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
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.
Deepening in the realities of the contemporary world in his political, economic and social aspects. Knowledge of the current context of the world from the historical perspective, from the analysis of the audiovisual documentation, impresa or textual contributed by the sources of informative and journalistic type. Historical vision of the events and analysis of the diverse contexts, references and tendencies of the agents and sources.
THEORETICAL CONTENTS
TOPIC 1. THE AFTERMATH OF THE IIWW AND THE NEW INTERNATIONAL ORDER: THE COLD WAR (1945 - 1989)
1.1 The political changes and the project of a New Order international
1.2 Discrepancies and distrusts. Building the blocks
1.3 Strategies, phases and main conflicts of the Cold War
1.4 The end of the bipolar world and the changes in the international context
TOPIC 2. EUROPE AFTER 1945: WESTERN DEMOCRACIES, POPULAR DEMOCRACIES AND DICTATORSHIPS
2.1 Democracy and economic growth in the West. The dictatorships of Southern Europe
2.2 The establishment of real socialism and the construction of popular democracies
2.3 The dissolution of the socialist bloc and the transitions to democracy
2.4 From the EEC to EU
TOPIC 3. DECOLONIZATION, THIRD WORLD AND EMERGING POWERS: FROM LATIN AMERICA TO CHINA
3.1 The end of the colonial empires: causes and stages
3.2 The physiognomy of the Third World: political systems, economy and ideologies
3.3 The new emerging powers
TOPIC 4. CHALLENGES AND PERSPECTIVES IN THE GLOBAL ERA (1990-2019)
4.1 Collective action and new social movements
4.2 The wars of the 21st century
4.3 Major challenges (migration, environment)
PRACTICAL CONTENTS
The practical contents of the subject coincide with the points indicated in the contained theoretical.
The practical contents include viewings of audiovisual material, comments of texts and debates, with the aim to follow the theoretical explanations and integrate the diverse resources and documentary materials (bibliography, texts, maps).
Basic bibliography:
Aracil, R. & Olier, J., & Segura, A. (1995). El Mundo Actual. De la II Guerra Mundial a nuestros días. Universitat de Barcelona.
Artola, M., & Pérez Ledesma, M. (2005). Contemporánea: la historia desde 1776. Alianza.
Ash, T. G. (2000). Historia del presente: Ensayos, retratos y crónicas de la Europa de los 90. Tusquets.
Calvocoressi, P. (1987). Historia política del mundo contemporáneo, de 1945 a nuestros días. Akal.
Díez Espinosa, J. R. (2006). Historia del Mundo Actual (Desde 1945 hasta nuestros días). Universidad de Valladolid.
Fontana, J. (2011). Por el bien del Imperio. Una historia del mundo desde 1945. Pasado y Presente.
Gaddis, J. L. (2008). La Guerra Fría. RBA.
Judt, T. (2006). Posguerra. Una Historia de Europa desde 1945. Taurus.
Núñez Seixas, X. M. (2018). Las utopías pendientes. Una breve historia del mundo desde 1945. Crítica.
Veiga, F. (2009). El desequilibrio como orden. Una historia de la postguerra fría, 1990-2008. Alianza.
Veiga, F., & Ucelay-Da Cal, E. & Duarte, A. (2006). La paz simulada. Una historia de la Guerra Fría, 1941-1991. Alianza.
Villares, R., & Bahamonde, A. (2001). El mundo contemporáneo. Siglos XIX y XX. Taurus.
Complementary Bibliography:
Aldcroft, D. H. (2002). Historia de la Economía europea, 1914-2000. Crítica.
Anderson, P. (2012). El nuevo viejo mundo. Akal.
Bauman, Z. (2007). Miedo líquido. La sociedad contemporánea y sus temores. Paidós.
Briggs, A., & P. Clavin (2000). Historia Contemporánea de Europa (1789-1989). Crítica.
Castells, M. (2006). La sociedad-red. Alianza.
Dahrendorf, R. (2006). El recomienzo de la historia. De la caída del muro a la guerra de Irak. Katz.
Eley, G. (2003). Historia de la izquierda en Europa 1850-2000. Crítica.
Frieden, J. (2002). Capitalismo Global. El trasfondo económico de la historia del siglo XX. Crítica.
Hobsbawm, E. H. (1997). Historia del siglo XX. Crítica.
Huband, M. (2004). África después de la Guerra Fría. Paidós.
Huntington, S. (1994). La tercera ola. La democratización a finales del siglo XX. Paidós.
Leffler, M. P. (2008). La guerra después de la guerra: Estados Unidos, la Unión Soviética y la Guerra Fría. Crítica.
Mattelart, A. (2007). La mundialización de la comunicación. Paidós.
Núñez Seixas, X. M. (2004). Movimientos nacionalistas en la Europa del siglo XX. Síntesis.
Oya, C., & A. Santamaría (2007). Economía política del desarrollo en África. Akal.
Patterson, J. T. (2005). El gigante inquieto. Estados Unidos, de Nixon a G. W. Bush. Crítica.
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 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.
Second opportunity. The students that do not reach the minimum mark in the final examination will have to repeat the exam (50% of the final mark) and those that have not surpassed the practical part will have to repeat the works of this part (50% of the final mark).
Exemption to class will have to be authorised by the Academic Commission all time that the practices of laboratory (interactive sessions) will not be able to be exempted in no case. Students with exemption granted have to do the final exam of the subject (50% of the final mark) and several individual assignments (50% of the final mark).
In accordance with the USC permanence regulations in the USC for the students of Degree and Máster (art. 5.2), the assistance, as well as the participation in any of the indicated activities will be subject to evaluation and, consequently, the final grade of the student who completes any of them will never be "No Presentado".
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.
The students will have the following formative activities programmed:
Theoretical exposition: 30 hours
Works with texts in interactive classrooms. Analysis, synthesis and discussion: 15 hours
Final exam: 3 hours
Individual autonomous study or in group: 60 hours
Suggested reading: 25 hours
Preparation of oral presentations, debates, etc: 5 hours
Research, register and preparation of material of support (texts, images, audio). Planification and practice:12 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
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| 11:00-12:00 | Expositivo 1 | Galician | Classroom 1 |
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| 10:00-11:00 | Expositivo 1 | Galician | Classroom 1 |
| Friday | |||
| 11:00-12:00 | Expositivo 1 | Galician | Classroom 1 |
| 01.15.2024 10:00-14:00 | Expositivo 1 | Classroom 1 |
| 01.15.2024 10:00-14:00 | Expositivo 1 | Classroom 2 |
| 06.17.2024 10:00-14:00 | Expositivo 1 | Classroom 1 |