Modern History I, the Age of Liberalism
Code: 100345 ECTS Credits: 6| Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2500501 History | OB | 2 | 2 |
Contact
- Name:
- Manuel Santirso Rodriguez
- Email:
- manuel.santirso@uab.cat
Teaching groups languages
You can check it through this link. To consult the language you will need to enter the CODE of the subject. Please note that this information is provisional until 30 November 2023.
Teachers
- Elena Fernandez Garcia
Prerequisites
None
Objectives and Contextualisation
The subject of "Contemporary History I" aims to acquire a knowledge of the political, institutional, economic, social and cultural changes in the world, as well as the factors that explain them, from the mid 18th century up to 1871.
The different interpretations and the historiography debates that are derived from them will be taken into account.
Competences
- 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.
- Mastering the basic diachronic and thematic concepts of the historical science.
- 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
- Communicating in your mother tongue or other language both in oral and written form by using specific terminology and techniques of Historiography.
- Developing the ability of historical analysis and synthesis.
- Engaging in debates about historical facts respecting the other participants' opinions.
- Identifying the main and secondary ideas and expressing them with linguistic correctness.
- Identifying the social, economic and political structures of the contemporary world.
- Organising and planning the search of historical information.
- Recognising diversity and multiculturalism.
- Recognising the historical processes that led to the contemporary society.
- Relating elements and factors involved in the development of historical processes.
- Solving problems autonomously.
- Using the characteristic computing resources of the field of History.
- Using the specific work methods of Contemporary History.
- Working in teams respecting the other's points of view.
Content
-Origins of the contemporary world.
-French Revolution.
-Napoleonic era and Restoration.
-The triumph of liberalism.
-Economic change and industrialization.
-The change of 1848.
-The construction of contemporary states.
-The extra-European dynamic.
Methodology
- Assistance to theoretical classes led by the teacher.
- Comprehensive reading of texts.
- Carrying out analyzes and reviews.
- Personal study
- The teachers will allocate 15 minutes of a class so that the students can answer the evaluation surveys of the teaching performance and the evaluation of the subject or module.
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 | |||
| Theoretical classes | 37.5 | 1.5 | 5, 8, 9 |
| Type: Supervised | |||
| Tutorials | 15 | 0.6 | 2, 4, 8 |
| Type: Autonomous | |||
| Personal study and Reading and writing texts. Preparation of oral comments and seminars and search of bibliographic information. Elaboration of a specific vocabulary | 56 | 2.24 | 10, 2, 5, 6, 8, 9, 13, 11 |
| Reading of texts. Search for bibliographic information | 25 | 1 | 10, 1, 4, 6, 13, 12, 11 |
Assessment
-It will be considered a student "Not evaluable" if he has given less than 33% of the evaluable evidences of the total of the subject.
-The subject is approved if the weighted average of the different evaluable evidences is equal to or greater than 5.0. In case it is lower, the reassessment is considered, which will consist of an examination. The maximum grade that can be obtained is 5.0. Student that has a "Not evaluable" can not submitted for reassessment. To participate in process, the student may be required to have obtained a minimum final grade of 3.5.
-The indiscriminate and undeclared copy of written sources (Internet, books, papers etc.) represents a 0 in the qualification. Recidivism may involve final grade in the subject as 0. 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.
-All works must include a bibliography, notes and references from the consulted sources.
-The spelling, expression, vocabulary and syntax correction of the written documents of the continuous assessment and exams will be taken into account.
-Students could review the results of the exams carried out. The teaching staff will establish timely the mechanisms to do it.
-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 themfeasible alternatives.
SINGLE ASSESSMENT:
- Final exam 70%
- Quarterly work 30%
The same assessment method as continuous assessment will be used.
Assessment Activities
| Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Exam 1 | 25% | 3 | 0.12 | 10, 1, 2, 5, 4, 8, 9, 12 |
| Exam 2 | 25% | 3 | 0.12 | 10, 1, 2, 5, 4, 8, 9, 12 |
| Skills | 30 % | 4.5 | 0.18 | 10, 2, 4, 6, 9, 12, 11 |
| Term essay | 20% | 6 | 0.24 | 2, 4, 6, 3, 7, 13, 11 |
Bibliography
BETHELL, Leslie (ed.) Historia de América Latina 5. La independencia. Barcelona: Crítica, 1991.
BRIGGS, Asa, i CLAVIN, Patricia. Historia contemporánea de Europa, 1789-1989. Barcelona: Crítica, 2000.
CANALES, Esteban, La Europa napoleónica 1792-1815. Madrid: Cátedra, 2008
CAMERON, Rondo. Historia económica mundial, desde el Paleolítico hasta el presente. Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 2000 (3a).
COOK, Chris, y STEVENSON, John: Guía de historia contemporánea de Europa. Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 1994.
FRADERA, Josep M., La nación imperial (1750-1918). Barcelona: Edhasa, 2015.
GUARDIA, Carmen de la. Historia de los Estados Unidos. Madrid: Sílex, 2012.
HIJANO, Ángeles. Revoluciones europeas de 1820 a 1848. Editorial Dilema, 2012.
OSTERHAMMEL, Jürgen, La transformación del mundo. Una historia global del siglo XIX. Barcelona: Crítica, 2015
MORADIELLOS, Enrique. La historia contemporánea en sus documentos. Barcelona: RBA, 2011.
SANTIRSO, Manuel. La Revolución Francesa y Napoleón: el fin del antiguo régimen. Serie Descubrir la Historia nº26, 2017
SIMAL, Juan L. La era de las grandes revoluciones en Europa y América (1763-1848). Madrid: Síntesis, 2020.
STROMBERG, Roland. Historia intelectual europea desde 1789. Madrid: Debate, 1990
VOVELLE, Michel. Introducción a la Revolución francesa. Barcelona: Crítica, 1981
ZURITA, Rafael. Europa en La Época de Napoleón. Madrid: Síntesis, 2019.
See https://ddd.uab.cat/pub/guibib/112365/modelchicago_a2021a.pdf
Software
None