Undergraduate Catalogue of Courses 2012/2013

Course Co-ordinator: Dr C Dartmann

Pre-requisite(s): Available only to students in Programme Year 3 or above.

Note(s): This course is now full for 2012/13.

Students are not permitted to register for this course after the end of week 2 of teaching.

Admission subject to approval by the Head of School. This course will be available at the discretion of the Department of History.

This module is available to students on all non-History degree programmes as a Discipline Breadth course for the enhanced study requirement. However, the admission of students with a non-History degree intention will be at the discretion of the School of Divinity, History, and Philosophy.

This course will be available in 2012/13 as HI 354B.

Some selected major issues of domestic policies, important in a common way to the three countries, will be examined in a comparative way. Themes may include: social policies, threat of instability/civil war, political parties, experiences of demobilisation and mobilisation, reactions to the world depression, reactions to international developments, in particular eg. the Spanish Civil War, developments in art.

1 two-hour and 1 one-hour seminar per week (time to be arranged).

1st Attempt: Continuous assessment summative assessment (100%): essay ca. 4,500 words (60%), annotated bibliography (20%), 10 items; class presentation (10%); handout based on presentation (10%);

Resit: Continuous assessment
resit (100%): essay ca. 4,500 words (60%); annotated bibliography 10 items (20%); book review, ca. 1,000 words (20%).