This module will study the resonances between collectors, artists, poets, and other hallowed figures of modernity, and their less admired or established...

This module is for half-year affiliate students only. Please see the 30-credit full-year version, HIST0039, for the full module description.

Please be aware...

The Industrial Revolution in Britain Affiliate (HIST0664)

This module is for half-year affiliate students only. Please see the 30-credit full-year version, HIST0039, for the full module description.
Please be aware that you will only be covering half of the module content described in the full module description (content covered in Term 1 or Term 2, depending on your time with us).
If you require any further information, please contact the History Taught Programmes Team.

The module is designed to underpin a solid introduction to Scandinavian culture and language in the first year of the Department’s single and joint...

Histories and Cultures of the Nordic Region (SCAN0011)

The module is designed to underpin a solid introduction to Scandinavian culture and language in the first year of the Department’s single and joint honours degree programmes. It is meant to introduce the study of history and of various forms of cultural production, while demonstrating the interaction between these cognate disciplines. The module also aims to contribute to the students’ intellectual and personal development by explicitly posing questions about power, ideology, authority and identity.

Students will gain knowledge and understanding of:

Key developments in Nordic history and culture from the Viking era to the present day

Discipline-specific methodologies and relevant approaches to history, cultural history, literature, film and other forms of art and culture

The cultural specificity and constructedness of historiography and cultural criticism.

The module will provide a thoroughgoing, wide-ranging and stimulating introduction to the history and culture of the Nordic region. Taught in an explicitly interdisciplinary manner by a number of members of faculty from the Department of Scandinavian Studies, the module will invite students to reflect on the methodologies and approaches specific to different, cognate disciplines (such as History, Literary Studies, etc.), and to identify connections between them. A central concern is to emphasise the constructed nature of historical narrative, and to this end the module will be structured around a number of key dates, moving backwards and forwards in time to explore both historical causality and relevant cultural expressions of the sociological formations under investigation.