The emergence of pre-modern political institutions

3) The Balance of Power System (1700-1815)

4) The Two Concerts of Europe (1815-1914)

5) The interwar multipolarity (1919-1939)

6) Seventy Years, Three World Orders: the Road to the Present


Intended Learning Outcomes (ILO)

KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING

At the end of the course student will be able to...

At the end of the course the students will:

 

a) have a clear understanding of the process of State formation in the long-run

b) have a clear understanding of the dynamics of international relations among polities in the long run

c) learn about the meaning of geoplitics and the evolution of this concept

d) understand the succession of World orders in the long run

e) analyze, interpret and contextualize primary source in the study of international affairs

APPLYING KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING

At the end of the course student will be able to...

At the end of the course students will be able to approach tasks and problems in professional life thanks to a mix of soft knowledge and soft skills.

Soft knowledge includes:

a) the understanding of the process of formation of polities and their complex interactions, essential in the field of diplomacy/foreign affairs

b) the ability to connect international political relations to broader topics essential for decision makers, for instance to international trade and investments.

 

Soft skills


Teaching methods

  • Lectures
  • Guest speaker's talks (in class or in distance)
  • Practical Exercises
  • Individual works / Assignments
  • Collaborative Works / Assignments

DETAILS

Practical exercise will include: the analysis of historical sources/diplomatic documents, the analysis of databases about polities' characteristics and other datasets available to political and social scientists

 

Individual and groupworks will include the comment to the above-mentioned sources, on an individual or group basis.


Assessment methods

  Continuous assessment Partial exams General exam
  • Written individual exam (traditional/online)
   x x
  • Individual Works/ Assignment (report, exercise, presentation, project work etc.)
 x    
  • Collaborative Works / Assignment (report, exercise, presentation, project work etc.)
 x    
  • Active class participation (virtual, attendance)
 x    

ATTENDING STUDENTS

    


NOT ATTENDING STUDENTS

    


Teaching materials


ATTENDING AND NOT ATTENDING STUDENTS

The teaching materials will be communicated by the instructor before the beginning of the course.

Last change 09/07/2024 18:38