2024
Seminar of Specialization II (Empire, Colonialism and Post-Colonialism)
Name: Seminar of Specialization II (Empire, Colonialism and Post-Colonialism)
Code: HIS10057D
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/168 hours
Scientific Area:
History
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
This seminar aims to provide an updated approach to the interrelated scholarly fields of Empires, Colonialism
and Post-colonialism. The seminar gives priority to issues of a more theoretical, conceptual, methodological
and historiographical vein. Its primary concern is to define concepts, to establish typologies and to discuss the
main trends and debates that currently cross the scholarship on empires, colonialism and post-colonialism
Students are expected to:
LO1 Manage the theoretical framework, the key concepts and the analytical categories currently used in the
scholarship on empires, colonialism and post-colonialism
LO2 Get acquainted with the main trends and the most important debates within this specific scholarship
LO3 Be able to discuss the mainstream topics of research in this scholarly field
LO4 Develop the ability to debate with and to report orally to specialists and non-specialists
LO5 Develop advanced skills of research, reading and review of specialized literature
and Post-colonialism. The seminar gives priority to issues of a more theoretical, conceptual, methodological
and historiographical vein. Its primary concern is to define concepts, to establish typologies and to discuss the
main trends and debates that currently cross the scholarship on empires, colonialism and post-colonialism
Students are expected to:
LO1 Manage the theoretical framework, the key concepts and the analytical categories currently used in the
scholarship on empires, colonialism and post-colonialism
LO2 Get acquainted with the main trends and the most important debates within this specific scholarship
LO3 Be able to discuss the mainstream topics of research in this scholarly field
LO4 Develop the ability to debate with and to report orally to specialists and non-specialists
LO5 Develop advanced skills of research, reading and review of specialized literature
Contents
This Seminar comprises 4 main Program Contents (PC):
PC1. Empires: historiography, theory, concepts, and analytical categories.
PC2. Colonialism: historiography, theory, concepts, and analytical categories.
PC3. Post-colonialism: historiography, theory, concepts, and analytical categories.
PC4. Selected topics.
PC1. Empires: historiography, theory, concepts, and analytical categories.
PC2. Colonialism: historiography, theory, concepts, and analytical categories.
PC3. Post-colonialism: historiography, theory, concepts, and analytical categories.
PC4. Selected topics.
Teaching Methods
Besides requiring a minimum 75% attendance, assessment consists of two components (each weighting 50%
of the final grade):
AV1. Active contribution to in-class discussions, including the preparation and presentation of selected
readings.
AV2. Writing of a comprehensive Bibliographic Essay on a selected topic.
All classes are of a seminar typology, with little magisterial lecturing and maximizing the students commitment
to the preparation and discussion of subject matters and selected bibliography. Some seminars count on the
cooperation of guest speakers. Both the type of classes and the evaluation system converge to an educational
strategy that focuses on knowledge actively acquired at the expense of knowledge passively transmitted.
of the final grade):
AV1. Active contribution to in-class discussions, including the preparation and presentation of selected
readings.
AV2. Writing of a comprehensive Bibliographic Essay on a selected topic.
All classes are of a seminar typology, with little magisterial lecturing and maximizing the students commitment
to the preparation and discussion of subject matters and selected bibliography. Some seminars count on the
cooperation of guest speakers. Both the type of classes and the evaluation system converge to an educational
strategy that focuses on knowledge actively acquired at the expense of knowledge passively transmitted.
