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2021/2022

Modern History of Catalonia I, from Catalanism to the Republican Generalitat

Code: 100340 ECTS Credits: 6
Degree Type Year Semester
2500501 History OB 2 2
2504216 Contemporary History, Politics and Economics OT 3 2
2504216 Contemporary History, Politics and Economics OT 4 0
2504216 Contemporary History, Politics and Economics OT 4 1
2504216 Contemporary History, Politics and Economics OT 4 2
The proposed teaching and assessment methodology that appear in the guide may be subject to changes as a result of the restrictions to face-to-face class attendance imposed by the health authorities.

Contact

Name:
Joan Culla Clarą
Email:
Joan.Culla@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:
No

Other comments on languages

Any exercise, exam or paper may be written in Catalan or Spanish

Teachers

Joan Culla Clarą

Prerequisites

Knowledge of universal contemporary history, and contemporary history of Spain and Catalonia acquired at bachelor's degree.

Objectives and Contextualisation

This subject will deal with the birth and consolidation of a new economic, social, political and cultural model in Contemporary Catalonia and the alternatives to this model throughout the 19th century and the first third of the 20th century in Catalonia.

In this sense, we will analyze the consolidation of a new form of state, the liberal state, and a new socio-economic model, the capitalist, and the impacts of this reality on the transformation and contradictions of Catalan society. We will also talk about the alternatives that were established in this society to transform this model of state and of a specific type of capitalism: republicanism, working classism and Catalanism.

The interaction between them and the political, social and cultural dynamics that they inaugurated in a turbulent framework, will allow us to delve into the fundamental axes that have marked the contemporaneity of Catalonia..

Competences

    History
  • Applying the main methods, techniques and instruments of the historical analysis.
  • Developing critical thinking and reasoning and communicating them effectively both in your own and other languages.
  • Identifying the main historiographical tendencies and critically analysing their development.
  • 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

  1. Communicating in your mother tongue or other language both in oral and written form by using specific terminology and techniques of Historiography.
  2. Developing the ability of historical analysis and synthesis.
  3. Engaging in debates about historical facts respecting the other participants' opinions.
  4. Identifying and using in an appropriate way sources of research for the study of contemporary Catalonia.
  5. Identifying the main and secondary ideas and expressing them with linguistic correctness.
  6. Identifying the main theoretical models that try to explain the characteristics of the current Catalan society.
  7. Organising and planning the search of historical information.
  8. Recognising diversity and multiculturalism.
  9. Relating elements and factors involved in the development of historical processes.
  10. Solving problems autonomously.
  11. Using the characteristic computing resources of the field of History.
  12. Working in teams respecting the other's points of view.

Content

1- The Liberal Revolution and the origins of Contemporary Catalonia

2- The attempt of great rectification. ”Sexenni”: Democracy, Republicanism and Sovereignty

3- The birth of the nation: Catalanism and national construction

4- The modernization of republicanism: lerrouxism and catalanism

5- The workers “alternative”: anarcho-syndicalism

6- The crisis of the Restoration: the Dictatorship of Primo de Rivera

7- The Second Republic: hopes and frustrations

8- The Civil War

Methodology

Attendance to theoretical classes taught by the teacher.
Assistance, where appropriate, to seminar sessions and practices led by the teacher.
Comprehensive reading of texts.
Learning information search strategies.
Realization of reviews, papers and analytical comments of texts.
Preparation, where appropriate, of oral presentations.
Personal study.

Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.

Activities

Title Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Type: Directed      
Master classes 40 1.6 2, 6, 4, 5, 8, 9
Seminars and practical activities directed by professor 20 0.8 10, 1, 4, 7, 3, 12, 11
Type: Supervised      
Tutorials of class, papers and practicals 15 0.6 10, 4, 7
Type: Autonomous      
Individual or colective work of the student 75 3 10, 4, 7, 12, 11

Assessment

The subject will be evaluated applying the following criteria:

- Written exam tests on the content of the temary: 50%

- Carrying out works, reviews of books read 25 %), analytical comments on texts and other images or documents proposed (25%)

The grade of the subject will be established from the average obtained in the written tests (50%) and the rest of the exercises (the remaining 50%). Failure to present these other exercises will prevent you from attending the exams and, therefore, passing the subject.

Students who, in the overall assessment of the subject, have obtained a grade lower than 5 but equal to or greater than 3 may take a recovery exam.

Those students who, for reasons of force majeure, cannot continue the continuous evaluation will be obliged to present themselves to the exams, as well as to reinforce the contents with complementary activities to be specified by the teacher. In this case, it will be necessary to document your absence from the face-to-face sessions.

Plagiarism of written sources (Internet, books, papers, etc.) will be 0 in the exercise grade.

Students will have the right to review the results of the tests performed on the dates and times established by the teacher.

Assessment Activities

Title Weighting Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Active and responsible participation in theoretical and practical sessions 10 % 0 0 10, 3, 8, 12
Practical work: comprehensive analysis of texts, identification and interpretation of archive sources 40 % 0 0 10, 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 3, 12, 11
Writing examinations 50 % 0 0 1, 2, 6, 5, 8, 9

Bibliography

Bibliographical reference works

- Casanova, J., República y Guerra Civil, Barcelona, Crítica, 2014.

- Culla i Clara, Joan B., El republicanisme lerrouxista a Catalunya (1901-1923), Barcelona, Curial, 1986.

- Fontana, J., La fi de l’Antic Règim i la industrialització. 1787 – 1868, Barcelona, Edicions 62, 1988.

- Fontana Josep, La época del liberalismo, Barcelona, Crítica, 2007.

- Fontana, J., La formació d’una identitat. Una història de Catalunya, Vic, Eumo, 2014.

- Sobrequés i Callicó, J. (ed.), “Història Contemporània de Catalunya (I)”, Barcelona, Columna, 1997.

- Riquer, B. (dir.), Història Política, Societat i Cultura dels Països Catalans. La gran transformació 1790 – 1860, volum 6, Barcelona, Enciclopèdia Catalana, 1997.

- Riquer, B. (dir.), Història Política, Societat i Cultura dels Països Catalans. La gran consolidació del món burgés 1860 - 1900, volum 7, Barcelona, Enciclopèdia Catalana, 1996.

- Riquer, B. (dir.), Història Política, Societat i Cultura dels Països Catalans. L’època dels nous moviments socials 1900-1930, volum 8, Barcelona, Enciclopèdia Catalana, 1997.

- Riquer, B. (dir.), Història Política, Societat i Cultura dels Països Catalans. De la gran esperança a la gran ensulsiada 1930-1939, volum 9, Barcelona, Enciclopèdia Catalana, 1999.

- Termes, J., “De la revolució de setembre a la Guerra Civil. 1868 – 1939”, Barcelona, Edicions 62, 1993

 

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