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SUBJECT TEACHING GUIDE

Degree in History

G232 - Contemporary History II

Academic year 2016-2017

1. IDENTIFYING DATA

Degree Degree in History Compulsory. Year 2Type and

Year

Faculty of HumanitiesFaculty

MODULE WITH SECOND COURSE SUBJECTS

Universal and European History

Subject Area: Contemporary History

Subject Area: Contemporary History

Discipline

G232 - Contemporary History IICourse unit title

and code

6Number of ECTS

credits allocated

Term Semester based (2)

Web

SpanishLanguage of

instruction

Mode of

deliveryFace-to-faceEnglish Friendly No

DPTO. HISTORIA MODERNA Y CONTEMPORANEADepartment

MARIA JESUS GONZALEZ HERNANDEZName of lecturer

mariajesus.gonzalez@unican.esE-mail

Edificio Interfacultativo. Planta: + 2. DESPACHO PROFESORES (239)Office

AURORA GARRIDO MARTINOther lecturers

3.1 LEARNING OUTCOMES

Acquiring a general knowledge of the main processes and major events that shaped the twentieth century.-

Having a good understanding of the historiographical debates on the most relevant problems of the twentieh century.-

4. OBJECTIVES

Knowing the main processes and events that shaped the XXth century.

Knowing the main historiographical debates on the problem areas of twentieth century European history

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6. COURSE ORGANIZATION

CONTENTS

1 MODULE 1

WOMEN IN CONTEMPORARY AGE:

ACCESS TO CITIZENSHIP AND THE SITUATION OF WOMEN DURING THE INTERWAR PERIOD.

1.1 The fight for citizenship (1850-1918)

1.2 Women during interwar period: (the new woman, flappers, pro natalist, eugenist socialisyt and pacifist)

2 MODULE 2

AFTER THE WAR (I)

THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION. RUSSIA TILL 1941

2.1 The revolutionary porocess: From Lenin to Stalin

2.2 An assessment of the revolution

3 MODULE 3

AFTER THE WAR (II)

DARK CONTINENT: INTERWAR EUROPE

3.1 The repercussions of First World War

3.2 Culture in Interwar Europe

4 MODULE 4

THE RISE OF RIGHT WING AUTHORITARIAN REGIMES AND FASCISM.

4.1 The rise of right wing authoritarian regimes in Europe

4.2 Italian fascism: characteristic and evolution.

4.3 Nazism. Characteristics and evolution.

5 MODULE 5

NEW INTERNATIONAL POSTWAR ORDER

5.1 New international postwar order

5.2 The institutional process

6 MODULE 6

CAPITALIST DEMOCRACIES

6.1 Post war consensus: economic growing and welfare

6.2 The crisis of consensus

7 MODULE 7

THE COMMUNIST WORLD (1945-1991)

7.1 URSS and popular democracies

7.2 The collapse of communism

8 MODULE 8

DECOLONIZATION AND THE EMERGENCE OF THE THIRD WORLD

8.1 Decolonization

8.2 Characteristics of the Third World: dependence and underdevelopment

9 MODULE 9

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONSHIP (1945-1991)

9.1 The begining of the Codl War (1945-1949)

9.2. The division of the world (19949-1962)

9.3 Limits and contradictions opf superpowers (1962-1979)

9.4 Towards a new balance

10 WRITTEN EXAM

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7. ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA

Description Type Final Eval. Reassessment

DESCRIPTION

The final exam will consist in developing 2 points

from the program and 2 short questions

(theoretical or historiographical) related with the

same program.

60,00 Written exam Yes Yes

DESCRIPTION

Writing an essay about the selected readings for

the seminar and /or participating in its

presentation in class.

30,00 Work No Yes

Attendance during the course and particularly

attendance to seminars (compulsory)

10,00 Others No No

100,00 TOTAL

Observations

POSITIVE MARKS FROM ESSAYS (CONTINUOUS EVALUATION) WILL BE KEPT AND TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT IN

SEPTEMBER

- In the case of not succeeding in the continuous evaluation (written essays/presentations) pupils will have the oportunity

of writing a new essay for the september evaluation which will be given to the professor the same date of the exam.

Observations for part-time students

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8. BIBLIOGRAPHY AND TEACHING MATERIALS

BASIC

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Universidad de Barcelona, 1995.

ARÓSTEGUI Sánchez, Julio y SABORIDO, Jorge. El tiempo presente. un mundo globalmente desordenado, Buenos

Aires, Eudeba, 2005.

AZCONA PASTOR, José Manuel: Historia del mundo actual (1945-2005): ámbito sociopolítico, estructura económica y

relaciones internacionales, Madrid, Universitas, 2005.

BERSTEIN, Serge: Los regímenes políticos del siglo XX. Para una historia política comparada del mundo contemporáneo,

Barcelona, Ariel, 1996.

BRIGGS, A., P. CLAVIN (1997): Historia Contemporánea de Europa, 1789-1989. Ed.Crítica, Barcelona

BROWER, Daniel: Historia del mundo contemporáneo, 1900-2001, Madrid, Prentice Hall, 2002.

CASSASAS, Jordi (coord.): La construcción del presente: el mundo desde 1848 hasta nuestros días, Barcelona, Ariel,

2005

DIEZ ESPINOSA, José Ramón y otros: Historia del Mundo Actual (desde 1945 hasta nuestros días), Valladolid,

Universidad de Valladolid, 2006.

DUBY, Georges i PERROT, Michelle (Dir.) (1991-93): Historia de las mujeres. Madrid: Taurus. 5 vols.

FUSI AIZPURÚA, J.P., Edad Contemporánea. 1898-1939, Madrid, Historia 16, 1997.

FUENTES, J.F. y LA PARRA, E., Historia universal del siglo XX. Madrid, Síntesis, 2001

GARCIA DE CORTAZAR, Fernando y LORENZO ESPINOSA, José María: Historia del Mundo Actual, 1945-1995, 2 vols.,

Madrid, Alianza Editorial, 1996.

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MARTINEZ CARRERAS, José U. y otros: Historia del Mundo Actual, Madrid, Marcial Pons, 1996.

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