Modern and Contemporary History: Texts and Material Culture
Code: 106093 ECTS Credits: 6| Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2500241 Archaeology | FB | 1 | 2 |
Contact
- Name:
- Enric Pujol Casademont
- Email:
- Enric.Pujol@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
Prerequisites
No requirement.
Objectives and Contextualisation
A general tour of the main events and processes of change and continuity of the Humanity during the modern and contemporary eras is carried out with diverse thematic approaches of Historical Science (social, political, economic, gender, cultural, ideological) with special Emphasize everything that the archaeologist / archaeologist wants. A panorama of the history of the last centuries will be offered with a special look to archaeology topics. The archeology of the conflict will be especially analyzed.
Competences
- Contextualizing and analysing historical processes.
- 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 ethic relevant issues.
- 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
- Identifying the context of the historical processes.
- Mastering the Universal History of the Middle Ages.
- Organising and planning the search of historical information.
Content
General topics:
1. What is modern and contemporary history? Discuss about archaeology of the modern and contemporary world.
2. Definitions and sources for modern and contemporary history in archaeology. Sources and instruments.
3. Great stages of modern and contemporary history.
4. Economy and territory. Transformations of society.
5. History and proto-industrial and industrial archaeology.
6. Wars and conflicts (conflict archaeology).
7. The historical scars of society: exiles, post-wars societes, dictatorship...
8. New uses of the archaeology of the modern and contemporary world actually.
Methodology
The methodology that will be used will include theoretical classes, case discussions, practical day trips and a research work group. All of this must provide useful and optimal resources and instruments so that the student acquires knowledge and skills related to historical research in modern and contemporary eras applied to archaeology.
Otherwise, tools developed by students from other years will also be used to exchange doubts and ask questions. It is intended to develop to the maximum the student's curiosity in the field from an important conceptual and analytical basis:
Facebook: Group "Archeology of the modern and contemporary world" (Arqueologia del Món Modern i Contemporani)
Twitter: @Arqueo_ModCont
Instagram: @arqueovisualpast (Visual Archeology of the Past).
There will also be practical outings and activities at the Born site and at the Barcelona Zona Franca.
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 | |||
| Practices out (Servei d'Arqueologia de Barcelona and Born site) | 10.5 | 0.42 | 2, 1 |
| Seminars and practices directed by the teacher | 6 | 0.24 | 2, 3 |
| Theoretical classes | 35 | 1.4 | 1 |
| Type: Supervised | |||
| Learning exercises | 2 | 0.08 | 3 |
| Tutorials | 13 | 0.52 | 3 |
| Type: Autonomous | |||
| Autonomous study | 50.5 | 2.02 | 1, 3 |
| Text Readings. Drafting of works. Preparation of written and oral, individual and / or group work. Search for bibliographic information and others. | 30 | 1.2 | 1, 3 |
Assessment
Written exams: 40% (exam 1: 15% + exam 2: 25%)
Proof of a research in group and oral presentation: 40% (30% written and 10% oral)
Review or other kind of work: 10%
Outings, tutorials and participation in the virtual campus and/or class: 10%
- The assessment activities submitted will be reassessed within the deadlines established by the teacher of the subject; Under no circumstances may an exercise be submitted for the first time during the reassessment period.
Only one "non-presented" student will be considered if he has given less than 2/3 parts of the evaluable evidence of the total of the subject. The maximum note that can be obtained in the recovery is 5 out of 10 (Approved).
* Copy of works or exams: 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.
Students will have the right to review the results of the tests carried out. The teaching staff will establish timely the mechanisms to do it.
The particular cases that will receive, as could not be otherwise, will be taken into account, an adequate response.
Assessment Activities
| Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Exam 1 (text reading) | 15 % | 1.5 | 0.06 | 1, 3 |
| Exam 2 (analysis and synthesis) | 25 % | 1.5 | 0.06 | 1, 3 |
| Research Project (written and oral) | 40 % | 0 | 0 | 2, 1, 3 |
| Review or other work | 10 % | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Visits and participation in Virtual Campus | 10 % | 0 | 0 | 2, 1, 3 |
Bibliography
** General:
Ø ALTED VIGIL, A.; SÁNCHEZ, J.: Métodos y técnicas de investigación de Historia Moderna e
Historia Contemporánea. Madrid: Editorial Universitaria Ramón Areces, 2005.
