Seminar in History

Code: HIS02447L

6 ECTS

Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours

Scientific Area: History

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese

Presentation

The u.c. that completes the path of learning to be a historian. In it, students prove to have acquired analytical methodologies, responsibility and autonomy to investigate and present results on a research topic chosen by them.

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.

Learning Goals

General goals: to place the student in an environment of knowing how to think investigate write a scientific text know how to prepare in public and defend the research work. Foster the practice of research in History with initiation to the role of the historian facing the challenges of GLOBALIZATION. Classes will be in individual proximity system in TUTORING by thematic/weekly areas with summary record and moodle support, where the weekly work record is carried out.

1. Compared perspectives of history of Medieval, Modern and Contemporary History
2. Long term timelines persistence and innovations in the History of Portugal
3. Selection of themes / sources to investigate and analyze: working hypotheses in Medieval History; Modern; Contemporary.
4. Construction of a research work: case studies
5. Lines of coherence of selected and produced themes the structuring lines of Portuguese society, in a long term, in a case study approach in a Seminar academic environment .

Teaching Methods

To be used by the 3 teachers in the area of Medieval H; H Modern; Contemporary H Intensive thematic and weekly supervision, with informative support on the state of the art, hypothesis placement and use of different types of sources to investigate the theme chosen by the students' academic freedom. Work Methodology and Assessment: (flexible percentages adjustable to the dynamics of each work area) Weekly debate on the state of the investigation, always in a monotirization system. Assessment continuous and to be delivered at the end of the semester. Develop an individual work of historical research - 100%, and the student must complete the linked phases of assessment: discussion of the research project (10%); regular monitoring of research work (10%); oral presentation (30%); final text submitted for evaluation (50%) (25 pp, letters times 12, space 1.5 and attachments