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

HIST2014. Twentieth-century Europe, Part II: Europe divided and undivided, 1945-1991 (6credits)(This course is also offered to second and third year non-BA students for inter-Faculty broadeningpurposes.)After the Second World War, Europe was divided into two camps, with Germany itself split intoWestern and Communist portions. The survey of the Western camp will focus on British, French andWest German politics, social change, student revolts, and the growth of the consumer society and massculture. In studying the 'Other Europe', the course will concentrate on the way Communism evolvedand changed in the Soviet Union and its Eastern European empire, concluding with the dramaticpopular revolutions that so suddenly toppled the Communist regimes in Eastern Europe in 1989 and theeven more momentous collapse of Communism in the former Soviet Union in 1991. As the pace ofchange in the whole of Europe increased so dramatically in 1989, the course ends with a series ofquestions. What are the prospects for European unity, economically and politically? What role will thenew unified Germany have in Europe? What are the prospects for Russia and the other republics thathave emerged from the ruins of the Soviet Empire?Students studying this course would find Part I: The European Civil War, 1914-1945 very useful.Assessment: 100% coursework.199HIST2015.The United States before 1900 (6 credits)(This course is also offered to second and third year non-BA students for inter-Faculty broadeningpurposes.)This is a general survey history of the United States from the colonial era up to 1900. Emphasis will beprimarily on the nineteenth century. Key areas of focus include: industrialization and economic growth,urbanization, frontier communities, immigration, slavery, the Civil War, socio-political reformmovements, and the Spanish-American War. This course is continued by The United States in thetwentieth century, though the two courses can be taken separately.Assessment: 100% coursework.HIST2016.The United States in the twentieth century (6 credits)(This course is also offered to second and third year non-BA students for inter-Faculty broadeningpurposes.)This course continues the survey of United States history begun in The United States before 1900,though it can be taken separately. It traces the United States' response to its adjustment from an agrarian,small-scale society to a large-scale, urban, industrialized nation, characterised by large organizations.Concurrently, it covers the development into a global power with interests throughout the world.Assessment: 100% coursework.HIST2018.The foreign relations of China, Part II: since 1949 (6 credits)(This course is also offered to second and third year non-BA students for inter-Faculty broadeningpurposes.)This course studies the development of China's foreign relations after 1949 with reference to historicalinfluences, ideological premises and practical political, strategic, and economic considerations. Specialattention is given to the interaction between theory and practice in China's foreign relations, theevaluation of the impact of China's foreign policy on international politics and vice versa, and theassessment of the major approaches to the study of the topic.Assessment: 100% coursework.