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The New Venture Creation module is an optional intermediate (level 5) 15-credit module for second, third or fourth-year students of the...

Early Modern History|European History|History|Social History|World History

This core course introduces students to history from the perspective of its ‘frontiers’. Students will firstly consider the frontiers of history as...

This core course introduces students to history from the perspective of its ‘frontiers’. Students will firstly consider the frontiers of history as a discipline, exploring some of the ways it has overlapped with other disciplines (such as anthropology, sociology, politics, and literature). The goal is not to impose disciplinary borders but to challenge them, encouraging students to think critically and creatively about how historians have defined their topics, methods, and sources. The course will also use the concept of ‘frontier’ to explore how literal and figurative boundaries, such as region and nation-state, have shaped the writing of history and to develop alternative perspectives. Rather than viewing European history from a Western (Franco-British) perspective, moreover, the course begins from its frontiers to the East, (specifically eastern and south-eastern Europe, including Russia and Germany), and it emphasizes the importance of comparative, transnational, and global perspectives.

The course is organized into four five-week thematic units. This structure allows students to encounter a range of methodological and conceptual approaches through specific pieces of historical writing by practicing historians and to explore different time periods, places, and themes. Some of the core structuring themes (frontiers, state and society, violence, modernity, revolution) also cut across the disciplines to chime with topics discussed in the Politics and Economics courses.

European Politics|Russian and East European Languages and Cultural Studies

The aim of this module is to examine the social, political and economic development of the fifteen post-Soviet states since 1991. It will examine why reform...