Modern European History Beyond the Nation State

HIST61221 Modern European History Beyond the Nation State 30 Semester 1 Postgraduate Taught Level 6 Claire Morelon Unit coordinator Joanne Laycock Unit coordinator EWA OCHMAN Unit coordinator Jean-Marc Dreyfus Unit coordinator Christian Goeschel Unit coordinator History 1 FHEQ level (Framework for Higher Education Qualifications) ' Masters/Integrated Masters P4 ' European Credit Transfer & Accumulation System Rating : 15.0 Modern European History Beyond the Nation State introduces students to some of the principal themes, debates, and controversies in nineteenth- and twentieth-century European history. Students will engage with diverse approaches towards European history, including transnational, comparative and global history to examine key themes cutting across the history of modern Europe. Students will gain a deep and critical understanding of crucial forces driving the history of modern Europe, and a range of methods of studying them.     Modern European History Beyond the Nation State introduces students to some of the principal themes, debates, and controversies in nineteenth- and twentieth-century European history. Students will engage with diverse approaches towards European history, including transnational, comparative and global history to examine key themes cutting across the history of modern Europe. Students will gain a deep and critical understanding of crucial forces driving the history of modern Europe, and a range of methods of studying them.     To equip students to think comparatively, critically and analytically about modern history.To allow students to grasp the historiography of modern European history.To give students a critical understanding of key concepts and methods useable across the range of modern European history. -Understand and evaluate core concepts and methods used in the writing of modern European history.- Demonstrate a detailed grasp of theoretical and conceptual debates in modern European history.- Approach specialist regional and thematic historiographies. <ul> <li>Critically apply complex theoretical models and concepts to in-depth case-studies.</li> <li>Be able to understand and analyse links and connections across a variety of historical contexts.</li> <li>Formulate a research question based on scholarly literature at the forefront of the disciplines studied and adopt an appropriate method for addressing and answering that question.</li> <li>To develop analytical skills which can be applied to primary or secondary material.</li> <li>To synthesize in a meaningful and incisive manner a wealth of information gathered and analysed through independent research.</li> <li>To identify and assess the significance of historical context for contemporary debates and issues.</li></ul> <ul> <li>Draw up a specialist bibliography on a research topic.</li> <li>Manage a sustained program of regular weekly work.</li> <li>Present ideas fluently in writing and oral presentation to specialist and non-specialist audiences.</li> <li>Gain experience in problem solving, leadership and teamwork.</li></ul> <ul><li>Organise own learning through self-management and work to deadlines.</li><li>Using ICT for research and presentation purposes.</li><li>Display fluent presentation skills orally.</li><li>Write fluently.</li><li>Demonstrate the ability to work in a group and show leadership.</li><li>Identify, analyse and apply a wide range of data to formulate and solve problems.</li><li>Ability to bring analytical and research skills to bear on the formulation and design of proposals.</li></ul> Other gather, organise and deploy evidence in marshalling an argument; conduct independent research; communicate both orally and in writing with structure, coherence, clarity and fluency; critically evaluate a team¿s performance. A series of workshops combining short interventions by lecturers, group-based tasks and student-led discussion and presentations. Students will be encouraged to form reading groups based on their interests and intended specialisms. All key readings for the course will be digitized and available on the Canvas site. Written work will be submitted online via Turnitin on Canvas.  0 Other 100% <table class="Table" style="border-collapse:collapse;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;margin-left:7px;"> <thead> <tr> <th scope="col" style="border: 1pt solid windowtext; width: 205.85pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top" width="274">Assessment task </th> <th scope="col" style="border-top: 1pt solid windowtext; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-image: initial; width: 86.5pt; border-left: none; padding: 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top" width="115">Formative or Summative</th> <th scope="col" style="border-top: 1pt solid windowtext; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-image: initial; width: 107.15pt; border-left: none; padding: 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top" width="143">Weighting within unit (if summative)</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td style="border:solid windowtext 1.0pt; width:205.85pt; border-top:none; padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt" valign="top" width="274">Reflective Literature Review</td> <td style="border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt; width:86.5pt; border-top:none; border-left:none; border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt" valign="top" width="115">Summative</td> <td style="border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt; width:107.15pt; border-top:none; border-left:none; border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt" valign="top" width="143">30</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="border:solid windowtext 1.0pt; width:205.85pt; border-top:none; padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt" valign="top" width="274">Research-based essay</td> <td style="border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt; width:86.5pt; border-top:none; border-left:none; border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt" valign="top" width="115">Summative</td> <td style="border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt; width:107.15pt; border-top:none; border-left:none; border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt" valign="top" width="143">70</td> </tr> </tbody></table> <table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width:662px;" width="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="width:322px;"> Written feedback on assessed coursework</td> <td style="width:340px;"> Summative</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width:322px;"> Oral feedback in seminar discussions</td> <td style="width:340px;"> Formative</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width:322px;height:7px;"> One-to-one feedback (during the consultation hour or by making an appointment)</td> <td style="width:340px;height:7px;"> Formative</td> </tr> </tbody></table>  N Jürgen Osterhammel, The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century (Princeton, 2014)Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper, Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference (2010).John Connelly, From Peoples into Nations: A History of Eastern Europe (Princeton, 2020).Konrad Jarausch, Out of Ashes: A New History of Europe in the Twentieth Century (Princeton, 2015).David Motadel (ed.), Globalising Europe: A History (Cambridge, 2025)Nicolas Kenny and Rebecca Madgin(eds.), Cities Beyond Borders Comparative and Transnational Approaches to Urban History (London, 2017).    Seminars 33 0 267