AN OPEN CITY IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE: VENICE

Academic year
2021/2022 Syllabus of previous years
Official course title
AN OPEN CITY IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE: VENICE
Course code
CT9002 (AF:361722 AR:190846)
Modality
On campus classes
ECTS credits
6
Degree level
Bachelor's Degree Programme
Educational sector code
M-STO/02
Period
1st Semester
Course year
1
Where
VENEZIA
Moodle
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This course is part of the humanistic and socio-cultural knowledge and competences of the degree course. The contribution of the humanities to the science of tourism applied to the management of hospitality is realised on the level of relationships and communication, artistic knowledge, history and cultural heritage.
The most important learning outcomes are:
- to know how to narrate the experience of the tourist and the territory in a historical perspective
- to reach full awareness of the importance of knowledge of the past to understand the characteristics of a place and a human group
No prerequisite is required
1. From the lagoon to the city
2. The Institutions of the Commune: Aristocracy and Citizens
3. The building of an empire
4. The capital as a crossroads of cultures and practices
5. Citizens and foreigners
6. Venetian environment, Veneto environment
7. The fall of the Republic and the end of a world
8. Subject Venice
9. Italian Venice: between poverty and cultural richness
10. An Industrial City
11. A difficult balance between water and land
12. A tourist city: what prospects?
F. Lane, Venice a maritime republic, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1973;
E. Dursteler, Companion to Venetian History, Brill, Leiden, 2013.
Students are required to actively participate in class and submit a paper at the end of the course. A final oral examination will assess the grade.
Classroom lessons with possible visits to Venetian cultural institutions and particularly important places in the city.
English
written and oral

This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Cities, infrastructure and social capital" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development

Goal 9: industry, innovation and infrastructure
Goal 11: sustainable cities and communities
Definitive programme.
Last update of the programme: 26/07/2021