Contemporary Portuguese History

Code:

CC023

Acronym:

HCPORT

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	History

Instance: 2020/2021 - 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	140	CC - Study Plan	1	-	3	27	81

Teaching language

Portuguese

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 (2002-20): 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 (1986-2020): economic liberalisation, structural crisis of the economy, recessions, the 'Great Lockdown' (2020). 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

Theoretical-practical classes (TP) will consist of teaching activities that will the presentation of information, sometimes using texts previously made available to students attached to this webpage, usually through multimedia presentations, analysis of written documents, films and pictures, graphs and tables. Some of these historical documents will have to be analysed and interpreted in a Final Exam, written and face-to-face, in which each student will have the possibility of free bibliographic consultation, excluding Internet access.
Experience shows that in modules with over 40 students enrolled (in this case, of over 140 students) it becomes impossible (even if this was pedagogically important) for a single teacher (and evaluator) to ensure the supervision of research activities, in the form, for instance, of critical reviews of articles/books chosen by the students. At any rate, the recent curriculum reform of this graduation course eliminated tutorials in this module.

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

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	52,00
Frequência das aulas	27,00
Trabalho escrito	2,00
Total:	81,00

Eligibility for exams

Approval in this module requires:

(i) to attend to 75% of the classes;

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

Calculation formula of final grade

Written exam (face-to-face): 100%

Classification improvement

For written exams, 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.