Contemporary Portuguese History

Code:

CC023

Acronym:

HCPORT

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	History

Instance: 2019/2020 - 2S

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

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
CC	128	CC - Study Plan	1	-	3	27	81

Teaching language

Português, English, Français, Español, Italiano

Objectives

At the end of the semester, students should be able to:

1. Realise the need for a scientific analysis of recent History for the understanding of society.

2. Organise historically and chronologically the most important stages of Portuguese 20th century history.

3. Identify explaining elements for the formation and crisis of the Portuguese political regimes of the 20th century since 1926.

4. Describe the main aspects of the Portuguese social and economic evolution throughout the 20th century.

5. Analyse critically in a written exam at least one relevant problem of the Portuguese history in the last hundred years.

Learning outcomes and competences

1. Be able to articulate basic instruments of scientific analysis of the recent times in order to understand social reality.

2. Be able to identify and use basic elements of causality of the formation and crisis of political regimes.

3. Be able to identify structural aspects of the Portuguese social and economic evolution throughout the 20th century.

Working method

Presencial

Program

1. INTRODUCTION: the role of Contemporary History in training Journalism and Communication professionals: students' expectations and historical significance of the 20th century.

 

2. THE AUTHORITARIAN NEW ORDER, SALAZARISM AND RESISTANCE (1926-45): 2.1 From authoritarian transition (1926-33) to fascistisation (1933-43/45). 2.2 “An intermittent civil war” (F. Rosas): repression ans resistance, from Reviralho to Spanish Civil War (1927-39).

 

3. DICTATORSHIP, AUTHORITARIAN MODERNISATION AND WAR (1945-74): 3.1 The post-war inevitable social and economic modernisation. 3.2 A resisting society: Communist Party reorganisation and antifascist front (1943-49); Delgado's “hurricane” (1958) and the radicalisation of the 60s and 70s. 3.3 Colonialism and Colonial War: racism, forced labour and Lusotropicalism; Goa (1961), war in Africa (1961-74) and its impact (emigration, exhaustion, desertion, protest). 3.4 Marcelo Caetano's rule (1968-74): the aborted Spring and the regime's inner contradictions.

 

4. FROM THE APRIL 1974 REVOLUTION TO THE LOST DECADE (2002-15): 4.1 Revolution, democratisation and decolonisation (1974-76): a Portuguese model for democracy. 4.2 The normalisation of Portuguese democracy (1976-86): crisis, counter-Revolution and the choice for European integration. 4.3 From European integration to the attack on the Welfare-State (1986-2013): economic liberalisation, structural crisis of the economy, recession. 4.4 A Portuguese new identity: cultural and ethnic plurality, secularisation, persistence of tradition.

Mandatory literature

Reis, António (coord.); Portugal Contemporâneo, Publicações Alfa, 1989 (Collective work which offers a general overview of Portuguese history since 1820 Liberal Revolution until Portuguese integration in the European Community (1986).)

Comments from the literature

See the whole list of Biliography in DOCUMENTS attached to this module webpage!

Teaching methods and learning activities

As all pedagogical activities at FLUP have been Interrupted by decision of the Rector of the UP on 11 March 2020, a month after the beginning of the semester, teaching activities take place electronically. From the beginning of the semester, slide presentations that were used in the Theoretical-Practical lectures are at the students' disposal and they may be used as a framework for historical information on the period dealt with in this moduel. Similarly, several historiographic documents were made available, divided into four major topics: 1. the crisis of the First Republic and the Portuguese liberal system; 2. the new authoritarian order of Salazarism; 3. contemporary Portuguese colonialism, the Colonial War and decolonization; and 4. the Portuguese Revolution of 1974-76 and democratization.
Evaluation will focus on the analysis of two of these texts by each individual student.

Software

Projetor multimédia

keywords

Social sciences > Political sciences
Social sciences > Sociology
Humanities > History > Contemporary History
Humanities > History > Social history
Humanities > History > Political history
Humanities > History > Economic history

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Trabalho escrito	100,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	54,00
Frequência das aulas	27,00
Total:	81,00

Eligibility for exams

Having been imposed to the teacher in charge of this module full responsibility over the evaluation of 130 students, thus not shared together with any other teacher, it becomes definitely impossible to evaluate any practical research procedure developed by the students. Consequently, approval in this module requires only:a minimal mark of 10 (ten) out of 20 in the average of the two assignments required.

Calculation formula of final grade

Two assignments, each 50% of the final mark.
When students submit any assignment in the 2nd evaluation call, they can re-submit both or only one of the assignments, keeping the grade obtained in the one that has not been re-submitted.

Classification improvement

See FLUP's evaluation regulations.

Observations

 Mobility students who do not  read Portuguese are advised not to enrol in this module. Bibliography used in the module is published in Portuguese which is perfectly expectable in a module on Portuguese History taught in a Portuguese university.