The Age of Barroque
Code: 100364 ECTS Credits: 6| Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2500501 History | OB | 3 | 1 |
Contact
- Name:
- José Luis Betrán Moya
- Email:
- JoseLuis.Betran@uab.cat
Use of Languages
- Principal working language:
- catalan (cat)
- Some groups entirely in English:
- No
- Some groups entirely in Catalan:
- Yes
- Some groups entirely in Spanish:
- Yes
Prerequisites
It is recommended to have studied the subject Epoca de la Reforma before.
Objectives and Contextualisation
A generalist tour of the main events and processes of change and continuity of the seventeenth century, with diverse thematic approaches of historical science (social, political, economic, gender, cultural, ideological). Initiation to the theory and methodology of early modern history.
Competences
- Critically assessing the fonts and theoretical models in order to analyse the different historical periods.
- Developing critical thinking and reasoning and communicating them effectively both in your own and other languages.
- Mastering the basic diachronic and thematic concepts of the historical science.
- Respecting the diversity and plurality of ideas, people and situations.
- Students must be capable of applying their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional way and they should have building arguments and problem resolution skills within their area of study.
- 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.
Learning Outcomes
- Accurately describing an artistic object with the specific language of art criticism.
- Assessing the approach of the different branches of historical research that study the Early Modern Period.
- Communicating in your mother tongue or other language both in oral and written form by using specific terminology and techniques of Historiography.
- Developing the ability of historical analysis and synthesis.
- Explaining the most relevant historical processes of the Early Modern Period.
- Identifying and analysing the social, economic and political tensions that triggered the transition from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern Period.
- Identifying the main and secondary ideas and expressing them with linguistic correctness.
- Organising and planning the search of historical information.
- Relating elements and factors involved in the development of historical processes.
- Solving problems autonomously.
- Using the characteristic computing resources of the field of History.
- Working in teams respecting the other's points of view.
Content
1.- The Iron Age: Baroque economy and society.
2.- Europe and the planetary borders.
3.- The rise of absolutism.
4.- Conflict, crisis and revolutions. The revolutionary England.
5.- The Thirty Years' War and new European order.
6.- The crisis of European consciousness.
Methodology
Assistance to lectures led by teachers.
Assistance to sessions of seminars and practices led by teachers.
Comprehensive reading of texts.
Realization of reviews, essays and analytical comments.
Prepration of oral presentations.
Individual study.
The contents of the subject will bell sensitive to the aspects related to the gender perspective.
Activities
| Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type: Directed | |||
| Seminars and practices conducted in the classroom or through the Virtual Campus. | 15 | 0.6 | 3, 8, 12, 2 |
| Theoretical classes | 39 | 1.56 | 3, 1, 5, 6, 2 |
| Type: Supervised | |||
| Tutorials | 15 | 0.6 | |
| Type: Autonomous | |||
| Personal study | 45 | 1.8 | 10, 11, 2 |
| Reading of texts. Writing of works. Preparation of oral comments and seminars. Search of bibliographic information. | 30 | 1.2 | 10, 3, 4, 7, 8, 12 |
Assessment
Evaluation:
The final grade is the result of the following activities:
70% ---- 2 exams on the contents explained in class and the obligatory readings: exam 1 (35%) - exam 2 (35%)
30% ---- individual or group essays on obligatory readings, practices, oral expositions.
The characteristic and dates of completion and delivery of all these test will be explained on the first day of class and will be avaliable to the virtual media of the subject. They will be carried out according to the temporal and thematic progression of the semester.
In the event thast tests or exams cannot be take onsite, they will be adapted to an online format made available througt 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 offert them feasible alternatives.
The subject is approved if a minimum of 5 points (out of 10) is obtained with the sum of the grades of the evaluation activities carried out.
The student will be considered "not evaluable" if they have delivered less than 30% of the evaluable evidence (exams and works) of the total of the subject.
The copy/plagiarism: It the event of 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 thist subject.
According to the written expression guides of our degree, orthographic, expression, lessical and syntgax correction will be evaluated. The repetition of spelling or grammatical errors can be penalized between0'1-0,2 for each fault committed on the final grade. Repeated foluls (minimum four) can be a maximum panalty of 10% of test score.
The student will have the right to review the results of tests carried out. The professor will establish opportunely the mecanisms to do it.
Recovery:
As established by the recovery protocol of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, in order to be entitled to recovery students must have been previously assessed in a set of activities whose weight is equivalent to a minimum of 2/3 ot the total grade. Only synthesis exams will be retrievable. Internships are excluded from the recovery process.
The recovery will consist of a global examination of the whole subject. It will take place on the date established by the Faculty.
The maximum note that can be obtained in the recovery process is a 5 (APPROVED).
In no case may recovery be considered as a mechanism to improve the grade of students who have passed the subject in the normal evaluation process.
Assessment Activities
| Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Written theoretical essays | 70% | 3 | 0.12 | 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 2 |
| Written works, oral presentations | 30% | 3 | 0.12 | 10, 3, 1, 4, 7, 8, 12, 11 |
Bibliography
Bibliography:
It is compulsory for the student to have knowledge and study of this general reference bibliogrphy (regardless of the specific one of each program topic):
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BARUDIO, G.: La época del Absolutismo y la Ilustrtación, 1648-1779, Siglo XXI, Madrid, 1983.
BENNASSAR, B. et alii.: Historia Moderna, Akal, Madrid, 1998.
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