Comprising of:-
Commodity chronology poster
Unit of Study proposal
Essay with accompanying source extract appraisal.
[Learning Outcomes 1-4]

Key Information Set:
100% coursework

The module encourages a critical attitude towards the designation `modern' and to nineteenth and twentieth century notions of the primacy of the nation and of progress.
It seeks to provide twenty-first century perspectives on the `modern' period from c.1750 onwards through an examination of the history of 'modern', 'modernism' and 'modernity'.
Themes include: The Enlightenment 'project' of modernity; nineteenth century industrialisation, the nation-state, religion and 'multiple' modernities; late nineteenth and early twentieth century modernism as a cultural movement; twentieth century critics and defenders of modernity; global and environmental history in contrast to 'progress' through 'modernisation'; the conceptual pairings of 'West' and 'Other', colonial and post-colonial, subject and hybridity, modern and postmodern; the `history of modern history'- through the study of changing historiography; how postmodernism challenges Enlightenment and later positivist views of knowledge and truth, including the writing of history.

The module will be delivered through workshops that encourage group work and discussion.
Blackboard will also be used to support the delivery of the module.

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

Library books, journals and electronic resources, including online subscription resources such as Oxford Reference Online and Blackwell Reference Online.

The Blackboard virtual learning environment will be available to support this module. Details will be supplied in the module handbook.

Bayly, C.A. The Birth of the Modern World 1780-1914: Global Connections & Comparisons Blackwell, Oxford, 2004
Bennett, Tony et al. (eds.) New Keywords: A Revised Vocabulary of Culture and Society, Blackwell, Oxford, 2005
Bentley, Jerry H. (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of World History (OUP, Oxford, 2011)
Hall, Stuart et. al (eds.) Modernity: An Introduction to Modern Societies, Blackwell, Oxford, 1996
Hughes, J. Donald What is Environmental History? (Polity, Cambridge, 2006)
Jervis, John Exploring the Modern: Patterns of Western Culture and Civilization, Blackwell, Oxford, 1998
McGuigan, Jim Modernity and Postmodern Culture, Open University Press, Maidenhead, 2nd edn. 2006
Seigel, Jerrold. Modernity and Bourgeois Life: Society, Politics and Culture in England, France and Germany since 1750 (CUP, Cambridge, 2011)
Woolf, Daniel A Global History of History (CUP, Cambridge, 2011)