The Revolutionary Decade? Europe in the 1960s (U02931)

? Credit Points : 40 ? SCQF Level : 10 ? Acronym : HCA-4-HRIB

The course will analyse key political, social, and cultural developments in Europe during the 1960s. Although its primary focus will lie on western Europe, the eastern half of the continent will also receive extensive attention. The course will be organised in a thematic, trans-national fashion, and students will be encouraged to draw links and comparisons across national boundaries, including across the East-West divide in the Cold War. The main themes to be covered will include: breaks and continuities between the 1950s and the 1960s, generational tensions, changing attitudes towards the recent past, particularly the Second World War and its legacies, changing social mores, developments in gender roles, cultural innovations, new political movements and their implications, and the legacies of the 1960s.

Entry Requirements

? This course is not available to visting students.

? Pre-requisites : A pass in a third level historical course or equivalent.

Subject Areas

Home subject area

History, (School of History, Classics and Archaeology, Schedule E)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : 4th year

? Delivery Period : Not being delivered

? Contact Teaching Time : 2 hour(s) per week for 22 weeks

All of the following classes

Type	Day	Start	End	Area
Lecture	Tuesday	11:10	13:00	Central

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

Students who take this course will develop an advanced understanding of key political, social, and cultural developments in Europe between the late 1950s and early 1970s. They will engage critically with the relevant historiography and with a range of textual and non-textual primary sources, including photographs, film, and music. They will also develop further a range of transferable skills that they have begun to acquire during their first three years of university study, including the ability to argue effectively about intellectual issues, both orally and in writing; to write informed and cogent essays; to take responsibility for seminar presentations in which they elaborate and defend intellectual positions before other members of the group; and to work effectively with others in small group settings.