HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY

The discipline of Historical Geography is included in the Master's degrees in Cultural Anthropology, Ethnology, Ethnolinguistics (FM10) and History from the Middle Ages to the Contemporary Age (FM7).
It is integrated into the context of the courses of study in which it is inserted developing an interpretative capacity as a whole of the Italian territorial reality as it was formed in its diachronic processes.

The expected results can be identified:
- in the ability to read the territory and the anthropic landscape according to a historical-geographical logic
- in achieving an adequate level of knowledge of the elements of the landscape
- in providing the skills necessary to recognize the different historical-territorial systems of the Italian reality

A good knowledge of history from the Middle Ages to the contemporary era

The Historical Geography identifies the sector of the geographic area which considers the territory as an historical formation and arises as a possible synthesis of historical and geographical aspects of the places forming the intricate structure of the same territory. The program aims to address the diachronic evolution of the Italian landscape from the Middle Ages to Contemporary Age

1)Christian Norberg Schulz, Genius loci, Milano, Electa, 2023
2)C. Tosco, Il paesaggio come storia, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2017. Also available as an e-book
3)Educational materials (Moodle/ISA)

The exam is in written form
Alternatively, you can arrange with the teacher preparing a term paper on a specific topic

written

Evaluation:
27-30 cum laude: excellent knowledge of the syllabus with the ability to analyse the texts in depth; organic vision of the themes addressed in class and/or studied in the texts; excellent disciplinary language and adequate semantic register

23-26: good knowledge of the syllabus and ability to analyse correctly but with some imperfections; fair ownership of disciplinary language with some uncertainty in exposition and/or imprecision

18-22: sufficient but sketchy knowledge of the syllabus; superficial understanding of texts and limited ability to analyse; expression not always appropriate.

negative: poor knowledge of the programme; inadequate ability to analyse; incorrect or inappropriate written expression

Frontal lectures with use of video and photographic material