Bachelor of Arts (BA) - The University of Hong Kong

194HIST1004.Workshop in historical research (6 credits)The research skills and methodologies used by historians are based on the critical analysis of primaryand secondary sources. Competency in these skills and an acquaintance with the various methodologiesof the historian are central to advanced studies in the historical discipline, but these skills andmethodologies are also highly transferable to the workplace. In this course, students will work in smallgroups on a research project. Learning will be through directed group discussions and coordinatedindividual research tasks. The course will introduce students to a wide range of historical sources, equipthem with the skills to analyse and interpret those sources, and will also encourage students to developleadership and team-work roles in solving real historical problems.Assessment: 100% coursework.HIST1006.Foundations of the modern world: The West in the nineteenth century (6 credits)(This course is also offered to non-BA students for inter-Faculty broadening purposes.)This introductory course will be offered in the first semester and is normally taken by all students whointend to major in History, but it will also be of interest to other students who wish to include History intheir first-year programme. The course aims at encouraging students to acquire a range of skills andknowledge that will both equip them for further studies in History and also provide more generalpreparation for the workplace and a deeper understanding of the world at large. Emphasis is placed oninteraction between students and teachers, and students are encouraged to acquire informationtechnology skills through use of a web-based 'electronic textbook'. The coursework will focus on arange of themes exploring the nineteenth-century Western world, from romanticism and revolution toindustrialisation and imperialism.Assessment: 100% coursework.HIST1008.The world at war (6 credits)(This course is also offered to non-BA students for inter-Faculty broadening purposes.)By the end of 1941, the entire world was engulfed in war, a war from which the world would emerge inruins and permanently altered. This course surveys the origins and the course of the Second World War.Here we will examine fascism, national socialism, and German and Japanese expansionism policies.Much attention will focus on the military struggle between 1939 and 1945: tactics, strategy, and majorbattles. Then we will also examine the occupation policies of the New Order, collaboration andresistance, mass bombings, social change, the concentration camps and the Holocaust in some details.The course will conclude with an analysis of war-time diplomacy, which was the origins of the ColdWar.Assessment: 100% coursework.HIST1009.The twentieth-century world (6 credits)(This course is also offered to non-BA students for inter-Faculty broadening purposes.)This is a first-year course designed to attract non-history majors. It focuses upon providing a broad,non-specialized introduction to the twentieth-century world, and assumes no previous historicaltraining on the part of its clientele. It will be organized around such themes as: the impact of majorswars, revolutions, the rise and fall of fascism and communism, the decline of the Western empires, thegrowth of popular democracy, urbanization, globalization, the changing status of women, andenvironmental change. Students will be expected either to write a term paper on some theme thatinterests them or to work as a team on a project related to some aspect of the twentieth century.Assessment: 100% coursework.