VISUAL DOCUMENTS FOR CONTEMPORARY HISTORICAL RESEARCH

At the end of the course, the student will have had the possibility to acquire a critical knowledge of the value and the historic use of images, with specific reference to the study of Contemporary history (knowledge and understanding) and to develop the ability to express their arguments with competence and clarity (communication skills).
The student will acquire specific skills and methodologies useful to improve his knowledge of specific aspects of the use of visual documents for the study of Contemporary history (learning skills) both for an application to different contexts, not only of the historical context, in relation to what has been studied during the course (applying knowledge and understanding).
From this viewpoint offers the student the opportunity to strengthen, starting from the specific themes of Contemporary history, his cognitive and communicative abilities to understand and re-organize his personal comprehension of the world (making judgments).