ECTS credits ECTS credits: 6
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 24 Interactive Classroom: 24 Total: 51
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: History
Areas: Contemporary History
Center Faculty of Communication Science
Call: First Semester
Teaching: Sin docencia (Extinguida)
Enrolment: No Matriculable | 1st year (Yes)
Promotes the use of contemporary methods of the study of the History through the documentary resources that contribute the Journalism and the Audiovisual Communication. Use of the information as a source to understand the historical sequence and promotes the analysis of the real context.
The subject will allow the students:
- To study many elements of contemporary world: political, economic and social dimensions.
- To analyze the current context of the world from an historical perspective based on the analysis of audiovisual and printed documentation provided by informational and journalistic sources.
- To have historical vision of events and analysis of the various contexts, references, trends and positions of agents and sources.
-To adcquire a global vision of the structural transformations during the twentieth century and the begining of this twenty first century.
-To know the main historiographic debates according to the contexts, themes and periods with the purpose to develop a critical thinking on contemporary world history.
-To get the basic knowledge of the contemporary world history from a transnational perspective and different approaches (geopolitical, economic, social).
-To analyze the current global economy and society.
1. THE AFTERMATH OF THE IIWW AND THE NEW INTERNATIONAL ORDER: THE COLD WAR (1945 - 1989).
2. EUROPE AFTER 1945: WESTERN DEMOCRACIES, POPULAR DEMOCRACIES AND DICTATORSHIPS.
3. DECOLONIZATION, THIRD WORLD AND EMERGING POWERS: FROM LATIN AMERICA TO CHINA.
4. SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND CIVIL SOCIETY: COLLECTIVE ACTION, NEW AND OLD SUBJECTS
5. CHALLENGES AND PERSPECTIVES IN THE GLOBAL ERA (1990 - 2018).
Basic bibliography:
Aracil, R., Olier, J., e Segura, A., El Mundo Actual. De la II Guerra Mundial a nuestros días, Barcelona: Universitat de Barcelona, 1995.
Artola, M., e Pérez Ledesma, M., Contemporánea: la historia desde 1776, Madrid: Alianza, 2005.
Ash, T. G., Historia del presente: Ensayos, retratos y crónicas de la Europa de los 90, Barcelona: Tusquets, 2000.
Calvocoressi, P. Historia política del mundo contemporáneo, de 1945 a nuestros días, Madrid, Akal, 1987.
Díez Espinosa, J. R., et al., Historia del Mundo Actual (Desde 1945 hasta nuestros días), Valladolid: Universidad de Valladolid, 2006 [3ª ed.].
Fontana, J., Por el bien del Imperio. Una historia del mundo desde 1945. Barcelona: Pasado y Presente, 2011.
Gaddis, J. L., La Guerra Fría, Barcelona: RBA, 2008.
Judt, T., Posguerra. Una Historia de Europa desde 1945, Madrid, Taurus, 2006.
Núñez Seixas, X. M., Las utopías pendientes. Una breve historia del mundo desde 1945, Barcelona: Crítica, 2018 [2ª ed.].
Veiga, F., El desequilibrio como orden. Una historia de la postguerra fría, 1990-2008, Madrid: Alianza, 2009.
Veiga, F., E. Ucelay-Da Cal e A. Duarte, La paz simulada. Una historia de la Guerra Fría, 1941-1991, Madrid: Alianza, 2006 [2ª ed.].
Villares, R., e Bahamonde, A., El mundo contemporáneo. Siglos XIX y XX, Madrid: Taurus, 2001.
Complementary Bibliography:
Aldcroft, D. H., Historia de la Economía europea, 1914-2000, Barcelona, Crítica, 2002.
Anderson, P., El nuevo viejo mundo, Madrid, Akal, 2012.
Bauman, Z., Miedo líquido. La sociedad contemporánea y sus temores, Barcelona: Paidós, 2007.
