Introduction to History II: from Early Modern Europe to the Postmodern World

6 ECTS credits
168 h study time

Offer 1 with catalog number 1023243ANR for all students in the 2nd semester at a (A) Bachelor - preliminary level.

Semester

2nd semester

Enrollment based on exam contract

Impossible

Grading method

Grading (scale from 0 to 20)

Can retake in second session

Yes

Taught in

Dutch

Faculty

Faculty of Languages & Humanities

Department

History, Archaeology, Arts, Philosophy and Ethics

Educational team

Ellen Debackere
Benoît Henriet
Wouter Ryckbosch (course titular)

Activities and contact hours

36 contact hours Lecture
60 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study

Course Content

This course offers an introduction to the main societal developments during the early modern and modern periods (from ca 1500 until today). As an introduction the concepts of modernity and pre-modernity will be presented. This will be followed by a thematic approach to the key transformative moments and processes that characterise the period under scrutiny. We start by examining the processes of globalisation that profoundly altered the world in the last five centuries. Then the focus will shift to political processes of change (state formation and the rise of ideologies), economic transformation (industrialisation and de-industrialisation), cultural and scientific change (Renaissance, Enlightenment and (post-)Modernism), and finally we will examine family structures, gender, and related processes of marginalisation and emancipation. After completing this course, students will have been introduced to a global and inclusive perspective on the history of the early modern and modern periods.

Course material

Handbook (Required) : The European World 1500–1800 An Introduction to Early Modern History, Beat Kümin (ed), Third edition, Routledge, 9781138119154, 2017
Course text (Required) :

Additional info

Learning Outcomes

Algemene competenties

After completion of this course students are expected to have acquired:

1. Understanding in the intensifying processes of interaction between Europe and other parts of the world in the (early) modern period, with particular attention to the roots of globalisation.

2. Understanding in, and the ability to, compare how processes of globalisation could take different forms across time and space, with particular attention to the complex causes and consequences of colonisation and de-colonisation.

3. To have acquired insight into the grand processes of political change from the late medieval period through today.

4. To have a basic grasp of the economic models necessary to analyse economic development during the rise of capitalism and industrialisation.

5. To be able to recognise similarities and differences in the main cultural and intellectual frameworks that shaped daily life from Renaissance to the Scientific Revolution, the Enlightenment, Modernism and finally Post-Modernism.

6. To have acquired critical insight into the ways in which demographic and family structures could structure everyday life in the past, with particular attention to gender and the history of marginalisation and emancipation during recent centuries.

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 100 which comprises 100% of the final mark.

Additional info regarding evaluation

Written exam (100%)

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