HIST - History
In this course, there is an emphasis in the history of history. The objective is to present and discuss the topics that comprise the basic culture of an historian today and in this country. The program is divided into three alternating blocs. The first is a panoramic view of the most remarkable moments of the writing of Western History. The second, with a similar approach, is related to writing of history in the American continent and Colombia. The third is a workshop of history writing lasting five weeks, along with the elaboration of a final essay. Thus, this is not a program focused on the facts of history but on its writing, and its emphasis is on history understood more as a contemporary writing genre of philosophy and literature, than as a social science. Its tradition dates back thousands of years, and many of the fundamentals that are part of the culture of a historian are the legacy inherited from many centuries ago. We will study notions such as chronicles, historical narration, historical critiques, sources, historicism, and New History, all of them encompassed in a historical vision of the writing of history.
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3
Both during learning and research in history, it is necessary to be familiarized with a series of concepts and knowledge on the relations interconnecting them. Nonetheless, many of these concepts have been formulated by other disciplines and even terms have ended up changing their meaning in different times. These circumstances show as well that concepts are historically determined and susceptible to change in time, therefore becoming an ideal field for history scholars. The program intends to analyze some of the fundamental concepts of 20th century historiography.
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3
Instructor
Bonnett Velez Diana
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3
Instructor
Leal Claudia
This course will analyze the political use of identity and patrimony during the 20th Century in Latin America. This objective intends to be reached by studying cultural legislations and some case studies that signal the local and regional community empowerment conducted from the community to face public policies of the multicultural and biodiverse Latin American states.
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3
The aim of this course is to familiarize the students with African-American thought. The course revolves around three main thematic axes: the first is a critical look at the Yorubian tendency that has set Cuba, Haiti and Brazil up as paradigms of Afro-Americanism and African-American studies. This condition has excluded or subordinated the reconstruction of historical and cultural processes of other African populations deported to Central and South America. The second thematic axis revolves around formulating arguments for a debate on the Afro-Caribbean and the Afro-Andean historical specificities. The third thematic axis is an analysis of the relationship between history, memory and cultural heritage regarding the Afro-Latin-American legacies.
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3
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3
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3
Scientific knowledge and technological development have played a key role in the creation of the modern world and any attempt to study and understand history, culture, economy and the society in general, must incorporate in its analysis the social processes triggering scientific and technologic change. Similarly, for a true assessment of scientific development, it is necessary to offer a historical perspective that permits the understanding of social and cultural contexts rendering possible the development of technology and scientific savoir faîre. This program intends to provide the students, both from social and natural sciences, with a general introduction to some of the most important inquiries and debates of social surveys conducted in the fields of science and technology.
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3
Instructor
Nieto Olarte Mauricio
The main purpose of this course is to provide students access to colonial and early Republic document research by training it on the paleography of such periods. Through the course, students will be trained not only on archive document reading, but also on the use of catalogs and manuals and on the knowledge of the operation of the General Nation´s Archive.
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3
Instructor
Ladron De Guevara Leon Maria
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3
The historiographic study is based on a critical reflection on the different works related to history. In this regard, the analysis on how the history has been written makes evident the interpretative models, historiographic schools or currents, sources and changes in the subject matter trends. In the Colombian case, the path towards professionalization of this discipline offers a broad overview to study the aforesaid elements. A work of this nature turns into a fundamental support to understand what shape has the field of work of historians acquired, as well as to encourage new research projects. The course looks forward to studying the different components involved in a historiographic analysis, the analysis of changes in the orientation of historical works in Colombia, the role played by the interdisciplinary approach in historical works and the evaluation of the national production characteristics during the 19th and 20th centuries.
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3
The purpose of this course is to familiarize students with some of the main means of history produced on the Western from its origin up to these days.
