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| 0621-1690-03 | Introduction to the Twentieth Century | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| FACULTY OF HUMANITIES | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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University credit hours: 4.0
Course description
dr. michal sapira
This course surveys different issues in the cultural, social, economic, military, gender and intellectual history of modern Europe. The 20th century saw swift and unprecedented changes that radically influenced the lives of European (and non-European) men, women and children. Among the issues we will discuss are: modernism and modernity; imperialism and migration; cinema and modern visual culture; ; the development of the human sciences and of psychoanalysis; World War One; feminism and socialism; pacifism, fascism, communism and Nazism and the development of democracy; World War Two; the Cold War; the development of the welfare state; decolonization, the sexual revolution and the 1960s, and the fall of the Berlin Wall and the European Union.
This course surveys different issues in the cultural, social, economic, military, gender and intellectual history of modern Europe. The 20th century saw swift and unprecedented changes that radically influenced the lives of European (and non-European) men, women and children. Among the issues we will discuss are: modernism and modernity; imperialism and migration; cinema and modern visual culture; ; the development of the human sciences and of psychoanalysis; World War One; feminism and socialism; pacifism, fascism, communism and Nazism and the development of democracy; World War Two; the Cold War; the development of the welfare state; decolonization, the sexual revolution and the 1960s, and the fall of the Berlin Wall and the European Union.