ECTS credits ECTS credits: 6
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 24 Interactive Classroom: 24 Total: 51
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: History
Areas: Contemporary History
Center Faculty of Geography and History
Call: Second Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable | 1st year (Yes)
The consequences of World War II and the constitution of a new international order: genesis, development and outcome of the Cold War (1947-1991). Anti-colonial struggles, independence processes and emergence of new global actors. The creation of supranational organizations and the formation of large economic and political spaces within the framework of globalization processes. The expansion of scientific-technical advances. The new social movements and the conflicts and problems of the post-Cold War: wars of the 21st century, climate emergency and environmental crisis.
TOPIC 1. THE AFTERMATH OF THE IIWW AND THE NEW INTERNATIONAL ORDER: THE COLD WAR (1945 - 1989)
1.1 The political changes and the project of a New Order international
1.2 Discrepancies and distrusts. Building the blocks
1.3 Strategies, phases and main conflicts of the Cold War
1.4 The end of the bipolar world and the changes in the international context
TOPIC 2. EUROPE AFTER 1945: WESTERN DEMOCRACIES, POPULAR DEMOCRACIES AND DICTATORSHIPS
2.1 Democracy and economic growth in the West. The dictatorships of Southern Europe
2.2 The establishment of real socialism and the construction of popular democracies
2.3 The dissolution of the socialist bloc and the transitions to democracy
2.4 From the EEC to EU
TOPIC 3. DECOLONIZATION, THIRD WORLD AND EMERGING POWERS: FROM LATIN AMERICA TO CHINA
3.1 The end of the colonial empires: causes and stages
3.2 The physiognomy of the Third World: political systems, economy and ideologies
3.3 The new emerging powers
TOPIC 4. CHALLENGES AND PERSPECTIVES IN THE GLOBAL ERA (1990-2019)
4.1 Collective action and new social movements
4.2 The wars of the 21st century
4.3 Major challenges (migrations, environment)
BASIC BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Aracil, R. & Olier, J., & Segura, A. (1995). El Mundo Actual. De la II Guerra Mundial a nuestros días. Universitat de Barcelona.
Aróstegui, J. (2004). La Historia vivida: sobre la Historia del Presente. Alianza Editorial.
Artola, M., & Pérez Ledesma, M. (2005). Contemporánea: la historia desde 1776. Alianza.
Díez Espinosa, J. R. (2006). Historia del Mundo Actual (Desde 1945 hasta nuestros días). Universidad de Valladolid.
Fontana, J. (2011). Por el bien del Imperio. Una historia del mundo desde 1945. Pasado y Presente.
Gaddis, J. L. (2008). La Guerra Fría. RBA.
Judt, T. (2006). Posguerra. Una Historia de Europa desde 1945. Taurus.
Mishra, P. (2017). La edad de la ira. Una historia del presente. Galaxia Gutenberg.
Montero, M. (2023). Historia del Presente. De la Guerra Fría al mundo de hoy. Pinolia.
Núñez Seixas, X. M. (2018). Las utopías pendientes. Una breve historia del mundo desde 1945. Crítica.
Rueda Laffond, J. C. (2016). Historia actual del mundo. De la posguerra a la cultura global. Síntesis.
Veiga, F. (2009). El desequilibrio como orden. Una historia de la posguerra fría, 1990-2008. Alianza.
Veiga, F., & Ucelay-Da Cal, E. & Duarte, A. (2006). La paz simulada. Una historia de la Guerra Fría, 1941-1991. Alianza.
COMPLEMENTARY BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Aldcroft, D. H. (2002). Historia de la Economía europea, 1914-2000. Crítica.
Anderson, P. (2012). El nuevo viejo mundo. Akal.
Bauman, Z. (2007). Miedo líquido. La sociedad contemporánea y sus temores. Paidós.
Dahrendorf, R. (2006). El recomienzo de la historia. De la caída del muro a la guerra de Irak. Katz.
Dumont, R. (2000). Democracia para África. Bellaterra.
Frieden, J. (2002). Capitalismo Global. El trasfondo económico de la historia del siglo XX. Crítica.
Hobsbawm, E. H. (1997). Historia del siglo XX. Crítica.
Hobsbawm, E. H. (2006). Guerra y paz en el siglo XXI. Crítica.
Huband, M. (2004). África después de la Guerra Fría. Paidós.
Jian, C. (2005). La China de Mao y la Guerra Fría. Paidós.
Leffler, M. P. (2008). La guerra después de la guerra: Estados Unidos, la Unión Soviética y la Guerra Fría. Crítica.
Mahbubani, Kishore (2014). El nuevo hemisferio asiático: el irresistible desplazamiento del poder global hacia el Oriente. Siglo XXI.
