Бакалавриат
2024/2025
История и культура стран Европы
Статус:
Курс по выбору (Иностранные языки и межкультурная коммуникация)
Направление:
45.03.02. Лингвистика
Кто читает:
Школа иностранных языков
Где читается:
Школа иностранных языков
Когда читается:
1-й курс, 2, 3 модуль
Формат изучения:
без онлайн-курса
Охват аудитории:
для своего кампуса
Язык:
английский
Кредиты:
4
Course Syllabus
Abstract
This course offers a comprehensive overview of European history from the Middle Ages to the 20th century, with a particular focus on the political, social, and intellectual developments that shaped the continent. Through the study of major historical events – including the formation of medieval states, the Renaissance, absolutism, revolutions, world wars, and ideological conflicts – you will gain a structured understanding of Europe’s transformation over centuries.
While history forms the foundation of the course, each period is examined alongside its cultural context: the visual arts, architecture, literature, and cinema that both reflected and influenced historical change. From Gothic cathedrals to Renaissance humanism, from 18th-century court culture to 20th-century film propaganda, you will explore how cultural production intersects with power, belief, and society.
By the end of the course, you will be able to interpret key events in European history while understanding how culture – especially visual and material culture – serves as both evidence and expression of the past.
The course combines lectures and seminars. Lectures are delivered in a dialogic, interactive format that encourages student engagement, critical reflection, and open discussion. Seminars provide space for deeper analysis of selected historical sources, artworks, and films, fostering a more detailed understanding of the period in question.
Learning Objectives
- To provide students with a structured understanding of European history from the Middle Ages to the 20th century, focusing on major political, social, and ideological developments.
- To examine key historical events explore their causes, consequences, and interconnections.
- To explore the cultural and artistic responses to historical change, including architecture, painting, literature, and film, as sources that reflect and shape historical consciousness.
- To familiarize students with major cultural movements and styles.
- To develop students’ ability to analyze and interpret visual and material culture, from medieval manuscripts and Renaissance paintings to propaganda films and 20th-century cinema, as historical evidence.
- To introduce students to key historical figures – political leaders, thinkers, artists, and filmmakers – who influenced European history and cultural identity.
- To cultivate historical thinking skills, including chronological reasoning, cause and effect, comparison, and critical engagement with primary and secondary sources.
Expected Learning Outcomes
- Students can identify the geographical and cultural features of the region.
- Provide students with the facts of ancient Greece history and culture
- Define the place of ancient Greek civilization in the world hstory and in the regional development of the Mediterranean
- The main terms of the Roman culture will be defined and explained
- Introduce students to the key artworks and their creators in the historical (geopolitical) frames with the help of museums and exhibitions
- Form a systematic understanding of the fine arts and architecture evolution issues
- Develop skills in recognizing and analyzing different countries and historical epochs artworks
Course Contents
- Unit 1. Introduction. The Mediterranean Region
- Unit 2. Ancient Greece
- Unit 3. Ancient Rome
- Unit 4. Culture of medieval Europe
- Unit 5. Renaissance culture
- Unit 6. Western European culture of modern times
- Unit 7. XX century
Assessment Elements
- Final TestThe test can integrate diverse assignments, for example open and close tasks. The final test is conducted on paper during the last seminar session.
- In-class participation
- Quizzes
- Individual Project
Interim Assessment
- 2024/2025 3rd module0.3 * Final Test + 0.15 * In-class participation + 0.1 * In-class participation + 0.25 * Individual Project + 0.1 * Quizzes + 0.1 * Quizzes
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- 9780252050541 - Albala, Ken - The Banquet : Dining in the Great Courts of Late Renaissance Europe - 2017 - University of Illinois Press - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=1625767 - nlebk - 1625767
- 9780300205152 - Paquette, Gabriel - The European Seaborne Empires : From the Thirty Years' War to the Age of Revolutions - 2019 - Yale University Press - http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=2111791 - nlebk - 2111791
- 9781476608433 - Harty, Kevin J. - The Reel Middle Ages : American, Western and Eastern European, Middle Eastern and Asian Films About Medieval Europe - 2006 - McFarland - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=1052184 - nlebk - 1052184
- 9781861895486 - Bendiner, Kenneth - Food in Painting : From the Renaissance to the Present - 2004 - Reaktion Books Ltd. - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=292540 - nlebk - 292540
- Akin, Y. (2011). The Ottoman Home Front during World War I: Everyday Politics, Society, and Culture.
- Armitage, D., & Subrahmanyam, S. (2010). The Age of Revolutions in Global Context, C. 1760-1840. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1522916
- Black, R. (2001). Humanism and Education in Medieval and Renaissance Italy : Tradition and Innovation in Latin Schools From the Twelfth to the Fifteenth Century. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=74141
- Blockmans, W., & Hoppenbrouwers, P. C. M. (2017). Introduction to Medieval Europe 300–1500 (Vol. Third edition). London: Routledge. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1620912
- Ching, F. D. K., Jarzombek, M., & Prakash, V. (2017). A Global History of Architecture (Vol. Third edition). Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1492721
- Cinema History as Social History : Retrospect and Prospect. (2019). Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsnar&AN=edsnar.oai.dspace.library.uu.nl.1874.383233
- Cline, P. L. (2016). Art and Archaeology of Ancient Rome: An Introduction. Etruscan Studies, 19(1), 177–180. https://doi.org/10.1515/etst-2016-0004
- Cook, J. W., & Facts on File, I. (2006). Encyclopedia of Renaissance Literature (Vol. 1st ed). New York: Facts on File, Inc. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=229629
- Davis, B. J. (2000). Home Fires Burning : Food, Politics, and Everyday Life in World War I Berlin. The University of North Carolina Press.
- Deger-Jalkotzy, S., & Lemos, I. S. (2006). Ancient Greece : From the Mycenaean Palaces to the Age of Homer. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=165161
- Gold, S. F., Chenowith, E., Andriani, L., & Zaleski, J. (2003). ART OF THE FIRST CITIES: The Third Millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus (Book). Publishers Weekly, 250(33), 74. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=bsu&AN=10618566
- Hopkins, L., & Steggle, M. (2006). Renaissance Literature and Culture. London: Continuum. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=837464
- Klasa, M. G. (2014). State and Empire Before and During the Napoleonic Era ; The effects of liberal revolutions in France, Spain, and Portugal at the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.A221B540
- Kuiper, K. (2010). Ancient Greece : From the Archaic Period to the Death of Alexander the Great (Vol. 1st ed). New York: Britannica Educational Publishing. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=317112
- Leo Charney, & Vanessa R. Schwartz. (1995). Cinema and the Invention of Modern Life. University of California Press.
- ZOCH, P. A. (2020). Ancient Rome : An Introductory History. University of Oklahoma Press.
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Kinoshita, S., & Horden, P. (2014). A Companion to Mediterranean History. Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=752634