The subject of History of the Present intends to enter to the students in the studio of the main events and the general processes of change and continuity of the Humanity to split of the second half of the century XX and, to the time, that *familiarice with the *destrezas own of the historical learning, go in those that fits to highlight the location of the events in the space and in the time, handle it of sources of information, the critical interpretation of the data, the *conciencia that the causal explanations are product of the interaction of one joint of diverse factors, capacity of analysis and synthesis or the broadcast of judgements substantiated on controversial subjects.