History of Early Modern Portuguese Culture

Code:

HISTO018

Acronym:

HCMOP

Instance: 2010/2011 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of History, Political and International Studies
Course/CS Responsible:	Bachelor in History

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
HISTO	26	Study Plan - Hist. w/ Minor in Geography	3	-	6	-
		Study Plan - History	2	-	6	-
			3

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

- To present a general overview of the major directions, strategies and structural transformations characterising European colonisation processes (both in the colonised and colonising areas), based on their diachronic evolution and considered from a contextual and comparative perspective.
- To analyse Portuguese colonisation within the larger economic, political and cultural context of Modern Europe, with a view to identifying possible explanations for this historical phenomenon.
- To develop a critical approach to the issues of cultural conflict, (in) communicability between different civilizations, and perception of difference in Modern Europe.
- To present a historical analysis of intersecting social, economic and cultural universes, based on a dialectical approach.

Tutorials
- To consolidate the skills outlined in the programme
- To conduct guided debates to develop analytical and critical skills as well as students' ability to present their arguments in a scientific manner;
- To develop cognitive skills and provide the conceptual and operational tools essential in active and critical learning
- To support and guide independent learning strategies

Program

I. Levels of culture in Modern Portugal

II. Humanism in Portugal or Portuguese Humanism?
1. Cultural programme
2. Spaces and agents of dissemination of Humanism in Portugal

III. The "wisdom" of the Portuguese Discoveries
1. Typology of cultural productions associated with the discoveries and geographic expansion
2. Production of knowledge and strategies of national and international dissemination
3. Contributions to an epistemological renewal
IV. Reform and religious thought
1. Catholic reformation - programme and agents
2. Religious practice - the lives of believers
3. The pastoral and inquisitorial action: background, investigations and repression
5. Impact on cultural life and collective sensibilities

V. Education and Teaching
1. Education agents and education establishments
2. Teaching and learning programmes
3. Levels of literacy
4. Education and Society

VI. Material culture and everyday life - pictures of Modern Portugal

Mandatory literature

CARVALHO, Joaquim Barradas de ; A la recherche de la specificité de la Renaissance Portugaise..., FCG-CCP, 1983
MARQUES, João Francisco ; A Parenética Portuguesa e a Dominação Filipina, INIC, 1986
PAIVA, José Pedro; Bruxaria e Superstição num país sem “Caça às Bruxas”. 1600-1774, Notícias, 1997
FERNANDES , Maria de Lurdes Correia; Espelhos - Cartas e Guias. Casamento e Espiritualidade na Península Ibérica (1450-1700), FLUP, 1995
GOUVEIA, António; Estratégias de interiorização da disciplina in “História de Portugal”, dir. J. Mattoso, Círculo de Leitores, 2000
RAMOS, L.A. de Oliveira; Projecções do Reformismo Pombalino in “Sob o signo das Luzes”, 1988. ISBN: IN-CM
BETHENCOURT, Francisco; História das Inquisiões. Portugal, Espanha e Itália, Temas e debates, 1996
ALVAREZ, Fernando Bouza; Imagen y Propaganda.Capítulos de História Cultural del reinado de Filipe II , Akal, 1998
BARRETO, Luís Filipe ; Caminhos do saber no Renascimento Português. Estudos de história e teoria da cultura, IN_CM, 1985
Mea, Elvira Azevedo; A Inquisição de Coimbra no Século XVI. A Instituição, os Homens e a Sociedade, Fund. Eng. António de Almeida, 1997
Monteiro, Miguel Correia; Os Jesuítas e o ensino médio, 1991
Hespanha, António Manuel; História da Universidade em Portugal, Fund. Calouste Gulbenkian, 1997
Curto, Diogo Ramada (dir.); O Tempo de Vasco da Gama, Difel, 1998
SILVA, Francisco Ribeiro da ; Barroco e escolarização. Taxas de alfabetização no Porto nos inícios do século XVIII in “I Congresso Internacional do Barroco. Actas”, UP/Governo Civil do Porto, 1991, pp. 451-461
BUESCU, Ana Isabel; Memória e Poder. Ensaios de História Cultural (Séculos XV-XVIII), Cosmos, 2000

Teaching methods and learning activities

TP classes: Theory-practical teaching, using graphs, statistics and maps.
Tutorials: Critical approach and discussion of course contents, namely the theory issues raised by contents; fostering discussions among students, moderated by the lecturer; oral presentation of reports and the result of assignments done in the course of student’s autonomous work; discussion of concepts and bibliography considered as relevant.

Software

Power Point

keywords

Humanities > History > Modern history

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
Attendance (estimated)	Participação presencial	39,00
	Exame	2,00		2011-07-15
	Total:	-	0,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Description	Type	Time (hours)	End date
	Frequência das aulas	13	2011-07-15
	Estudo autónomo	108	2011-07-15
	Total:	121,00

Eligibility for exams

Students are admitted to exams provided that the conditions established in the Assessment Regulations are met: 75% class attendance, unless established otherwise by the regulations in force. Attendance will be monitored by means of attendance records.

Calculation formula of final grade

Exam - 70%
Literature review - 30%

Examinations or Special Assignments

Applicable only to the cases established by law.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

All students, without exception, must meet the same type of assessment requirements.

Classification improvement

The process for improving grades must comply with the types of assessment planned for the course unit. Students may redo or repeat the test or tests in which they have failed to achieve a satisfactory grade.

Observations

Classes taught in English. Tutorials for Erasmus students may, if necessary, be taught in English or French.