Class Communication and Citizenship

The Curricular Unit aims to introduce some fundamental elements of the political-institutional, socio-economic and cultural structure of the country and its foreign relations, providing students with a set of essential knowledge for professional performance in the areas of journalism and strategic communication in contemporary Portugal.

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1) Communication and the problems of Citizenship The ontological condition of Language and Communication The concept of Citizenship, its genesis, evolution and contemporary issues Portugal and Modernity: oligarchic alternations and political ruptures Industrial civilization, anthropological change (Polanyi) and monarchical liberalism From Republican Liberalism to The Estado Novo and the anti-democratic rupture The democratic revolution of 1974 and counter-revolutionary normalization Contemporary political mythomotricities (Assmann) 2) Contemporary Portugal The Constitution: formal and institutional powers; political parties and "civil society"; electoral system; and territorial organization of the country Social support systems Applied elements of financial and tax literacy The media landscape in Portugal Portugal in the world (Foreign Policy and European Institutions)

Teaching will seek to vary expository methods with the development of practices whenever appropriate, particularly in the second part of the course. In the first part, the theoretical framework and the historiographical path will aim to stimulate students to search for and critique sources, as well as a perspective on the relationship between the past-present-future and the present uses of the History that is narrated. Autonomous research will be valued, preferably bibliographical, but also including digital and audiovisual sources, namely the RTP image archives and period cinematography and documentaries

AAVV (1998). Portugal na Transição do Milénio. Fim de Século. Castles, S. (2005). Nation and Empire: Hierarchies of Citizenship in the New Global Order. 10.1057/palgrave.ip.8800107. Constituição da República Portuguesa (2005). Cruzeiro, M.M. (2017). A nossa Fada Morgana. Afrontamento. Ricardo Garcia, R.; Rosa, M.J.V. & Barbosa, L. (2017). Que número é este – Um guia de estatísticas para jornalistas. FFMS. Hobsbawm, E. (1996 [1962]). A Era das Revoluções (1789-1848). Presença. Lopes, J. S. (2004). A economia portuguesa no século XX. Ed. ICS. Marshall, T.H. (1950). Citizenship and Social Class and Other Essays. Cambridge Univ. Press. Martins, G. d’O. (1991). Portugal — Instituições e Factos. INCM. McQuail, D. (2000). Teorias da Comunicação de Massas. F.C. Gulbenkian. Tengarrinha, J. M. (Org.) (2000). História de Portugal. Ed. Univ. Sagrado Coração. Varela, R. & Santa, R. D. (2023). Breve História de Portugal – A Época Contemporânea. Bertrand.