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 Communication Science
Call: First Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable | 1st year (Yes)
1. Study of the realities of the contemporary world in its political, economic and social dimensions.
2. Analysis of the current context of the world from a historical perspective, based on the analysis of documentation
audiovisual, printed or textual provided by informative and journalistic sources.
3. Analysis of the historical vision of events and the various contexts, references, trends and positions of agents and sources.
THEORETICAL CONTENTS
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 (migration, environment)
PRACTICAL CONTENTS
The practical contents of the subject coincide with the points indicated in the contained theoretical.
The practical contents include viewings of audiovisual material, comments of texts and debates, with the aim to follow the theoretical explanations and integrate the diverse resources and documentary materials (bibliography, texts, maps).
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, K. (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., & Santamaría, A. (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.1 - Understand the social, political, economic, legal and cultural context in which journalism develops.
CON.6 - Identify the references that will allow the construction of critical thinking applied to journalism.
HAB.2 - Analyze the state of communication processes and media organizations to make decisions and propose solutions in its different areas.
COM.2 - Gather, manage and interpret relevant information and data within the field of journalism to develop arguments on relevant topics of a social, scientific or ethical nature.
COM.5 - Choose and judiciously apply knowledge and skills that feed the development of capabilities creativity, initiative and entrepreneurial spirit.
Master class.
Seminar.
Previous study.
Debate
Discussion forum. Group work.
Knowledge tests: 50% of the final mark.
Practical exercises: 50% of the final mark.
The evaluation system contemplates that it is essential to have approved the theoretical part and the practical part to pass the subject.
Students who fail the practical part will have to take the exam at the 2nd opportunity.
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 marks will apply.
In accordance with the USC permanence regulations in the USC for the students of Degree and Máster (art. 5.2), the assistance, as well as the participation in any of the indicated activities will be subject to evaluation and, consequently, the final grade of the student who completes any of them will never be "No Presentado".
Students with exemption granted have to do the final exam of the subject (50% of the final mark) and several individual assignments, such as readings, commentary of texts, data analysis, case studies (50% of the final mark).
Theoretical exposition: 24 hours
Interactive teaching seminar: 24 hours
Small group tutoring: 3 hours
Final exam: 3 hours
Student personal work: 96 hours
-The basic recommendation is to read the general or specialized bibliography provided by the professor when giving the programme, and also the more specific one to be supplied with each theme in order to obtain a more complete picture than that offered in the lectures.
-Is is also advisable the individual performance of textual analyses, tables, graphs, statistical tables, etc., in order to obtain a domain in those areas and a better understanding of subject contents.
-Reading of quality newspapers and historical journals.
-Consultation of historical atlases and dictionaries of historical terms.
-Regular attendance at class is considered essential to achieve a good result in a positive assessment.
-Clarify by asking questions in class, or in the tutorials, those doubts that may arise during the learning period or when solving the case studies mentioned above.
Eduardo Rico Boquete
Coordinador/a- Department
- History
- Area
- Contemporary History
- Phone
- 881812735
- eduardo.rico [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
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| 11:00-12:00 | Expositivo 1 | Galician | Classroom 1 |
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| 10:00-11:00 | Expositivo 1 | Galician | Classroom 1 |
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| 11:00-12:00 | Expositivo 1 | Galician | Classroom 1 |
| 01.09.2025 10:00-14:00 | Expositivo 1 | Classroom 1 |
| 01.09.2025 10:00-14:00 | Expositivo 1 | Classroom 2 |
| 06.10.2025 10:00-14:00 | Expositivo 1 | Classroom 2 |