2024
Applied History
Name: Applied History
Code: HIS12025L
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area:
History
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese
Regime de Frequência: Presencial
Presentation
Without neglecting rigor, this course will allow you to creatively apply historical knowledge and bring the student closer to the potential job market for a graduate in History.
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
Thinking about knowledge:
- To know the creative economy, intelligent specialization, and citizen science;
- To identify needs/ areas of innovation in the historical-cultural and heritage context;
- To design and execute projects in the cultural-historical area;
- To consolidate the historical and cultural contents and the acquired methodological tools;
- To know the potential market for History and Heritage Studies;
- To make historical knowledge a mean of improving community well-being.
About skills:
- Capacity to integrate in multidisciplinary teams and to work in a collaborative way;
- To consolidate the critical spirit;
- Ability to plan and adapt contents to different contexts and audiences;
- To develop the ability to communicate the acquired knowledge;
- To develop creativity and initiative;
- To increase the sense of responsibility.
- To know the creative economy, intelligent specialization, and citizen science;
- To identify needs/ areas of innovation in the historical-cultural and heritage context;
- To design and execute projects in the cultural-historical area;
- To consolidate the historical and cultural contents and the acquired methodological tools;
- To know the potential market for History and Heritage Studies;
- To make historical knowledge a mean of improving community well-being.
About skills:
- Capacity to integrate in multidisciplinary teams and to work in a collaborative way;
- To consolidate the critical spirit;
- Ability to plan and adapt contents to different contexts and audiences;
- To develop the ability to communicate the acquired knowledge;
- To develop creativity and initiative;
- To increase the sense of responsibility.
Contents
1. History and the historian facing the challenge of the creative economy, intelligent specialization, open and citizen science and digital transformation. Fundamental concepts and notions, methodologies and frameworks.
2. Learning about projects for the application and dissemination of historical knowledge and discussing its scope.
3. How to conceive and implement a project of this nature, without forgetting the historical rigor and, if possible, using available technologies?
4. How to communicate results?
2. Learning about projects for the application and dissemination of historical knowledge and discussing its scope.
3. How to conceive and implement a project of this nature, without forgetting the historical rigor and, if possible, using available technologies?
4. How to communicate results?
Teaching Methods
Initial lectures and then classes in seminar format. The student must have a research/action experience.
The evaluation will be mostly continuous. Each should design and present their project (20%), carry it out and make the final report (80%).
Examples:
1. Internship in spaces of:
- science production or management (research centers, research projects, laboratories);
- archives, libraries, museums;
- space for communication / dissemination of knowledge in History;
- Companies linked in any way to History or Heritage;
- Educational institution or cultural dynamization
- Associations or other national or local entities with interests in History.
2. Research project aimed at making history reach the general public.
3. Create a community archive in a specific thematic and/or geographic area.
There will be a final exam only for very exceptional cases.
The evaluation will be mostly continuous. Each should design and present their project (20%), carry it out and make the final report (80%).
Examples:
1. Internship in spaces of:
- science production or management (research centers, research projects, laboratories);
- archives, libraries, museums;
- space for communication / dissemination of knowledge in History;
- Companies linked in any way to History or Heritage;
- Educational institution or cultural dynamization
- Associations or other national or local entities with interests in History.
2. Research project aimed at making history reach the general public.
3. Create a community archive in a specific thematic and/or geographic area.
There will be a final exam only for very exceptional cases.
Teaching Staff
- Maria Fernanda de Olival [responsible]
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