Contemporary History (High School)

Understanding the historical complexity of the development of contemporary societies, as well as their legacy in shaping cities, cultural heritage, museum spaces, and the development of cultural tourism based on the study of how history has shaped societies and their performing arts spaces, and how knowledge of this is essential for understanding major heritage legacies, their educational value for citizens and visitors, and their possible uses for tourism.

K1: Understand the principles of tourism, its spatial, social, cultural, legal, political, labour and economic dimensions, as well as its dynamic and evolutionary nature and acquire a comprehensive vision of the tourism phenomenon. K8: Know the history relevant to tourism activity and understand artistic and cultural phenomena, so that they can recognize culture, heritage and works of art of interest for the development of tourist activities C7: To design and implement, in the professional field, tourism offers based on the enhancement of cultural and natural heritage, the promotion of sustainability and the critical consideration of cultural modalities and representations linked to tourism (scientific, literary, artistic, cinematographic, advertising, among others).

I. The Emergence of Liberal Society and Industrial Economy -History at Great Museums, Industrial Cities, Imperial and Revolutionary Paris. II. The Age of Progress and Imperialism - Victorian London, Haussmann's Paris, Imperial Washington, Vienna end of the century. III. The Crisis of Liberalism -War stages, Soviet Russia, Great Manhattan, Germany between two wars. IV. The Bipolar World -Berlin divided, Modern Cities. V. Neoliberalism and Technological Revolution -New places, forms of leisure and sociability.

The course is developed through theoretical and practical classes. In the first case, classes are held in the form of master classes, while the practical classes will be based on reading and analysis of texts or other significant materials selected for the time and circumstances under study. In addition, students shall be asked questions and problems about the texts and other sources whose resolution will have to implement the competencies to be developed: ability to summarize, critical analysis, ability to understand the complexity of historical phenomena and to know recognize the local and global nature of the processes studied. Therefore, in the case of practical classes, you are looking for an active learning method, in which the student is involved in their own learning and participate in it. Students receive information, but should also look for it, and so we will provide the resources and sources where to find it, study independently and use it to solve the problems. The lectures organized materials to adapt to the knowledge that is intended to get students and their expectations, transmit structured information and provide students with skills which will be difficult to obtain from other sources. For its part, the practical classes alternate short activities of classroom work (lectures and short exercises and discussions) with larger tasks which require a work also outside the classroom: reading books or articles apointed by profesor, tutoring assistance, use of resources library and reference search. In support, in practical classes visual resources and other forms of exposure shall be used. A deep vision of the knowledge of contemporary history will be provided as a basis for knowledge of current societies, at the same time that the student will be made aware of the importance of knowledge of contemporary history for their professional development in tourism, and their creativity will be encouraged through practical work on this topic.