Final Exam

The final examination allows the student to conduct, independently and through critical reflection, the drafting, presentation and discussion of an elaborate paper, on a theme agreed upon in concordance with the instructor and consistent with the training path of the student. The work, approximately 50 pages long, will consist of the analysis, commentary, possible translation and framing - according to the appropriate methodologies of the reference disciplinary sector - of sources, finds, historical document texts, criticisms or historiographies

By the end of the dissertation period, the student will be able to:
- apply knowledge of the disciplinary and transversal content learned throughout the entire training course in the analysis of a specific historical topic
-use the linguistic tools (language properties, correct specific lexicon) to express in the written form, clearly and effectively, concepts and reflections of a political, institutional, economic, religious historical nature
- master the most up-to-date bibliographical and archival tools (also online) that are functional to historical research
- orient between the different types of sources, performing a proper exegesis and introducing a critical and historically correct reflection on the theme identified
- summarize and communicate the information inferred from the sources, placing them within the cultural and historical contexts which had produced them;
- use the skills and formal tools of writing to formulate a written text applied to historical research (writing notes, bibliography, citations, etc... )