Universitat Internacional de Catalunya - Barcelona

History of Ideas

• code 07815
• course 1
• term Semester 2
• type FB
• credits 6

Module: Global Trends

Matter: History

Main language of instruction: Spanish

Head instructor

Dr. Jorge Francisco PUIGDOMÈNECH - jpuigdomenech@uic.es

Office hours

By appointment. In order to make an appointment, please request one by email.

The subject History of the Thought proposes an approach to the currents of ideas that have developed in the West since the appearance in the ancient Greece. The fundamentals of disciplines such as psychology and sociology will be approached from original texts and audiovisual material related to the topics treated, with the aim of fostering creativity and personal reflection of the student.

No pre-course requirements are needed to enrol in this subject.

• 01 - The ability to plan technical resources
• 02 - The ability to plan human resources
• 03 - The ability to plan personal resources (personnel, materials, seasonal...)
• 04 - The ability of self assessment and professional self management
• 05 - The ability to learn autonomously
• 06 - The ability to act autonomously and responsibly
• 07 - The ability to work in a group
• 08 - The ability to organise time and workspace
• 09 - Lingustic ability in Catalan, Spanish and English
• 10 - The ability to develop an ethical attitude
• 11 - The ability to make judgments and well-argued critical assessments
• 12 - The ability to produce spoken and written texts
• 13 - Reading skills
• 14 - Ability to analyse
• 15 - The ability to synthesise
• 16 - The ability to detect newsworthy events
• 17 - The ability to confront difficulties and resolve problems
• 18 - The ability to work under pressure
• 19 - The ability to memorise
• 20 - The ability of concretion
• 21 - The ability of abstraction
• 22 - The ability to generate debate and reflection
• 25 - The ability to plan and carry out the economic repayment of a film or product
• 26 - The ability to coordinate yourself and /or work together to / with a team
• 35 - The ability to understand and implement the system that governs the operation of a feature film
• 36 - The ability to understand and apply the audiovisual system structure
• 50 - The ability to understand and apply the different narrative elements of a project
• 53 - The ability to design and critique an audiovisual or media product
• 54 - The ability to design and critique original and viable content
• 55 - The ability to design and critique an informative discourse

The students of "History of Thought" will be able to show the following outcomes:
• Capacity to apply the knowledge acquired in the matters of philosophy of the image, anthropology and analysis of contents (4 hs).
• Capacity to design and realise models of interpretation and criticise, as well as to analyse and interpret data (4 hs).
• Capacity to design contents for an audiovisual production and satisfy the needs with real limitations, such as how economic, environmental, social, political, ethical, health and security, promotion and sustainability (4 hs).
• Capacity to work in multidisciplinary teams (2 hs).
• Capacity to identify, formulate and resolve problems of interpretation of contents of advertising products (4 hs).
• Understanding of the ethical and professional responsibility (4 hs).
• Capacity to communicate (4 hs).
• Necessary general education to comprise the impact of advertising contents in a world-wide context, economic, human and social (4 hs).
• Recognition of the need and the capacity to take part in a permanent continuous learning setting (2 hs).
• Knowledge of the contemporary problems (4 hs).
• Capacity to use the technical skills and modern tools of production and analysis of advertising contents (4 hs).

Lectures. In lectures, lecturers/professors not only transmit content or knowledge, but also, and above all else, attitudes, motivation, skills and values, etc. They also ensure that participants can express their opinions and arguments to the other students.
Coaching. Monitoring how students learn the content of the subject, either individually or in groups. In the coaching sessions, mistakes will be corrected, queries answered, and exercises and activities to achieve the established objectives will be suggested.
E-learning. Virtual learning based on ICT.
Focused Praxis. Handing in occasional exercises to learn theory through practice.
Meeting Point. Meetings will be organised with notable people from the professional and scientific fields or the international field, and students. These sessions will take the form of conferences, work sessions, discussions, or interviews, etc.

Following the model of continuous evaluation, students will answer to a questionnaire on each of the sessions (40%). At the end of the course there will be a written exam on topics covered in the course (60%). For the second call, the student who has not passed the test must exceed analogous to that of the first call written test.

EVALUATION SYSTEM/PERCENTAGE

MARÍAS, Julián: Historia de la filosofía. Madrid: Alianza, 2016.

HESSEN, Johannes: Teoría del conocimiento. Madrid: Espasa, 1981.