2018-2019 / HIST0039-1

Modern history

Duration

45h Th

Number of credits

 Bachelor in ancient languages and literatures : classics5 crédits 
 Bachelor in information and communication5 crédits 
 Bachelor in modern languages and literatures : German, Dutch and English5 crédits 
 Bachelor in history of art and archaeology : general5 crédits 
 Bachelor in history5 crédits 
 Bachelor in history5 crédits 
 Bachelor in modern languages and literatures : general5 crédits 
 Bachelor in history of art and archaeology : musicology5 crédits 
 Bachelor in ancient languages and literatures : Oriental studies5 crédits 
 Bachelor in philosophy5 crédits 
 Bachelor in French and Romance languages and literatures : general5 crédits 
 Bachelor in French and Romance languages and literatures : general5 crédits 

Lecturer

Annick Delfosse

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the first semester, review in January

Schedule

Schedule online

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

This course presents a synthesis of Early Modern History (15th-18th Century), mainly in Europe, taking into account its political, cultural, social, religious and economic dimensions. It will give the opportunity to understand the main stakes of the modernity from the Italian Renaissance to the European Enlightenment.


The goal of the first year of Bachelor in History is to gain useful basic knowledge for your future training. Therefore, this course is foremost a structuring course, intended to fix and to capitalize the knowledge. Its other goal is to introduce you to the understanding of historical phenomena (explanation, links, classification...). For these two reasons, the course is also open to the other students of the Faculty: everybody will find here the opportunity to organize and complete his/her knowledge about the early modern period and to improve his/her approach of history.

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

With this course, you will gain knowledge with :

  • characteristic doctrines and concepts of the Early Modern period (Humanism, Renaissance, Enlightenment, tyrannicide, despotism, mercantilism...)
  • definite chronology and geography of the Early Modern period
  • European - and sometimes worldwide - approach of the Early Modern period.
At the end, you will get a general mastery of the Early Modern History, necessary precondition to continue your history training. You will be able to define precisely the main intellectual, cultural, religious, social, economical and political movements of this period. You will be able to place on a European map the main states and cities of this period. You will be able to explain the causes and consequences of the main events of this period. You will be able to link these events between each other and to underline the main stakes of Modernity.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

None. However, it is advisable to have a good command of French. To help you, you can contact the departmental teaching assistant, Jacqueline Austen. E-mail and telephone number below.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

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

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Recommended or required readings

You can find useful supports with

  • Jérôme Hélie, Petit Atlas historique des Temps modernes, 3nd ed., Paris, Armand Colin, 2016 (textbook with illustrations and maps).
  • Atlas d'Histoire Hayt, 32nd ed., Bruxelles, De Boeck, 2012 (standard historical atlas)
All these books are available in bookshops of town centre.

Assessment methods and criteria

Soon

Work placement(s)

Organizational remarks

This course is given and assessed in the very short space (1 quadrimester).

Contacts

Tenured lecturer :
Annick Delfosse,
Département des Sciences historiques
Quai Roosevelt, 1b - Bât. A4, niveau 1.
Tél : 04/3665455
adelfosse@ulg.ac.be


I'm easily available by e-mail. I will answer as soon as possible. However, I would prefer you directly ask the questions about the lessons in the forum of the online course.


Secretary :
Corinne Bolsée,
Département des Sciences historiques,
secrétariat
Quai Roosevelt, 1b - Bât. A4, niveau 0
Tél : +32 4 366 5875

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Online Notes
Notes available on eCampus.