ENVIRONMENTAL, CULTURAL AND HISTORICAL HERITAGE MANAGEMENT - 156030-E2

courses

ID:

156030-E2

Dettaglio:

SSD: Contemporary History Duration: 36 CFU: 6

Located in:

BERGAMO

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Course Details:

GEOURBANISTICS. TERRITORIAL, URBAN, ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS, PLANNING AND LANDSCAPE DESIGN - 156-270/COMUNE Year: 2

Year:

2025

Date/time interval

Primo Semestre (23/09/2025 - 20/12/2025)

Course Objectives

The purpose of the course is to supply students with the knowledge, skills and reasoning abilities enabling them to integrate the cultural, historical and environmental heritage management into the Environmental Humanities sphere in the wake of the innovative study and research experiences developing internationally in recent years. Within this overall objective students will be given the chance to learn about the changes which have taken place in early modern and contemporary environmental history from an international perspective and thus the Italian context and its specific features. The most recent study and research perspectives applied to the Alpine area will also be applied as well as the historical and developmental dynamics relating to the national parks and the Stelvio National Park set up in 1935, in particular.

Course Prerequisites

No pre-requisites.

Teaching Methods

Part of the course (20 hours) consists of interactive type front-of-class lessons supported by multi-media communication tools. The remaining 10 hours will be project work comprising interdisciplinary activities built around applied local projects involving joint teaching and active student involvement. This project work is intended to provide an integrated theoretical education and applied research approach.

Assessment Methods

The exam will be oral and take the form of a dialogue relating to the thematic areas dealt with during the course and on the basis of the suggested reading. It will assess students’ knowledge, skill, and ability acquisition. Specifically, the exam will assess:
- students’ theoretical knowledge of the contents and methodological references dealt with;
- students’ ability to apply their critical skills to specific cases.
Student portfolios created during project work made up of individual and collective work will also be assessed in order to evaluate student progress and their ability to apply the skills acquired during the course.

The course will be divided up into five themed spheres beginning with an overall focus and analysis of a case study functional to project work activities.

• An introduction to environmental history's subject matter and methodology from its origins to today, both internationally and in the specific Italian context.
• Evolutions in the landscape concept from the early modern to the contemporary eras. Analysis of the contents and objectives of the European Landscape Convention (2000).
• The Alps as a great environmental history laboratory.
• Environmental protection’s origins and development: the international history of the national parks in the Alps and the specific Italian context.
• The Stelvio National Park case study (1935-today).
The purpose of a differentiated bibliography for attending and non-attending students is twofold and functional to their achieving the same educational standards: in the case of attending students it is designed to supply in-depth study materials on the course’s theoretical and application contents for lessons and project work. In the case of non-attendees materials are designed to support students in their independent acquisition of knowledge and skills supplied during front of class lessons. As far as project work is concerned non-attendees will be required to reach agreement with teaching staff.