Briggs, A., e P. Clavin, Historia Contemporánea de Europa (1789-1989), Barcelona: Crítica, 2000.
Castells, M., La sociedad-red, Madrid: Alianza, 2006.
Dahrendorf, R., El recomienzo de la historia. De la caída del muro a la guerra de Irak, Buenos Aires: Katz, 2006.
Eley, G., Historia de la izquierda en Europa 1850-2000, Barcelona: Crítica, 2003.
Frieden, J., Capitalismo Global. El trasfondo económico de la historia del siglo XX, Barcelona: Crítica, 2002.
Hobsbawm, E. H., Historia del siglo XX, Barcelona, Crítica, 1997.
Huband, M., África después de la Guerra Fría, Barcelona: Paidós, 2004.
Huntington, S., La tercera ola. La democratización a finales del siglo XX, Barcelona: Paidós, 1994.
Leffler, M. P., La guerra después de la guerra: Estados Unidos, la Unión Soviética y la Guerra Fría, Barcelona: Crítica, 2008.
Mattelart, A., La mundialización de la comunicación, Barcelona: Paidós, 2007.
Núñez Seixas, X. M., Movimientos nacionalistas en la Europa del siglo XX, Madrid: Síntesis, 2004 [2ª ed.].
Oya, C., e A. Santamaría (eds.), Economía política del desarrollo en África,Madrid: Akal, 2007.
Patterson, J. T., El gigante inquieto. Estados Unidos, de Nixon a G. W. Bush, Barcelona: Crítica, 2005.
GENERAL
CG2 - Contextual competence to situate the journalism in the field of the communication
CG3 - Competence to exercise the profession with critical spirit, professional ethics and civic commitment
CB2 - That the students know to apply his knowledges to his work or vocation of a professional form and possess the
competences that are used to to show by means of the preparation and defence of arguments and the resolution of problems inside
his area of study
CB3 - That the students have the capacity to gather and interpret notable data (usually inside his area of study)
to issue trials that include a reflection on notable subjects of social type, scientific or ethical
CB4 - That the students can transmit information, ideas, problems and solutions to a so much specialised public as no skilled
CB5 - That the students have developed those skills of necessary learning to undertake studies
with a high degree of autonomy
TRANSVERSAL
CT1 Capacity of organization and planning
CT2 Information management capacity
CT3 - Teamwork
CT4 - Autonomous Learning
CT5 - Creativity
CT6 - Initiative and Entrepreneurship
CT7 - Basic knowledge of the profession
SPECIFIC
CE1 Understand the economic and political context in which journalism and communication are developed today.
CE24 - Qualify for the understanding of reports and statistical data for his interpretation in the media.
CE25 - Gain knowledges to understand the dimension of the communication of masses.
-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, to apply to studies of cases.
-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 50% 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 50% 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.
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.
In cases of fraudulent performance of exercises or tests, the provisions of the Regulations for the evaluation of the academic performance of students and for the review of grades will apply.
Classroom work:
Full group activities, i.e. theoretical exposition: 24 hours
Small group activities, i.e., interactive classrooms: 24 hours
Tutoring in very small groups, (personalized tutoring): 3 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.
Eduardo Rico Boquete
Coordinador/a- Department
- History
- Area
- Contemporary History
- Phone
- 881812735
- eduardo.rico [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
Francisco Jorge Leira Castiñeira
- Department
- History
- Area
- Contemporary History
- franciscojorge.leira [at] rai.usc.es
- Category
- Xunta Post-doctoral Contract
| Monday | |||
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| 11:00-12:00 | Expositivo 1 | Galician | Classroom 1 |
| Wednesday | |||
| 10:00-11:00 | Expositivo 1 | Galician | Classroom 1 |
| 01.12.2023 10:00-14:00 | Expositivo 1 | Classroom 1 |
| 01.12.2023 10:00-14:00 | Expositivo 1 | Classroom 2 |
| 06.14.2023 10:00-14:00 | Expositivo 1 | Classroom 3 |