Contemporary History

Duration

30h Th

Number of credits

Lecturer

Julie Dury

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the first semester, review in January

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

Contemporary history from the first world war to the present day

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

General course objectives:
- To encourage students to become responsible citizens
- To develop student's critical mind, ability to summarise and general knowledge
- To allow students to understand the world in which they are evolving

Special course objectives:
- date, locate and put back in their context the historical events seen in class;
- in documents, define and mobilise historical concepts seen in class and/or present in the glossary provided;
- critical examination: establish the identity card and check the relevance as well as the reliability of the proposed documents;
- analyse (retrieve information/messages) the written, cartographic, statistical, schematic, iconographic documents, etc., and put them back in their historical context;
- highlight the cause and effect relations between the information from the past seen in class;
- adopt an active learning attitude by reading texts (compulsory reading).

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Ex cathedra classes and exercices

Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)

Face to face

Recommended or required readings

Compulsory reading:   BAIGORRI JALÓN (J.), De Paris à Nuremberg: naissance de l'interprétation de conférence, Ottawa, Les Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa, 2004 (Coll. «Regards sur la traduction» dirigée par J. Delisle), pp. 127-128, 139-173 et 267-276.
Recommended readings:
- ASSELAIN (J.-C.) et alii, Précis d'histoire européenne. Du 19e siècle à nos jours, Paris, 2015.
- Atlas des relations internationales, sous la dir. de P. Boniface, Paris, 2013.
- CAROL (A.), GARRIGUES (J.) et IVERNEL (M.), Précis d'histoire du XXe siècle, Paris, 2005.
- DUROSELLE (J.-B.) et KASPI (A.), Histoire des relations internationales de 1919 à nos jours, 2 t., Paris, 2017.
- HAYT (R.), Atlas d'histoire, Bruxelles, 2012.
- Le dictionnaire historique et géopolitique du 20e siècle, sous la dir. de S. Cordelier, Paris, 2007.
- LEJEUNE (D.), Histoire du monde actuel (1990-2000), Paris, 2001.
- NOUSCHI (M.), Le 20e siècle. Tournants, temps, tendances, Paris, 2016.
- NOUSCHI (M.), Petit atlas historique du 20e siècle, Paris, 2016.
- VAÏSSE (M.), Les relations internationales depuis 1945, Paris, 2017.
- VAÏSSE (M.), Dictionnaire des relations internationales de 1900 à nos jours, Paris, 2009.

Assessment methods and criteria

Written exam in January relating to the subjects studied in class and the compulsory texts: 100% of the mark, 10% of which for mastery of the French language

Work placement(s)

Organizational remarks

Contacts

Julie DURY

Bât. BE-026 Haute Ecole de la Ville de Liège
rue Hazinelle 2
4000 Liège
Belgique

E-mail: Julie.Dury@ulg.ac.be

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