Courses detail

Students should have and understand knowledge that can provide a base or opportunity to be original in the development and/or application of ideas, often in a context of research.
Students should know how to apply their acquired knowledge and ability to problem-solving in new or little known environments within broader (or multidisciplinary) contexts related to their field of study.
Students should be able to integrate knowledge and face the complexity of making judgement from information that is incomplete or limited, including reflections on the social and ethical responsibilities related to applying their knowledge and judgment.
Students know how to communicate their findings, latest knowledge and reasons supporting them, to a specialised and non-specialised public in a clear and unambiguous way.
Students have developed the learning skills needed to undertake higher studies with a high degree of autonomy

Awareness of the theoretical and methodological diversity of historiography: approximation to contemporary historiographical schools
Knowledge of the plurality of available sources and of the management techniques for them.
Broad knowledge of the debates and trends in current historiographical research: review of the debates surrounding the broad topics defined in the modules among important figures in historiography.
Critical awareness of the relationship between current processes of change and historical processes of change.
Capacity to search, filter and summarise information available in the bibliography and the Web.
Ability to communicate orally in their own language with the terminology and techniques accepted by historians.
Ability to read primary and secondary sources in the students' mother tongue and to summarise or transcribe and classify the information appropriately.
Ability to write academic essays and professional reports in their mother tongue.
Ability to read primary and secondary sources in the original language.
Broad knowledge of the theoretical tools of the human and social sciences.
Broad knowledge of the methods and objects of research in different historiographic branches (economic, social, political, cultural, etc.).
Advanced knowledge of techniques of discourse analysis and descriptive statistical analysis (central measures, measures of dispersion, correlation, etc.).
Theoretical disposition for defining relevant research topics for historiographical development and debate.

Attainment of up-to-date detailed and broad specific knowledge of at least one of the broad periods of History (in this case the contemporary era) including the different methodological approaches and the historiographical trends related to this period. The Postgraduate Official Programme (POP) Coordinating Committee has defined in its 'code of good practice' that the coordinators of the different modules will have at their disposal the means necessary to guarantee, in each course in particular and in the set of courses in a module overall, access to a bibliography and the carrying out of activities that will ensure a balance of methodological approaches and different historiographical trends.
Abilities and skills required for historical research applied to the contemporary period: specificities and great diversity of available sources (oral, statistical, hemerographical, memoires, etc.); Technical specificities for their management.
Familiarisation with comparative, spatio-temporal and thematic methods, which allow students to orient historiographical research and to integrate it in the current historiographical panorama.
Training resources that, besides critical analysis, make interdisciplinary analysis possible, which in turn allows students to integrate into their historical research interpretative proposals from other areas of knowledge, especially the social sciences.
Capacity for planning, performing and presenting orally or in writing, in accordance with the canons of the discipline, a research-based contribution to historiographical knowledge in relation to a relevant problem
Capacity to discuss within the academic community the research results and to transmit to society as a whole the advances produced in knowledge of the past, thus helping to construct among citizens a civic awareness identified with the values of democracy, harmonious living, respect for differences and peaceful solutions to conflicts. This competence has its advanced learning phase in the tasks to be performed in the monographic courses and especially in the Introductory Module to Research within the Master's programme (Module X), culminating, when appropriate, in the presentation and discussion of partial advances to be carried out in the framework of seminars given by doctoral students and doctors in the Doctorate Cycle as a prior condition for the final defence of the doctoral thesis.