History of Portugal

Code:

CL012

Acronym:

HISPOR

Instance: 2019/2020 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Portuguese and Romance Studies
Course/CS Responsible:	Bachelor in Language Sciences

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
CL	12	CL - Study Plan	1	-	6	-

Teaching language

Suitable for English-speaking students

Objectives

This course aims to provide students with accurate, general and critical information background, to take a general, diachronic and summarised account of the History of Portugal, revisiting its major periods and structural contexts to better understand our contemporaneity. At the same time, we will seek to meet the needs and specific aims of the course, while ensuring that students receive critical suggestions and operative analysis orientations, enhancing their appreciation for reflexive, personal and independent studies of the current issues of the country (at internal and external levels), in light of their constant development. At the end of the semester, students must be able to: a) identify the major cycles of the history of Portugal in the European context; b) identify the most important factors of change of our modernity and contemporaneity; c) to question themselves and talk critically on the role and place of national history in the context of globalisation factors.

Learning outcomes and competences

 The students must be able to:

a) identify the major cycles of the history of Portugal in the European context;

b) identify the most important factors of change of our modernity and contemporaneity;

c) to question themselves and talk critically on the role and place of national history in the context of globalisation factors.

Working method

Presencial

Program

I. Introduction. From medieval Portugal to modern Portugal. 1. A. Herculano and the new science of history. The issue of the “origins” of Portugal. 2. From the formation of Portugal to the Avis dynasty and the beginning of expansion. 3.From the “cycle of pepper” to the “cycle of gold”: social structures, representations of power and political practices. 4. From restored Portugal to the Portugal of “Enlightenment”. Pombal and the reform of illustration. II. 19th century Portugal in search of “regeneration” 1. From the civil war to the struggles among factions. Ideology families and liberal parties. Political programmes and practices, elections and suffrage. 2. The institutional and material transformations. “Development” and social evolution. Daily life and new forms of sociability 3. Public education and its “regenerating” effects III. 20th century Portugal: successes and failures in overcoming “decadence” 1. The end of the Constitutional Monarchy and the advent of the Republic 2. Positivism and secularism in the Republican “culture pot”. Legislation, governance, political parties and practices established by the 1911 Constitution. 3. Contributions to an explanation of the 28th May. Oliveira Salazar and the New State. principles of the 1933 Constitution. Society, ideology control and “politics of spirit”. 4. From “Marcelo’s spring time” to the “revolution of carnations” and the 1976 Constitution. 5. Characteristics of the regime and the new Portuguese society after 25 April.

Mandatory literature

AA.VV. ; A Situação social em Portugal, 1960-1999, 2 vols., ICSUL, Lisboa, 1999
BARRETO, António, MÓNICA, Maria Filomena (coord.); Dicionário de História de Portugal, vols. 7, 8 e 9, Figueirinhas, Porto, 2000
J. J. Gomes Canotilho e Vital Moreira; Constituição da República Portuguesa anotada, Coimbra Ed., Coimbra, 1993
FRANÇA, José-Augusto; Os anos vinte em Portugal, Presença, Lisboa, 1992
HERCULANO, Alexandre; História de Portugal, tomo I, Bertrand, Lisboa, 1980
MATTOSO, José; A Identidade Nacional, Gradiva, Lisboa, 2001
MATTOSO, José (dir.); História de Portugal, vols 4 e 5, Estampa, Lisboa, 1993
RAMOS, Rui (coord.); História de Portugal, Esfera dos Livros, Lisboa, 2010. ISBN: 978-989-626-139-9
REIS, António (dir.); Portugal Contemporâneo, 6 vols, Alfa, Lisboa, 1990
ROSAS, Fernando (coord.); Dicionário de História do Estado Novo, 2 vols., Círculo de Leitores, Lisboa, 1996
SÉRGIO, António; Ensaios, t. I a VI, Sá da Costa, Lisboa, 1971
SÉRGIO, António; Breve interpretação da História de Portugal, Sá da Costa, Lisboa, 1976
SERRÃO, Joel (dir.); Dicionário de História de Portugal, 6 vols, Iniciativas Editoriais, Lisboa, s/d.
TORGAL, Luís Reis, MENDES, José Amado, CATROGA, Fernando; História da História em Portugal (Sécs. XIX-XX), Temas e Debates, Lisboa, 1998. ISBN: 972-759-090-X

Teaching methods and learning activities

A combination of theory, practical classes and tutorials, integrating expository and inductive methods focused on the student’s effort, initiative and participation. Practical classes and tutorials emphasise the critical review of texts (literary and non-literary) and other “period documents”. Use of audio-visual equipment.

keywords

Social sciences > Cultural studies
Humanities
Humanities > History

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Exame	75,00
Participação presencial	0,00
Trabalho escrito	25,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	108,00
Frequência das aulas	54,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

Attending 75% of classes, unless established otherwise by law.

Calculation formula of final grade

Reading report or research assignment - 25%; Exam - 75%

Examinations or Special Assignments

Not applicable

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Not applicable

Classification improvement

Only the examination is subject to appeal or improvement.