The language module consists of the following elements: The module, however, will help boost your critical and effective reading skills allowing you to process the assigned readings in a more time- and cost-efficient manner. This can only be achieved through real language courses (ACTO has courses on offer, see: ). This module is not designed to improve your level of English proficiency (speaking/understanding). To accommodate students, I have developed a language assistance module with the VUB language institute, ACTO. For some students, having English as the language of instruction may be an additional challenge. Language Assistance Module – only for the programme Politieke Wetenschappen en SociologieĮuropean History is the first English-taught course in the Dutch programme Politieke Wetenschappen en Sociologie.
Slides and accompanying excerpts will be made available on Canvas, the online study platform. 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. Digital course material: Excerpts of other related history textbooks and primary texts, Pointcarré.Blanning (Ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001 Handbook: Oxford Illustrated History of Modern Europe, T.C.W.Students are expected to prepare the lectures in advance (see reading assignments in the weekly schedule). Weekly lectures (Wednesday, 9.00-12.00) centred on a specific theme, event or evolution in European history. 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. 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 19 th century”. 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. 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. Students draw on scientific evidence when describing, elucidating, juxtaposing and explaining 19th century events and developments.Students can explain political cartoons and pamphlets published in the 19th century.Students can identify and clarify the connections between major 19th century processes, such as, for instance, industrialisation and democratisation.Students can juxtapose different historical explanations for 19th century events (such as imperialism) and processes (such as democratisation).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 define the central concepts (such as democracy, imperialism, secularism, nationalism) applied to describe 19th historical processes.Students can define and describe 19th century historical processes, such as democratisation, industrialisation, urbanisation, and secularisation.Students can recognise, name and elucidate the major historical facts and figures treated within the framework of this course on 19th century Europe.
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