2024
Problems and Debates in History
Name: Problems and Debates in History
Code: HIS11631M
12 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/312 hours
Scientific Area:
History
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese
Regime de Frequência: B-learning
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
Objectives:
- To understand the role of History in the development of citizenship;
- To encourage postgraduate students in the practice of critical and reasoned debate;
- To identify the major topics of debate in historiography and emphasize its importance today
- To call upon History as an instrumental training area for the understanding of contemporary societies;
- To contextualize historiographical debates in order to identify specific chronological periods and recurring themes within the historiographical debates.
Skills:
- To be able to understand the origins of the current debates at national and international level;
- To be able to understand and participate in historiographical debates, as well as in those that are taking place in society itself;
- To develop skills to critically analyse texts, interpret an author's viewpoint and identify existing controversies in different historiographical fields.
- To understand the role of History in the development of citizenship;
- To encourage postgraduate students in the practice of critical and reasoned debate;
- To identify the major topics of debate in historiography and emphasize its importance today
- To call upon History as an instrumental training area for the understanding of contemporary societies;
- To contextualize historiographical debates in order to identify specific chronological periods and recurring themes within the historiographical debates.
Skills:
- To be able to understand the origins of the current debates at national and international level;
- To be able to understand and participate in historiographical debates, as well as in those that are taking place in society itself;
- To develop skills to critically analyse texts, interpret an author's viewpoint and identify existing controversies in different historiographical fields.
Contents
1. History as power: writing history in the West
-History, nationalism, colonialism and post-colonialism: remaking History
-How can the ?others? rewrite their history? History, ethnocentrism and multiculturalism
-Women's history and gender history
2. Challenges of History
-History and the historian today. Citizenship issues
-Archives. From antiquarian practice to problematising the past
-History and Digital Humanities? Challenges in the face of new technologies
3. Historiographical debates. Some examples:
-History and Memory
-Violence, insecurity and domination
-Religion: discipline, confessionalisation and devotional practices
-Ruptures and continuities in History
-History of Science and Technology: epistemology and social practices
-Global and Imperial History. Globalisation in debate
- Cultural concepts and cultural practices
- Art and History
-History, nationalism, colonialism and post-colonialism: remaking History
-How can the ?others? rewrite their history? History, ethnocentrism and multiculturalism
-Women's history and gender history
2. Challenges of History
-History and the historian today. Citizenship issues
-Archives. From antiquarian practice to problematising the past
-History and Digital Humanities? Challenges in the face of new technologies
3. Historiographical debates. Some examples:
-History and Memory
-Violence, insecurity and domination
-Religion: discipline, confessionalisation and devotional practices
-Ruptures and continuities in History
-History of Science and Technology: epistemology and social practices
-Global and Imperial History. Globalisation in debate
- Cultural concepts and cultural practices
- Art and History
Teaching Methods
- Lectures will take place in a classroom environment.
- Organisation of specific debates on topics of the programme (between students, and between teachers or guest speakers).
- Students will be encouraged to submit proposals to enliven the debate following a list of suggested topics
- Preparation of topics from previously distributed texts
- Class debates based on previously defined discussion groups
- Organisation of specific debates on topics of the programme (between students, and between teachers or guest speakers).
- Students will be encouraged to submit proposals to enliven the debate following a list of suggested topics
- Preparation of topics from previously distributed texts
- Class debates based on previously defined discussion groups
Assessment
Continuous assessment :
1) Attendance and oral participation in sessions; participation in classroom debates on previously defined texts; fulfilment of assigned tasks (40%).
2) Writing two papers on two modules of the programme (1200-1500 words each) (60%)
1) Attendance and oral participation in sessions; participation in classroom debates on previously defined texts; fulfilment of assigned tasks (40%).
2) Writing two papers on two modules of the programme (1200-1500 words each) (60%)
Teaching Staff
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