Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
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2500501 History | OB | 3 | 2 |
Knowledge of international modern history prior to 1945 and basic reading proficiency in English are absolutely necessary for the class.
The goals to be achieved are the following: knowing and understanding the events of the so-called Cold War, in order to be able to extract the keys to explain its afthermaths. In fact, this subject is linked to current history. Thus, it seeks to get students used to argue professionally, as historians, and break the separation between their every-day and historiographic perception.
At the end of the course, students should have sufficient knowledge of the causes that led to the Cold War and the specificity of this phenomenon, as well as its phases, periods and actors on global scale. The processes of decolonization also be part of the curriculum, although they would need a specific subject. Other issues addressed are: economic and social evolution in the Western world and the Eastern bloc, religious fundamentalism in the 1970s and 80s, economic and social transition in the USSR and the People's Republic of China, and armed conflicts during the Cold War.
Depending on the time available at the end of the course, the period of the so-called Post-Cold War after 1991 shall also be addressed.
1. Ideas for the start: power, institutions and international relations in the 20th century
2. The origins of the conflict: "The Second Thirty Years' War"
3. The post-war crisis and the beginning of the Cold War
5. The great rivals: USA and USSR in the 1950s and 60s
6. Post-war Europe: politics, economy and society
7. Decolonization and the "Third World"
8. 1968: the socio-cultural revolution and its consequences
9. The neoconservative turn and religious fundamentalism in the 1970s and 80s
10. Remodeling socialism: USSR and China in the 1970s and 80s
11. The neoliberal turn and "The End of History"
12. The return of history
Attendance to the lectures.
Attendance to guided seminars and mentoring sessions.
Comprehensive text reading.
Writing papers and analytical comments.
Presentations and oral analysis.
Self-study.
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Lectures | 40 | 1.6 | 2, 5, 8, 7, 9, 12 |
Seminars and guided practical exercises | 10 | 0.4 | 10, 2, 3, 7, 13, 11 |
Type: Supervised | |||
Mentoring sessions | 10 | 0.4 | 13 |
Modelled learning exercises | 5 | 0.2 | 2, 5, 8, 12 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Reading texts. Writing papers. Commenting on texts. Preparation of oral presentations and seminars. Search for bibliographic information | 30 | 1.2 | 10, 2, 11 |
Self-study | 45 | 1.8 | 10, 2, 11 |
Standard regulations for a course without confinement incidents and / or teleteaching
No special individual exam will be applied or negotiated, regardless of the dates established for the common students. Any imponderable that can affect any specific student, with duly documented justification, will be resolved within the framework of thedates and calls set for all
Regulations for cases of confinement and / or teleteaching
Based on the experience of March-June 2020 teleteachung, in case the confinement occurs, this will involve a rethinkig about the number and pattern of exercises to be performed and the percentages of each model of test
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.
It will be the personal circumstances of those students who prove some specific difficulty arising from confinement, as well as foreigners who have returned to their country. All changes and adaptations will be consulted and agreed with Teaching Coordination of the Department of Modern and Contemporary History.
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.
The student will be classified as Non-evaluable when he has not delivered more than 30% of the evaluation activities.
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Papers and exercises | 40 | 4 | 0.16 | 10, 1, 4, 6, 7, 13, 12 |
Practical exercises | 20 | 2 | 0.08 | 1, 2, 6, 3, 12, 11 |
Written tests | 40 | 4 | 0.16 | 2, 5, 4, 8, 9 |
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BOUKARI-YABARA, Amzat, Africa Unite! Une Histoire du Panafricanisme, La Découverte, Paris, 2014.
BURLEIGH, Michael, Pequeñas guerras, lugares remotos, Taurus, Madrid, 2014.
CALVOCORESSI, Peter, Historia política del mundo contemporáneo. De 1945 a nuestros días, trad. Susana Sueiro Seone, Akal, Madrid, 1999.
CRANKSHAW, Edward, The New Cold War, Moscow v. Pekín, Penguin Books, 1963.
ESCALANTE GONZALBO, Fernando, Neoliberalismo. Una historia económica, cultural e intelectual de nuestro mundo, de 1975 a hoy, Turner, Madrid, 2016.
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MAMMARELLA, Giuseppe, Historia de Europa contemporánea (1945-1990), trad. Juan Bignozzi, Barcelona, Ariel, 1990.
MURILLO BONVEHÍ, David, De Walmart a Al Qaeda. Una lectura interdisciplinar de la globalización, Libros de Cabecera, Barcelona, 2015.
NITZE, Paul H., De Hiroshima a la Glasnost, G.E.L.A., Buenos Aires, 1991.
NOUSCHI, Marc, Historia del siglo XX. Todos los mundos, el mundo. Cátedra, Madrid, 1996.
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PLOKHY, Serhii, El último imperio. Los días finales de la Unión Soviética, Turner, Madrid, 2015.
POWASKI, Ronald E., La guerra fría. Estados Unidos y la Unión Soviética, 1917-1991. Crítica, Barcelona, 2000.
PROCACCI, Giulano, Historia general del siglo XX, Crítica, Barcelona, 2001.
VEIGA, Francisco; DA CAL, Enrique U.; DUARTE, Ángel,La paz simulada. Una historia de la Guerra Fría. Alianza Universidad, Madrid, 1997.
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