History of Culture

Code:

CINF015

Acronym:

HCUL

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	History

Instance: 2022/2023 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Communication and Information Sciences
Course/CS Responsible:	Bachelor of Arts in Information Science

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
CINF	62	Study plan	1	-	6	41	162

Teaching language

Suitable for English-speaking students

Objectives

Having an interdisciplinary focus and promoting a reflection on the past and present, the Curricular Unit of History of Culture aims at providing students with precise knowledge on the cultures of several eras, namely the written culture, so as to deepen the knowledge already acquired in the relationship with the knowledge to be acquired, stimulating the reflection on concepts. The aim is that students develop their critical sense and capacity of connection between past and present, so as to promote the acquisition of skills that allow them to identify a problem, critically discuss a topic and apply that knowledge to new situations.

Learning outcomes and competences

Working method

Presencial

Pre-requirements (prior knowledge) and co-requirements (common knowledge)

N/A

Program

 C1.         

1.Cultures (s) and History of Culture
2. Writing and its cultural dynamics.

2.2 From Antiquity to the Age of Enlightenment
2.3 Writing and writing media until the end of the Modern Age 2.4 Renaissance and Writing
2.5 Renaissance and the Press
2.6 The Reformation and censorship mechanisms.
2.7 Renaissance books and Western Culture
2.8 History of Science: works and names of 16th and 17th century
2.9 The Scientific Revolution and the Enlightnment

2.10 The “modern” reader: forms and spaces for reading in the 18th century

2.11 Loan libraries, societies and literary sociability in the 18th century

2.12 Book market and circulation in the 18th century

3.  THE BOURGEOIS CULTURE
3.1 Liberal revolutions, secularism and bourgeois culture.
3.2 Bourgeois culture and sociability;
3.2.1. The romantic mindset;
3.2.2. School education and the social role of the educated man;
3.2.3. An overview of the sciences of the century. XIX and the first half of the century. XX;
3.2.4. Scientism and Eurocentrism

4. THE CRISIS OF LIBERALISM AND THE “TIME OF DICTATORSHIP”

4.1 The communist cultural revolution;
4.2 Fascisms and mass manipulation

THE ADVENT OF MASS CULTURE
5.1 Mass society and cultural massification.
5.2 The contemporary press;
5.3 From the Gutenberg Galaxy to the McLuhan Galaxy: the mass media - cinema, radio and television - and their social impact.
5.4 The «time of the intellectuals» and the ideological confrontation: al.
5.5 The forced democratization of training and consumption and cultural practices: two decades of ’60 and '70)
5.6 The consumer revolution and new cultural practices

THE DIGITAL CULTURE
6.1 A concept and its context (s)

6.2 From the “classic” reader to the multi-support consumer

6.3 The current paradoxes: e-book, “social networks”,, indoexclusion and (i) literacies ...

 

Mandatory literature

Barbier, Frédéric; L’Europe de Gurenberg. Le livre et l’invention de la modernité occidentale, Belin, 1990., Belin, 1990. ISBN: 2-7011-4203-2
BARRETO, António; MÓNICA, Maria Filomena (coords.) (1999-2000); Dicionário de História de Portugal, Porto: Figueirinhas, 2000
BRIGGS, Asa; BURKE, Peter ; De Gutenberg a Internet. Una historia social de los medios de comunicación., Madrid, Taurus (trad. esp.), 2002
Burke, Peter; Popular culture in early modern Europe. ISBN: 0-85117-150-8
Casson Lionel; Las^bibliotecas del mundo antiguo. ISBN: 978-84-7290-211-4
Darnton, Robert; The^case for books. ISBN: 978-1-586-48826-0
DROZ, Bernard; ROWLEY, Anthony ; História do Século XX, Lisboa, D. Quixote (trad. port.), 1999. ISBN: 9789722016018
Garin, Eugénio; La revolucion cultural del renacimiento
Garin, Eugénio 300; O homem renascentista. ISBN: 972-23-1355-X
HOBSBAWM, Eric J. ; A Era das Revoluções. A Europa de 1789-1848, Lisboa, Preseça (trad. port.), 1992. ISBN: 9789722315593
Hobsbawm, E. J.; A Era do Império 1875-1914, Lisboa, Preseça (trad. port.), 1990. ISBN: 9789722312844
HOBSBAWM, Eric J. ; A Era dos Extremos. História Breve do Século XX 1914-1991 , Lisboa, Presença (trad. port.), 2008
Reis, António; Portugal contemporâneo, Publicações Alfa, 1989
ROSAS, Fernando; BRITO, J. M. Brandão de (dir.); Dicionário de História do Estado Novo, Lisboa, Círculo de Leitores, 1996
BESSIS, Sophie ; Occidente y los otros. Historia de una supremacía, Madrid, alianza, 2002
MELO, Daniel ; Salazarismo e cultura popular (1933-1958, Lisboa, Imprensa Ciências Sociais, 2001

