Contemporary History II(20025)
Degree/study: Degree in Humanities
Year: 3rd
Term:1st
Number of ECTS credits: 5 credits
Hours of studi dedication: 125 hours
Teaching language or languages: catalan
Teaching Staff: Albert Garcia / Marició Janué
1. Presentation of the subject
The course offers a study of the main social processes and cultural facts happening in the contemporary world since1945.
2. Competences to be attained
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•1) Ability to manage and process information from several sources. •2) Ability for analysis and synthesis. •3) Put different kinds of reasoning into practice and look for multicasual explanations in order to understand historical facts and evaluate their consequences. •4) Know the agents and basic institutions involved in the political and economic organisation in Europe and the world. •5) Understand the changes which are taking place in the economic and social relations worldwide and relate them to their historical background. •6) Think critically about some social, historical, political or economic contemporary problems.
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1) Ability to understand and explain the main historical facts and processes in the world from the end of the Second World War in 1945 until the end of the Cold War with the dissolution of the Soviet Union by the end of 1991. 2) Ability to distinguish and define the main ideological-cultural parameters that characterise the period which started after the Second World War. 3) Ability to periodise the analysed period depending on the most significant changes and transformations. 4) Ability to identify the main power cores in the period, the different mechanisms used to keep them and the established alliances. 5) Ability to identify the main achievements in several areas of the period - political, economic, social, cultural - and to be aware of their limitations when necessary. 6) Ability to distinguish between international, regional and national dynamics and to recognise historical continuities and discontinuities. 7) Ability to distinguish the internal and external different facts which had an influence on the main achievements and dynamics of the period. |
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3. Contents
Unit 1. The legacy of the Second World War and the reconstruction in Western Europe
Unit 2. The first "hot points" and the consolidation of the Cold War
Unit 3. The American policy of containment
Unit 4. Inside the Iron Curtain: the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe
Unit 5. Industrialisation crisis and military dictatorships in Latin America
Unit 6. Decolonisation and conflicts in Africa and Asia
Unit 7. The crisis of the welfare society and the end of the Cold War
*The full version with the sections 4. Assessment, 5. Bibliography and teaching resources, 6. Methodology and 7. Planning of activities is available in the original version.
4. Assessment
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5. Bibliography and teaching resources
5.1. Basic bibliography
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5.2. Complementary bibliography
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5.3. Teaching resources
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6. Metodology
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7. Planning of activities
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