Political History 2102-ANG-L-D1POHI

Knowledge:
Students should:
- characterize at an advanced level the specificity of political history as an approach to the study of political phenomena, explain its relationship with general history and other social sciences, and interpret the role of history in politics since the late 17th century (K_W01)
- explain at an advanced level the role of individuals and social groups in shaping major political events and global processes since the late 17th century, and interpret their long-term consequences from both historical and contemporary perspectives (K_W02)
- explain at an advanced level the historical, economic, social, and cultural determinants of major events and processes in global political history since the late 17th century, and interpret their impact on political change (K_W04)

Skills:
Students should:
- analyze the causes, course, and consequences of major events and processes in global political history since the late 17th century from a comparative perspective, and explain the role of social, economic, and cultural structures in shaping them (K_U01)
- analyze and compare selected concepts of politics and assess their usefulness in explaining historical phenomena and processes, as well as identify and interpret the relationships between political change and its historical, economic, social, and cultural determinants (K_U04)

Social competences:
Students should be ready:
- to critically evaluate different interpretations of major events and processes in global political history since the late 17th century and recognize the relationships and interdependencies between them (K_K03)

Formal requirements for passing the course:
Attendance: a maximum of 2 unexcused absences is permitted; students with 4 or more absences, regardless of their nature, will not be eligible for a final grade. Absences may be made up through an individual meeting during office hours designed to verify the achievement of the relevant learning outcomes. A student who attends a class but is not adequately prepared may also be required to attend a mandatory individual meeting during office hours to verify the achievement of the relevant learning outcomes.

Oral exam: student must obtain at least the grade of 3 (dostateczny / satisfactory).

The following grading scale will be adopted:
- 5! (celujący / excellent): outstanding achievement of all learning outcomes, demonstrated through exceptionally broad and in-depth knowledge, a very high degree of independence, critical and creative thinking, and the ability to formulate original, accurate, and convincingly substantiated conclusions that go beyond the standard course requirements
- 5 (bardzo dobry / very good): excellent achievement of all learning outcomes, including independent, critical, and in-depth analysis and the ability to formulate well-supported and original conclusions
- 4+ (dobry+ / good+): very good achievement of the learning outcomes, including independent and in-depth analysis and proficient application of acquired knowledge and relevant terminology
- 4 (dobry / good): good achievement of all learning outcomes, including the ability to correctly analyze, interpret, and explain the phenomena and processes covered in the course
- 3+ (dostateczny+ / satisfactory+): sound command of the required knowledge and skills, together with the ability to apply them appropriately to typical tasks and problems
- 3 (dostateczny / satisfactory): achievement of all learning outcomes at the minimum required level, primarily in terms of basic knowledge and its reproductive application
- 2 (niedostateczny / fail): failure to achieve all learning outcomes at the minimum required level

Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools: Level 1 – No AI. Artificial Intelligence tools may not be used during classes.

Methods of assessing course learning outcomes:
Oral exam (taken by duos or trios of the students at the same time. Each student draws a set of two different questions and delivers in-depth answers to one of their own choice. The list of possible questions contains all points mentioned in the full description of the course section as the subtopics for each main topic)
- Learning outcomes assessed: K_W01, K_W02, K_W04, K_U01, K_U04
- Wieght and maximum score: 71,43% of the final grade (maximum 25 points)

Given grade will be transformed into points in the following manner:
- 5!: 25 points
- 5: 24 points
- 4+: 23 points
- 4: 22 points
- 3+: 21 points
- 3: 20 points
- 2: 0 points

Continuous assessment of active participation (participation in discussions, workshop-based assignments drawing on assigned readings, or, alternatively, an individual meeting during office hours)
- Learning outcomes assessed: K_W01, K_W02, K_W04, K_U01, K_U04, K_K03
- Weight and maximum score: 28,57% of the final grade (0–1 point per class, maximum 10 points)

The final grade of the course will result from the total number of earned points (oral exam + active participation):
- 35 points: 5! (celujący / excellent)
- 30-34 points: 5 (bardzo dobry / very good)
- 29 points: 4+ (dobry+ / good+)
- 24-28 points: 4 (dobry / good)
- 23 points: 3+ (dostateczny+ / satisfactory+)
- 18-22 points: 3 (dostateczny / satisfactory)
- 17 points and below: 2 (niedostateczny / fail)

Not applicable.

