Contemporary World History

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Seniors

Open classroom

English

15 September 2026 - December 22

In-person

Tuesday and Thursday from 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

60 hours

School of Communication and International Relations

Blanquerna-URL - Plaça Joan Coromines. 08001 Barcelona

190 €

Who will guide you?

Mariona Lloret Rodà

Professor Mariona Lloret Rodà holds a PhD in History from Pompeu Fabra University (2017) and a master’s degree in World History from the same university (2012). She is currently a professor of contemporary and gender history in the Bachelor’s Degree in International Relations at Blanquerna-Universitat Ramon Llull, where she also serves as the program’s academic coordinator. Her research focuses, on the one hand, on authoritarianism and populism in the interwar Greater Caribbean and, on the other, on the gender perspective applied to the analysis of history and international relations.

What will you learn?

This course will offer a broad analysis of the main ideas in the historical processes of the contemporary period. We will begin by reflecting on the definition of history and its uses over time, and then open the debate on key topics such as nationalism, imperialism, and social movements, combining a theoretical approach with examples from around the world. We will also analyze how international relations have evolved from the early 19th century to the first decades of the 21st century, with special emphasis on the two World Wars and the Cold War.