History of Modern America
Code: 100349 ECTS Credits: 6| Degree | Type | Year |
|---|---|---|
| 2500501 History | OB | 3 |
Contact
- Name:
- Jordi Figuerola Garreta
- Email:
- jordi.figuerola@uab.cat
Teachers
- David Martinez Fiol
Teaching groups languages
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Prerequisites
This course has no prerequisites.
Objectives and Contextualisation
The aim of this subject is:
-to provide an introduction to recent Modern American History.
-to use technical and documentation tools to know the political, social, economical and cultural changes of Contemporary American History.
Competences
- 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.
- 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.
- Coordinating work of interdisciplinary nature with other teams.
- Developing the ability of historical analysis and synthesis.
- Engaging in debates about historical facts respecting the other participants' opinions.
- Identifying and using in an appropriate way sources of information for the historical research of contemporary Spain.
- Identifying and using sources of information for the historical pan-Hispanic research.
- Organising and planning the search of historical information.
- Reading and interpreting historiographical texts or original documents and transcribing, summarising and cataloguing information from the colonial era.
- Recognising diversity and multiculturalism.
- Relating elements and factors involved in the development of historical processes.
- Using the characteristic computing resources of the field of History.
Content
UNIT 0 - HISTORY OF MODERN AMERICA: A PRESENTATION
UNIT 1 - THE AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE PROCESSES AND THE FORMATION OF THE NEW POLITICAL REALITIES
UNIT 2 - THE AMERICAN STATES: EVOLUTION, CONSOLIDATION AND CONFLICTS
UNIT 3 - THE AGRO-EXPORTATORY ECONOMY AND THE OLIGARIC ORDER
UNIT 4 - BETWEEN THE REVOLUTION AND THE SUBMISSION: THE POPULISM
UNIT 5 - REVOLUTION AND DICTATORS: AMERICA DURING THE COLD WAR
UNIT 6- TIMES OF CHANGES AND BREAKS: TO THE PRESENT
Activities and Methodology
| Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type: Directed | |||
| Theoretical classes | 45 | 1.8 | 6, 4, 9, 10 |
| Workshops | 7.5 | 0.3 | 1, 4, 9, 10 |
| Type: Supervised | |||
| Tutorials | 15 | 0.6 | 2 |
| Type: Autonomous | |||
| Individual study | 75 | 3 | 3, 8 |
Teoretical classes will present the historical structures of Latin-America and his evolution. We wil analyse the different models of the contemporary American countries in the clasroom.
Supervised Activities are an individualised teaching support in which a teacher attends to one o several students in their specific educational process about American history.
Autonomous Activities represent the personal work and individual study. This includes personal study, preparing exams, library work, complementary reading, all of which are fundamental in autonomous learning.
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.
Assessment
Continous Assessment Activities
| Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Exercices and activities | 30% | 0 | 0 | 1, 3, 8, 7, 9, 10, 11 |
| Reassessment | 100% | 2.5 | 0.1 | 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 4, 9, 10 |
| Test 1 | 35% | 2.5 | 0.1 | 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 7, 4, 9, 10, 11 |
| Test 2 | 35% | 2.5 | 0.1 | 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 7, 4, 9, 10, 11 |
Continuous Assessment: There will be two exams (test 1 represent 35% and test 2 represent 35% of final mark). The rest (30%) can be one o more written works, essays and participation in the classroom.
Single Assessment: It consists in a test that will be carried out during the week determined by the faculty
Reassessment: It consists in one exam about all the subject and its activities. The maximum mark is 5.
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.
Bibliography
Manuals
Joan del Alcázar, Núria Tabanera, Josep M. Santacreu, Antoni Marimon. Historia contemporánea de América. PUV. Universitat de València, 2003
Manuel Lucena. Breve historia de Latinoamèrica. De la independència de Haití a los caminos de la socialdemocracia. Cátedra. Madrid 2007.
T. Halperin. Historia contemporánea de America Latina. Alianza editorial, Madrid 1998.
The bibliography will be on Campus Virtual.
Software
The students will use the basic software of the Office 365 package
Language list
| Name | Group | Language | Semester | Turn |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (PAUL) Classroom practices | 1 | Catalan | first semester | morning-mixed |
| (PAUL) Classroom practices | 2 | Catalan | first semester | morning-mixed |
| (TE) Theory | 1 | Catalan | first semester | morning-mixed |
| (TE) Theory | 2 | Catalan | first semester | morning-mixed |