Students are expected to read selected chapters of at least one of the books and/or selected articles from the basic literature listed below adequate to the topic of particular classes. All the literature is available online via the course's Google Classroom platform.

Basic literature:

Jerry H. Bentley (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of World History, Oxford Handbooks 2012
Michael Bernhard, Jan Kubik (eds.), Twenty Years After Communism: The Politics of Memory and Commemoration, Oxford University Press 2014
Frank Bongiorno, Dreamers and Schemers: A political history of Australia, La Trobe University Press 2022
Jane Burbank, Frederick Cooper, Empires in world history: Power and the politics of difference, Princeton University Press 2010
Francis D. Cogliano, Revolutionary America 1763-1815: Political History, Routledge 2009 (2nd edition)
Arthur Cotterell, A History of Southeast Asia, Marshall Cavendish 2014
David M. Craig, 'High Politics' and the 'New Political History', "The Historical Journal" 2010, vol. 53, no. 2, pp. 453-475
Gordon A. Craig, Political History, "Daedalus" 1971, vol. 100, no. 2, pp. 323-338
Donald T. Critchlow, American political history: a very short introduction, Oxford University Press 2015
Basil Davidson, Modern Africa: A Social and Political History, Routledge 2013 (3rd edition)
Tulio Halperin Donghi, The Contemporary History of Latin America, Duke University Press 2007 (7th edition)
William Doyle, The French Revolution: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press 2001
William J. Duiker, Contemporary World History, Wadsworth 2010 (5th edition)
Sebastian Edwards, Left Behind: Latin America and the False Promise of Populism, The University of Chicago Press 2010
Michael Onyebuchi Eze, The Politics of History in Contemporary Africa, Palgrave Macmillan 2010
Juliet Gardiner (ed.), What is history today?, The Macmillan Press 1988
John A.S. Grenville, A history of the world from 20th to to the 21st century, Routledge 2005
Daniel G. Hall, A history of South-east Asia, The Macmillan Press 1981 (4th edition)
Jeffrey Herbst, States and Power in Africa: Comparative Lessons in Authority and Control, Princeton University Press 2014
Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Revolutions 1789-1848, Orion Books 2010
Katherine Hodgkin, Susannah Radstone (eds.), Contested Pasts: The politics of memory, Routledge 2003
Jonathan Holslag, A Political History of the World: Three Thousand Years of War and Peace, Pelican Books 2018
Michael Howard, WM. Roger Louis, The Oxford History of the Twentieth Century, Oxford University Press 1998
Kate Kenski, Kathleen Hall Jamieson, The Oxford Handbook of Political Communication, Oxford University Press 2017
Peter M. Jones, The French Revolution 1787-1804, Routledge 2022 (4th edition)
Richard Ned Lebow, Wulf Kansteiner, Claudio Fogu (eds.), The Politics of Memory in Postwar Europe, Duke University Press 2006
Howard LeRoy Malchow, History and International Relations: From the Ancient World to the 21st Century, Bloomsbury 2020
Katharyne Mitchell, Monuments, Memorials, and the Politics of Memory, "Urban Geography" 2003, vol. 24, no. 5, pp. 442-459
Milton Osborne, Southeast Asia: An Introductory History, Allen&Unwin 2016 (12th edition)
Jurgen Osterhammel, The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century, Princeton University Press 2014
Robert R. Palmer, Joel Colton, Lloyd Kramer, A History of the Modern World, McGraw-Hill 2007 (10th edition)
Michael Reid, Forgotten continent: a history of the New Latin America, Yale University Press 2009
Ronald M. Schneider, Latin American Political History: Patterns and Personalities, Routledge 2018
Colin Woodard, American nations: a history of the eleven rival regional cultures of North America, Penguin Books 2012
James D. Wright (ed.), International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, Elsevier 2015

Additional literature:
Chris Harman, A People's History of the World, Verso 2017
Howard Zinn, The Politics of History, Beacon Press Boston 1970