1. First Year Induction

2. 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

3. Making of the Modern World
Course Overview
Course Director: Sarah Richardson

4. 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.
Context

5. 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

6. 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’?

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. Skills

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

13. Making History Course Overview Course Director: Sarah Richardson

14. 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.
Context

15. 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

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

17. Workshops Academic Writing Career Planning Making Podcasts
Using Archives
Workshops

18. 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