La docencia de la historia económica en las facultades de humanidades¿un reto pendiente?

Abstract

After analysing the curricula of different grades at some Spanish universities we perceive that the teaching of the Economic History is taught primarily in the faculties of Economics. We believe that this subject has little presence in Humanities studies, and in particular, in degrees of history, geography or humanities. We could say that the only Spanish University teaching this kind of subjects in the degree of history is the University of the Basque Country. It offers in the degree of history three compulsory subjects, two of economic history and another called Quantitative Methods for Historians. While it is true that other universities offer some courses of Economic History in the faculties of Humanities, they tend to be optional or only cover a geographical/temporal space; therefore, it ends up being very partial. This communication highlights the need for an historian or a geographer to study Economic History, an important subject that is often absent in their curricula. We will also present a possible teaching guide that could make up for this deficiency in those grades where there is no presence of Economic History even when in many cases they did have before the EHEA. Therefore, we believe that a way for economic history to remain alive in classrooms could be the humanities, recovering it where already existed in the old undergraduate programs or introducing them where ever they had existed.