Nation and Nationalism in the Modern World
Code: 100386 ECTS Credits: 6| Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2500501 History | OT | 4 | 0 |
Contact
- Name:
- Jordi Figuerola Garreta
- Email:
- Jordi.Figuerola@uab.cat
Use of Languages
- Principal working language:
- catalan (cat)
- Some groups entirely in English:
- No
- Some groups entirely in Catalan:
- No
- Some groups entirely in Spanish:
- Yes
Prerequisites
None
Objectives and Contextualisation
The aim of this subject is to show the importance of the national fact at the contemporary society.
The fundamental purpose of this subject is to interpret and understand the process of formation of nations and his history.
This subject is an essential introduction to the political, institutional, economic, social and cultural changes of different countries and states at the world.
Competences
- Applying the main methods, techniques and instruments of the historical analysis.
- 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.
- 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 be capable of communicating information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
- Students must develop the necessary learning skills in order to undertake further training with a high degree of autonomy.
Learning Outcomes
- Appropriately identifying and using information sources for the historical research, specially about contemporary political regimes.
- Communicating in your mother tongue or other language both in oral and written form by using specific terminology and techniques of Historiography.
- Critically summarising the various historiographical explanations about the emergence and evolution of political regimes in the contemporary era.
- Engaging in debates about historical facts respecting the other participants' opinions.
- Identifying the main and secondary ideas and expressing them with linguistic correctness.
- Organising and planning the search of historical information.
- Properly using the specific vocabulary of History.
- Recognising diversity and multiculturalism.
- Solving problems autonomously.
- Submitting works in accordance with both individual and small group demands and personal styles.
- Using the characteristic computing resources of the field of History.
Content
UNIT 0 - Nation and nationalism at the contemporary world: a presentation
UNIT 1 - Nation, a historical category of the contemporary society
UNIT 2 – Nation and state: formation and evolution.
UNIT 3 - A theoretic and methodological approach at the contemporary national fact
UNIT 4 - Nation and state: analysis of the administrative structures.
UNIT 5 – Nationalism: description and comparison of different parts in the world.
Methodology
Theoretical classes will present the historical structures of Nations and his evolution. We will analyse the different models of the Nations and Nationalism in the classroom.
Supervised Activities are an individualised teaching support in which a teacher attends to one o several students in their specific educational process about Nations and Nationalism.
Autonomous Activities represent the personal work and individual study. This includes personal study, preparing exams. library work, complementary reading, all of which are fundamental in autonomous learning.
Activities
| Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type: Directed | |||
| Theoretical classes | 39 | 1.56 | 1, 3 |
| Workshops | 6 | 0.24 | 4, 8, 3 |
| Type: Supervised | |||
| Exercises | 9.5 | 0.38 | 5, 3, 11 |
| Tutorials | 13 | 0.52 | 2, 5, 6, 10 |
| Type: Autonomous | |||
| Individual study | 69.5 | 2.78 | 9, 1, 5, 6, 8, 7, 11 |
Assessment
Assessment is continuous. Students must provide evidence of their progress by completing tasks and tests. Task deadlines will be indicated in the course schedule on the first day of class.
Participation in the classroom: it refers at the presence and partiocipation in the classroom
Test: an exam about unit 2
Presentation and discussion; unit 1, unit3
Essay: Unit 4 and 5.
Reassessment
Students cannot be obtained 5 of de final mark.
Consist in one exam which contents the entire subject and his activities and the maximum mark is 5.
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.
The student will be classified as Non-evaluable when he has not delivered more than 30% of the evaluation activities.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Essay | 20% | 0.5 | 0.02 | 9, 2, 1, 5, 6, 10, 8, 3, 7, 11 |
| Participation in the classroom. | 10% | 0 | 0 | 9, 2, 6, 4, 8, 7 |
| Presentations and discussion | 20% | 6 | 0.24 | 2, 4, 8 |
| Tests | 50% | 6.5 | 0.26 | 2, 1, 5, 8, 3, 7 |
Bibliography
The bibliography will be on Campus Virtual.