Mann, M. (2004). El imperio incoherente. Estados Unidos y el nuevo orden internacional. Paidós.
Mattelart, A. (2007). La mundialización de la comunicación. Paidós.
Mcneill, J. R. (2003). Algo nuevo bajo el sol. Historia medioambiental del mundo en el siglo XX. Alianza Editorial.
Oya, C., & A. Santamaría (2007). Economía política del desarrollo en África. Akal.
Patterson, J. T. (2005). El gigante inquieto. Estados Unidos, de Nixon a G. W. Bush. Crítica.
Prashad, V. (2012) Las naciones oscuras. Una historia del Tercer Mundo. Península.
Prashad, V. (2013). Las naciones pobres: una posible historia global del Sur. Península.
Ramírez Ruíz, R.; Núñez de Prado-Clavell, S. & Debasa Navalpotro, F. (2017). Historia de Asia contemporánea y actual. Universitas.
Stonor, F. (2013). La CIA y la Guerra Fría cultural. Debate.
Con. 2 - Major regions and geopolitics of the world.
Con. 3 - Human Geography.
H/D1 - Manage the complexity of geography and land use planning.
H/D2 - Understand geographical problems in a multidimensional way, interrelating the physical-natural and environmental environment with the human and social sphere.
H/D3 - Interrelate phenomena at different territorial scales.
H/D4 - Search, generate, sort, and synthesize geographic information.
H/D5 - Present and transmit knowledge, methods and geographical results autonomously.
Comp1 - Know, understand, analyse and interpret the territory, the physical-natural environment, the environment and the landscape. Comp6 - Elaborate and interpret quantitative and qualitative information in Geography.
Comp7 - Explain the diversity of places, environments, cities and regions.
Master class.
Case studies.
Debates.
Classroom presentation.
Problem solving.
Field practice.
There will be a Final Exam on the date indicated by the official timetable prepared by the Registrar and Secretary’s Office of the Faculty, in which the student must answer questions related to the themes of the programme developed in the lectures and interactive classes, counting for 60% of the Final Mark. This mark will be taken into account if the student obtains a minimum score of 5 out of 10 in the examination, if not, student will have to re-examine at the second opportunity.
The remaining 40% will be obtained by the different scores awarded on the written tests, not fixed in the calendar, assignments and other activities. In order to calculate the average of this mark and the examination mark, the student has to obtain an overall average score of 5 out of 10. We will not assess the examinations of those students who do not submit the assignments. The completion of the internship is mandatory condition to take the exam in May and July.
Those students, however, have not attained the minimum grade along the ordinary course, will be examined in the second opportunity.
Students with exemption granted have to do the final exam of the subject and several individual assignments.
The student's attendance at classes is compulsory, therefore, repeated and unjustified absence to the same excess of 20%, will make it impossible for a student to be evaluated, which communicate by publishing a list students appearing so excluded.
In cases of fraudulent performance of exercises or tests, the provisions of the Regulations for the evaluation of the academic performance of students and for the review of grades will apply.
CRITERIA according to which the comments / works of the students will be rated:
1.- Level of mastery of the contents.
2.- Level of mastery of the general and specific historical terminology of the subject or period addressed.
3.- Ability to synthesize and prioritize the relevant aspects in the preparation of a topic.
4.- Capacity for critical analysis and interpretative reasoning.
5.- Capacity for relationship and / or comparison, as appropriate, when preparing a topic.
6.- The presentation and organization in general of the exercises.
7.- The level of mastery of the formal presentation techniques of the works.
8.- The uncritical use and without citing of material obtained from the network will be penalized.
Theoretical exposition: 24 hours
Interactive teaching seminar: 12 hours
Interactive teaching laboratory/Computer room: 12 hours
Small group tutoring: 3 hours
Student personal work: 99 hours
It is essential that the students assimilate the philosophy and requirements of the continuous assessment system established by the new methodology of the EEES:
- Reading of culture magazines.
- Regular query of a historical dictionary.
- Consultation and reading of the recommended works.
- Consultation of cultural internet sites promoted by institutions of proven intellectual solvency.
Eduardo Rico Boquete
Coordinador/a- Department
- History
- Area
- Contemporary History
- Phone
- 881812735
- eduardo.rico [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
David Soto Fernandez
- Department
- History
- Area
- Contemporary History
- Phone
- 881812638
- david.soto.fernandez [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: Temporary PhD professor
Javier Frieiro Santaya
- Department
- History
- Area
- Contemporary History
- javier.frieiro.santaya [at] usc.es
- Category
- Ministry Pre-doctoral Contract
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| 17:00-19:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Galician | Classroom 07 |
| 05.22.2025 09:00-11:30 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Classroom 08 |
| 07.02.2025 09:30-12:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Classroom 09 |