History of Contemporary Portugal

Code: HIS02397L

6 ECTS

Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours

Scientific Area: History

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English

Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Presentation

Through knowledge of the political and institutional evolution of Portugal in the past two centuries, seen through the confrontation with different authors, students will be able to identify the key issues and the historical processes of change and political participation.

Sustainable Development Goals

Educação de qualidade - Assegurar a educação inclusiva, e equitativa e de qualidade, e promover oportunidades de aprendizagem ao longo da vida para todos.

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Trabalho decente e crescimento económico - Promover o crescimento económico sustentado, inclusivo e sustentável, emprego pleno e produtivo, e trabalho decente para todos.

Redução das desigualdades - Reduzir as desigualdades dentro dos países e entre eles.

Cidades e comunidades sustentáveis - Tornar as cidades e os assentamentos humanos inclusivos, seguros, resilientes e sustentáveis.

Learning Goals

1. Knowledge and Understanding: To identify the key ideas and issues related with the periodization, the processes of transition and of the political participation in the Portuguese society in the 19th and 20th centuries.
2. Intellectual skills: To identify the theoretical and analytical models that support that knowledge; to develop cognitive skills for critical thinking, analysis and synthesis.
3. Professional Skills and Practice: To relate and link that knowledge with the General History of the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries; to develop individual skills for the analysis and interpretation of historiographical texts and historical documents; to organize the information, to plan and execute a coherent written history based on the analysis of a text or document
4. Key transferable skills: To communicate findings in a clear way within the framework of the debates of History and other disciplines on the political changes in the Contemporary World; to develop interpersonal skills.

An overview of the Contemporary History of Portugal through the perspective of the political processes and dynamics, since the crisis of the Ancién Regime (1807) until the joining of the EEC in 1986.
This syllabus emphasizes four topics: the periodization; the political transitions, the political institutions and the political citizenship. The main titles of those topics are:

1. THE PORTUGUESE HISTORIOGRAPHY ON CONTEMPORARY PORTUGAL.
2. TIMES OF REVOLUTIONS AND CHANGE: THE CONSTRUCTION AND CONSOLIDATION OF THE LIBERAL PORTUGAL (1808-1890).
3. THE CRISIS OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCHY AND THE 1ST REPUBLICAN EXPERIENCE (1890-1926)
4. THE ESTADO NOVO: THE AUTHORITARIAN AND ANTI-LIBERAL CICLE (1926-1974)
5. THE DEMOCRATIC AND EUROPEAN CYCLE: "PORTUGAL OF IN APRIL" AND THE "PORTUGAL IN EUROPE" (1974-...)

Teaching Methods

At the beginning of the semester, the students should set their individual study and evaluation plan in the discipline that involves the selection of the topics where they should be involved: (1) in the classroom, through the analysis and commentary of selected texts (25%); (2) the preparation of a written report or synthesis on a single topic (25%); (3) a written test for knowledge control (50%). A student's guide is provided with bibliography and additional academic resources. Each topic is introduced by the teacher through lectures. The final classification results from weighted average of the three moments of evaluation. In the preparation for their evaluation tasks, the students are encouraged to use their tutorial time, having an individual or group support with the professor.
Students under the "examination regime" are evaluated through a written test and a oral test (100%).