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First Year Induction

Timetable Introduction (Sarah Richardson) Student Staff Liaison Committee Introduction to the Library (Lynn Wright) Making of the Modern World (Sarah Richardson & Kathryn Woods) Making History (Andrew Jones, Sarah Richardson & Dave Toulson) Timetable

Making of the Modern World Course Overview Course Director: Sarah Richardson (sarah.richardson@warwick.ac.uk)

This module contextualises later modern history by providing a framework in which major historical processes of the later modern era are studied on a world-wide scale. The module moves away from a Eurocentric and narrative focus and provides more scope for historical approaches based on, among other things, culture, identity and environmental history. http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/modules/hi153new Context

The central focus of the module is the rise of the modern, its diffusion and resistance to it. Central features are the Enlightenment, the rise of democracy, industrialisation, imperialism and political and cultural revolution. Syllabus

What is the ‘modern’? Rise of urban/commercial society Emergence of territorial nation states Growth of modern science Rise of democracy Enlightenment – Age of Reason /rationalism Rise of secularism and humanism Nature dominated by man What is the ‘modern’?

ENLIGHTENMENT, REVOLUTION AND MODERNITY - definitions of enlightenment - theories of revolution THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS - challenge to eurocentric/anglocentric view of industrial growth - what has been the effect of industrialisation on India/Africa? Themes

Themes NATURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT - Arcadians and Romantics IDEOLOGIES AND STATES - Liberal Nation State - Socialist Challenge - Fascism - Imperialism and Globalisation FAITH AND MODERNITY - the relevance of religion in the modern world Themes

IDENTITIES: THE INDIVIDUAL & THE MODERN - Class, Gender, Race, Nationhood WAR, VIOLENCE & MODERNITY/THE CHALLENGE TO REASON - Critiques of modernism - Science/technology and war CULTURAL REVOLUTIONS - High culture: modernism - Popular culture and the Sixties Themes

POSTMODERNISM – AND AFTER. Where are we now POSTMODERNISM – AND AFTER? Where are we now? - In the late 20th century the postmodern critique become widespread: - The ‘enlightenment project’/’modernism’ has failed - We live in a ‘postmodern’ condition - There are no longer great political ‘isms’ - Instead ‘individual’ ‘choice’ reigns supreme in a supermarket of cultures and values. Themes

Skills

Assessment Group Project (10 CATS/33%) Two short essays – one skills based (10 CATS/33%) One hour examination (10 CATS/33%) Assessment

Making History Course Overview Course Director: Sarah Richardson (sarah.richardson@warwick.ac.uk)

The module explores the practice of history through the research process, from primary sources to the presentation, dissemination, manipulation and consumption of historical interpretation. It encourages students to think critically about materials, scholarship and their own approach to academic work in different media. http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/modules/makinghistory Context

Syllabus 1979 and All That: Writing Contemporary History History from Below Memory and the Presentation of History Global History and its Contours Research Project Syllabus

Films The Strike (1988) & GLC (1990) The Return of Martin Guerre (1982) The Grey Zone (2001) Films

Workshops Academic Writing Career Planning Making Podcasts Using Archives Workshops

50% for the best 2 of 3 short assignments (ALL of which have to be submitted) Primary Source Analysis Digital Story Podcast or Video-cast Review of an article/debate 50% for the final assignment Research Project Assessment