The required readings are available in paperback editions.
Also, included below is a short list of suggested readings, which provide wider coverage and more in-depth historical context. Excerpts from original texts can mostly be found from on-line internet sources. Some readers are included as well, which contain excerpts of the original texts, if that is preferred:
Required:
Eric Hoffer, The True Believer, Harper Perennial Classics, reissue ed., 2002, pbk John Reed, Ten Days that Shook the World, Penguin Classics, 1st ed., 1990, pbk Evgena Ginzburg, Journey into the Whirlwind, Harvest/HBJ Books, 2002, pbk Benito Mussolini, My Rise and Fall, Da Capo Press, 1998 ed., pbk Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz, Touchstone, reprint ed., 1995, pbk Kamal Matinuddin, The Taliban Phenomenon, Oxford University Press, new ed., 2000, pbk Asne Seierstad, The Bookseller of Kabul, Back Bay Books, reprint ed., 2004, pbk
Suggested- Secondary Texts:
William Rosenberg and Marilyn Young, Transforming Russia and China, Oxford University Press, 1982, pbk Stanley Payne, History of Fascism, University of Wisconsin Press, 1995, pbk Gilles Kepel, Jihad, I.B. Tauris, 2006, pbk
Suggested – Original Text Readers:
Nancy Love, ed., Dogmas and Dreams, CQ Press, 3rd ed., 2005 Roger Griffin, ed., Fascism, Oxford University Press, 1995, pbk Omar Dahbour and Micheline Ishmay, eds, The Nationalism Reader, Humanity Books, 1995, pbk M. Moaddel and K. Talattof, eds., Modernist and Fundamentalist Debates in Islam, Palgrave Macmillan, 1st ed., 2002, pbk
_____________________ Exchange students
from Ca' Foscari and Iuav are eligible to participate in the program. Please email shss@univiu.org for admission information.
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Extra-curricular activities
Each semester various activities are organized.
-Creative projects
-Movie series
-Night visit to St. Mark's Basilica
-Day trip on Venetian Lagoon
-Trip to Port of Venice
-Site visits related to courses in Venice and its hinterland
AIESEC International Students' Association VIU also collaborates with AIESEC for extra-curricular activities. More infohere
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Internships
for Ca' Foscari students:
The School also offers internships to Ca' Foscari students. If you are interested in a 4-month internship please contact the SHSS office: shss@univiu.org
Eric Hoffer, The True Believer, Harper Perennial Classics, reissue ed., 2002, pbk
