ECTS credits ECTS credits: 6
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 99 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 24 Interactive Classroom: 24 Total: 150
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: History
Areas: Modern History
Center Faculty of Geography and History
Call: Second Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable
To provide students with the most remarkable progress achieved by the research carried out in recent years in Modern Spanish History in demography, economy, society, mentality, culture, politics and administration. In addition, we will provide them with those formative and informative knowledge and the skills necessary for the acquisition of the discipline contents.
We will study the main economic, social, cultural and political features of the History of Spain during the Modern Age - sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth c.-. The subject will be structured in eight major thematic units.
1. Population: evolution, models and behaviours
2. Agriculture: types, ownership, exploitation and production
3. Industry and trade
4. Structure and social groups
5. The social dynamics: mobility, exchange and riots
6. Culture in Spain during the Early Modern History
7. Government and administration under the Hapsburgs
8. Government and administration under the Bourbons
Basic bibliography:
MARCOS MARTÍN, A; España en los siglos XVI, XVII y XVIII; Barcelona, 2000.
MARTÍNEZ RUÍZ, E, et al.; España Moderna; Madrid, 1992.
MOLAS RIBALTA, P; Edad Moderna, 1478-1808; Madrid, 1988.
RODRÍGUEZ GARCÍA, J; & CASTILLA SOTO, J; Diccionario de términos de Historia de España. Edad Moderna; Barcelona, 1998.
Complementary bibliography:
ARTOLA; La Hacienda del Antiguo Régimen; Madrid, 1982.
BERNARDO ARES, J.M; & MARTÍNEZ RUÍZ (eds); El municipio en la España Moderna; Córdoba, 1996.
DOMÍNGUEZ ORTIZ, A; Sociedad y estado en el siglo XVIII español; Barcelona, 1976. -El Antiguo Régimen: Los Reyes Católicos y los Austrias; Madrid, 1988.
EIRAS ROEL, A; Estudios sobre agricultura y población en la España Moderna; Santiago de Compostela, 1990.
ELLIOT, J; España y su mundo, 1500-1700; Madrid, 1990.
GRICE-HUTCHINSON, M; El pensamiento económico en España (1177-1740); Barcelona, 1982.
KAGAN, R; Universidad y sociedad en la España Moderna; Madrid, 1981.
LOBO CABRERA, M, & SUÁREZ GRIMÓN (eds); El comercio en el Antiguo Régimen (Actas de la III Reunión Científica de la Asociación Española de Historia Moderna); Las Palmas, 1994.
LORENZO CADARSO, P.L; Los conflictos populares en Castilla (ss.XVI-XVII); Madrid, 1996.
LYNCH, J; Los Austrias; Barcelona, 1993. - El siglo XVIII; Barcelona, 1994.
MARCOS MARTÍN, A; España en los siglos XVI, XVII y XVIII; Barcelona, 2000.
MARTÍNEZ RUÍZ, E, et al.; España Moderna; Madrid, 1992.
MOLAS RIBALTA, P; Edad Moderna, 1478-1808; Madrid, 1988.-La burguesía mercantil en la España del Antiguo Régimen; Madrid, 1985.
NADAL, J; La población española. Siglos XVI al XX; Barcelona, 1984.
PEREIRA, J.L; El préstamo hipotecario en el Antiguo Régimen; Cádiz, 1995.
PÉREZ MOREDA, V; Las crisis de mortalidad en la España interior, siglos XVI-XIX; Madrid, 1980.
RIBOT, L.A. & DE ROSA, L. (eds); Ciudad y mundo urbano en la época moderna; Madrid, 1997.
RODRÍGUEZ GARCÍA, J. & CASTILLA SOTO; Diccionario de términos de Historia de España. EdadModerna; Barcelona, 1998.
RUÍZ MARTÍN, F,& GARCÍA SANZ, A (eds); Ciudad y mundo urbano en la época moderna; Madrid, 1997.
SAAVEDRA, P. & VILLARES, R. (eds); Señores y campesinos en la Península Ibérica (siglos XVIII-XIX); Barcelona, 1991.
