Questions of history : contemporary period

Teacher(s)

Debruyne Emmanuel;

Language

French

Prerequisites

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The prerequisite(s) for this Teaching Unit (Unité d’enseignement – UE) for the programmes/courses that offer this Teaching Unit are specified at the end of this sheet.

Main themes

Attentive to spatial and temporal changes, the course will be based on a documentary corpus available in translation. It will develop, for the contemporary/modern period, the knowledge of institutional frameworks, in the sociological sense of the term: constituted by a set of tasks, beliefs, rules, practices and behaviours instituted between people, these institutional frameworks have a particular purpose and a certain stability over time. These institutions can be political, social, religious, economic, cultural and religious. Their knowledge is essential for research on the contemporary/modern period and will introduce them to recent historiographical problems and methods.

Aims

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :
1	At the end of this course, the student will be able to place an institution (considered in a broad sense) in its political, ideological, economic, social and cultural context, to analyse its skills and functioning, and to identify the actors involved, for the contemporary/modern period. It will also be able to place in their historiographical context the questions currently being debated by the research.

The contribution of this Teaching Unit to the development and command of the skills and learning outcomes of the programme(s) can be accessed at the end of this sheet, in the section entitled “Programmes/courses offering this Teaching Unit”.

Teaching methods

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Bibliography

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Faculty or entity

HIST