ECTS credits ECTS credits: 6
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 99 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 24 Interactive Classroom: 24 Total: 150
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: History
Areas: Contemporary History
Center Faculty of Geography and History
Call: First Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable
To advance in the knowledge of those processes, great evolutionary lines and concepts to provide the student with a global understanding of the 20th century and that enable him/her intellectually to critically analyse both the historical and present evolution.
To provide a precise knowledge of the events and processes of change and continuity in a diachronic perspective.
To generate a rational and critical understanding of the past of mankind in order that the individual and the society in general can understand the present.
To educate on the values of equality, gender parity and non-discrimination, through the knowledge of the fight for these values in the different historical moments.
To acquire a basic knowledge of the main methods, techniques and instruments of the historian’s analysis.
To analyse the historical and contemporary social processes: to understand and/or explain human problems and offer solutions.
1. The First World War, 1914-18 and the new global configuration.
1. Background and causes.
2. Evolution and consequences of the conflict.
3. Peace treaties and the new political map.
2. Political changes and socio-economic transformations, 1918-1939.
1. The Russian Revolution and construction of socialism.
2. The crisis of parliamentary democracies.
3. Fascism and dictatorships.
4. The economy: reconstruction, growth and crisis.
5. The "dark nations" in interwar period.
3. The Second World War and the new international order, 1939-1991.
1. Evolution and consequences of the IIWW.
2. Strategies, phases and main conflicts during the Cold War.
3. The end of Empires and the formation of new States.
ARACIL, R. et al.: El mundo actual. De la Segunda Guerra Mundial a nuestros días. Barcelona, UAB, 1998.
ARTOLA, M., PÉREZ LEDESMA, M.: Contemporánea. La historia desde 1776. Alianza, Madrid, 2005.
BELL, P.M.H.: The World since 1945. An International History. Arnold: London, 2001.
CASANOVA, J.: Europa contra Europa, 1914-45. Barcelona, Crítica, 2011.
COOK, C., STEVENSON, J.: Guía de Historia Contemporánea de Europa, Madrid, Alianza, 1994.
COOK, C.: Diccionario de términos históricos, Madrid, Alianza, 1997.
DÍEZ ESPINOSA, J.R. et al.: Historia del mundo actual (desde 1945 hasta nuestros días). Valladolid, Universidad de Valladolid, 3rd edition, 2006.
FONTANA, J.: Por el bien del Imperio. Una historia del mundo desde 1945. Barcelona, Pasado y Presente, 2011.
FONTANA, J.: El siglo de la revolución. Una historia del mundo desde 1914. Barcelona, Crítica, 2017.
GARCÍA DE CORTÁZAR, F. & LORENZO ESPINOSA, J.M.: Historia del mundo actual, 1945-1989. Madrid, Alianza Editorial, 1996.
HOBSBAWM, E.: Historia del siglo XX. Barcelona, Crítica, 1998.
KINDER, H., HILGEMANN, W.: Atlas Histórico Mundial, vol. II: De la Revolución Francesa a nuestros días, Madrid, Itsmo, 1996.
LACOSTE, Y.: Geopolítica. La larga historia del presente. Madrid: Síntesis, 2009.
MARTÍNEZ CARRERAS, J.U. et al.: Historia del mundo actual. Madrid, Marcial Pons, 1996.
MARTÍNEZ RUEDA, F.: Materiales para la historia del mundo actual. Madrid, Istmo, 2006.
JUDT, T.: Postguerra. Una Historia de Europa desde 1945. Madrid, Taurus, 2006.
PAREDES, J.: Historia Universal Contemporánea. Barcelona, Ariel, 2004.
PROCACCI, G.: Historia general del siglo XX. Barcelona, Crítica, 2001.
TOBOSO SÁNCHEZ, P.: Diccionario de historia del mundo actual. Madrid, Alianza, 2005.
VILLARES, R. & BAHAMONDE, A.: El mundo contemporáneo, siglos XIX y XX, Madrid, Taurus, 2001.
ZAMAGNI, V.: Historia económica de la Europa Contemporánea, Barcelona, Crítica, 2001.
4.1 Specific abilities.
-Learning, analysing and interpreting in detail one or more specific periods of the past of mankind, conceptualizing the historical phenomena.
-Knowing and interpreting History as a discipline in construction.
-Critical awareness of the relationship between the social, economic and institutional dimensions of the past.
-Understanding, interpreting and developing historiographical texts or original documents based on the formulation of questions, hypotheses and goals, and development of the corresponding argument approach.
-Capacity to interpret historical events of the era and to elucidate the historical roots of the present facts. Capacity to relate and rank historical knowledge.
-Knowing and analysing the main explanatory keys of the Universal Contemporary History since the First World War until the end of the 20th century.
-Understanding and interpreting maps, graphics, texts and historical sources relating to the period of study.
