HISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY BRAZIL

As part of the “Related or Additional” activities of the International Politics curriculum, the teaching is especially aimed at students interested in the recent history of Brazil and its role in international society, considering more the relations with the American continent and Europe. It is associated with the educational objectives of the degree program insofar as it seeks to develop knowledge and skills in relation to the transatlantic world in both the cultural and social and political aspects that have characterized the Brazilian historical process and its foreign policy. In this sense, the main objective of the course is to familiarize the student with the dynamics that have involved the Brazilian reality from the 20th century to the present.

1. Knowledge and understanding:
The course provides students with tools that will help them to understand the Brazilian contemporary History. It aims to improve their knowledge of the historical context of contemporary problems, to introduce them to the different formative dynamics of the Brazilian contemporary societies and to understand better some of the main sociopolitical problems of this geographical area.

2. Ability to use acquired knowledge in order to:
- understand the context of contemporary events within the historical dynamics involving Brazil and its foreign relations;
- recognize historical movements that have produced change and conservation in Brazilian social, political and cultural processes;
- apply acquired historical knowledge to synchronic and diachronic reading and understanding of the society studied;

3. Autonomy of judgment:
Ability to transform the acquired knowledge into critical reading of different sources-educational manuals on the subject, newspaper articles-and in the elaboration of a personal argumentation on the political, social, and cultural spheres of the Brazilian world.

4. Ability to communicate:
Ability to structure an oral or written argumentation and to justify it in relation to the issues dealt with during the semester. In order to reach this goal, the course includes group presentations and written exercises.

5. Ability to learn:
- Ability to use the knowledge acquired through the course to interpret critically contemporary phenomena in the realm of the transatlantic societies.
- Ability to collect autonomously bibliographical references to analyze the Brazilian society, in a historical and contemporary perspective. Ability to use this information in the student’s studies related to general issues of the political international concentration.

On the basis of the competences described above, students are expected:
- To be able to consolidate their knowledge of a map of the building process of the contemporary Brazilian society and to have a general perspective on the main historical dynamics.
- To interpret critically the use of the main historiographical studies about the sociopolitical phenomena in the geographical area.

Basic knowledge of Contemporary History

1. The end of the Oligarchic State and the project of Europeanization
2 Getúlio Vargas: populism, Estado Novo and the search for a new national identity
3. The civil-military dictatorship and the conservative turn
4. The return of democracy and the neoliberal project
5. Between progressive and conservative projects, 21st century Brazil and foreign relations

(To Portuguese and Brazilian students)
VIDAL LUNA, Francisco; KLEIN. História econômica e social do Brasil: O Brasil desde a República. São Paulo: Saraiva, 2016.

(To students of other languages)
VIDAL LUNA, Francisco; KLEIN. The Economic and Social History of Brazil since 1889. Cambridge University Press, 2014.

To ALL students:
The evaluation will consist in a written (70%) and an oral (30%)exams, always with the target to show his or her capacity to map the main processes that have marked the Brazilian in the 20th Century and to critically analyze the historiography of the main phenomena that impacted the national society, with the use of the reference texts.

To the attendants (student choice):
1. participation in the seminaries that take part of the course formation, as others formative activities (10%).
2. a mid-term written exam (30%):with the target to show his or her capacity to map the main processes that have marked the Brazilian in the 20th Century and to critically analyze the historiography of the main phenomena that impacted the national society, with the use of the reference texts;
3. attendant students will have to do a presentation in class, on a topic agreed with the teacher, related to the course contents (30%);
4. a final written exame (30%):with the target to show his or her capacity to map the main processes that have marked the Brazilian in the 20th Century and to critically analyze the historiography of the main phenomena that impacted the national society, with the use of the reference texts.

The classes will be carried out with frontal lectures, seminars, texts and documents lecture laboratory, a commented screening of a movie related with the themes discussed in the course and an oral presentation.

Italian

written and oral

This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Poverty and inequalities" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development