Contemporary World History

Code:

CC025

Acronym:

HMCNT

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	History

Instance: 2023/2024 - 1S

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	154	Study plan	1	-	3	21,5	81

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

The Curricular Unit of Contemporary World History seeks to understand the main lines of the political history of the 20th century, from the First World War to the end of the cold war and the bipolar world.

 

1. Critically analyze the main events in the history of the 20th century.
2. Define and debate fundamental contemporary concepts and issues, considering their complexity and correlation.
3. Demonstrate the need for an interdisciplinary analysis of the main world regions.
4. Critically problematize the ongoing evolutionary trends in the world political order

 

Learning outcomes and competences

1. Acquire knowledge about the history of the 20th century.


2. 
   

   Understand the relationship of historical processes, critically observing continuities and discontinuities in multiple contexts and conjunctures.

   
   


3. 
   

   Acquire interpretive and analytical skills on world events and trends throughout the 20th century.

   
   


4. 
   

   Mobilize previously acquired knowledge to understand the present time.

   
   

Working method

Presencial

Program

Part 1 - Total Wars: the two world wars and political confrontations in the first half of the 20th century

1. Imperialism(s) and colonialism: European domination.
2. Total wars: the two world wars.
3. The Russian Revolution and its global impact.
4. The crisis of the liberal model, the rise of fascism and totalitarian phenomena.

 Part 2 – The bipolar world and the end of European imperialism

1. The Cold War and the emergence of the bipolar world: the blocs in confrontation.
2. The crisis of European supremacy: anti-colonialism, anti-imperialism and decolonization and the end of European supremacy.
3. From the «glorious thirty» (1945-73) to the dismantling of the Welfare State in capitalist economies.
4. European construction: project and identity
5. «Real socialism» and the fall of the Berlin Wall: Sino-Soviet split, Perestroika and the end of the Warsaw Pact and the Soviet Union.

 Part 3 - Crises and challenges in the 21st century.

1. The emergence of a neonationalism and the challenges of Populism to democracies.

Mandatory literature

Conrad. S; O que é a história global, Edições 70, 2019
Gaddis, J. L; A Guerra Fria, Edições 70., 2007
Hobsbawm, E.J; A Era dos Extremos, Editorial Presença, 1998
Judt, T. ; Uma grande ilusão: um ensaio sobre a Europa. , Edições 70, 2017
Judt, T; O século XX esquecido: lugares e memórias, Edições 70, 2009
Judt, T; Pós-guerra: história da Europa desde 1945, Edições 70, 2006
Overy, R; Os Ditadores. A Alemanha de Hitler e a Rússia de Estaline, Bertrand, 2005
Rémond, R; Introdução á História do Nosso Tempo, Gradiva, 1994
Roberts, J.M; História do Século XX, Presença., 2007
Soulet,J-F; História da Europa de Leste, da segunda guerra mundial aos nossos dias, Teorema, 2009

Teaching methods and learning activities

The Theoretical-Practical (TP) classes will combine the exposition/exploration/debate of the syllabus contents, with the support of texts, graphic, statistical, or other material, promoting, whenever possible, the participation of students in the critical discussion of the questions presented. The Tutorial Orientation (OT) sessions will focus, fundamentally, on the orientation of the individual work of the students and on the participation of the students in debates guided and developed from previous reading of documentary sources and/or bibliographical excerpts.

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	59,50
Frequência das aulas	21,50
Total:	81,00

Eligibility for exams

Approval in this module requires:

(i) to attend (either online or in face-to-face classes) to 75% of the ldctures, 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 grade = the sum of grades obtained in two of the three questions presented, each questions having a maximum score of 10.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

According to FLUP's evaluation regulations.

Classification improvement

According to FLUP's evaluation regulations.