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3
Instructor
Arevalo Decsi
This course is an introduction to the history of geography and is divided in two parts. The first is intended to show the importance of geographical production in the history of Colombia, thus taking a look at three key moments: The geographical relations in the 16th century, the Enlightment at the beginning of the 19th century and the nationalist geography of the mid and late 19th century. We will discuss what type of geography was produced back then, as well as the interests and the power relations underlying these approaches. The second part of the course, longer, is focused on the history of geography as an academic discipline and remarkably emphasizes Anglo-Saxon geography. It is developed around the concepts that help define this branch of knowledge: place, region and landscape, space, society-nature relations and cartography. We will see how some of this axis serve in specific years to define what geography was and how each one of them has been worked in a different manner. None of them is useful on its own to define this multifarious discipline. Therefore, the course strives to enhance the sensibility of students regarding the immense diversity of human geography, hoping that they incorporate some of its elements in the way they perceive the world and carry out their work.
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3
Instructor
Van Ausdal Shawn
This course seeks to familiarize students with the main economic, social and political processes of the Colombian history from the crisis of the Spanish Imperialism in America and the Independence process up to the War of the Thousand Days early on the XX Century. It analyzes the process of Independence, the emergence of political modernity, the creation of political parties, the Radical period and the conservative Regeneration.
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3
Instructor
Mejia Macias Sergio
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3
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3
This course is intended to familiarize students with the changes that have taken place in the current territory of Colombia and how it has been perceived and owned by some of the multiple societies that have lived in Colombia. To achieve the objective of the course, its topic range has been divided into four parts. The first, rapidly discusses the transformations in relief and modelling as part of long-term processes: the formation of the Andean cordilleras, the marine regression, the production of alluvial systems, such as rivers and swamps, as well as bioclimatic changes associated with these phenomena. The second one studies the populating processes that these territories have undergone since the first occupations of the territory until the European invasion of the 16th century. At this point,it focuses on the special importance that several pre-Columbian cultures gave to the management of hydric resources, their activities to render their environment more productive, and the impact of their occupation of this land. The third one will focus on the populating and transforming processes of the territory and its organization during the colonial period. The establishment of cities, villages, hamlets, parishes, mining-small towns, among others, will be studied along with other forms of settlement, somehow considered alternative: isolated populations out of the Spanish colonial domination called palenques and rochelas. The fourth one will focus on the configuration of the nation during the Republican period and the role that geography played in that process.
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3
Instructor
Herrera Angel Martha
The program proposed includes a broad outlook of the Colombian 20th century, which enables us to see the elements configuring the structure and functioning of the country´s political organization in different periods, taking into account the dynamic scenario of the economic activity and its subsequent effects on social organization. The content of the program focuses on discourses about modernity and development, to observe through their formulation and application, three wide aspects: politics, economy, and grassroots movements. It is about achieving an approach in which at least three components of society development can be integrated. The program intends to provide students, from a historical point of view, with the judgment elements enabling them to successfully read the complex current scenario, to identify the structural characteristics determining the evolution of the most remarkable problems in Colombia and studying the proposals of different governments to solve such problems.
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3
Instructor
Arevalo Decsi
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3
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3
This course on comparative colonial history consist of a revision of the mail historical processes developed in Ibero-America from the 16th century to the beginning of the 18th century. Thus, it emphasizes in the territories colonized and incorporated to the kingdoms of Castilla and Portugal, from the arrival of the first conquerors up the moment in which the diversity of territories gained their independence from their respective metropolis. This topic will be addressed in a comparative manner. The territories belonging to the Spanish crown in the Americas were not homogeneus, they portrayed a collage of natural regions and diverse society, that determined the historical processes developed and the structure of the colonial societies that emerge from this contact. The same occurred in Brazil. The type of indigenous cultures found by the Europeans and the available wealth were the factors that shaped the colonial society. The origin, maturity and utter development of these societies will be the topics of discussion.
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3
Instructor
Maya Restrepo Luz
In this course on Latin America of the 19th century we will discuss 15 topics, each one in two sessions (corresponding to two lessons per week during 15 weeks). These topics have been arranged chronologically, but all of them have a topic-related definition. The course begins with a definition of the borbonic reforms in the Spanish Empire, both in the Iberic Peninsula and the Americas, and finishes with the Mexican Revolution, including a session on general geography and history of the Major and Minor Antilles. This is not a comprehensive course on History of Latin America, but a selective and topic-ranged one. It is expected that all sessions, including those referring to a single country, might be significant for the study of general history of Latin America. The set of fifteen sessions, each one of two parts, should be the basis for another course about the region during the 20th century and its current situation, as well as for a continuous study of the ideas and projects of what is known today as Latinamericanism.
