Course Details in 2025/26 Session

Module Title	LH Advanced Option: Before Globalization?: Afro-Eurasian World History 500-1800
School	History and Cultures
Department	History
Module Code	09 38888
Module Lead	Dr Simon Yarrow
Level	Honours Level
Credits	20
Semester	Semester 1
Pre-requisites
Co-requisites
Restrictions	None
Contact Hours	Lecture-10 hours Seminar-20 hours Guided independent study-170 hours Total: 200 hours
Exclusions
Description	This module puts European history in its place. An abiding theme of European world histories written between the eighteenth and the late twentieth century has been the West's unique rise to global pre-eminence through a range of diverse but interlinked processes that might collectively be called modernization. This historiographical assumption of a peculiarly 'European' modernity, and the dominant concepts and frameworks within which historians have characterized it, has left two significant areas of human history - medieval Europe and the non-West - out in the cold, the former seen as backward and contributing little to the story, the latter seen as the passive subject of Western political and economic dynamism and/ or, as the exoticized 'Other'.
Learning Outcomes	By the end of the module students should be able to: analyse and explain key events and historical processes relevant to the subject under scrutiny, analyse and explain reasons for and implications of these events and processes (including analysis of primary evidence where appropriate) compare and evaluate the main scholarly views on the subject under investigation, critically evaluate the historiographical context and trends of the subject under exploration work with an appropriate degree of learner independence to explain and analyse the material under scrutiny summarise, analyse and evaluate the subject material clearly and effectively in writing, synthesise and evaluate themes across a wide range of diverse material
Assessment
Assessment Methods & Exceptions	Assessment: S1 = 1 x 3,000 word essay (100%)
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