| APPLICATION PERIOD |
From November 7th, 2011 to June 29th, 2012 |
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| DURATION |
1 academic year (60 ECTS credits) |
| CALENDAR AND TIMETABLE |
From October to June. From 4.15 p.m. to 8.30 p.m., Monday to Friday |
| COURSE TYPES |
Research and Academic |
| LANGUAGES |
Catalan, Spanish and English
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| PLACES |
40 |
| ORGANIZATION |
Jaume Vicens i Vives University Institute of History |
| LOCATION |
Ciutadella campus |
Presentation
This master's degree follows one of the most innovative lines of study in this discipline of the last twenty years, World History, which unlike traditional history stresses the study of the interconnections between different human societies and on how they have evolved over time. It is essential for future generations of historians to be sensitive to contemporary diversity and to the historical roots of the plural traditions of the global village.
Objectives
- To research, assess and undertake a critique of historical sources.
- To enhance students' ability to give oral and written presentations on the subjects and issues studied.
- To gain an understanding of concepts such as chronology, causality and periodisation, in order to analyse the connections between patterns of historical change and continuity in different parts of the world.
- To identify and describe significant historical periods and processes of economic, political, social and religious change.
- To develop knowledge as to how identity has been interpreted in cultures and societies through the family, kinship, religion, gender, ethnicity, class, nationality and status.
- To demonstrate the interactions between ethnic, national and cultural influences in concrete happenings.
- To discern the conditions, actions and motivations that contribute to conflict or cooperation among the peoples of the world.
- To familiarise students with the current process of globalisation, understood as a combination of political, economic and cultural interconnections between peoples.
- To become skilled at analysing and explaining the diversity of societies and cultures in the world.
- To become skilled to distinguish among regional, state-wide and global political and economic systems and to understand how they interact in the long term.
Contents
[curriculum]
- Module 1: Viewing today’s world historically (methodological module)
- Module 2: Colonisers and colonised
- Module 3: Diasporas and migrations
- Module 4: Power and resistance
- Module 5: Labour and gender
- Module 6: Institutional labour
- Module 7: Cultural contacts
Career prospects
Teaching in secondary school and university level. The media and publishers.