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3
Instructor
Mejia Macias Sergio
This course is intended to offer students some basic knowledge on Latin American history from the late 20th century until today. Taking into consideration the diversity on the continent, the course includes a follow up of the main stages of a historically rich and complex process, defined by the search of a national identity. After a turbulent period of civil war, Latin America finally enjoys certain political stability and an unseen economic growth, generating a number of dramatic transformations. The effects of capitalism and secularization, along with the modernization in the continent, cause, according to the intensity of these processes in each of the countries in the area, a heterogeneous historical development, which paces are not always similar. The course has two main objectives: 1) offer a general perspective of some of the main features of Latin America. 2) Contribute to build up a spirit of criticism in the students.
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3
The European Union, as conceived today, is one of the main actors in the current international scenario and constitutes a unique regional integration process in today´s world. In this regard, its study becomes relevant for people looking forward to understanding our world. To this end, the course studies, from a historical perspective, the process of European construction, to obtain the indispensable elements to understand its current functioning as an entity of regional integration and its future challenges. Why was the European Constitution rejected? How can this situation be explained from a historical perspective? How was managed the crisis derived from this rejection? Why some countries belong to the Euro zone and others do not? What implications has the recent expansion of the European Union to 27 countries? How can the process of European integration be construed and what is its purpose? What is the position of the European Union with regards to current global tensions? What does the European Union do in relation to the Colombian conflict? These and other set of questions can be posed about the European Union, which justifies the importance of its study.
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3
Instructor
Laurent Muriel
This course presents to students the issues of contemporary Middle East from a historical perspective, developing relevant topics such as the colonization and decolonization processes during the 19th and 20th century, and the impact of western imperialism, the creation of the national states, Jewish and Muslim fundamentalism, armed conflicts, among other topic of interest. The course aims at developing in students a spirit of criticism.
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3
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3
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3
The ancient history as known today, was to a considerable extent, an invention of 19th century Europe. Back then, an intellectual process parallel to the Industrial Revolution took place, pretending to rescue the roots of its cultural origin, that ultimately could justify the validity of its national states. It is well justified then, the development of auxiliary sciences of history, such as archeology, scientific geography, anthropology or linguistics, to deepen the knowledge of such origins
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3
The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the fields of study, the theoretical and methodological tools and the possibilities offered by Geography to understand social phenomena. This objective covers a wide spectrum that includes the acknowledgement of themes derived from the literal sense of the term Geography (in Greek, write or describe earth), to the reflection on the society´s perception and management of the space where they belong. The course combines the masterly exhibition with the discussion of readings assigned for each class. During sessions assigned to workshops, final progress and works presented on topics associated with field visits are discussed.
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3
Instructor
Sanchez Ayala Luis
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3
Instructor
Laurent Muriel
This course is an introduction to the history of the United States from the colonial period up to date. Since it is virtually impossible to examine thoroughly the American historical experience in just one semester, we will strive to focus on some of its most significant episodes and issues: the imperial rivalry in the conquest of North American territory, the movement for independence, the Civil War, the importance of immigration, the age of industrialization, the world wars, the 60´s decade, among others . In particular, we will take a look at the historical development of the American international relations and their role in the formation of the United States. The U.S. expansion along the 19th and 20th century had a remarkable influence in the formation of an American identity that we will try to understand during this semester. Similarly, the class will analyze the influence of American history at an international level. In our current world, in which globalization is marked by a strong U.S. influence, not only in military, political and economic terms, but also in social, cultural and scientific ones as well, as understanding today the role of the United States in history is of the essence.
