ECTS credits ECTS credits: 6
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 99 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 24 Interactive Classroom: 24 Total: 150
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: History
Areas: Modern History
Center Faculty of Geography and History
Call: First Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable
To introduce students to the knowledge of the main demographic, economic, social, political and cultural processes in Europe in the 16th century and the first half of the 17th century.
-To acquire a critical awareness of the space-time coordinates.
The programme of the subject is organized in three blocks, comprising:
a) socioeconomic bases; b) the thought and culture and c) the government, domestic policy and international relations. Each of these thematic blocks includes four units.
A- The socioeconomic foundations:
1.- The demographic regime of the Old Regime and evolution of the population in the 16th and 17th centuries
2.- Economy. Agriculture and industry in the 16th and 17th centuries
3.- Trade and capitalist techniques. Mercantilism
4.- The European society in the Modern Age. Structure and evolution
B- The thought and culture:
5.- Channels for disseminating culture
6.- Renaissance and Humanism: intellectual and cultural bases of the modern world
7.- Religious reforms
8.- Origins of the Modern Science
C- The government, the domestic policy and the international relations
9.- Origins of the Modern State
10.- The birth of the new monarchies and plurality of political forms in Europe
11.- The advance of absolutism in the 17th century. The Kingdom of England and the Dutch Republic
12.- International relations (1500-1650)
BASIC BIBLIOGRAPHY
EIRAS ROEL, A., Historia Universal, 12. Siglo XVII, Barcelona, 1994.
FLORISTÁN IMIZCOZ, A. (coord.), Historia Moderna Universal, Barcelona, Ariel, 2015.
FORTEA PÉREZ, J.I., Historia Universal. 11. Siglo XVI, Barcelona, 1994.
HINRICHS, E., Introducción a la Historia de la Edad Moderna, Barcelona, Ariel, 2001.
MOLAS RIBALTA, P. et al., Manual de historia moderna, Barcelona, Ariel, 1993.
TENENTI, A., La Edad Moderna: siglos XVI-VIII, Barcelona, Crítica, 2000.
COMPLEMENTARY BIBLIOGRAPHY
BARDET, J.-P. y DUPÂQUIER, J. (dirs), Historia de las poblaciones de Europa, Síntesis, Madrid, 2001.
BÉLY, L., Lárt de la paix en Europe. Naissance de la diplomatie moderne XVIIe-XVIIIe siècle, Paris, 2007.
BURKE, P., El Renacimiento europeo, Crítica, Barcelona, 2000.
DEWALD, J., La nobleza europea, 1400-1800, Valencia, 2004.
DUPLESSIS, R.S., Transiciones al capitalismo en Europa durante la Edad Moderna, Zaragoza, 2001.
ELLIOT, J.H., Europa en la época de Felipe II (1559-1598), Crítica, Barcelona, 2000.
GONZÁLEZ ENCISO, A., El nacimiento del Capitalismo en Europa, Ed. Eunate, Madrid, 2011.
KAMEN, H., La sociedad europea, 1500-1700, Madrid, 1986.
LUTZ, H., Reforma y Contrarreforma: Europa entre 1520 y 1648, Alianza, Madrid, 2009.
MACKENNEY, R., La Europa del siglo XVI. Expansión y conflicto, Akal, Madrid, 1996.
MARAVALL, J.A., La cultura del Barroco: análisis de una estructura histórica, Barcelona, 2008.
MARTÍNEZ MILLÁN, J.; CARLOS MORALES, J., Religión, política y tolerancia en la Europa Moderna, Polifermo, Madrid, 2011.
REINHARD, W. (ed.), Las élites de poder y la construcción del Estado, Madrid, 1996.
RIVERO RODRÍGUEZ, M., Diplomacia y relaciones exteriores en la Edad Moderna. De la cristiandad al sistema europeo, 1453-1794, Madrid, 2000.
ROSSI, P., El nacimiento de la Ciencia Moderna en Europa, Crítica, Barcelona, 1997.
SCHULTZ, H., Historia económica de Europa (1500-1800). Artesanos, mercaderes y banqueros, Siglo XXI de España, Madrid, 2001.
Specific skills:
-Understanding and analyzing the key factors explaining the Universal Modern History from the sixteenth century to the first half of the seventeenth.
-Understanding and interpreting maps, charts, texts and historical sources.
