History of Contemporary Europe

Code:

HISTO023

Acronym:

HECONT

Instance: 2010/2011 - 1S

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	9	Study Plan - History	2	-	6	52	162
			3
LA	41	Study Plan - Applied Languages: Business Relations	2	-	6	52	162
			3
		Study Plan-Applied Languages: Translation	2	-	6	52	162
LRI	41	Study Plan	3	-	6	52	162
		Study Plan - Minor in History	3	-	6	52	162
		Study Plan - Minor in German Studies	3	-	6	52	162
		Study Plan - Minor in English Studies	3	-	6	52	162
		Study Plan - Minor in Spanish Studies	3	-	6	52	162
		Study Plan - Minor in French Studies	3	-	6	52	162

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

By the end of the semester, students must be able to:
1. Acknowledge the emergence of mass society at European scale, by perceiving phenomena such as industrialisation, urbanisation, widespread schooling and the creation of mass socio-political organisations;
2. Explain the emergence of contemporary European colonialism within the historic context of industrial capitalism, and relate it with ideological phenomena such as nationalism and racism;
3. Systematise the major changes of Europe’s position in the world after the two world wars as well as the changes within Europe’s structure and internal organisation, from a political, economic and social standpoint.

Program

1. INTRODUCTION: introductory reflection on the historical meaning of European contemporaneity.
2. EUROPEAN SOCIETY AT THE TURN OF THE 19TH CENTURY:
2.1 Nationalisms and “national construction”.
2.2 The achievement of world hegemony: contemporary European colonialism and imperialism.
3. GLOBAL WAR AND IDEOLOGICAL CONFRONTATION IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE 20TH CENTURY:
3.1 The two world wars: global wars, ideological wars, genocide conflicts.
3.2 The great crisis of the European capitalist civilisation:
3.2.1 The Soviet Revolution and the first democratic movements;
3.2.2 The crisis of the liberal models;
3.2.3 The rise of fascisms, political polarisation and “totalitarianisms”.
3.3 From the first European unification projects (“collective security”) to the Nazi-fascist “New European Order”.
4. THE END OF EUROPEAN SUPREMACY:
4.1 Decolonisation and the change in Europe’s relationship with the world.
4.2 Europe divided in a bipolar world: the Cold War and the atomic age: the opposing military and political-economic blocks.
4.3 A new period of crises: of the western welfare state and of Soviet “real socialism”. The end of the bipolar confrontation.
4.4 The end of the millennium in Europe, from the EU enlargement to the new nationalist conflicts. New freedom and new intolerance.

Mandatory literature

HOBSBAWM, Eric J.; A Era dos Extremos. História breve do séc. XX, trad. port., Presença, 1996
DROZ, Bernard; ROWLEY, Anthony; História do Século XX, trad. port., Pubs. Dom Quixote, 1988-
HOBSBAWM, Eric J.; A Era do Império, 1875-1914, trad. port., Presença, 1990
BARRETO, António; MÓNICA, Maria Filomena (coords.); Dicionário de História de Portugal, vols. 7-9, Figueirinhas, 1999-2000
REIS, António (dir.); Portugal Contemporâneo, 6 vols., Pubs. Alfa, 1989-90
ROSAS, Fernando; BRITO, J. M. Brandão de (dirs.); Dicionário de História do Estado Novo, 2 vols., Círculo de Leitores/Estampa, 1996-97
Venner, Dominique; O Século de 1914. Utopias, guerras e revoluções na Europa do séc. XX, Civilização Editora, 2009

Complementary Bibliography

LIPGENS, Walter (ed.); Documents on the History of European Integration, 4 vols., Walter de Gruyter/European University Institute., 1985-
LEWIN, Moshe; O século soviético, trad. port., Campo da Comunicação, 2004
TORRE, Hipólito de la (coord.); Portugal, España y Europa. Cien años de desafío (1890-1990). III Jornadas de Estudios Luso-Españoles., U.N.E.D./Centro Regional de Extremadura., 1991
MIEGE, Jean-Louis; Expansion européenne et décolonisation de 1870 à nos jours, P.U.F., 1973
JIMÉNEZ REDONDO, Juan Carlos ; El ocaso de la amistad de las dictaduras ibéricas, 1955-1968., U.N.E.D./Centro Regional de Extremadura., 1996
LLOBERA, Josep R.; O Deus da Modernidade. O desenvolvimento do nacionalismo na Europa Ocidental. trad. port., Celta, 2000
CHARNY, Israel (dir.); Le livre noir de l'Humanité, Privat, 2001
MAZOWER, Mark; Dark Continent. Europe's 20th Century., Allen Lane, 1998
COLLOTTI, Enzo; Fascismo, fascismos, trad. port., Caminho, 1992
THIESSE, Anne-Marie; A criação das identidades nacionais : Europa - séculos XVIII-XX, trad.port., Temas e Debates, 2000
SALMON, T.; NICOLL, W. (ed.); Building European Union. A Documentary History and Analysis, Manchester University Press, 1997
FERRO, Marc (dir.); Le livre noir du colonialisme. XVIe-XXIe siècle: de l’extermination à la repentance., Robert Laffont, 2003
RÉMOND, René; Introdução à História do Nosso Tempo. Do Antigo Regime aos nossos dias, trad. port., Gradiva, 1994
MARTÍNEZ CARRERAS, José U.; Historia de la descolonización, 1919-1986. Las independencias de Asia y Africa., Istmo, 1987
TERNON, Yves; El Estado criminal. Los genocidios en el siglo XX, trad. esp., Ediciones Península, 1995
WILLIAMS, Allan M.; A Comunidade Europeia. As contradições do processo de integração, trad. port., Celta, 1992
BESSIS, Sophie; Occidente y los otros. Historia de una supremacía, trad. esp., Alianza Editorial, 2001
MICHEL, Henri; Os Fascismos, trad. port., Pubs. Dom Quixote, 1977
LOFF, Manuel; "O nosso século é fascista!" O mundo visto por Salazar e Franco (1936-1945), Campo das Letras, 2008
Werth, Nicolas; Histoire de l'Union Soviétique de l'empire Russe à la Communautê des États Indépendants, 1900-1991, Presses Universitaires de France, 2008
Reinhard, Wolfgang; Petite histoire du colonialisme, Belin, 1997
Michel, Marc; Décolonisations et émergence du Tiers-Monde, Hachette, 2005
Roth, François; L’invention de l’Europe: de l’Europe de Jean Monnet à l’Union Européenne, Armand Colin, 2007
Fulbrook, Mary (coord.); A Europa desde 1945, Fio da Palavra, 2009