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3
Instructor
Quintero Toro Camilo
One of the most characteristic features of the world during the 90s was the raise of awareness about the importance of global in a wide range of social environments. In fact, in the world we live, there is a number of economic, social, political, cultural, ideological, and symbolic interpenetrations that have permitted the overcoming of the former real or imaginary borders, substituted by new networks, as well as new forms of compenetration of global with local. From these changes, the world, as it was pointed out by Octavio Lanni, is not an astronomic figure anymore, but a historical category. This course intends, from an interdisciplinary perspective, to show how the new global networks of interpenetration are built, and to show as well the interstices built to relocate local within global.
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3
Instructor
Bosemberg Ramirez Luis
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3
This course is an introduction to the history of medicine since ancient times to our days. Analyzing the historical experience of all the medical sciences in just one semester is rather an impossible task, thereby, we will focus on some of the most representative episodes and issues. We will study in particular two topics that will help us to understand the role of medicine in history. On one side, we will discuss the evolution of some of the most representative theories and ideas with regards to health and disease, and on the other side, prominent figures in the historical evolution of medicine. The work of relevant figures such as Hipocrates, William Harvey, Louis Pasteur, among many others will be a fundamental axis in this course. On the other hand, however, we will highlight the importance of the relation among medicine, science and society along history, especially in the western world. The human body is a construction that has changed remarkably in the last 2500 years, and it is necessary to understand the relation between medical knowledge and historical context.
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3
Instructor
Quintero Toro Camilo
Do you know where the ingredients of the food you eat come from? Why you eat chicken more frequently than meat? Why McDonalds has been more successful in China than in Colombia? This course explores the long and interesting history of food. From animal and plant domestication to genetically modified organisms, it examines the way in which food has played a key role in the affirmation of identities and the definition of nations, as well as why it has produced political struggles.
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3
Instructor
Van Ausdal Shawn
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3
Under the direction of a dissertation advisor, the students will progress in the research and preparation of their final monograph.
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6
In this course the students will prepare a research project, that can be subsequently developed as their final monograph. The students will acquire abilities to set out a research problem, elaborate a theoretical framework and a state of the art, to propose a methodology and objectives, and present a justification of their work. This course is compulsory to take the courses
HIST-3101 Final Monograph, HIST 3993 Final Practice-Teaching, and HIST 3106, Assistance for Final Research.
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3
Instructor
Bonnett Velez Diana
Under the direction of an advisor professor, students will progress in their own research, and will prepare a small free topic monograph.
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3
Students can work as research assistants to a professor for a one semester period as a graduation project.
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3
Instructor
Fazio Vengoa Hugo
This seminar evaluates the transformations in the notions of time and space that have taken place in the last decades and the implications these have had in the fields of History, Geography and in the understanding of our day to day lives. The course analyses the transition from the ideas of time and space as homogeneous and universal categories of human thought -following the postulates of kantianism- to the conception of time and space as cultural constructs, and, accordingly, historically and geographicalyl specific . The aim is also to study these transformations as fenomenons that respond to specific historical processes and that, at the same time, have an important impact in the way social relationships are constructed.
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3
Instructor
Herrera Angel Martha
More than an artistic expression, the Baroque movement was a cultural experience that emerged in 16th century Europe during the Catholic Reform. Characterized by the external manifestation of its art forms and public manifestations of feelings, it was the basis of expressive theatricality in daily life, whose main objective was to impact the senses and create sensations. This historical experience was most notably reflected in representations of the human body. This seminar will address the following issue: What were the general characteristics of Baroque culture and in what way was the human body portrayed in it? These matters will be studied in different Baroque fields of the 17th and 18th centuries, based on which an analysis will be carried out regarding the cultural value of the models of corporality, the characteristics of popular piety, devotions and in general, the discourse that governed behavior.
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3
Instructor
Borja Gomez Jaime
This course analyzes the main topics around which the current debate regarding the emergence and development of nations (in Latin-America and in general) and the role played by borders in these processes. The course will integrate theoretical perspectives and historical experiences in Latin-America, placing special emphasis on regional and ethnic differences, and pointing out the political, economical and cultural contexts in which the breaks in the processes of nation building took place.
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3
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3
Instructor
Nieto Olarte Mauricio
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3
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3
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3
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3
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3
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0
This code shall be enrolled by students when taking the senior semester of their undergraduate degree, making sure they comply with all the requisites demanded by the University to obtain it. It is an indication that allows the University and the Department to keep a record of the possible candidates for each graduation ceremony.
