2024
Themes of History of Contemporary Portugal
Name: Themes of History of Contemporary Portugal
Code: HIS02401L
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area:
History
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese
Presentation
This curriculum unit aims to deepen knowledge and to develop historical research skills on major themes in Portuguese and European historiography.
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
1. Knowledge and Understanding: To identify the key ideas of the general development and of the different pace of modernization of the Portuguese society in the 19th and 20th centuries.
2. Intellectual skills: To identify the theoretical and analytical models that support knowledge drawn from the "phenomenological analysis".
3. Professional skills and practices: To relate 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Twentieth centuries, to develop individual skills for the analysis and interpretation of historiographical texts and historical documents, to plan and to execute within a study group a writing in history based on coherent analysis of a group of texts or documents.
4. Key transferable skills: To communicate findings in a clear and coherent integrated manner within the framework of the discussions of history and other subjects on the changes in the Portuguese society.
2. Intellectual skills: To identify the theoretical and analytical models that support knowledge drawn from the "phenomenological analysis".
3. Professional skills and practices: To relate 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Twentieth centuries, to develop individual skills for the analysis and interpretation of historiographical texts and historical documents, to plan and to execute within a study group a writing in history based on coherent analysis of a group of texts or documents.
4. Key transferable skills: To communicate findings in a clear and coherent integrated manner within the framework of the discussions of history and other subjects on the changes in the Portuguese society.
Contents
The main themes on History of Portugal (19th and 20th centuries) are:
1. Population, Family and Migration (1800-1990)
2. Society and Social Change in Portugal (1800-1970)
3. The Portuguese Economy in the 19th and 20th centuries: Transition, Dynamics and Debates.
4. Portugal and the 3rd Empire: Construction and Fall (1836-1975).
5. Portugal and the European Construction.
1. Population, Family and Migration (1800-1990)
2. Society and Social Change in Portugal (1800-1970)
3. The Portuguese Economy in the 19th and 20th centuries: Transition, Dynamics and Debates.
4. Portugal and the 3rd Empire: Construction and Fall (1836-1975).
5. Portugal and the European Construction.
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 themes where they should intervene in the contact sessions through (1) the analysis and commentary of selected texts, (2), the participation in discussions and roundtables scheduled previously done by a study group, (3) the preparation of a written report or synthesis on a single topic (4), a written test for knowledge assessment. 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 four 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 mandatory oral test.
Students under the "examination regime" are evaluated through a written test and a mandatory oral test.
Teaching Staff (2023/2024 )
- Paulo Eduardo Marques da Costa Guimarães [responsible]
