The objective of this second-year twelve-session course is that all Sciences Po undergraduate students acquire an historical understanding of some key issues and themes in modern and contemporary political history. Following the first-year course on the political history of 19th century Europe, this course aims at providing students with a general basis of knowledge of the XX and XXI century, while asking them to address multiple topics and historical questions. Political history is here understood broadly and flexibly, encompassing social, economic and cultural factors.
This course will present the history of the contemporary world by means of a carefully selected choice of topics with a particular eye on the history of Europe and the Americas. The opening session of the course will address the decline of traditional empires, which characterized world history in the course of the 19th century and the early years of the 20th century. The final session of the course will bring the material up to the present. The aim is to present a comparative and transnational analysis and discussion of the history of the past one hundred years.
Mario DEL PERO,Anna SIDOREVICH,Christelle GOMIS,Olga BYRSKA,Emilia Flack,Marie SELLIER,Bengisu Zeynep ERTUGRUL,Sara GREEN,Yohan ODIVART,Emilie PASQUIER,Jules OGIER,Julius BECKER
Cours magistral et conférences
English
Spring 2023-2024
Two thirds of the overall grade (66%) consists of grades obtained for work performed in the context of the discussion sections (conférences de méthode), where students will discuss the mandatory readings, examine primary sources, engage with the main historiographical issues
and where students will be asked to make an oral presentation. This 66% is in turn a composite mark for three separate items:
- The mid-term exam (galop d'essai) (33%)
- An individual oral presentation focused on the analysis of one of the mandatory readings or a related primary document (33%)
- A written analytical comment on an article from an historical journal on a subject of relevance to this course (not one of the mandatory readings) or on an historical document of relevance to the issues discussed in the course (again: not one of the mandatory readings) (33%). The length of this analytical comment is 1.250 words.
The remaining third of the total grade (33%) for the course consists of the result of the Final Exam.