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0
Students have the possibility during one semester of developing a full time practice in a state-owned or private company, museums, archives, libraries, schools, among others, in which they have the opportunity to apply the knowledge acquired during their studies.
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3
Students have the possibility during one semester of developing a full time practice in a state-run or private company, museums, archives, libraries, schools, among others, in which they have the opportunity to apply the knowledge acquired during their studies.
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3
Instructor
Fazio Vengoa Hugo
History students have the option of choosing, as graduation project, to engage in a teaching practice in the area of history during one semester in an educational institution.
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6
Instructor
Fazio Vengoa Hugo
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4
This course covers the encounter and relations between Indians, Africans and Europeans in the formative period of the Atlantic world (1450-1750) and offers an introduction to the social, economic and cultural development of such world. The course studies the Atlantic as a space of circulation and interaction of people, ideas, diseases, objects, technologies, institutions and practices, and their respective transformations in different regions. The course also delves into the formation and consolidation of colonial communities in America as result of the interaction among Indians, Europeans and Africans. The topics discussed include the creation of African, European and American empires, colonization processes and structures, military and navigation technologies, relations among Europeans, Indians and Africans in different regions, slavery, formation of slavery societies, colonial societies, and the economies of the Atlantic.
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3
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3
Instructor
Nieto Olarte Mauricio
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3
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De Nanteuil Matthieu
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3
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Bonnett Velez Diana
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3
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Mejia Macias Sergio
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3
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3
Instructor
Camacho Guizado Alvaro
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4
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4
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4
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4
This course explores the different relations that History has established with the social sciences from their professionalization during the second half of the 19th century. A particular emphasis is given to the positive and negative consequences that this dialogue has caused to this discipline. Similarly, the course intends to further clear specific aspects of history in relation with other social disciplines.
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4
This course intends to analyze problems such as the reality in the past, the dichotomy narration-explanation, the types of realism and the relation between discourse and truth. It is also searched the understanding of discourse: from the rules that regulate writing, the models of understanding, the criteria of verification, the sources, the concept of objectivity, the understanding of historical time and even the sense, the function, and the necessity of history. In the present course, these elements will be analyzed in some cases of Middle Age writing, one of the most controversial periods of history.
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4
Instructor
Borja Gomez Jaime
This course intends to deal with the conceptual and methodological implications in the construction of historical knowledge. In recent decades the developments in the field of history show several contrasts in the way history is constructed, involving not only a variety of topics, but also different types of questions, variety in terms of the sources, and through them, new perspectives to understand the past. It will focus on the critical study of the historical knowledge that aims to become universal and hegemonic. With this purpose, work will be divided into two units, the first focused on the configuration of the forms of history with a universalist approach, and the second focused on the proposals that involve social groups so far excluded from historical analysis, highlighting the consideration of new sources.
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3
The students work in an individual assignment along with a professor from the Department that encompasses the choice, reading and discussion of bibliography related to topics of particular interest for the students. At the end of the assignment, students are to write an essay based on the directed readings and the research. Through this scheme, it is expected to offer alternatives to graduate students when the seminars offered by the Department are deemed insufficient to meet their academic needs.
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4
The words past, history, and historiography produce confusion, and with good reason. Historians must keep these three notions in play simultaneously: the past as an object, history as method, and histography as the sum of the works preceding our own. This course will examine the landscape of Colombian historiography, pausing at some of the main milestones of the last century. Each participating professor will approach a particular topic corresponding to a historiographic era.
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4
Instructor
Arias Trujillo Jose
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4
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4
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0
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4
The objective of this workshop is to provide students with a space to precise the topic and research problem of their graduation project and to elaborate their respective project, with the support of all the participants of the course.
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4
Instructor
Van Ausdal Shawn
During research workshop 2, there should be a first actual and concrete progress in the process of monograph writing and research. It implies a thorough revision and analysis of primary and secondary sources selected for the project. Furthermore, as minimum, the first chapter of the project should be written. Students must develop work with direct and punctual assistance by their director. In a complementary and parallel manner, collective sessions will be held for students to give oral presentations on their research works.
