2023
Contemporary History II
Name: Contemporary History II
Code: HIS02448L
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area:
History
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese
Regime de Frequência: Presencial
Presentation
This u.c. works for students of history and contemporary philosophy. An academic terrritory with different registers of openings on the history of the 20th and 21st century, where ideology and cultural intersect, globalization with the history of ideas and society in the century of extremes.
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
To give a general and specific knowledge on 20th century and early 21st century political, economic, social, and cultural history. Allow to develop the capacity to get a circumstantial overview, understand and discuss the main issues treated by historiography on the period and issues under analyses.
Students should develop the ability to work individually and in small groups; be able to know and identify some essential bibliography on the issues talked over; they must be able to work historical data on the issues and chronology displayed and discussed; they should improve their capacity to communicate on both oral and written forms, making use specific vocabulary employed both by history and social sciences; students should acquire knowledge that will enable them to pursue post-graduation studies; they should acquire and consolidate skills concerning the regular use of foreign languages, both reading and writing level.
Students should develop the ability to work individually and in small groups; be able to know and identify some essential bibliography on the issues talked over; they must be able to work historical data on the issues and chronology displayed and discussed; they should improve their capacity to communicate on both oral and written forms, making use specific vocabulary employed both by history and social sciences; students should acquire knowledge that will enable them to pursue post-graduation studies; they should acquire and consolidate skills concerning the regular use of foreign languages, both reading and writing level.
Contents
The short-long 20th century. New Millennium. Challenges of global history; «decolonizing the historiography narratives».
1. Inheritance from the 19th century laboratory century. 20th century permanences and innovations. States and nations; science, technique and technology research and application in industrialized society. Colonies_ colonialism; the New World: USA and Latin America, Africa and Asia.
2. Consumption and cultural habits consumer society, urbanism and rurality. New social and cultural typologies of the 20th century: cinema, music, sport, tourism, ecology-environment.
3. 20th century memory production: commemorative practices.
4. Decolonization, the Afro-Asian world (politics, and economics, culture and anthropology) - transnational comparability.
5. Leaving the 20th century towards the New Millennium. Research challenges for Social and Human Sciences, where HISTORY is a conceptual and utilitarian tool to scientifically address the past and recent memory
1. Inheritance from the 19th century laboratory century. 20th century permanences and innovations. States and nations; science, technique and technology research and application in industrialized society. Colonies_ colonialism; the New World: USA and Latin America, Africa and Asia.
2. Consumption and cultural habits consumer society, urbanism and rurality. New social and cultural typologies of the 20th century: cinema, music, sport, tourism, ecology-environment.
3. 20th century memory production: commemorative practices.
4. Decolonization, the Afro-Asian world (politics, and economics, culture and anthropology) - transnational comparability.
5. Leaving the 20th century towards the New Millennium. Research challenges for Social and Human Sciences, where HISTORY is a conceptual and utilitarian tool to scientifically address the past and recent memory
Teaching Methods
It seeks to meet the students' expectations, in relation to well-founded research interests, and we have alternative to new research techniques, particularly the use of new technologies and information supports, without, however, neglecting research using traditional supports. The work strategy focuses on building a working bridge between the sick team and students with lectures and laboratory classes that are polarized by students in a group or individual format. Investigation of R&D units is established, bringing investigations into dialogue with students. Assessment strong encouragement for continuous assessment, consisting of the production of two individual written texts (50%) and a team work (50%), in addition to the obligation of laboratory classes for commenting on texts. There may be an alternative for one of the jobs to be replaced by frequency. There is also the final exam model.
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