6 ECTS credits
150 h study time

Offer 1 with catalog number 1020437AER for all students in the 2nd semester at a (A) Bachelor - preliminary level.

Semester
2nd semester
Enrollment based on exam contract
Possible
Grading method
Grading (scale from 0 to 20)
Can retake in second session
Yes
Taught in
English
Partnership Agreement
Under interuniversity agreement for degree program
Faculty
Faculty of Social Sciences & SolvayBusinessSchool
Department
Political Science
Educational team
Vjosa Musliu (course titular)
Activities and contact hours
39 contact hours Lecture
111 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study
Course Content

This course offers a textbook based introduction to the political, economic, social and cultural history of Europe covering the period ranging from the French revolution to the Second  World War. T.C.W. Blanning’s History of Modern Europe (Oxford University Press) published in 2001 will be taken as the point of departure in the treatment of facts and events. Relying also on extracts from other history textbooks and primary texts, the course will describe key moments in modern European history and will offer analytical insights into the underlying causes to the fundamental (political, social, economic and cultural) transformations Europe underwent during the so-called “long 19th century”. Urbanisation, industrialisation, democratisation, migration, the emergence of nation-states, imperialism and the development of mass politics were the processes that marked European history most distinctively in this period.

Course material
Handbook (Required) : Oxford Illustrated History of Modern Europe, T.C.W. Blanning (Ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 9780192854261, 2001
Digital course material (Required) : European History, Excerpts of other related history textbooks and primary texts, Canvas
Additional info

Lectures centred on a specific theme, event or evolution in European history. Students are expected to prepare the lectures in advance (see reading assignments in the weekly schedule).

In addition to the handbook of T.C.W. Blanning (History of Modern Europe, 2001), the course material also consists of slides (power point presentations) and excerpts of other related history textbooks and primary texts. Slides and accompanying excerpts will be made available on Canvas, the online study platform.

Learning Outcomes

General Competences

Knowledge (reproduction):

  • Students can recognise, name and elucidate the major historical facts and figures treated within the framework of this course on 19th century Europe.
  • Students can define and describe 19th century historical processes, such as democratisation, industrialisation, urbanisation, and secularisation.
  • Students can define the central concepts (such as democracy, imperialism, secularism, nationalism) applied to describe 19th historical processes.

Insights:

  • Students can explain 19th century socio-economic, political and cultural events (such as, the French Revolution), and developments (such as, the creation of mass politics, the development of nationalism).
  • Students can juxtapose different historical explanations for 19th century events (such as imperialism) and processes (such as democratisation).
  • Students can identify and clarify the connections between major 19th century processes, such as, for instance, industrialisation and democratisation.
  • Students can explain political cartoons and pamphlets published in the 19th century.

Scientific attitudes:

  • Students draw on scientific evidence when describing, elucidating, juxtaposing and explaining 19th century events and developments.

Grading

The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Written Exam determines 100% of the final mark.

Within the Written Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:

  • Written Exam with a relative weight of 1 which comprises 100% of the final mark.

Additional info regarding evaluation

The final grade is based on a written exam at the end of the semester (100% of the final mark).

Students can bring a dictionary to the exam (but no thesaurus or encyclopaedia).

More information on the exam will be provided during the lectures.

Allowed unsatisfactory mark
The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.

Academic context

This offer is part of the following study plans:
Bachelor of Social Sciences: Communication Studies
Bachelor of Social Sciences: Political Sciences
Bachelor of Social Sciences: Sociology
Bachelor of Social Sciences: Startplan
Bachelor of Political Science and Sociology: - afstudeerrichting politieke wetenschappen (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Political Science and Sociology: - afstudeerrichting sociologie, minor politieke wetenschappen (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Political Science and Sociology: Political Science Minor Minor Education (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Business Economics: Startplan Business Economics
Bachelor of Business Economics: Business and Technology
Bachelor of Business Economics: International Business