Ø ARACIL, Rafael [et. al], El mundo actual. de la Segunda Guerra mundial a nuestros días,
Barcelona, Publicacions de la Universitat de Barcelona, 1998 (2ª ed.).
Ø BERNECKER, W.L., España entre tradición y modernidad: política, economía, sociedad
(siglos XIX y XX). Madrid: Siglo XXI, 2009.
Ø ESPINO LÓPEZ, A. i Mª Antònia MARTÍ ESCAYOL (coords.), Manual d’història
moderna universal, Servei de Publicacions, UAB, Bellaterra, 2012.
Ø FONTANA, Josep, Introducció a l’estudi de la història, Barcelona, Crítica, 1999. (Cap.
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(segles XIV a XVIII), Barcelona, Ajuntament de Barcelona, Museu d'Història de Barcelona,
2009, pp. 31-113.
Ø PARKER, Geoffrey (ed.), Historia de la guerra, Madrid, Akal, 2010, pp. 107-119.
Ø POUNDS, Norman J.G., La vida cotidiana: historia de la cultura material, Barcelona, Crítica,
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dins de RIPOLL LÓPEZ, G.: Arqueología, hoy. Uned, Madrid: 1992.
Ø CASANELLES RAHOLA, Eusebi, “Les colònies industrials i els habitatges obrers un
patrimoni cabdal per entendre la revolució industrial”, L’Erol, 2005, n. 86-87:
http://www.raco.cat/index.php/Erol/article/view/201134/287135
Ø CLARA, J., Els fortins de Franco. Rafael Dalmau Editor, Barcelona 2010
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industrial. Barcelona: Graó, 1998.
Ø GARCIA i ESPUCHE, A.: La Ciutat del Born : economia i vida quotidiana a Barcelona (segles
XIV a XVIII), Barcelona : Ajuntament de Barcelona : Museu d'Història de Barcelona, cop.
2009
Ø GONZÁLEZ RUIBAL, Alfredo: Volver a las trincheras. Una arqueología de la Guerra
Civil Española, Alianza Editorial, Madrid, 2016.
Ø HARRISON, R. & SCHOFIELD, J., After modernity: Archaeological approaches to the
contemporary past. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.
Ø OLMOS BENLLOCH, Pau, “Arqueologia urbana i política: reflexions sobre el mercat del
Born (Barcelona)”, Ex novo: revista d'història i humanitats, 2, 2005, pp.171-172:
http://www.raco.cat/index.php/ExNovo/article/view/144701/237597
Ø SOLÉ, Queralt i JANÉ, Oscar (Coords.), Dossier “L’arqueologia del món modern i
contemporani. Noves perspectives”, Afers. Fulls de recerca i pensament, núm. 78
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** Aboout memories and the transformation of modern and contemporary societies:
Ø ANDERSON, Benedict, Comunitats imaginades, Catarroja, Editorial Afers, 2005,
pp. 105-164.
Ø DD.AA.: Barraquisme. La ciutat (im)possible. Generalitat de Catalunya,
Barcelona 2011
Ø FERRER ALÒS, Llorenç, “El règim senyorial i la tinença de la terra”. A:
Història. Política, societat i cultura dels Països Catalans, Barcelona, Fundació
Enciclopèdia Catalana, 1995, pp. 250-268:
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El Refugio de la memoria, Taurus, Madrid, 2011)
Ø RODRIGO, Javier, Cautivos. Campos de concentración en la España franquista,
1936-1947. Barcelona: Crítica, 2005.
Ø ROMERO, Eladi: Itinerarios de la guerra civil española, Ed. Laertes, Barcelona:
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Ø SOLÉ, Queralt, Els morts clandestins. Les fosses comunes de la Guerra
Civil a Catalunya (1936-1939), Catarroja, Editorial Afers, 2008, pp. 21-57.
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