Complementary Bibliography

Tortorelli, Gianfranco ; ), Biblioteche nobiliari e circolazione del libro tra Settecento e Ottocento, , Pendragon, 2002
Eric Hobsbawm ; A Era do Capital, 1848-1875, Lisboa, Preseça (trad. port.), 1979. ISBN: 9789722300216
AGEE, Warren K.; AULT, Philip H.; EMERY, Edwin ; Introduction aux communications de masse, De Boeck-Wesmael, 1989
Philippe Ariès; História da vida privada. ISBN: 972-36-0221-0
BALNAVES, Mark; DONALD, James; DONALD, Stephanie Hemelryk ; Atlas des médias dans le monde, Ed. Autrement (trd. fr.), 2001
Pierre Bourdieu; O^poder simbólico. ISBN: 972-29-0014-5
BURGUIÈRE, André, et alli ; História da Família, 4º vol. («O Ocidente: industrialização e urbanização», Lisboa, Terramar, 1999
CASTELLS, Manuel ; La era de la información, Alianza Ed., 2001
CURRAN, James; SEATON, James; Imprensa, rádio e televisão. Poder sem responsabilidade, Lisboa, Instituto Piaget, 2001
Michelle Perrot; História das mulheres. ISBN: 978-972-41-5092-5
FREDRICKSON, George M; Racismo. Uma breve história, Porto, Campo das Letras (trad. port.), 2005
LECLERC, Gérard ; A sociedade de comunicação. Uma abordagem sociológica e crítica, Lisboa, Instituto Piaget, 2000
LLOBERA, Josep R. ; O Deus da Modernidade. O desenvolvimento do nacionalismo na Europa Ocidental, Oeiras, Celta, 2000
José Matoso; A^identidade nacional. ISBN: 972-662-604-8
RIOUX, Jean-Pierre; SIRINELLI, Jean-François (dirs.); Histoire culturelle de la France, vols. 3 («Lumières et liberté. Les dix-huitième et dix-neuvième siècles») e 4 («Le temps des masses»)., Paris, Seuil, 1998
SILVA, Augusto Santos ; Palavras para um país. Estudos incompletos sobre o século XX português, Oeiras, Celta, 1997
WOLF, Mauro ; Los efectos sociales de los media, Barcelona/Buenos Aires/México: Paidós (trad. esp.), 2001

Teaching methods and learning activities

The seminars will combine presentation, aiming at knowledge transmission, essential for students to acquire the necessary knowledge, with sessions with commentary on texts and other documents, involving, through previous preparation, the collaboration of students in the presentation or discussion. The discussion of more theoretical topics, previously prepared, aims to contribute to the development of argumentative skills that provide the students with specific skills to present topics of epistemological nature. Evaluation will be conducted by a final exam with the option of choosing among a set of topics for written analysis.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Exame	100,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	121,00
Frequência das aulas	41,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

70%

Calculation formula of final grade

Exam - 100%

Examinations or Special Assignments

Not applicable

Internship work/project

Not applicable

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

According to the rules in force

Classification improvement

According to the rules in force