Academic Year/course:
2023/24
268 - Degree in Information Management
25706 - Historiography of Science and Technology
Syllabus Information
Academic year:
2023/24
Subject:
25706 - Historiography of Science and Technology
Faculty / School:
103 - Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
Degree:
268 - Degree in Information Management
ECTS:
6.0
Year:
1
Semester:
Second Four-month period
Subject type:
Basic Education
Module:
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1. General information
It is oriented to the study, interpretation and valuation of written historical sources, essential tools for archivists and documentalists.
It aims to introduce the student to palaeographic and diplomatic techniques, as well as to the knowledge of the different types of writings and the chronological and spatial limits in which they were developed; to initiate in the reading of historiographic texts or original documents; to know how to transcribe, summarise and catalogue information; to correctly comment, annotate or edit texts and documents.
These approaches and goals are aligned with the following Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the Agenda 2030 Agenda of the United Nations:
Goal 4: Quality Education.
Goal 5: Gender Equality.
Goal 10: Reduction of Inequalities
Goal 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
Goal 17: Alliances to Achieve goals.
2. Learning results
The student, in order to pass this subject, must demonstrate the following results...
- Be able to read and transcribe book and documentary texts.
- Distinguish the spellings of the successive types of Latin script.
- Identifies the elements of diplomatic discourse.
- It uses the main dating systems.
3. Syllabus
I. Paleography
Unit 1. Paleography concept and methodology
Unit 2. Writing supports
Unit 3. The Latin alphabet. Abbreviations
Unit 4. Hispanic scriptural systems: Roman scriptures. Visigothic script. Carolina handwriting. Gothic script. Writing humanistic. The printing press
II. Diplomat
Unit 1. Concept and methodology of Diplomacy. Concept of document
Unit 3. Documentary genesis
Unit 4. The form of the documents
Unit 5. The documentary tradition
4. Academic activities
- Master class. Teaching methodology: Explanation of theoretical fundamentals by the teacher - Practical classes.
- Teaching methodology: Presentation of goals, explanation of tasks and follow-up.
- Personal work. Teaching methodology: Diplomatic comments.
Assessment Completion of a written exam.
5. Assessment system
FIRST CALL
Continuous assessment
- Written test with questions corresponding to the two parts in which the program is structured (70%).
- Practical exercises that will consist of the transcription of texts and other exercises related to the subjects of Paleography and Diplomacy proposed by the teacher. Some will be carried out in the classroom and others outside it. The latter will be compulsory and will be handed in to the professor throughout the course, within the established deadline, and once corrected and evaluated, they will be commented in class (30%).
In order to pass the subject, the grade obtained in the written test must be equal to or higher than 5 in one part, and equal to or higher than 4 in the other, and the required compulsory practicals must have been handed in.
Global assessment test.
- A theoretical-practical written exam with questions corresponding to the two parts in which the program is structured (70%).
- Practical exercises (30%).
SECOND CALL
Global assessment test. Identical to that of the first call.
Assessment criteria: Conceptual precision, correct use of the specific terms of the paleographic vocabulary and diplomatic, putting into practice the knowledge acquired at the theoretical level in the analysis of original documents, capacity for synthesis and clarity of expression.