Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
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2504216 Contemporary History, Politics and Economics | FB | 1 | 1 |
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The course covers world history from 1945 to the present. Students will learn to analyze and understand the events of the so-called Cold War, from its historical roots in the early 20th century to its aftermath at the turn of the century. The course aims to get students used to argue professionally, as historians, and to break the separation between their everyday perception and the historiographical one. 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 a global scale. The processes of decolonization will also be addressed.
- Theoretical lectures
- Attendance to guided seminars and mentoring sessions
- Learning of information search strategies
- Debates and discussions
- Writing reviews, papers and analytical comments
- Oral presentations
- Self-study
- The teaching methodology could undergo adaptations depending on the evolution of the pandemic by COVID-19
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.
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Attendance to guided seminars and mentoring sessions | 6 | 0.24 | 4, 1, 6, 5 |
Theoretical lectures | 45 | 1.8 | 4, 2, 3, 5 |
Type: Supervised | |||
Debates and discussions | 5 | 0.2 | 4, 1, 2, 3, 6, 5 |
Learning of information search strategies | 8 | 0.32 | 4, 2, 3, 6, 5 |
Oral presentation | 5 | 0.2 | 1, 6 |
Writing reviews, papers and analytical comments | 24 | 0.96 | 7, 6 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Self-study | 25 | 1 | 4, 2, 3, 6 |
The evaluation is continuous. Students must demonstrate their progress by completing activities and exams. The deadlines for these evaluation activities will be indicated in the calendar on the first day of class. All activities will have a deadline that must be strictly adhered to, according to the subject calendar.The weighting of the different evaluation elements will be as follows:
- Mid-term writing exam (25%)
- Final writing exam (25%)
- Writing papers (30%)
- Oral presentations and discussion seminars (20%)
Related matters
The information about the evaluation, the type of evaluation activity and its weight on the subject is for information purposes only. The faculty responsible for the course will specify it at the beginning of the course.
Assessment activities review
When publishing final marks, the professor will provide written notification of a date and time for reviewing assessment activities. Students must arrange reviews in agreement with the professor.
Recovery
Those students who have submitted activities whose weight is equivalent to 66.6% (two thirds) or more of the final grade and who have obtained a weighted grade of 3.5 or more will have access to the recovery.
The student will only take the activities or tests not submitted or failed. In no case may a grade be made up by means of a final test equivalent to 100% of the grade.
At the time of giving the final grade prior to the final grade of the course, the teacher will communicate in writing the recovery procedure. The teacher may propose a recovery activity for each failed or not presented activity or may group several activities.
Consideration of “not evaluable”
A “not evaluable” will be assigned when the evaluation evidence provided by the student is equivalent to a maximum of one quarter of the total grade of the subject.
Irregularities in the evaluation activities
In case of irregularity (plagiarism, copying, impersonation, etc.) in an evaluation activity, the grade of this evaluation activity will be 0. In case of irregularities in several evaluation activities, the final grade of the course will be 0.
Evaluation activities in which irregularities have occurred (such as plagiarism, copying, impersonation) are excluded from the recovery. It is considered as "copy" a work that reproduces all or most of the work of another student, and as "plagiarism" the fact of presenting part or all of an author's text as one's own, that is, without citing the sources, whether published on paper or in digital form. In the case of copying between two students, if it is not possible to know who has copied whom, the sanction will be applied to both.
More information: http://www.uab.cat/web/study-abroad/undergraduate/academic-information/evaluation/what-is-it-about-1345670077352.html
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Final writing exam | 25% | 2 | 0.08 | 4, 1, 2, 3, 6, 5 |
Mid-term writing exam | 25% | 2 | 0.08 | 4, 1, 2, 3, 6, 5 |
Oral presentations and discussion seminars | 20% | 8 | 0.32 | 4, 1, 6, 5 |
Writing papers | 30% | 20 | 0.8 | 4, 7, 1, 2, 3, 6, 5 |
Bibliografía
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FONTANA, Josep (2011), Por el bien del Imperio. Una historia del mundo desde 1945, Barcelona: Pasado&Presente.
FULBROOK, Mary (ed.) (1999), Europe Since 1945, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
GADDIS, John Lewis (2007), The Cold War. A New History, London: Penguin.
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HOBSBAWM, Eric (1994), The Age of Extremes. The Short Twentieth Century, 1914-1991, London: Abacus.
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PLOKHY, Serhii (2015), El último imperio. Los días finales de la Unión Soviética, Madrid: Turner.
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SERVICE, Robert (2015), The End of the Cold War, 1985-1991, London: MacMillan.
SHEPARD, Ben (2010), The Long Road Home. The Aftermath of the Second World War, London: Bodley Head.
SKIDMORE, Thomas E. & SMITH, P. H. (1996), Historia contemporánea de América Latina. América Latina en el siglo XX, Barcelona: Crítica.
VEIGA, Francisco; Ucelay Da Cal, Enrique & DUARTE, Ángel (2006), La paz simulada. Una historia de la Guerra Fría, 1941-1991, Madrid: Alianza.
WALKER, Martin (1994), The Cold War and the Making of Modern World, London: Vintage.
ZUBOK, Vladislav M. (2008), Un imperio fallido. La Unión Soviética durante la Guerra Fría, Barcelona: Crítica.
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