The main issues of the European politics in the 19th century

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Course ID:	3104-WH19TKIZ-OG
Erasmus code / ISCED:	08.3 Kod klasyfikacyjny przedmiotu składa się z trzech do pięciu cyfr, przy czym trzy pierwsze oznaczają klasyfikację dziedziny wg. Listy kodów dziedzin obowiązującej w programie Socrates/Erasmus, czwarta (dotąd na ogół 0) – ewentualne uszczegółowienie informacji o dyscyplinie, piąta – stopień zaawansowania przedmiotu ustalony na podstawie roku studiów, dla którego przedmiot jest przeznaczony. / (0222) History and archaeology The ISCED (International Standard Classification of Education) code has been designed by UNESCO.
Course title:	The main issues of the European politics in the 19th century
Name in Polish:	Główne problemy polityki europejskiej w XIX wieku (K1)
Organizational unit:	Faculty of History
Course groups:	General university courses General university courses in the humanities
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores):	(not available) Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles: the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS; the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h; 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes; weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS; work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load. view allocation of credits
Language:	Polish
Type of course:	elective courses general courses
Prerequisites (description):	(in Polish) Znajomość historii Europy na poziomie licealnym.
Short description:	This lecture course will examine the main issues of the European politics from the French Revolution to the First World War. Political matters will be presented with a special emphasis on their social and cultural context. A focus of attention will be modernization and its political consequences.
Full description:	This lecture course will examine the main issues of the European politics from the French Revolution to the First World War. Political matters will be presented with a special emphasis on their social and cultural context. A focus of attention will be modernization and its political consequences. 1. Revolution as an idea. 2. Revolution as political praxis. 3. Revolution as trauma and mith. 4. Ideologies: „opium of the people”? 5. Commumities: between village and nation. 6. Power: legitymization, participation, loyalty. 7. Politics and private life: the old and the young, family, gender, sex. 8. Religion and politics. 9. Empires and nations: the Habsburg Empire. 10. Empires and nations: Russia. 11. Towards nation state: Italy. 12. Towards nation state: Germany. 13. Colonialism. 14. World politics: Great Britain and its rivals. 15. War in 19th-century Europe.
Bibliography:	H. Kissinger, Diplomacy, New York 1994 {parts]. P. Kennedy, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflicts from 1500 to 2000, New York 1987 [parts].
Learning outcomes:	Students should identify crucial events and processes in 19th-century Europe, analyse historical matters in cause-and-effect categories and in a comparative way.
Assessment methods and assessment criteria:	Student attendance (80%), test exam passed.

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