Students will acquire the knowledge and skills through lectures, the handing of the work assigned by the teachers and its discussion in class. Skills and attitudes will be enhanced by the individual and teamwork performed by the students and their discussion in class.
The course is designed in two tiers: one will provide the basic understanding of the main historical events that have shaped the modern world and the second will analyse specific topics. The first part will be based on lectures which summarize and extend basic readings. In the second tier, students shall present briefings and discuss on specific historical problems based on in-depth readings. Students will form groups of three to work during these weekly seminars. Before each session, each group will read and discuss jointly the readings. After, they shall answer the questions and, at least in one occasion, prepare an oral presentation of 20 minutes. Furthermore, in the midterm, students will individually write a 2,000-word essay on a controversial historical topic. A solid command of written and oral English is essential. The ability to read and process up to sixty pages of academic literature per week is taken for granted.
In the last week, there will be at least one tutorial of the course in which the student will have the chance to clarify doubts about the main concepts and key historical events discussed in the lectures, as well as doubts about assessment and the schedule of the course.
Use of Artificial Intelligence tools is selectively permitted in this course. The instructor may provide a list of assignments and exercises that students are allowed to complete using AI tools, specifying how they should be used and how students must describe their use of such tools. If a student¿s use of AI results in academic fraud by falsifying the outcome of an exam or an assignment required to assess academic performance, the provisions of the regulations of Universidad Carlos III de Madrid implementing Law 3/2022, of February 24, on university coexistence, will be applied.