ECONOMIC HISTORY P - Z

1. Knowledge and understanding: The teaching’s objective is to make the student able to acquire knowledge of the economic facts in their own complexity through an adeguate time of application to personal study, and to give him a clear vision of the society’s evolution – particularey, but non only, of the occidental society – from Middle Age to present time.

2. Applying knowledge and understanding: Through the methodic application of the acquired knowledge the teaching’s objective is to make the student able to work out his own critic attitude and, consequently, to apply it into the economic facts’ analysis in order to get a clear and complete vision of the economic dynamics and variables applied in the contexts.

3. Making judgements: At this step of the educational path, the teaching’s purpose is to make the student able to make judgements on his own about economic processes, through a debate at the end of each lecture or module. In so doing, the student will be able to fin correctly the different themes that are both the sources of economic facts and the direct or indirect consequences of then.

4. Communication skills: The teaching’s aim is to put the student in the best conditions to acquire mastery of the historical and economic sources and language, and moreover to produce and to improve his analysis skills to others through the master of modern communication’s language and codes.

5. Learning skills: The teaching will have reached its objective when the student will be able to show, both during the educational path and at the moment of the final examination, sufficient knowledge and skills, so that he can deal not only with the subject of this course but also with the other similar subjects of the economic area.

1. C. M. Cipolla, Storia economica dell’Europa pre-industriale, Bologna, il Mulino, 2002.

2. V. Zamagni, Introduzione alla storia economica d’Italia, Bologna, il Mulino, 2007.

3. R. Cameron – L. Neal, Storia economica del mondo, II, Dal secolo XVIII ai nostri giorni, Bologna, il Mulino, 2005.