4.2 Transversal abilities.
-Working autonomously with responsibility and initiative, developing management information, organization and planning capabilities.
-Applying analytical, critical, logical and creative thinking showing innovation skills.
-Capacity for synthesis and precision when writing assignments; management of formal and presentation aspects.
-Learning how to search and use the general and specific bibliography recommended by the professor, as well as the information resources related to ICTs.
-Development of discursive skills for presenting assignments orally.
4.3 Attitudinal abilities.
-Approach to other cultural worlds, promotion of their study and respect for differences.
-Sensitivity to the central problems in Universal History, especially to those relating to issues of equality, diversity, human rights and environment.
-Disposition towards learning, personal work and reading with the view of meeting the objectives of the subject.
-Willingness to work in groups and with shared responsibility.
-Disposition towards the ongoing discussion (participation in the classroom) and the specific one (from own work), with capacity for reasoning, exposition of arguments and self-criticism.
-In the lectures, the professor will explain the subject programme with the support of different didactic materials and the use of ICT.
-Interactive classes will be theoretical-practical and make it possible to complete the subject contents through the reading and interpretation of historical texts, graphs, tables and maps.
-Individualized tutoring, or in very small groups, will allow professors to pay attention to students in order to discuss concrete issues in relation to the assigned tasks, clear doubts or expand the explanation on specific aspects.
There will be a Final Exam on the date indicated by the official timetable prepared by the Registrar and Secretary’s Office of the Faculty, in which the student must answer questions related to the themes of the programme developed in the lectures and interactive classes, counting for 60% of the Final Mark. This mark will be taken into account if the student obtains a minimum score of 5 out of 10 in the examination, if not, student will have to re-examine at the second opportunity.
The remaining 40% will be obtained by the different scores awarded on the written tests, not fixed in the calendar, assignments and other activities. In order to calculate the average of this mark and the examination mark, the student has to obtain an overall average score of 5 out of 10. We will not assess the examinations of those students who do not submit the assignments. The completion of the internship is mandatory condition to take the exam in May and July.
Those students, however, have not attained the minimum grade along the ordinary course, will be examined in the second opportunity.
Students with exemption granted have to do the final exam of the subject and several individual assignments.
The student's attendance at classes is compulsory, therefore, repeated and unjustified absence to the same excess of 20%, will make it impossible for a student to be evaluated, which communicate by publishing a list students appearing so excluded.
According to the History Degree Report, the distribution of hours dedicated by the student to the subject is as follows:
Classroom work:
Full group activities, i.e. theoretical exposition: 30 hours
Small group activities, i.e., interactive classrooms: 15 hours
Tutoring in very small groups, (personalized tutoring): 2 hours
Assessment: 3 hours
Subtotal: 50 hours
Individual work:
Study: 40 hours
Assignment writing: 30 hours
Preparation of small group activities: 30 hours
Subtotal: 100 hours
Total: 150 hours.
-The basic recommendation is to read the general or specialized bibliography provided by the professor when giving the programme, and also the more specific one to be supplied with each theme in order to obtain a more complete picture than that offered in the lectures.
-Is is also advisable the individual performance of textual analyses, tables, graphs, statistical tables, etc., in order to obtain a domain in those areas and a better understanding of subject contents.
-Reading of quality newspapers and historical journals.
-Consultation of historical atlases and dictionaries of historical terms.
-Regular attendance at class is considered essential to achieve a good result in a positive assessment.
-Clarify by asking questions in class, or in the tutorials, those doubts that may arise during the learning period or when solving the case studies mentioned above.
This program can be adapted to new stages. Thus, for stages 2 and 3 the following modifications are established.
BIBLIOGRAPHY. Specific bibliography recommended: FONTANA, J.: El siglo de la revolución. Una historia del mundo desde 1914. Barcelona, Crítica, 2017. HOBSBAWM, E.: Historia del siglo XX. Barcelona, Crítica, 1998. PROCACCI, G.: Historia general del siglo XX. Barcelona: Crítica, 2001.
The teaching staff will provide the students with the complementary bibliographic material, through the virtual classroom.
TEACHING METHODOLOGY.
Stage 2: face-to-face and on-line teaching.
Stage 3: on-line teaching.
ASSESSMENT SYSTEM. Stage 2 and 3: continuous assessment and final exam online
Eduardo Rico Boquete
Coordinador/a- Department
- History
- Area
- Contemporary History
- Phone
- 881812735
- eduardo.rico [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
Telmo Otero Rodríguez
- Department
- History
- Area
- Contemporary History
- telmo.otero.rodriguez [at] usc.es
- Category
- Ministry Pre-doctoral Contract
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| 01.11.2021 11:30-14:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Virtual classroom |
| 07.02.2021 11:30-14:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Virtual classroom |