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2022/2023

War and Society in the Early Modern Age

Code: 100356 ECTS Credits: 6
Degree Type Year Semester
2500501 History OT 4 2

Contact

Name:
Antonio Espino Lopez
Email:
antonio.espino@uab.cat

Use of Languages

Principal working language:
spanish (spa)
Some groups entirely in English:
No
Some groups entirely in Catalan:
No
Some groups entirely in Spanish:
Yes

Other comments on languages

Catalan is commonly used when students communicate in this language with the teacher. In addition, papers and written tests can be answered in Catalan.

Prerequisites

Nothing

Objectives and Contextualisation

The subject History of war, of which this subject forms part, aims to analyze one of the most important and decisive historical phenomena in the evolution of the history of humanity. Most often, the war has been the main agent of historical change in numerous moments and in various spaces in the course of human history (antiquity, the Middle Ages Hispanic, the late modern era or the modern era ). A phenomenon of such dimensions must be approached from diverse perspectives; However, it is the criterion of the teacher that a perspective to take care very especially is the political-military dimension of the conflict, although the economic, technological and cultural perspectives (the cultural production generated by Experience of war) and, above all, social, that is, paying special attention to its connection with society, its impact on society throughout history. It can undoubtedly be understood as historical phenomena such as imperialism, colonialism or revolts and revolutions at various moments of the historical future without a profound and extensive knowledge of the ways of making war and its repercussions on all Levels. The historiographic debates that have had in the mentioned subject as its epicenter will not be neglected. On the other hand, the content of the subject will be sensitive to aspects related to the gender perspective.

Competences

  • 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 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

  1. Analysing the historical processes that led to armed conflicts.
  2. Communicating in your mother tongue or other language both in oral and written form by using specific terminology and techniques of Historiography.
  3. Critically assessing and solving the specific historiographical problems of war studies.
  4. Engaging in debates about historical facts respecting the other participants' opinions.
  5. Identifying the main and secondary ideas and expressing them with linguistic correctness.
  6. Organising and planning the search of historical information.
  7. Properly using the specific vocabulary of History.
  8. Solving problems autonomously.
  9. Submitting works in accordance with both individual and small group demands and personal styles.
  10. Using the characteristic computing resources of the field of History.

Content

Part 1. 1.1 Introduction: The War in the modern age. 
Part 2. The Hispanic military model, 1494-1621
Part 3. The war in the sea: from Lepanto to the Spanish Armada
Part 4. The Thirty Years ' War, 1618-1648 [1659]
Part 5. The French military model, 1660-1714 [1739]
Part 6. The Prussian military model, 1740-1763
Afterword: Towards the nation in arms, 1763-1793.

Methodology

Attendance at lectures directed by the teacher. Students who do not attend regularly in class will have to justify their absenteeism.
Attendance at seminars and practices supervised by the teacher.
Comprehensive reading of texts.
Learning Information search strategies.
Realization of reviews, jobs and analytical comments.

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      
Seminars and directed practices 6 0.24 6, 4
Theoretical classes 39 1.56 1, 3, 7
Type: Supervised      
Exercises ruled of learning 7.5 0.3 2, 9, 7
Tutorships 15 0.6 4
Type: Autonomous      
Personal study of the subject 45 1.8 8, 6, 10
Text readings. Work writing. Preparation of comments. Search for bibliographic information. 30 1.2 2, 5, 6, 9, 10

Assessment

50% Two partial written tests-the tests consist in answering two questions.
A first test will be programmed in April 2020 and, as far as possible, the content of half of the classes carried out in the course will be evaluated.
The second test will take place at the end of May or early June. And always depending on the date of re-evaluation.
40% realization of assignments, essays, presentations in class, reviews and/or abstracts.
10% written report on an important battle or siege within of the chronological scope of the subject.
 
Will take care to the studensts a work the first day of class that will deliver to the middle of the month of May (between the 15 and the 20 of May of 2021 would be a approximate date).

In the written activities, spelling, syntactic or lexical errors are taken into account. The penalty can be between 0.1-0.2 points on the final grade for each mistake made. Repeated errors can discount.

 
 
The student who does not reach a minimum of 3.5 points in the three Tests of the continuous assessment of the subject will not be entitled to the recovery and will be qualified with a  "No evaluable ". In any case, only synthesis tests will be recovered, that is, the two written tests.
Any irregularity committed by a student during the realization of a test (copy, plagiarism) will involve a note of zero in the specific section of evaluation. Several irregularities committed will imply a global note of zero.
The recuperation will consist of a global examination of the subject matter (four questions to choose between six, with two hours of time) and will be held in the official dates established by the faculty. Under no circumstances may the recovery be proposed as a means of improving the qualification of students who have already passed the course in the normal process of continuous assessment. The maximum note that can be obtained in the recovery is of 5.0 (approved).
 
Students have the right to discuss the results of thetests carried out. The teaching staff will establish the mechanisms to do so.  

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.

 

 
The particular cases that they will receive may be taken into account, such as could not be any other personal treatment.

Assessment Activities

Title Weighting Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Tests written in class 50% 3.5 0.14 1, 3, 5, 6, 9, 7, 10
Write a review of a book 50% 4 0.16 1, 8, 3, 2, 5, 6, 4, 9, 7, 10

Bibliography

-ANDUJAR, F.rancisco Ejércitos y militares en la Europa moderna. Madrid, Síntesis, 1999.

-BLACK, Jeremy (ed.), European warfare, 1453-1815. Nueva York, St. Martin’s Press, 1999.

-BLACK, Jeremy, European warfare, 1492-1660. Londres, Routledge 2002.

-CHAGNIOT, Jean, Guerre et société à l’Èpoque Moderne. París, PUF, 2001.

-GLETE, Jan, War and the State in Early Modern Europe. Londres&Nueva York, Routledge, 2002.

-KEEGAN, John, A History of Warfare. Nueva York, Vintage Books, 1994 (Historia de la Guerra, Madrid, Turner, 2013).

-MARTINES, Lauro, Un tiempo de guerra. Una historia alternativa de Europa, 1450-1700, Madrid, Crítica, 2013.

-PARKER, Geoffrey (ed.),  Historia de la guerra. Madrid, Akal, 2010.

-TALLETT, Frank, War and Society in Early Modern Europe, 1495-1715. Londres-Nueva York, Routledge, 1992.

Software

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