Contemporary Portuguese History

Code:

CC023

Acronym:

HCPORT

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	History

Instance: 2017/2018 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Communication and Information Sciences
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	118	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

Theory-practical classes consist of a set of activities that include the presentation of information, sometimes using texts previously made available to students, usually through multimedia presentations, analysis of written documents, films and pictures, graphs and tables.

The former academic year 2014/15 demonstrated that, as the number of students enrolled amounts to 130-150 enrolled students, it becomes clearly impossible for a single teacher (and evaluator) to be able to supervise in Tutorials actual research activities, such as commenting web and/or bibliographic research and/or to prepare a critical review of an essay/book/documentary film. Thus, quite the opposite of what happened until 2014/15 (and giving up of what has been the evaluation procedures of the teacher now in charge of this module for almost twenty years), Tutorial activities will stick to preparation of the final written exam, namely proposing relevant literature, advising on its use and relevance, and analysing and interpreting documents of the kind above mentioned.

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

Eligibility for exams

Having been imposed to the teacher in charge of this module full responsibility over the evaluation of 130-150 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:

(i) to be present in 75% of the classes, both Theory-practical and Tutorials;

(ii) a minimal mark of 10 (ten) out of 20 at the final written exam.

Calculation formula of final grade

Final Exam: 100%

Classification improvement

See FLUP's evaluation regulations.

Observations

 

1. In written exams, students may have free access to literature and other study material they may bring along (although not to Internet!), which implies that exams will focus on the resolution of practical research and historical interpretation problems.
2. Classes will be taught in Portuguese, but English, Français, Español or Italiano may be used as working languages, including in written exams and reviews.
3. 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 subject on Portuguese History taught in a Portuguese university.