Module: HIS4010-20 Europe and the World 1 - Encounters and Perspectives

Level: 4

Credit Value: 20

Module Tutor: Dr 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 a 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

We will cover the following, in varying proportions over the semester:

• 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

• Museum visit

• Contemporary Europe

• Conclusion

3.Teaching and learning activities

Lectures, seminars, workshops, group discussions, set reading.

Assessment Item 1:

• Assessment Type: Course Work

• Description: Essay (2000 words)

• % Weighting: 50%

Assessment Item 2:

• Assessment Type: Exam

• Description: Unseen exam (2000 words equivalent)

• % Weighting: 50%