TOBOSO SÁNCHEZ, P; La deuda pública castellana durante el Antiguo Régimen (Juros); Madrid, 1987.
VÁZQUEZ DE PRADA, V; Historia económica y social de España. Siglos XVI-XVII; Madrid, 1978.
Training the student to identify the different chronological periods in the Modern Age in relation to his/her basic political, economic and social constants.
Identifying and outlining the main individual and collective protagonists in the Modern Spanish History.
Developing the capacity to discriminate between the accessory or scholar and the essential historical substrate that shapes the social, economic and institutional foundations of the Modern Era.
Ability to analyze History in perspective, surpassing the close chronological frameworks, providing the student with tools to interpret it from a global perspective.
Competence to discern the multiplicities of historical time, separating the specific things from the permanent and structural ones.
Favouring and strengthening student’s autonomous work and individual responsibility in the knowledge acquisition process through the application of historical thought of analytic, critical, logical and creative type.
Lectures will be devoted to carry out a transfer of scientific knowledge based on the specific objectives of the subject, with the help of different didactic materials.
Interactive classes will be guided by the professor and the student will have to develop a series of activities and assignments to enable him/her to acquire skills and competences needed for setting and expanding the already acquired knowledge.
In individual tutorials or in a very small group, we will pay attention to students in order to clarify doubts about specific issues related to the explained themes, the tasks that they must carry out or any other difficulty related to the performance of practical assignments.
The course grade will be based on the following sums:
1) a written exam to be taken after the end of classes;
2) practical assignments completed and submitted throughout the course; and active participation in class.
In accordance with current regulations, the first of the aforementioned sums is worth 70% of the overall grade, while the second is assigned the remaining 30%.
In any case, to pass the course, it is essential to have at least a 5 in both sums.
For the July exam, passes achieved on the first opportunity will be carried over. If the practical part is not passed, all failed assignments must be submitted, with the understanding that any missed assignment will be graded with a zero in the grade calculation.
Under no circumstances will partial passes be carried over to subsequent courses.
Class attendance will be considered as another factor in the continuous assessment.
Students who are exempt from class attendance must complete the written exam and practical assignments under the same conditions as previously mentioned.
Any student who does not appear for the exam and has not submitted any practical assignments will be considered a "no show" for the final grade.
In cases of fraudulent completion of exercises or tests, the provisions of the Regulations for the Evaluation of Student Academic Performance and Qualification Review will ap
Every hour of theoretical class must be accompanied by a complementary assignment performed by the student of approximately two hours, in the form of a systematic study of the subject and by readings that contribute to the consolidation and widening of the issues explained in class.
It is estimated that for each hour of interactive teaching the student should spend, as a minimum, four hours of personal work.
Taking into account the teaching load of the subject and the above-mentioned forecasts, it is considered that the personal work of each student should be about 150 hours.
Attend and participate in the development of lectures and interactive classes.
Ensure that the study and individual work is regular and on a daily basis.
Supplement class explanations with the reading of general or specialized bibliography that we recommended in the programme of the subject, but also with that one more specific indicated in each theme, in order to achieve a more broad and comprehensive vision than that one that can be offered during the lectures.
Address in a personal and individualized manner the development of the assignments that are part of the interactive lessons in order to get the skills and competence necessary to facilitate the advance of the knowledge acquisition process.
Attend tutorials to clarify the doubts that may arise during the learning process.
The 2025-26 academic year will be the last with face-to-face teaching in this subject, in accordance with the Implementation Calendar of the New Edition of the Faculty of Geography and History: Degrees in History (2nd Edition), Art History (2nd Edition) and Xeography and Territorial Planning (3rd Edition) (available in https://assets.usc.gal/sites/default/files/paragraphs/links/2024-07/cal…
Maria Del Carmen Saavedra Vazquez
Coordinador/a- Department
- History
- Area
- Modern History
- Phone
- 881812611
- mdelcarmen.saavedra [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Professor
Tomas Manso Fraga
- Department
- History
- Area
- Modern History
- Phone
- 881812707
- tomas.manso.fraga [at] usc.es
- Category
- Xunta Pre-doctoral Contract