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:
Teaching: Sin docencia (Extinguida)
Enrolment: No Matriculable
O-1 Know the general diachronic structure of contemporary history, although with emphasis on the European continent
O-2 Know the processes of continuity and change of the last two centuries: political, economic, social and cultural.
O-3 Understand critically the factors / agents that were shaping contemporary society, and with them the main explanatory keys of the past.
O-4 Know the different perspectives and main historiographical debates according to the periods and contexts, in order to develop a critical attitude and to become aware that historical knowledge is a discipline in permanent construction.
O-5 Knowing how to analyze the present in a critical way through its historical perspective. The characteristics of today's society have roots in the recent past; the dominant (capitalist) economic system was configured in its current form throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; the doctrines and fundamental political worldviews come from the nineteenth century (socialism, liberalism, nationalism ...).
The liberal revolutions and the crisis of "L'Ancien Régime". The economic transformations. The consolidation of the capitalist economy. Ideologies and political systems: The advance of the liberalism, the birth of the democracy and the nationalism. The society of classes and the social movements. International relations and imperialist expansionism. The First World War and the territorial reorganisation of Europe. The Russian revolution and the evolution of the USSR. Economy and society in the interwar period (1918-1939). The crisis of the democracy and the rise of fascism. The Second World War and its Aftermath
These contents will develop in the following subjects:
1. The end of the Old Regime and the atlantic revolutions.
2. Industrial revolution and bourgeois civilization.
3. The Capitalism as a system: class, race, gender and social movements.
4. The Second Industrial Revolution, agrarian crisis, urbanization, migration movements.
5. International Relations and Imperialism (1871-1914).
6. The First World War and the Russian revolution.
7. The interwar period: crisis of democracy and the rise of fascism.
8. The Second World War II and the aftermath. The Cold War.
BIBLIOGRAFÍA BÁSICA:
ARTOLA, M., PÉREZ LEDESMA, M. (2005), Contemporánea: la historia desde 1776, Madrid: Alianza.
HEFFER, J., SERMAN, W. (1989), De las revoluciones a los imperialismos, Madrid: Akal.
MIRALLES, R., (1996), Equilibrio, hegemonía y reparto. Las relaciones internacionales entre 1870 y 1945. Madrid: Síntesis.
MISHRA, P. (2014). De las ruinas de los imperios. la rebelión contra Occidente y la metamorfosis de Asia, Barcelona: Galaxia Gutenberg.
PAREDES ALONSO, F.J. (2004). Historia Universal Contemporánea. Madrid: Ariel.
PRASHAD, V. (2012). Las naciones oscuras. Una historia del Tercer Mundo. Madrid: Península.
PROCACCI, G.: Historia general del siglo XX, Barcelona, Crítica, 2001.
VILLARES, R., BAHAMONDE, A. (2001). El mundo contemporáneo. Siglos XIX y XX. Madrid: Taurus.
ZAMAGNI, V. (2001). Historia económica de la Europa Contemporánea. Barcelona: Crítica.
BIBLIOGRAFÍA COMPLEMENTARIA:
BEEVOR, A. (2012). La Segunda Guerra Mundial. Barcelona: Pasado y Presente.
BOREISZA, J. W. (2002). La escalada del odio. Movimientos y sistemas autoritarios y fascistas en Europa, 1919-1945. Madrid: Siglo XXI.
CASANOVA, J. (2011). Europa contra Europa, 1914-45. Barcelona: Crítica.
COMELLAS, J.L. (2001). Los grandes imperios coloniales. Madrid: Rialp.
DELLA PORTA, D. & DIANI, M. (2015). Los movimientos sociales. Madrid: CIS.
EVANS, R.J. (2007). El Tercer Reich en el poder (1933-1939). Barcelona: Península.
FERGUSON, N. (2003). El imperio británico: cómo Gran Bretaña forjó el mundo. Barcelona: Debate.
FERRO, M. (dir.) (2005). El libro negro del colonialismo. Madrid: La Esfera de los Libros.
FOSTER, J.B. (1999). The Vulnerable Planet: A Short Economic History of the Environment, Monthly Review Press .
FRIEDEN, J. F. (2007). Capitalismo global. El trasfondo económico de la historia del siglo XX. Barcelona: Crítica.
GALBRAITH, J.K. (ed. 1989). El crac del 29. Barcelona: Ariel.
GONZÁLEZ DE MOLINA, M. y TOLEDO, v. (2011). Metabolismos, naturaleza e historia: Hacia una teoría de las transformaciones socioecológicas, Icaria editorial.
HOBSBAWM, E. (1998). Historia del siglo XX. Barcelona: Crítica.
INIESTA, F. (2010). Kuma. Historia del África negra. Barcelona: Bellaterra.
JIAN, C.: La China de Mao y la Guerra Fría, Barcelona, Paidós, 2005.
LÓPEZ GARCÍA, B. (2000). El mundo árabo-islámico contemporáneo. Madrid: Síntesis.
MACMILLAN, M. (2013). 1914. De la paz a la guerra. Madrid: Turner.
McNEILL, J.R. Algo nuevo bajo el sol: Historia medioambiental del mundo en el siglo XX. Madrid: Alianza Editorial.
McNEILL J.R. y ENGELKE, P. (2016). The Great Acceleration: An Environmental History of the Anthropocene since 1945, Belknap Press.
McPHEE, P., (2003). La revolución francesa, una nueva historia, 1789-1799. Barcelona: Crítica.
