The aim of the module is to provide students with an understanding of major events and themes in modern world history in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Themes include revolution, war, empire, nationalism, interaction between different societies. The module will serve to scaffold later history modules, and provide an underpinning for the more conceptual questioning posed in the Level 5 cores 'Interrogating the Modern' (Modern History) and 'International Society: From Westphalia to the Present' (Modern & International History). The academic skills required for the study of modern history will be included, and also reflection on the purpose and value of the study of modern history.

Learning Outcomes 1-4

Key Information Set Data:
100% Practical Exam

The module will be delivered through lectures, seminars and tutorials. It is envisaged that there will be contributions on academic study skills from the university study skills centre and/or use of materials provided by the centre. Blackboard will also be used to support the delivery of the module.

Key Information Set Data:
16% scheduled learning & teaching activities
84% guided independent learning

Bayly, C.A. The Birth of the Modern World 1780-1914 (Blackwell, Oxford, 2004)

Bentley, Jerry H. (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of World History (O.U.P., Oxford, 2013)

Berger, Stefan (ed.) A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Europe (Blackwell Reference Online, print publication date 2006)

Black, Jeremy & Macraild, Donald Studying History (Palgrave Study Skills) (Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 3rd edn. 2007)

Tosh, John (with Lang, Sean) The Pursuit of History: Aims, methods and new directions in the study of modern history (Longman, Harlow, 5th edn. 2009)

Tosh, John Why History Matters (Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2008)

Library books, journals and online subscription resources such as Oxford Reference Online and Blackwell Reference Online.
Access to university Study Skills centre materials.