Political History 2102-ANG-L-D1POHI

[b]Knowledge[/b]:
Students should:
- know and understand the relation between political history and general history, as well as the role of history in politics since late 18th century (K_W01)
- know and understand the human impact on the major political events and global processes since late 18th century in historical perspective and are familiar with its long lasting legacy (K_W02)
- know and understand the changing economic, social and cultural underpins of key events in global political history since late 18th century (K_W04)

[b]Skills[/b]:
Students should:
- be able to analyse the origins and effects of major events in the global political history since late 18th century in comparative manner and explain the role social, economic and cultural structures in those events (K_U01)
- be able to compare different concepts and ideas in global political history since 18th century, as well as analyse the mutual interdependence between key political events and broader social, economic and cultural processes (K_U04)

[b]Social competences[/b]:
Students should:
- be ready to critically approach different visions of global political history since late 18th century (K_K03)

The final grade of the course will result from the total number of earned points:
50 points: 5!
46-49 points: 5
41-45 points: 4+
36-40 points: 4
31-35 points: 3+
26-30 points: 3
25 points and below: 2

Total number of 0-50 points = 0-25 points for the activity assessment + 0-25 points for oral exam

[u]Activity assessment[/u]
For the purpose of the general outcome of the course, student's active participation is required. Participants of the course are expected to attend the classes prepared and ready for active discussions with thoughtful remarks and productive comments based on the literature.

Active participation of each student will be constantly monitored throughout the semester, as well as instantly evaluated and publicly announced at the end of each class. Course conductor's judgement of the student's activity is final and will not be disputed. The final evaluation of the level of performance of each students will be expressed in the following manner:
25 points: active participation in 9 or more classes
20 points: active participation in 7-8 classes
25 points: active participation in 5-6 classes
10 points: active participation in 3-4 classes
5 points: active participation in 1-2 classes

[i]Important note:[/i] Attendance throughout the semester is required. Maximum 2 absences are allowed. Every next unjustified absence results in deduction of 5 points out of the total number of earned points.

[u]Oral exam[/u]
The final oral exam is to be 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. Delivered answers will be graded on an academic scale (2-5!). Given grade will be transformed into points in the following manner:

Make-up exam:

Any student who fails to meet the requirements to pass the course will receive the grade of 2 in first term and will be allowed to take the make-up written exam consisting of a set of different types of questions related to the substance of the course.

The second and final grade of the course will result from the total number of earned points on the make-up exam:

5-5!: 25 points
4+: 20 points
4: 15 points
3+: 10 points
3: 5 points
2: 0 points

[u]Make-up exam[/u]

Any student who fails to meet the requirements to pass the course will receive the grade of 2 in first term and will be allowed to take the make-up written exam consisting of a set of different types of questions related to the substance of the course.

The second and final grade of the course will result from the total number of earned points on the make-up exam:
50 points: 5!
46-49 points: 5
41-45 points: 4+
36-40 points: 4
31-35 points: 3+
26-30 points: 3
25 points and below: 2

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.

[b]Basic literature:[/b]

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

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

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