20-21 HS2015: Safe European Home? Europe 1945-2000
Course Leader: Prof. Dan Stone
Email: d.stone@rhul.ac.uk
Office: IN 007B
Office hours: Monday 11am-12pm; Tuesday 10-11am
Lectures: online, followed by an online seminar with Dan Stone (Mondays 9-10am) and an in-person seminar with Emily Smith, either Monday 10-11am (group 1) or Tuesday 11am-12pm (group 2). You will find your group and the location of these seminars on your personal web timetable. Emily's office hour is Monday 2-3pm (online).
Reading Week - 15-19 February 2021
The course is assessed by a 1,000-word literature review (25%) and a 48-hour online exam (75%). You will also be expected to write a formative literature review plan.
Submission dates for assessed work: Wednesday 24 February 2021 (literature review)
Details of how to submit work electronically via the submission box on Turnitin will be supplied by the Humanities School in due course.
Course content:
A chronological history of major institutional and political events across Europe from the end of World War II until the end of the twentieth century. It examines the reconstruction of Europe, the communist take-over of Eastern Europe, the Cold War, communism, the EEC, decolonisation, the collapse of dictatorships in southern Europe, the post-1973 recession, the collapse and aftermath of communism, including the unification of Germany and the wars in Yugoslavia.
Email: d.stone@rhul.ac.uk
Office: IN 007B
Office hours: Monday 11am-12pm; Tuesday 10-11am
Lectures: online, followed by an online seminar with Dan Stone (Mondays 9-10am) and an in-person seminar with Emily Smith, either Monday 10-11am (group 1) or Tuesday 11am-12pm (group 2). You will find your group and the location of these seminars on your personal web timetable. Emily's office hour is Monday 2-3pm (online).
Reading Week - 15-19 February 2021
The course is assessed by a 1,000-word literature review (25%) and a 48-hour online exam (75%). You will also be expected to write a formative literature review plan.
Submission dates for assessed work: Wednesday 24 February 2021 (literature review)
Details of how to submit work electronically via the submission box on Turnitin will be supplied by the Humanities School in due course.
Course content:
A chronological history of major institutional and political events across Europe from the end of World War II until the end of the twentieth century. It examines the reconstruction of Europe, the communist take-over of Eastern Europe, the Cold War, communism, the EEC, decolonisation, the collapse of dictatorships in southern Europe, the post-1973 recession, the collapse and aftermath of communism, including the unification of Germany and the wars in Yugoslavia.