2017 - 2018

0621-1690-05
  Introduction to the Twentieth Century                                                                
FACULTY OF HUMANITIES
Prof. Igal HalfinGilman-humanities306Tue1600-2000 Sem  2
 
 
University credit hours:  4.0

Course description

"The long twentieth century" begins as early as 1870 and continues to this day. Changes came extra fast during this period and not all of them can be included in a single course. Teachers therefore choose different focuses for their courses and sometimes concentrate on a more limited geographic region (Russia and Eastern Europe, Central, or Western Europe), others opt to cover only parts of this period or deal exclusively with political/social-economic/cultural/intellectual history.

 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

Dr. Sagi schaefer

"The long twentieth century" begins as early as 1870 and continues to this day. Changes came extra fast during this period and not all of them can be included in a single course. Teachers therefore choose different focuses for their courses and sometimes concentrate on a more limited geographic region (Russia and Eastern Europe, Central, or Western Europe), others opt to cover only parts of this period or deal exclusively with political/social-economic/cultural/intellectual history

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