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Teaching is concentrated in the faculties and schools, and the departments deal with research, which is also conducted by institutes and chairs, at the same time responsible for knowledge promotion.
Study of the goals of Social and Cultural Anthropology based on knowledge from the classical schools –authors and monographs–, the ethnographic method and the discipline’s main work areas (kinship, religion, economy and policy).
Introduction to the writing techniques and conventions of academic texts and to resources for their presentations and oral defences, especially regarding ICTs.Production of written texts and oral discourses in accordance with the various textual typologies.
The main objective is to provide the student with knowledge of the conceptual bases of the discipline.Certain basic concepts and a perspective of epistemological development of Human Geography are accordingly introduced.Keys aspects of the contents will be: the evolution of Geography (from Geographical Societies to the current profession of geographer); demographic growth and world urbanisation; the population and migrations; economic activity and spatial organisation; power and territory.
Introduction to the History of the current world through an analysis of the political, economic and social processes taking place since 1945, that is, during the Cold War, the political order arising after the collapse of communism and the subsequent globalisation.
Introduction to the notion of Cultural Heritage from an interdisciplinary and integrationist perspective.Cultural Heritage is presented, within an extensive definition framework of culture, establishing the relationship with memory, identity and the geographical framework behind it.The concept's development is approached to facilitate the identification of its main uses and functions.Students will become familiar with its framework of application in the 21st century, with a humanistic and critical approach, and issues dealt with ranging from conservation to restoration, not to mention management and social function.It will also prepare students, in their professional placements, in providing them with a series of tools and ideas, such as being faced with a living subject involved in the role of current societies; in the renewal of theory debates on Heritage; and in responsibility in its practical application.
Studying and experimenting with several methods and techniques to analyse the social phenomena that occur at a specific time and space.Quantitative techniques are worked to measure and numerically analyse the data extracted from primary (questionnaires, surveys, cartographic analyses) or secondary (statistics) sources.On the other hand, qualitative methods are shown to provide a better understanding of the social, cultural and territorial contexts through interviews, observations and analysis of cases, documentary sources, discussion groups, etc.
Study of the human past during Antiquity: from the Middle East to the western Mediterranean and from the origins of ancient states to the western Roman Empire.Emphasis will be put on the sources and chronologies of their cultures as well as aspects linked to their social and economic structure.
Study of the human past during Antiquity: from the Middle East to the western Mediterranean and from the origins of ancient states to the western Roman Empire.It will put the emphasis on political structures and their relationship with the society as well as certain cultural and religious aspects.
Introduction to the environmental and chronological framework of Prehistory, to the social, technical and economic aspects of prehistoric communities and to the basic tools for understanding their development and distribution in time and space.And all that, from the first humans to the end of the Palaeolithic period.
Introduction to the environmental and chronological framework of recent Prehistory, to the social, cultural, technical and economic aspects of the prehistoric communities, from the Epipalaeolitic to the beginning of the iron age.The geographical framework will essentially be the European one, although also the main manifestations of recent Prehistory from the other continents will also be studied.
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