2023
Expansion and Colonial Dynamics
Name: Expansion and Colonial Dynamics
Code: HIS02398L
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area:
History
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese
Regime de Frequência: Presencial
Presentation
In this course, students will analyze critically the European processes of expansion, settlement, and colonization in the different areas of the world. Subsequently, students will reflect upon the pioneering role of Portugal in the European expansionist plans outside Europe. Hence, the methodology aims at providing students with the tools to conduct independent and original research on these topics, thus opening the doors for their future academic and professional growth.
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
1. Models of expansion and territorial occupation in the formation of non-European colonial empires: examples of pre-European contact and pre-Islamic contact empires, as well as empires concomitant with and/or post European or Islamic contact.
2. Understand and contextualize, in a diachronic perspective, European colonization.
3. Perform a comparative analysis of the main European empires of the Modern Era (15th-18th centuries).
4. Identify strategic, political, economical, and religious systems of European colonization.
Competencies/Outcome:
1. Stimulate an interest in research with a critical and interdisciplinary approach; encourage research using the latest theories on how to approach a historical text;
2. Encourage the correct us of terminology akin to historical research;
3. Foster an environment whereby, in a coherent and scholarly manner, students express their ideas in written as well as oral form
2. Understand and contextualize, in a diachronic perspective, European colonization.
3. Perform a comparative analysis of the main European empires of the Modern Era (15th-18th centuries).
4. Identify strategic, political, economical, and religious systems of European colonization.
Competencies/Outcome:
1. Stimulate an interest in research with a critical and interdisciplinary approach; encourage research using the latest theories on how to approach a historical text;
2. Encourage the correct us of terminology akin to historical research;
3. Foster an environment whereby, in a coherent and scholarly manner, students express their ideas in written as well as oral form
Contents
1. Evolution of old concepts such as colony, colonialism, imperialism, colonialism, post-colonial(ism), and post-colonial studies; birth of new concepts, as in the case of: world history, global history, and connected histories.
2. Historical Antecedents to the European Expansion; Mayan culture, Imperial China, Achaemenid Empire, Sassanid Empire, Umayyad Empire, al-Andalus, the empires of the Sahel and of West Africa, Abbasid Caliphate, and others.
3. Origin and evolution of the main Colonial Empires of the Modern Era and their colonial policies:
Portugal, Spain, France, Holland and England
4. Present chronologically, and within a historic-contextual perspective, the different territorial expansion models and the subsequent formation of the European Colonial Empires in different parts of the world.
5. Analyze the different dynamics behind Western/European colonization; sociological profile of the colonizers
2. Historical Antecedents to the European Expansion; Mayan culture, Imperial China, Achaemenid Empire, Sassanid Empire, Umayyad Empire, al-Andalus, the empires of the Sahel and of West Africa, Abbasid Caliphate, and others.
3. Origin and evolution of the main Colonial Empires of the Modern Era and their colonial policies:
Portugal, Spain, France, Holland and England
4. Present chronologically, and within a historic-contextual perspective, the different territorial expansion models and the subsequent formation of the European Colonial Empires in different parts of the world.
5. Analyze the different dynamics behind Western/European colonization; sociological profile of the colonizers
Teaching Methods
Classes will be of a theoretical and practical nature. Each will center on a specific theme supported by texts, maps, documents, movies, and discussions, among the many methodological forms of eliciting learning.
Educational material used in the classroom, namely, syllabi, lectures, and bibliography, will be posted on the University E-learning platform: www.moodle.uevora.pt
The instructors will inform students of the total weekly hours dedicated to tutorials so that they can be guided in their studies and given advice for their work. In order to do so, students will be provided with an e-mail account.
Continuous evaluation: 1 written test (50%) and an oral presentation based on the written project (50%). During the semester, students will be constantly evaluated so that their progress can be followed, monitored, and encouraged to perform to the fullest.
Final Examination: written test.
Educational material used in the classroom, namely, syllabi, lectures, and bibliography, will be posted on the University E-learning platform: www.moodle.uevora.pt
The instructors will inform students of the total weekly hours dedicated to tutorials so that they can be guided in their studies and given advice for their work. In order to do so, students will be provided with an e-mail account.
Continuous evaluation: 1 written test (50%) and an oral presentation based on the written project (50%). During the semester, students will be constantly evaluated so that their progress can be followed, monitored, and encouraged to perform to the fullest.
Final Examination: written test.
Teaching Staff
- Maria de Deus Beites Manso [responsible]
