History
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​​​​​​​​​​​​ Semester 1 

13463 - His 318 (24) 

Twentieth Century History: A Global Perspective (4L)  

  • ​Selected themes in twentieth century history from political, environmental and social history perspectives, including:
    • Global social, environmental, economic, demographic and political shifts and cultural change: religion, gender, class
    • Changes in civil society, education, the arts and sciences in the long twentieth century
  • Engagement with the basic idea of historiography and basic historical methodology
  • ​Colonial liberation and nation building in the 20th century:
    • The end of the formal imperial era
    • Independence movements in Africa and India
    • New States
    • Cultural dimesions of independence: the search for a "pure" African culture in a globalising world
    • Africa in the globalising world

 

 Semester 2 

13463 - His 348 (24) 

South Africa in the 20th Century (4L) 

  • Perspectives on the Anglo-Boer War/ South African War
  • Wealth and poverty as persistent factors in 20th-century South Africa
  • Cultural and political dimensions of the rise and disintegration of Afrikaner nationalism
  • Perspectives on apartheid
  • The growth and dynamics of black political organisations and the change in power relations in 1994
  • Women and change in South African society
  • American cultural influences on black and white South Africa in historical perspective​​​