NUGENT, P. & ASIWAJU, A. I. (1998). Fronteras africanas. Barreras, canales y oportunidades. Barcelona: Bellaterra.
OFFEN, K. (2020). Feminismos Europeos, 1700-1950: Una historia política, Madrid: Akal.
PATEL, R. y MOORE, J.W. (2017). A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet, Univ. of California Press.
PAXTON, R. O. (2005). Anatomía del fascismo. Barcelona: Península.
PORRAS GALLO, M.I. (2020). La gripe española: 1918-1919. Madrid: Los Libros de la Catarata.
TARROW, S. (2012). El poder en movimiento: los movimientos sociales, la acción colectiva y la política. Madrid: Alianza Ensayo.
WADE, R. A. (2017). 1917. La revolución rusa. Madrid: La Esfera de los Libros.
ZORGBIBE, Ch. (1997). Historia de las relaciones internacionales. Madrid: Alianza.
Generals and Basic
CG1 - Ensure a training generalista and of integrated character on the fundamental contents of the diverse thematic
fields of the Geography, his epistemological development and his methods of investigation.
CG2 - Know, comprise and interpret the territory
CG3 - Interrelate the half physicist and environmental with the social and human sphere
CG4 - Combine a general approach with a skilled analysis
CG5 - Interrelate the phenomena to different territorial scales
CG6 - Explain the diversity of places, regions and localizacion
CG7 - Comprise the space relations. Value the cultural appearances in his interpretation
CG8 - Analyse and interpret the landscapes
CG9 - Generate sensitivity and interest by the territorial and environmental subjects.
CB1 - That the students have showed to possess and comprise knowledges in an area of study that splits of the base of
the secondary education general, and is used to find to a level that, although it supports in books of text advanced, includes also
some appearances that involve pertinent knowledges of the avant-garde of his field of study.CG2 - Contextual competence to situate the journalism in the field of the communication
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
Specific competences
The student will be able to:
CE-1 Contextualize in historical terms the contemporary political, social, economic and cultural reality and current events and problems.
CE-2 Critically analyze complex social realities past and present in the contemporary world.
CE-3 Explain in historical terms the diversity of the current world, finding the fundamental traces of the contemporary world such as migratory movements, the ecological crisis, economic inequality, the coexistence of different cultures, etc.
CE-4 Compare in historical terms different historical and spatial realities, starting from the complexity and diversity that make up the evolutionary processes.
CE-5 Master the specific conceptual basis of the historical processes referred to the transit and scope of contemporaneity.
Transversal competences
The student will be able to:
CT-1 Locate and select critically the information required at the bibliography and historical sources level, as well as facer an adequate use of the digital resources, screening, ranking and organizing in an appropriate and critical way the available information and materials
CT-2 Autonomous learning.
CT-3 Elaborate in writing and orally present historical contents with the conceptual rigor and presentation formalities of historical science.
CT-4 Reason critically from a reflexive reading, both the events themselves and the available information -sources, monographs, exhibitions, etc.-.
CT-5 Organize and work as a team.
With the aim of facilitating and rationalizing the delivery of the subject, the following techniques will be used:
- Exhibition classes in which the explanation of the theoretical contents will be made. It is a classroom activity.
- Interactive classes in which the activities will be practical (text comments and viewing of historical films / documentaries) and related to the theoretical contents of the subject.
- Field practice (in collaboration with other teachers and students in the areas of Degree in Xeography and Territory Planning).
-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.
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.
CRITERIA according to which the comments / works of the students will be rated:
1.- Level of mastery of the contents.
2.- Level of mastery of the general and specific historical terminology of the subject or period addressed.
3.- Ability to synthesize and prioritize the relevant aspects in the preparation of a topic.
4.- Capacity for critical analysis and interpretative reasoning.
5.- Capacity for relationship and / or comparison, as appropriate, when preparing a topic.
6.- The presentation and organization in general of the exercises.
7.- The level of mastery of the formal presentation techniques of the works.
8.- The uncritical use and without citing of material obtained from the network will be penalized.
It depends on a broad set of factors inherent to students (reading ability, interest in the subject, enthusiasm for learning, etc.). Approximate evaluation of the study time:
32 classroom hours of expository classes in full group.
16 contact hours of interactive classes in a small group.
10 hours of preparation of the works and / or development of field practices, if any.
3 hours of mandatory personal tutoring.
4 hours evaluation.
85 hours of personal study.
TOTAL: 150 HOURS
It is essential that the students assimilate the philosophy and requirements of the continuous assessment system established by the new methodology of the EEES:
- Reading of culture magazines.
- Regular query of a historical dictionary.
- Consultation and reading of the recommended works.
- Consultation of cultural internet sites promoted by institutions of proven intellectual solvency.
Eduardo Rico Boquete
Coordinador/a- Department
- History
- Area
- Contemporary History
- Phone
- 881812735
- eduardo.rico [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
Roque Sanfiz Arias
- Department
- History
- Area
- Contemporary History
- roque.sanfiz.arias [at] usc.es
- Category
- Ministry Pre-doctoral Contract
Stefania Barca
- Department
- History
- Area
- Contemporary History
- stefania.barca [at] usc.es
- Category
- Investigador/a Distinguido/a
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| 15:00-17:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Galician, Spanish | Classroom 07 |
| Friday | |||
| 17:00-19:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Galician, Spanish | Classroom 07 |
| 01.09.2023 09:00-11:30 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Classroom 08 |
| 06.19.2023 09:00-11:30 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Classroom 09 |