UNott:The Contemporary World Since 1945

This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2009:

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The module surveys and analyses some of the main developments in world affairs since the end of the Second World War. This includes major international events, particularly the course and aftermath of the Cold War, as well as national and regional histories, especially in Europe, East asia and the Middle East. Attention is paid to political and economic forces.

The module aims to provide students with a framework of some of the main developments in world affairs since 1945, a knowledge of the background factors which influenced these developments, and an understanding of the historiographical debates surrounding them, and through these to develop the intellectual and transferable skills.

By the end of the module, in their assessed work, students should be able to: explain and interpret some of the main underlying forces that shaped world history in the period under discussion and show an understanding of major events in this process; evaluate forces of change and continuity within the period.

By the end of the module students should be able to: think critically and imaginatively about the subject matter; identify and address key problems relevant to it; interpret secondary sources upon it and be aware of differing historical interpretations of the subject matter; construct coherent and independent historical arguments of their own.

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.