Introduction to Prehistory
Code: 100336 ECTS Credits: 6| Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2500501 History | FB | 1 | 1 |
Contact
- Name:
- Carlos Tornero Dacasa
- Email:
- Carlos.Tornero@uab.cat
Use of Languages
- Principal working language:
- spanish (spa)
- Some groups entirely in English:
- No
- Some groups entirely in Catalan:
- Yes
- Some groups entirely in Spanish:
- Yes
Teachers
- Laura Obea Gomez
- Oscar Auge Martinez
Prerequisites
There are no oficial prerequisits
Objectives and Contextualisation
This subject is part of the History matter from the Degree in History. The 30 ECTS (distributed in 6 Prehistory, 6 Ancient History, Modern History and Contemporaneous History) should provide a minimum knowledge in History to get access to more specialized curses in second, third and fourth courses. These curses in History may provide a general knowledge in events, processes and changes in the Human History from a diachronic view, from the Prehistory to modern times, in broad geographical areas. Furthermore, subject in History will provide a first notions about the different perspectives in historical sciences (social, politic, economy, gender, ideology, cultural) as well about theory and methodological tools in History (debates and historiography).
Competences
- Contextualizing the historical processes and analysing them from a critical perspective.
- Developing critical thinking and reasoning and communicating them effectively both in your own and other languages.
- Respecting the diversity and plurality of ideas, people and situations.
- Students must be capable of collecting and interpreting relevant data (usually within their area of study) in order to make statements that reflect social, scientific or ethical relevant issues.
- Students must develop the necessary learning skills in order to undertake further training with a high degree of autonomy.
- Students must have and understand knowledge of an area of study built on the basis of general secondary education, and while it relies on some advanced textbooks it also includes some aspects coming from the forefront of its field of study.
Learning Outcomes
- Communicating in your mother tongue or other language both in oral and written form by using specific terminology and techniques of Historiography.
- Critically analysing the past, the nature of the historical speech and the social function of historical science.
- Developing the ability of historical analysis and synthesis.
- Engaging in debates about historical facts respecting the other participants' opinions.
- Identifying the context of the historical processes.
- Identifying the main and secondary ideas and expressing them with linguistic correctness.
- Identifying the specific methods of history and their relationship with the analysis of particular facts.
- Interpreting the plurality and heterogeneity of the cultural development of Humanity.
- Organising and planning the search of historical information.
- Solving problems autonomously.
- Using the characteristic computing resources of the field of History.
- Working in teams respecting the other's points of view.
Content
PART 1: The process of humanization. The Human Evolution and protagonists. Technology, subsistence and social organization of first hominids.
PART 2: Process of humanization. The debate about the origin and expansion of the modern humans. The prehistoric colonisations. Technology, social organization and subsistence of hunter-gatherer societies during the Middle and Upper Pleistocene.
PART 3: The crisis of the Palaeolithic world and the origin of the peasant societies. The last hunter-gatherer societies and the causes of their transformations.
PART 4: The origin of the husbandry and agriculture. New economic ways of life. Main characteristics of the peasant societies.
Methodology
Directed activities:
- Theoretical classes led by teachers with ICT support
- Group work sessions and debates led by the teaching staff. Collective evaluation and discussion of texts or audiovisuals, individual and / or collective presentations and round of evaluations.
- Field trips: visits to museums or archaeological sites.
Supervised activities:
- Concerted sessions to resolve doubts about the development of the subject. Individual or small group advice on specific subject contents.
- Counselling in small groups for the preparation of presentations and scheduled learning exercises.
Autonomous activity:
- Personal study. Reading texts. Bibliographic information search.
- Writing of papers. Preparation of presentations, oral comments and debates.
Activities
| Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type: Directed | |||
| Teaching leassons, seminaries and field trips | 50 | 2 | 2, 5, 7, 8, 4 |
| Type: Supervised | |||
| Supervision | 10 | 0.4 | 9, 4, 12 |
| Type: Autonomous | |||
| Preparation exams and essays | 75 | 3 | 10, 3, 6, 9, 11 |
Assessment
Assessment modules
A continuous evaluation of all the activities developed in the subject will be carried out. The evaluation system is organized into 3 modules, each of which will have a specific weight assigned in the final qualification:
1. The directed activities will be evaluated through the written tests module.
2. Supervised activities will be evaluated through the classroom presentations and discussions module.
3. Autonomous activities will be evaluated through the work module.
Assessment schedule
At the beginning of the course, students will be informed of the specific contents of the assessment modules and their completion / delivery dates.
Requirements to pass the subject
- Attendance at 75% percent of the sessions.
- Presentation / completion of the evaluation modules on the established dates.
- Obtaining an average score of the evaluation modules of 5 or more on a scale of 10, provided that a minimum qualification of 4 has been obtained on a scale of 10 in each of them.
- A student will be considered non-evaluable in the case of non-presentation of one or more modules within the established deadlines or does not attend a minimum of 75% of the theoretical sessions.
Recovery
- Students who have completed / presented the evaluation modules within the established deadlines may be presented for recovery.
- The written tests module will not be recoverable.
Recovery schedule
Recovery dates are set by the Faculty of Letters. These dates have been published on the faculty website since July of the previous year. It is the responsibility of the students to know the date that corresponds to make the recovery of their subject. The last continuous assessment test will be scheduled at least one week beforethe re-evaluation date.
At the time of completion/delivery of each assessment activity, the teacher will inform (Moodle, SIA) of the procedure and date of revision of the grades.
In the event of a student committing any irregularity that may lead to a significant variation in the grade awarded to an assessment activity, the student will be given a zero for this activity, regardless of any disciplinary process that may take place. In the event of several irregularities in assessment activities of the same subject, the student will be given a zero as the final grade for this subject.
In the event that tests or exams cannot be taken onsite, they will be adapted to an online format made available through the UAB’s virtual tools (original weighting will be maintained). Homework, activities and class participation will be carried out through forums, wikis and/or discussion on Teams, etc. Lecturers will ensure that students are able to access these virtual tools, or will offer them feasible alternatives
Assessment Activities
| Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Essays and oral contributions | 50% | 10 | 0.4 | 2, 10, 1, 3, 5, 7, 6, 8, 9, 4, 12, 11 |
| Written exams | 50% | 5 | 0.2 | 3, 5, 7, 6, 8 |
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