HIS-30129 - Module Specification
School of Humanities
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Programme/Approved Electives for 2022/23

Available as a Free Standing Elective

Co-requisites

None

Prerequisites

None

Barred Combinations

None

Description for 2022/23

The module aims to provide students with a new perspective on German history. Moving away from the common focus on Nazi Germany, the Holocaust, and imperial history, the module will instead explore German reactions to the many manifestations of 'high modernity' between 1900 and 1933. The primary focus of the module will be on the openness of German history, allowing students to reject teleological readings of the subject. Students will come to appreciate the options available to men and women of the time, when the 'old' and the 'new' were juxtaposed in many areas of life, including art, work, politics, consumption, and sexuality. The module will also introduce students to the methods of cultural history.

To introduce students to German history before the advent of Hitler;
To enable students to analyze continuity and discontinuity in German history;
To allow students to identify and assess different perspectives of the historiography on Germany in the early twentieth century.

Intended Learning Outcomes

discuss, evaluate, and critically assess a range of primary sources: 1
utilize critically primary sources in order to produce historical narratives: 1
engage in debate in a sensitive, constructive, and rigorous manner: 1,2
discuss, evaluate, and critically assess historiographical debates and methodologies: 1,2

Study hours

10 x 2 hours seminar
50 hours seminar preparation
50 hours essay preparation
30 hours preparation for group presentation

School Rules

None

Description of Module Assessment