ENG BASF: Formidling af fortiden: den engelsktalende verdens historie

Exploring the history and growth of English-language culture, this course will employ relevant historical, political, cultural, and social debates and issues. Classes will explore fundamental societal themes, using appropriate theories and historical methods, including the role of primary and secondary sources, the importance of cause and effect, as well as contextual historical conditions across time. Employing interdisciplinary insights, it develops regional, national, transoceanic, and global perspectives. With pedagogy founded in problem-based group learning, the course examines and evaluates the use of varied sources in the construction and argumentation of historical narratives.

Scope
Presenting the Past follows the unlikely unfolding of the Anglophone world to prominence from 1500 to 1945. Themes include selections from: Rise of the Tudors; Fall of the Stuarts; New World; Scientific Revolution; Atlantic Slavery; Voyages of Exploration and Discovery; American Revolution; American Civil War; American Westward Expansion; Nineteenth Century New York; Victorian London; First World War; and Imperial Legacies. The themes become increasingly global in nature as the course progresses, but with roots in the passage of English from-one-among many European tongues to global status. The themes taught reflect points of continuity and change, both internally for each theme and across the themes covered by the course.

While traditional careful readings of primary and secondary materials will be strongly represented, Presenting the Past will also use digital techniques —both to support this offering, and to develop your digital literacy. The course builds towards Current Perspectives in Modern Anglophone History and Culture in Semester 2.