Transversal skills:
-Working independently with responsibility and initiative, developing capabilities to manage information, organization and planning.
-Applying analytical, critical, logical and creative thinking, demonstrating innovation skills.
The lectures will be face-to-face and will basically consist of the explanation of the subject matter by the teacher with the support of different didactic materials and with the use of ICT
-The interactive sessions allow the acquisition of skills and development of the knowledge acquired through individual student’s work -studies, assignments, readings, exercises, presentations ... will be guided by the professor and will lead to the preparation and exposition of assignments in groups or individually.
-In the tutorials (for single students or small groups ), special attention will be given to students to discuss specific issues in relation to the tasks or to try to resolve any other difficulty of the student of group of students, related to the subject.
The final grade will be obtained by passing a final written test on the official date, in which students will have to answer several questions or comments related to the lectures. These tests will compute up to 70% of the final mark and in order for this to be taken into account, students must obtain at least 5 out of 10 points. The remaining 30% of the mark will be distributed as follows: a) 25% will come from the completion and presentation of different assignments and exercises; b) 5% from participation in debates in interactive classes, or in discussion seminars, or text commentaries. The possible participation in historiographical activities organised within the framework of the academic year.
In order for the mark for this part to be averaged with that of the exam, an average of at least 5 out of 10 points must be obtained.
In the second opportunity, the same criteria must be met as for the first opportunity, but:
1.- Students who have handed in all the practical assignments and obtained an overall average mark of at least 5 out of 10, will not be obliged to re-sit them. They will only have to pass an exam on the subject taught in the lecture classes in the corresponding exam session.
2.- Students who have not handed in the practical work or who have not achieved the minimum mark required during the ordinary course, will have to hand in the practical work done during the course at the time of the exam in the second exam session. If they do not hand them in, their exam will not be assessed.
Any student who does not show up for the exam and who has not handed in any of the practical work will be considered as a "no-show" in the final grade.
Students with official dispensation from attendance will be required to submit the scheduled assignments on the same dates as the other students and pass the official exams. The grade will be 70% for the exam and 30% for the course work(s). In order to pass, it will be essential to obtain at least a 5 out of 10 in each of these tests. For the rest, the same will apply as for the rest of the students.
Every hour of expository teaching should be accompanied by a student’s complementary assignment of approximately two hours (in the form of readings and fixation of the contents covered in the classroom).
Moreover, it is estimated that for each hour of interactive instruction, the student should spend at least four hours of individual work.
Taking into account the teaching load of the subject and the above- mentioned forecasts, it is considered that each student should devote around 150 hours to individual work.
The basic recommendation is to read the general and specialized bibliography provided by the professor together with the programme, but also that more specific bibliography given when presenting each topic in order to obtain a more complete picture than the one that may be drawn in theoretical classes.
-It is also advisable to perform textual analyses, charts, graphs, statistical tables, etc., individually to gain mastery in these areas and a better understanding of the subject content.
-Consultation of historical atlases and dictionaries of historical terms.
-Regular attendance at class is considered essential to obtain a positive assessment.
-Clarify, by asking questions in class or in tutorials, the doubts that may arise during the learning period and also during the resolution of the above mentioned case studies.
For cases of fraudulent completion of exercises or tests, the provisions set out in the Regulations for evaluating the academic performance of students and reviewing grades will apply.
The use of mobile phones, tablets, laptops or any other electronic device that allows internet connection is forbidden during classes, both expository and interactive teaching. Their use will only be permitted in those teaching activities in which the person in charge of the subject expressly so indicates.
Camilo Jesus Fernandez Cortizo
- Department
- History
- Area
- Modern History
- Phone
- 881812552
- camilojesus.fernandez [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
Isidro Dubert García
Coordinador/a- Department
- History
- Area
- Modern History
- Phone
- 881812617
- isidro.dubert [at] usc.gal
- Category
- Professor: University Professor
Tomas Manso Fraga
- Department
- History
- Area
- Modern History
- Phone
- 881812613
- tomas.manso.fraga [at] usc.es
- Category
- Xunta Pre-doctoral Contract
Alex Valledor Arostegui
- Department
- History
- Area
- Modern History
- alex.valledor.arostegui [at] usc.es
- Category
- Predoutoral Contract_Other Programs
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| 17:00-19:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Spanish | Classroom 08 |
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| 15:00-17:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Spanish | Classroom 08 |
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