Undergraduate Course: European History 1 (HIST08002)
Course Outline
| School |
School of History, Classics and Archaeology |
College |
College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type |
Standard |
Availability |
Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) |
SCQF Level 8 (Year 1 Undergraduate) |
Credits |
40 |
| Home subject area |
History |
Other subject area |
None |
| Course website |
None
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Taught in Gaelic? |
No |
| Course description |
The course has a dual function. It provides a basic grounding in Modern European History as a preparation for students who are intending to do Honours History courses. It also seeks to provide a self-contained survey of European History that is both stimulating and informative for students taking the course as an outside subject or as part of an M.A. General degree. Its prime purpose is to demonstrate how European society has evolved as a result of the interply of the major economic, social, political and cultural developments of the last five centuries. A course with such a wide chronological and geographical span has to be rigorously selective, and in consequence the lecturers confine their attentions to those general developments that had a far-reaching influence on a major part of the European population. The course runs from c.1500 to the present day. Given the quickening pace of change within the time-span of the course, and the growing complexity of society that it engendered, the course devotes more attention to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries than to the period that preceded it. |
Entry Requirements
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites |
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| Prohibited Combinations |
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Other requirements |
None
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| Additional Costs |
None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites |
None |
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2010/11 Full Year, Available to all students (SV1)
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WebCT enabled: Yes |
Quota: 200 |
| Location |
Activity |
Description |
Weeks |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
| Central | Lecture | | 1-22 | | 09:00 - 09:50 | | | | | Central | Lecture | | 1-22 | | | 09:00 - 09:50 | | | | Central | Lecture | | 1-22 | | | | | 09:00 - 09:50 |
| First Class |
Week 1, Tuesday, 09:00 - 09:50, Zone: Central. Lecture George Square Lecture Theatre |
| Additional information |
1 hour(s) per week for 22 week(s). Plus one 50 minute tutorial for 22 weeks. |
| Exam Information |
| Exam Diet |
Paper Name |
Hours:Minutes |
Stationery Requirements |
Comments |
| Main Exam Diet S2 (April/May) | | 3:00 | 20 sides | c/w HIST08013 | | Resit Exam Diet (August) | | 3:00 | 20 sides | c/w HIST08013 |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
| The wide chronological and geographical span of the course confronts you with the problem of establishing the criteria by which 'importance' in human affairs is to be weighed - obliging you to compare disparate factors (economic, political, religious, etc.) as formative influences on the growth of society. The breadth of the course also encourages you to try to enter into the mentalities and concerns of societies far removed from your own experience. This combination helps to foster a perceptiveness and flexibility of mind that are prime assets not only in your own self-development but also in preparing you for the many professional careers in which these qualities are particularly valued. In learning about what we were, we find out more about what we are. All in all we hope that the course will help you to make sense of the Europe of which we are part. |
Assessment Information
| 1 assignment in each semester of one essay source commentary and 1 three hour degree exam |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
| Academic description |
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| Syllabus |
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| Transferable skills |
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| Reading list |
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| Study Abroad |
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| Study Pattern |
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| Keywords |
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Contacts
| Course organiser |
Dr Stephen Bowd
Tel: (0131 6)50 3758
Email: Stephen.Bowd@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary |
Ms Tamsin Welch
Tel: (0131 6)50 3783
Email: twelch@staffmail.ed.ac.uk |
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