Checking date: 29/05/2018


Course: 2018/2019

History of the Present: Spain Today
(727)
Hispanic Studies (Plan: 285 - Estudio: 84)


Coordinating teacher: HUGUET SANTOS, MONTSERRAT

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Type: Compulsory
ECTS Credits: 6.0 ECTS

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Requirements (Subjects that are assumed to be known)
ELEMENTARY KNOWLEDGE OF SPANISH LANGUAJE
Objectives
COMPETITIONS 1. Konowledge of sources about real life in current Spain. 2. Deepening in the language, Spanish, of high level: terms and structures of the language: conversation on advanced topics. 3. Critical reasoning. 4. Talks about items in group. RESULTS 1. Great advance in managing of educated Spanish language, recounted to topics of information and opinion. 2. Efficient knowledge of the contemporary Spain in his more current aspects, and historical reasoning of the same ones. 3. Better comprehension of the daily social reality in the experience of the student in Spain.
Description of contents: programme
Presentation of the subject: Description of contents, of the work in the classroom, of the evaluation and the work end of course. The topics TO KNOW THE RECENT HISTORY OF SPAIN, IN THE MASS MEDIA I. THE WRITTEN PRESS. TO KNOW THE RECENT HISTORY OF SPAIN, IN THE MASS MEDIA II. THE RADIO, THE TELEVISION, THE WEB. SPAIN: A PART OF THE WORLD CONTEXT. HISTORY OF THE EXTERIOR POLITICS OF SPAIN AND OF ITS INTERNATIONAL INTERVENTION. HOW IS IT THE CONTEMPORARY SPANISH SOCIETY? I. THE POLITICAL FORMS. FROM THE DICTATORSHIP OF FRANCO TO THE TRANSITION AND THE DEMOCRACY. THE CROWN. HOW IS IT THE CONTEMPORARY SPANISH SOCIETY? II. THE SOCIAL ORGANIZATION: THE DIFFICULT WAY TO THE DEMOCRATIC COMPANY. CHALLENGES AND CONTROVERSIES: GENERATIONS, GENDER, RELIGION. HOW IS IT THE CONTEMPORARY SPANISH SOCIETY? III. THE ECONOMY AND THE CITIZENS. SOCIAL GROUPS AND PRODUCTION. THE CHALLENGES OF THE PRESENT I. WELFARE STATE (AND ECONOMIC CRISIS): FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS, EDUCATION AND HEALTH. THE CHALLENGES OF THE PRESENT II. THE TERRITORY: AUTONOMIES AND ECONOMIC RESOURCES. THE CHALLENGES OF THE PRESENT III. SPAIN IN THE WORLD: EUROPE AND CULTURE OF COOPERATION, DEFENSE, ARMY. THE CHALLENGES OF THE PRESENT IV. MIGRATIONS and CULTURES. SOCIAL TENSIONS AND CONTROVERSIES. THE CHALLENGES OF THE PRESENT V. THE HISPANIC CULTURE // LATIN IN THE WORLD. AMERICA AND THE RELATIONS WITH SPAIN
Learning activities and methodology
TUTORSHIPS Personalized in the office of the teacher, in the schedule that will be indicated at the begining of the course. Collective TUTORSHIPS, if the class needs them, or ask for them.
Assessment System

The course syllabus may change due academic events or other reasons.