80 hours total learning time, of which 24 hours will be class contact (12 1 hour lectures and 12 1 hour seminars). 56 hours will be allocated to independent learning.

You will be encouraged to acquire the skills implicit in historical study, including rational note-taking, debating issues raised in the lectures, preparing and making an individual or small-group presentation in class, researching for this and for submitted coursework, evaluating the worth of what you find, and properly attributing your sources. The independent learning time, in particular, will allow for individual or group study, but also for tutorial guidance on reading material and the preparation of class and assessed work.

This course provides a survey of 19th century world history in a predominantly political and economic sense, dealing with the spread of European-based ideologies, the domination of other societies by the European powers, and the reaction of the non-European world to this ascendancy. It will deal with the nature of European societies in the age of Napoleon, and the influence they exercised in the outside world; the social and political pressures which produced revolution in 1848; the spread of industrialisation; the expansion of European-based societies into new parts of the globe throughout the century; the changes in the balance of power implicit in the rise of the USA and Russia; Japanese self-assertion and its effect in Asia; and the increasingly global nature of international rivalry by the early 20th century.

Recommended library secondary sources

M.S. Anderson, The Ascendancy of Europe 1815-1914, 2nd ed. (Harlow: Longman 1985) ISBN: 0 58 249386 2
F.R. Bridge & Roger Bullen. The Great Powers and the European States System 1815-1914 (London: Longman
1980) ISBN: 0 58 249135 5
Robert Gildea. Barricades and Borders: Europe 1800-1914, 2nd ed. (Oxford: OUP 1996) ISBN: 0 19 820625 9
David Landes, The Unbound Prometheus: Technological Change and Industrial Development in Western Europe from
1750 to the Present (London: CUP 1969) ISBN: 0 52 109418 6

A COURSEWORK -ESSAY length 2000 WORDS weighted at 100%.

General Academic Learning Outcomes:
(1) an understanding of the ways in which change over historical time occurs or does not occur.
(2) an ability to think historically, and to understand historical persons and actions in their own context.
(3) an awareness of the differences between historians, and how trends in historiography change.
(4) an ability to research an historical topic by identifying, selecting, consulting and reflecting on sources.
(5) an ability to base your arguments and conclusions on verifiable evidence as found in secondary sources.

Module Specific Learning Outcomes:
(1) a general awareness of the interrelationship of political, economic, social and cultural aspects of history.
(2) an awareness of the foundations of European dominance of the world in the 'long 19th century'.
(3) an understanding of key concepts such as liberalism, nationalism, capitalism and socialism.
(4) an understanding of the ways in which industrialisation and modernisation shaped societies of the world
(5) an appreciation of the global consequences of the European ascendancy and its implications for the 20th C.

Transferable Skills:
(1) the ability to research and analyse a given topic.
(2) the ability to present your arguments coherently in written form and according to academic standards.
(3) the ability to manage your time and resources.

1 essay of 2,000 words = 100%, which will demonstrate the ability to analyse the chosen topic historically, with appropriate use of secondary sources and academic referencing conventions.