6 ECTS credits
150 u studietijd

Aanbieding 2 met studiegidsnummer 1002465BER voor alle studenten in het 1e semester met een verdiepend bachelor niveau.

Semester
1e semester
Inschrijving onder examencontract
Mogelijk
Beoordelingsvoet
Beoordeling (0 tot 20)
2e zittijd mogelijk
Ja
Inschrijvingsvereisten
Je hebt ‘Politicologie: algemene inleiding' gevolgd, alvorens dit vak op te nemen.
Onderwijstaal
Engels
Onder samenwerkingsakkoord
Onder interuniversitair akkoord mbt. opleiding
Faculteit
Faculteit Sociale Wetensch & SolvayBusinessSchool
Verantwoordelijke vakgroep
Politieke Wetenschappen
Onderwijsteam
Jonathan Holslag (titularis)
Koert DEBEUF
Anne-Marie Dedene
Wannes Johan Verstraete
Onderdelen en contacturen
15 contacturen Hoorcollege
12 contacturen Werkvormen en Praktische Oef.
12 contacturen Werkvormen en Praktische Oef.
123 contacturen Zelfwerk en -studie
Inhoud

World citizenship and critical thinking are two key objectives of our university and also prioritized in this course. This course is an exploration through three thousand years of world politics. It is an ambitious venture, no doubt, but there is no shortcut. If theory brings you instantly to abstract suppositions, history allows you to discover its context, to retrieve the origins of these broad ideas, and to judge them more critically on their merits. History is also what allows future leaders to be versatile, to understand what shaped the interests of countries, their sensitivities, and the origins of important diplomatic principles. History matters. 

This course takes you to different cradles of civilization, the North-China Plain, Mesopotamia, the plains along the Indus and the Ganges, Europe, yes even Mesoamerica, the Nile, and Sub-Sahara Africa. It will explore with you the causes of major wars, the beginnings of diplomacy, the evolution of international organizations, intellectual approaches towards international relations, and the technological innovation that contributed to shifts in the balance of power. You will make acquaintance with the ambitions of emperors, but equally so with the experience of early ambassadors, with intellectuals like Machiavelli and Sun Tzu, with traders who were plagued by conflict, and even with farmers who dreaded the end of a long peace. 

The broad sweep of world politics is laid out for you in a voluminous textbook: three thousand years of events summarized. But you will have to chart yourself a way through these events, the personalities, and the places. The book consists of thirteen chronologically ordered chapters, accompanied by questions. Each week of this semester, you are expected to read a chapter, to answer the questions individually, and then to discuss them in small groups, supervised by myself or an assistant. At the end of the semester, there is a written exam. This exam will test your factual knowledge, but also the extent to which you can interpret history, establish relations between different regions, periods, and dimensions of world politics.

Studiemateriaal
Handboek (Vereist) : A Political History of the World, Three Thousand Years of War and Peace, Holslag, Pelican, 9780241395561, 2019
Digitaal cursusmateriaal (Vereist) : Slides
Digitaal cursusmateriaal (Vereist) : Additional texts will be made available, Canvas
Bijkomende info

This course is demanding. It asumes that students are familiar with the basics of political science and the history of political ideologies. It expects students to have a strong command of English (TOEFL 70+), basic knowledge of history (level Flemish ASO secondary school) and geography. Students should also be able to summarize text into schemes. Students should be able to read academic texts and to have a conversation in English.  

It is key that you come to class prepared. Your preparation input in the discussions will be followed by the supervisors. Each week, you will thus have to read about 10,000 words. This course counts for 6 study points, which equals about 150 working hours for a student that meets the prerequisites, or about one day per week plus the exam period. 

This course expects students to develop their own synthesis from the textbook. To that end, they will compare notes and discuss their observations in small reading groups. At the start, this will be guided by specific questions, but these will become broader towards the end. About five plenary lectures will offer a broad overview and help students prepare for the exam.

Leerresultaten

Algemene competenties

This course has two principle objectives. On the one hand, I want you, as a student, to have a bird's eye view of world history, to have a general notion of the broad sweep of events throughout the different regions, social domains, and historical periods. The other main objective is to strengthen your capacity to deal with complexity, to independently analyse, interpret, structure, and summarize a large body of information.

Beoordelingsinformatie

De beoordeling bestaat uit volgende opdrachtcategorieën:
Examen Schriftelijk bepaalt 80% van het eindcijfer

Examen Andere bepaalt 20% van het eindcijfer

Binnen de categorie Examen Schriftelijk dient men volgende opdrachten af te werken:

  • Schriftelijk examen met een wegingsfactor 100 en aldus 80% van het totale eindcijfer.

Binnen de categorie Examen Andere dient men volgende opdrachten af te werken:

  • Geografie test met een wegingsfactor 10 en aldus 10% van het totale eindcijfer.
  • Klasparticipatie e.a. met een wegingsfactor 10 en aldus 10% van het totale eindcijfer.

Aanvullende info mbt evaluatie

Written closed book exam: 80%

Geography test: 10% (Non-participation in the test leads to a score of 0 for this part. Non-participation in the test does not exclude a student from participation in the written exam. For organizational reasons, only one test moment is provided. No resits are provided (not even for students who are legitimately absent). The result of the first examination period is transferred to the second examination period.)

Class participation, work reports and peer review: 10% (marks transferred to second session). Generative AI may not be used for this evaluation. Use of generative AI will be treated as an irregularity and will be reported to the Dean.

Toegestane onvoldoende
Kijk in het aanvullend OER van je faculteit na of een toegestane onvoldoende mogelijk is voor dit opleidingsonderdeel.

Academische context

Deze aanbieding maakt deel uit van de volgende studieplannen:
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Bachelor of Social Sciences: Political Sciences (enkel aangeboden in het Engels)
Bachelor of Social Sciences: Sociology (enkel aangeboden in het Engels)
Bachelor of Social Sciences: Startplan (enkel aangeboden in het Engels)
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