Entangled Histories: France and Germany in the mid-century era (Part 2)

Module overview

This module explores Franco-German history between the Fall of France (1940) and the end of the 1950s. The first half focusses on the German occupation of France, exploring aspects of everyday life, collaboration and resistance, violence and the Holocaust. The second explores defeat, reconstruction, reconciliation and war memory, culminating in the signature of the Treaty of Rome, the establishment of the post-war economic boom, and the end of the fourth French Republic. Throughout the module we foreground themes of transnational encounter, comparative methods, and the constantly entangled nature of Franco-German history.

Linked modules

HIST3261

Aims and Objectives

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

How developments in Germany and France were to some extent dependent upon perceptions of and encounters with the respective other.
The nature and impact of Nazism in a wider European context.
The political, social and cultural contours of Germany and France from 1918 to the decades after 1945.

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

utilise and develop your time-management skills
research historical questions and communicate your findings convincingly and concisely in written essays and reports
locate and use effective textual, visual and material culture sources in the library and on-line, synthesising this material in order to develop cogent arguments

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the political social and cultural contours of France and Germany from 1940 to the end of the 1950s
analyse the impact of Nazism on occupied and reconstruction-era Europe using France as a case study
understand how developments in Germany and France in the period were mutually implicated and dependent in many ways on perceptions of and encounters with the respective other

Learning and Teaching

Teaching and learning methods

The current intention is to deliver teaching for this module online. If circumstances allow, some form of blended delivery methods, including lectures, seminars, workshops, or individual tutorials may be introduced if it is safe for all concerned to do so. However, delivery will remain entirely online if face to face teaching is not possible or advisable.

Study time
Type	Hours
Seminar	48
Independent Study	252
Total study time	300

Assessment

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Breakdown
Method	Percentage contribution
Timed Assignment	50%
Written assignment	50%