Module: HIS4001-20 Europe and the World II

Level: 4

Credit Value: 20

Module Tutor: David Coast

Module Tutor Contact Details: d.coast@bathspa.ac.uk

1. Brief description and aims of module:

This module explores some of the defining and often devastating events, movements and processes that helped create the modern world, viewed in terms of the shifting relationships between Europe and the rest of the world. For those of you who are studying History as a single or joint honours award, this will build on the module that explored Europe and the World from Classical Greece and Rome to the turbulence, achievements and disputes of the Renaissance, Reformation, and Enlightenment. But this module will also work independently, supporting your work across wide range of disciplines outside History. It follows a broadly chronological approach, but also a thematic one: the impact of war and revolution, the processes of industrial and economic change, globalisation, the mass movement of peoples, shifts in and disputes across national boundaries.

2.Outline syllabus:

Introduction

Slavery

Industrial Revolution

The Age of Revolutions – 1789 – 1848

Global Empires

World War I as a Global War

Independent study week

Totalitarianism and Total War

Cold War Europe

Postwar immigration

Trip to Ashmolean

Contemporary Europe

Conclusion

3.Teaching and learning activities:

Lectures, seminars, workshops, group discussions, set reading

Assessment Item 1:

• Assessment Type: CW
• Description: Essay (2000 words)
• % Weighting: 50%

Assessment Item 2:

• Assessment Type: EXAM
• Description: Unseen exam (2 hours, unseen)
• % Weighting: 50%