Great Britain after World War 2

2024/2025

Type: Mago-Lego

Delivered by: School of Foreign Languages

When: 3, 4 module

Open to: students of all HSE University campuses

Instructors: Elena Styrina

Language: English

ECTS credits: 6

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Abstract

Designed to encourage language skills and critical thinking, the course invites students to learn about and reflect on important aspects of the history, culture, and language of Great Britain since 1945. Students are exposed to various materials including primary sources, analytical essays, interviews, and films and encourage to evaluate and interpret those materials and draw their own conclusions about historic, political, social, economic, and cultural phenomena of the country both in the regional and worldwide contexts.

Learning Objectives

to master critical thinking skills by analysing the reasons and outcomes of historical events;
to further develop the skills of debating on the topic of the area studies;
to gain knowledge on the current political, social, economic, and cultural situation in the UK;
to gain knowledge on the historical context of the UK;

Expected Learning Outcomes

Students will adhere to British behavioral culture taking into consideration English, Scottish, Welsh, Irish attitudes, values, linguistic norms and conversational formulas.
Students will review, analyze and evaluate the context, causes, and effects of major political and socio-cultural events in the UK after WWII.
Students will analyze the current political situation in the UK, paying special attention to the reasons for and outcomes of Brexit.
The students will be able to analyse the potitical system of the UK as it is at present and from the historical perspective.

Course Contents

Identity in the UK.
The political system of the UK
20-21 centuries. The UK as part of the world
Internal conflicts in the UK in modern era. What is what in modern Britain?

Assessment Elements

Discussions
Discussions make part of the majority of classes. Students will be participating in board discussions and minor group discussions.
Written homework
The criteria for each written homework may be different.
Test
Presentation
Examination
The examination takes place during the session period in the form of an oral answer.

Interim Assessment

2024/2025 4th module
0.2 * Discussions + 0.3 * Examination + 0.15 * Presentation + 0.2 * Test + 0.15 * Written homework

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

A Glimpse of Great Britain (Знакомство с Великобританией) : учебное пособие / составители Ю. А. Манжосова [и др.]. — Курск : КГУ, 2021. — 90 с. — Текст : электронный // Лань : электронно-библиотечная система. — URL: https://e.lanbook.com/book/190774 (дата обращения: 00.00.0000). — Режим доступа: для авториз. пользователей.
Government in Britain: people, politics and policy : учебно-методическое пособие / составители О. Р. Жерновая [и др.]. — Нижний Новгород : ННГУ им. Н. И. Лобачевского, 2014. — 51 с. — Текст : электронный // Лань : электронно-библиотечная система. — URL: https://e.lanbook.com/book/152935 (дата обращения: 00.00.0000). — Режим доступа: для авториз. пользователей.

Recommended Additional Bibliography

50 things you need to know about britain : методические указания / составители Я. Н. Еремеев [и др.]. — Воронеж : ВГУ, 2016. — 86 с. — Текст : электронный // Лань : электронно-библиотечная система. — URL: https://e.lanbook.com/book/165249 (дата обращения: 00.00.0000). — Режим доступа: для авториз. пользователей.
9780755634293 - Helen Ramscar, Michael Clarke - Britain's Persuaders : Soft Power in a Hard World - 2021 - Bloomsbury Publishing - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=3033122 - nlebk - 3033122
9781315463520 - Gowland, David - Britain and the European Union - 2017 - Routledge - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=1365247 - nlebk - 1365247
Ann Berrington, Juliet Stone, & Éva Beaujouan. (2015). Educational differences in timing and quantum of childbearing in Britain. Demographic Research, (26), 733. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsrep&AN=edsrep.a.dem.demres.v33y2015i26
Brake, M. (1985). Comparative Youth Culture : The Sociology of Youth Cultures and Youth Subcultures in America, Britain and Canada. London: Routledge. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=79714
Government in Britain: political parties, the crown, parliament and principles of governing : учебно-методическое пособие / составители О. Р. Жерновая [и др.]. — Нижний Новгород : ННГУ им. Н. И. Лобачевского, 2014. — 66 с. — Текст : электронный // Лань : электронно-библиотечная система. — URL: https://e.lanbook.com/book/152981 (дата обращения: 00.00.0000). — Режим доступа: для авториз. пользователей.
Royle, E. (2012). Modern Britain Third Edition : A Social History 1750-2011 (Vol. 3rd ed). London: Bloomsbury Academic. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=435126
Simon C. Smith. (2012). Ending Empire in the Middle East : Britain, the United States and Post-war Decolonization, 1945-1973. Routledge.
Михельсон, С. В. Great Britain : учебно-методическое пособие / С. В. Михельсон. — Красноярск : КрасГАУ, 2017. — 91 с. — Текст : электронный // Лань : электронно-библиотечная система. — URL: https://e.lanbook.com/book/130103 (дата обращения: 00.00.0000). — Режим доступа: для авториз. пользователей.

Authors

STYRINA ELENA VYACHESLAVOVNA

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