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 Communication Science
Call: First Semester
Teaching: Sin docencia (Extinguida)
Enrolment: No Matriculable | 1st year (Yes)
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: WELFARE STATE AND REAL SOCIALISM. WESTERN DEMOCRACIES, POPULAR DEMOCRACIES AND DICTATORSHIPS.
3. DECOLONIZATION, THIRD WORLD AND EMERGING POWERS: FROM LATIN AMERICA TO CHINA.
4. GENDER, EQUIALITY AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS.
5. THE EVOLUTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE ECOLOGY.
6. CHALLENGES AND PERSPECTIVES IN THE GLOBAL ERA (1990 - 2018).
HANDBOOKS AND 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.].
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, 2015.
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.
Fontana, J., Por el bien del Imperio. Una historia del mundo desde 1945. Barcelona: Pasado y Presente, 2011.
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.
Tortella Casares, G., Los orígenes del siglo XXI. Un ensayo de historia social y económica contemporánea, Madrid: Gadir, 2006.
Toharia, M., El clima. El calentamiento global y el futuro del planeta, Barcelona: Debate, 2007.
Touraine, A., América Latina, política y sociedad, Madrid: Espasa Calpe, 1989.
Van der Wee, H. Prosperidad y crisis. Reconstrucción, crecimiento y cambio 1945-1980, Barcelona: Crítica, 1997.
Zorgbibe, Ch., Historia de las relaciones internacionales, 2. Del Sistema de Yalta hasta nuestros días, Madrid: Alianza, 1997.
Zubok, W. A., Un imperio fallido: La Unión Soviética durante la Guerra Fría, Barcelona: Crítica, 2008.
GENERAL
CB1. Know how to apply the knowledge acquired to your work in a professional way by developing and defending arguments and problem solving
CB2. Transmit information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialized and non-specialized audiences
CB3 Develop learning skills to undertake studies with a high degree of autonomy
CB4 Competence to exercise the profession with critical spirit, professional ethics and civic commitment
CROSS-KNOWLEDGE
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.
CE2 Locate, identify and appropriately use historical information sources and tools for journalistic research (catalogs, inventories, databases, etc.)
CE3 Elaborate oral / written / multimedia presentations of a historical theme, integrating elements of political, economic and social analysis
The teaching of this subject, that consist of 3 theoretical credits and 3 practices, develops of the next way:
-Expositive Classes, dedicated to the explanation of the theoretical contents. Presence activity in the class.
-Interactive Classes, dedicated to presence practices relation with the theoretical contents giving previously. These Classes will consist of texts, graphics and maps comments; readings, projection and audiovisual comment. Some of these activities will realize individually and other in reduced groups to guarantee the participation of all the students.
- Personalized Tutorship, dedicated to orientate the elaboration of Course Works (recension of books suggested by the professors) that must realize the students.
The Presence Time per each Student will be the next:
Expositive Teaching: 24 Hours
Interactive Teaching: 24 Hours
Personalized Tutorship: 3 Hours.
The assessment will be continuum and will have into account the participation of the students in the activities proposed along the four-month period. The final mark will obtain of the next way:
a) The final exam will consist of in a written exam on the questions treated in the theoretical classes and will represent the 50% of the total qualification of the subject. The minimun of 4 points of 10 has to be reached in the exam.
b)The resolution of practical exercises, debates and the mandatory review / critical comment of one of the books proposed by the teacher will represent 50% of the final grade. This work will be delivered to the teachers during the month of December.
The mechanisms of control of the practice activities will be the next:
-One reading for each one of the themes, about this the students will do practice exercises, and they will be corrected by the teacher in the interactive classes.
-A documentary film for each one of the themes, watched in the interactive classes.
-Tutorship of the course works (See the tutorial timetables).
Students who are exempt from attendance will be evaluated by final examination (70%) and the delivery of practical work (30%).
Presence Hours in the Four-Month Period:
Theoretical: 24
Practices: 24
Tutorials: 3
Non-Presence Hours in the Four-Month Period: 96
These suppose 6 Hours of Weekly Work that can be divided in the next way:
1- Preparation hours of Practices: 2
2- Preparation hours of the Exam: 2
3- Preparation of the Course Work/Book recension: 2
Assessment Hours:
-The assessment exams of the practices and works will realize within the teaching timetable.
-The exam is out of the teaching timetable. The duration of this will be between 2 and 3 Hours.
Total volume of student work: 150 hours.
-Reading of the chapters of the basic handbooks that correspond to the themes explained in the Theoretical Classes.
-Preparation of the Readings that serve as base of the Practice Classes.
-The Course Work will have a Control on the part of the Teacher, that´s why it is recommended the students use the tutorial hours for any doubt, and in general, for any support that they need on the subject.
1- To analyze and to Understand, Not memorize.
2- To develop the Ability of Relation of the Events and the Social, Political and Economic Dynamics in the Space and in the Time.
Modifications under the health crisis by covid-19 and in accordance with the instructions of the "Bases for the development of a safe classroom teaching", of June 19, 2020.
In the case of a scenario of closure of the facilities, the face-to-face expository sessions will be replaced by the reading of texts indicated by the teaching staff and / or expository sessions by telematic means, together with presentations in power point / pdf that allow the monitoring of the content.
The interactive sessions will be replaced by various activities also disseminated through the Virtual Campus, which include working with texts, documentaries and all kinds of practical materials guided by teaching staff, as well as the formula for writing assignments, sessions conducted electronically and / or the resolution of online questionnaires.
The face-to-face examination will be replaced by an examination carried out by telematic means.
In the case of a distancing scenario, the measures foreseen in the adapted normality scenario will be combined with the measures foreseen in the closure of the facilities, as indicated by the academic authorities and always following the recommendations of the health authorities.
Xose Manoel Nuñez Seijas
Coordinador/a- Department
- History
- Area
- Contemporary History
- Phone
- 881812681
- xoseml.nunez [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Professor
Antonio Miguez Macho
- Department
- History
- Area
- Contemporary History
- Phone
- 881812576
- Category
- Professor: Temporary PhD professor
Aldara Cidrás Fuentes
- Department
- History
- Area
- Contemporary History
- aldara.cidras.fuentes [at] usc.es
- Category
- Xunta Pre-doctoral Contract
Jessica Nogueira Castro
- Department
- History
- Area
- Contemporary History
- jessica.nogueira.castro [at] usc.es
- Category
- Ministry Pre-doctoral Contract
| Monday | |||
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| 11:00-12:00 | Expositivo 1 | Galician | Auditorium |
| Tuesday | |||
| 13:00-14:00 | Expositivo 1 | Galician | Auditorium |
| Wednesday | |||
| 13:00-14:00 | Expositivo 1 | Galician | Auditorium |
| 01.15.2021 10:00-14:00 | Expositivo 1 | Classroom 1 |
| 01.15.2021 10:00-14:00 | Expositivo 1 | Classroom 2 |
| 06.23.2021 10:00-14:00 | Expositivo 1 | Classroom 1 |