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Revolts and Revolutions in the Early Modern Age

Code: 100359 ECTS Credits: 6
2024/2025
Degree Type Year
2500501 History OT 4

Contact

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

Teachers

Antonio Espino Lopez
Montserrat Jiménez Sureda

Teaching groups languages

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Prerequisites

Knowledge of the general history of modern Europe.


Objectives and Contextualisation

Rebellions and revolutions in Modern Europe is a subject that intends to approach the social conflict of Modern Europe in a specific way. The analysis of situations of exceptional nature is a privileged perspective of the conflicts and tensions that impregnate the whole of social dynamics. The revolts and revolutions recorded from the beginnings of modern times to the crisis of the old regime are a reference of the first order of comparative history.


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

1. Conceptual details. The idea of revolution.

2. The return of the Antichrist: religion, culture and conflict at the beginning of the Modern Era.

3. Popular revolt and absolutism (16th and 17th centuries).

4. Revolts and social protests (16th and 17th centuries).

5. Popular revolt and protest in the 18th century.


Activities and Methodology

Title Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Type: Directed      
Theoretical classes 48 1.92 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Type: Supervised      
Tutorials 15 0.6 2, 4
Type: Autonomous      
Autonomous learning activities 75 3 5, 7, 8, 9, 10

- Attendance to theoretical classes led by the teacher
 
- Attendance to tutorials directed by the teacher
 
- Comprehensive reading of historical and historiographic texts
 
- Participation in seminar sessions
 
- Making analytical comments
 
- Preparation of oral presentations
 
- Personal study

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
Essay 30% 4 0.16 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Presentación oral 10% 4 0.16 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Two exams 60% (30% + 30%) 4 0.16 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8

Continuous assessment
 
The student may choose one of the following two evaluation options:
 

-   A written work at the end of the course (30 % of the final grade)

-   The relevant presentation (10 % of the final grade)

-   Two test (30 % + 30 % of the final grade)

  
- The evaluation activities will be scheduled throughout the academic year. The dates of completion of the tests in the classroom and delivery of works and reviews will be communicated to students in advance. The teacher will establish a specific schedule of tutorials to proceed with the comment of the evaluation activities carried out.
 
. Students who do not complete all evaluation activities for a value greater than 60% of the final grade will be rated as Not Evaluable, and will not be able to take the re-evaluation.
 
- Any irregularity committed by a student during the performance of a test (copy, plagiarism) will imply a grade of zero in the specific evaluation section. Several irregularities committed will imply a global score of zero.
 
. The re-evaluation will consist of a global examination of the subject matter and will be held on the official dates established by the Faculty. In no case, reevaluation may be considered as a means of improving the qualification of students who have already passed the subject in the normal continuous assessment process. The maximum grade that can be obtained in the reevaluation is 5.0 (Approved).
 
Single evaluation
 
The students must deliver/carry out the day established to carry out the single evaluation:
 
- A written end-of-year project (30% of the final grade)
 
- Oral presentation on a topic chosen from the agenda (10% of the final grade)
 
- Two content tests (30% + 30% of the final grade)
 
 
- The student who does not carry out the compulsory evaluation activities for a value greater than 60% of the final grade will not be able to appear in the recovery.
 
- Inthe event that the student performs any irregularity that may lead to a significant variation in the grade of an evaluation act, this evaluation act will be graded with 0, regardless of the disciplinary process that may be instituted. In the event that various irregularities occur in the evaluation acts of the same subject, the final grade for this subject will be 0.
 
- The recovery will consist of a global exam of the subject matter and will be held on the official dates established by the Faculty. In no case may recovery be considered as a means of improving the grade of students who have already passed the subject in the single assessment process. The maximum grade that can be obtained in the reassessment is 5.0 (Approved).

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Language list

Name Group Language Semester Turn
(PAUL) Classroom practices 1 Catalan/Spanish second semester morning-mixed
(TE) Theory 1 Catalan/Spanish second semester morning-mixed