Course overview
This course focuses on the role of protest and revolution in shaping modern Europe. By looking at a number of case studies, from the anti-Nazi uprisings at the end of World War II to street protests and riots in contemporary Europe, the course will explore the causes, the course and the consequences of political protest movements. Under what circumstances do such protest movements emerge? What methods are used by governments to neutralise or suppress mass protest? When, and for what reasons, do protest movements succeed in bringing about lasting change?
Course learning outcomes
- A broad knowledge of the history of protest and revolution in modern Europe from 1942 to the present day.
- An understanding of some of the main conceptual approaches to the interpretation of social protest.
- The ability to identify, access, contextualise and evaluate a wide variety of relevant primary and secondary sources.
- The ability to construct evidence-based arguments about the causes, course and consequences of protest movements.
- The ability to communicate effectively both in writing and orally as part of team-based projects.
- Proficiency in the use of relevant technologies to accumulate and analyse data and to present findings.
- Knowledge of the conventions concerning scholarly debate and the presentation of arguments and the ability to apply them.
- An awareness of hte relationship between protest and revolution and underlying issues of social justice.
- The ability to conceptualise and execute a subsantial and analytically sophisticated, team-based research project.