Teaching methods and learning activities

Theory-practical classes consist of a set of activities that include the presentation of information possibly included in photocopied texts previously made available to students, usually through multimedia presentations; analysis of written documents or films, possibly of information collected in field trips, which can also be analysed/viewed/done in the tutorials; and open discussion of the issues under study.
In tutorials, students must choose between preparing:
1. For the 1st type of assessment (see “Special exams and assessments”), a critical review (or reading report) of a book, article, chapter of a collective work or a documentary or fiction film relevant to the theme, proposed by students and approved by the lecturer;
2. Bibliographic and/or documentary research to solve a theoretical problem proposed by the student, including a project to be submitted for the lecturer’s approval.
Depending on class size, students may be split into homogeneous groups, consisting of those who in the first two weeks of classes have opted for either of the assessment types.

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Humanities > History > Contemporary History
Social sciences > Sociology
Social sciences > Political sciences > Policy studies > International relations
Social sciences > Anthropology > Cultural anthropology
Humanities > History > Social history
Humanities > History > Political history

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
Attendance (estimated)	Participação presencial	39,00
	Trabalho escrito	13,00		2010-12-17
	Trabalho escrito	25,00		2011-02-12
	Exame	2,00		2011-02-12
	Total:	-	0,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Description	Type	Time (hours)	End date
	Estudo autónomo	83	2011-02-11
	Total:	83,00

Eligibility for exams

A minimum score of 10 out of 20, in accordance with the provisions established in the Subject Factsheets and in Assessment Regulations.
The assessment period for each student (Normal, Resit or Special) will be the one in which the assessment was last sat (final exam + presentation of book review or assessment report; oral discussion/public discussion of the assignment and/or documentary research, depending on the case) which the student must carry out in accordance with the Subject Factsheet.

See “Special exams and assessments”.

Calculation formula of final grade

In the 1st type of final assessment, two alternatives are available:
1. If the lecturer or student requests the discussion of the book review or reading report:
25% = book review or reading report including the preparatory activities in tutorials)
25% = oral discussion of the book review or reading report
50% = Final exam

2. If the book review discussion or reading report is not required:
50% = book review or reading report including the preparatory activities in tutorials)
50% = Final exam

In the 2nd type of final assessment, two alternatives are available:
1. If the lecturer or student requests the discussion of the research assignment:
25% = completion of planned tasks for the tutorials;
40% = written work on the document and/or bibliographic research;
35% = oral discussion of the written work on the document and/or bibliographic research.
2. If work discussion is not required:
25% = completion of planned tasks for the tutorials;
75% = written work on the document and/or bibliographic research.

See “Special exams and assessments”.

Examinations or Special Assignments

During the first two weeks of classes – i.e., on 27 September 2010 -, students must choose (and put it in writing, sent by e-mail, or hand-delivered to the lecturer) one of the two final assessment types:
1st - A final exam (open book exam) + book review or reading report (preparatory activities in tutorials); the lecturer or the student may request the oral discussion of the latter.
2nd - A written assignment on the document and/or bibliographic research (for all purposes, it counts as a final exam). The lecturer or student may request that it be discussed orally in a session fixed by the student and according to the lecturer’s timetable.
In both assessment types, the lecturer or the student may request the discussion of any of the examinations. In these cases, this will take place during the assessment period in which the book review or the essay are handed in, and must be requested by either the lecturer or the student before the academic services receive information on the final assessment. Therefore, this is not an automatic process. If the student requests the discussion after the grades are disclosed, the discussion will only take place in the next assessment period.

All students enrolled, regardless of their status (including those exempted from a minimum attendance of 75% of coursework activities), are bound to the same assessment type.
See the documents linked to this module description regarding the description, timing and assessment of each assessment component.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

No “special assessment” will be allowed. Working students and other students exempted from a minimum attendance of 75% of classes (theory-practical and tutorials) are bound to the same assessment types as students who must comply with this requirement.
Arrangements will be made regarding assessment types suited to students with special education needs.

Classification improvement

Improvement of grades will focus on the assessment components that the student chooses for that purpose - i.e., all components or only some components taken in the assessment type chosen (final exam + book review, or, in the case of bibliographic research assignment, the written assignment or its oral discussion, whichever is applicable).

Observations

1. All written assessment tests may be of the open book type (bibliography and study materials), which means that they will focus mostly on solving practical problems.
2. Book reviews and bibliographic research assignments may be done in groups of two students (and never more than two), even though the assessment will always be personalised.
3. Theory-practical classes will be taught in Portuguese. Tutorials and assessments may be taught in English, French, Spanish or Italian, depending on the needs of foreign students..