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4
Research Workshop II represents the last stage of the research the students have developed throughout the program. This Workshop must conclude with the final version of the graduation monograph for the History Master’s Degree. The student works under the supervision of his/her director. In a parallel and complementary way, collective sessions where the students present the results of their research are held. The oral defense of the work determines the final evaluation and grading of the same.
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4
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6
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0
In Tutorial Project I and in Tutorial Project II, under the supervision of the tutor, the student works and prepares a work scheme that allows him/her to prepare the research project considering that by the end of three semesters, the final version of the project must be defended before an evaluation committee. During the first two semesters of the tutorial work, the student must progress in the following aspects: Problem and question definition, interpretive apparatus elaboration (theoretic- methodological) and its approach, sources and data definition and organization. These three aspects should be compiled in a preliminary research project version. It is recommended to follow the CESO research project presentation format, to establish the schedule and expected progress during the period. The definition of specific objectives and expected results are responsibility both of the professor and the student. The work proposal must be submitted by the student, endorsed by the professor, before the Graduate Studies Committee for its approval, at the beginning of each semester. At the end of the semester, the professor must submit a report on student’s progress during that time period.
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3
In Tutorial Project I and in Tutorial Project II, under the supervision of the tutor, the student works and prepares a work scheme that allows him/her to prepare the research project considering that by the end of three semesters, the final version of the project must be defended before an evaluation committee. During the first two semesters of the tutorial work, the student must progress in the following aspects: Problem and question definition, interpretive apparatus elaboration (theoretic- methodological) and its approach, sources and data definition and organization. These three aspects should be compiled in a preliminary research project version. It is recommended to follow the CESO research project presentation format, to establish the schedule and expected progress during the period. The definition of specific objectives and expected results are responsibility both of the professor and the student. The work proposal must be submitted by the student, endorsed by the professor, before the Graduate Studies Committee for its approval, at the beginning of each semester. At the end of the semester, the professor must submit a report on the student’s progress during that time period.
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3
Instructor
Fazio Vengoa Hugo
The student must write a complete version of his or her project and defend it. The project must state the methodology, the theoretical framework, the sources, and the objectives of the research. A committee made up of the tutor and two judges, one from the department and the other from outside of it, must also, when necessary, make recommendations on bibliographic revisions, further work, or adjustments in the set-up for the research. It is recommended that the student bear in mind CESO’s format for presenting research projects during preparation. Once this requirement is met, and with the approval of the Director and the Post-graduate Committee, the stage will begin for doing the research and writing the thesis.
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3
Instructor
Fazio Vengoa Hugo
During Research Tutorial IV and V, the student will work on writing his thesis under the supervision of the Director. The work plan must be prepared with concrete goals for each semester. The director must present a report on the student’s progress during the period to the Post-graduate Committee before the end of the period.
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3
Instructor
Fazio Vengoa Hugo
During Research Tutorial IV and V, the student will work on writing his thesis under the supervision of the Director. The work plan must be prepared with concrete goals for each semester. The director must present a report on the student’s progress during the period to the Post-graduate Committee before the end of the period.
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3
Instructor
Fazio Vengoa Hugo
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8
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8
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0
Instructor
Fazio Vengoa Hugo
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0
Instructor
Fazio Vengoa Hugo
In the last decades of the XX century, social sciences have been object of significant reflection and tension that, in different fronts, have sought alternatives with respect to the paradigms of " classic modernity " the horizon of which, for some, must be overcome. The developments of critical theory, the emergence of the post-structuralism, the studies with gender perspectives, the studies on scientific practices and their relation to society, the so-called linguistic shift, the sub-alternate and post-colonial studies, among others, are critical reactions with respect to traditional epistemology models. All of these efforts, more than establishing definitive paradigms that must be imitated are part of the social science debates in a fertile space, where the recent theoretical challenges of social sciences become an object of study and a critical examination, which are actually the purposes of this course.
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3
Instructor
Silva Olarte Renan
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4
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6
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6
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6
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6
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8
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8
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8
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0
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0