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  • Study of Civilization Texts Syllabus

    Course Information
    Course Level: Licence 3
    Course Unit: U.E.f 1, fundamental
    Course Credit: 4
    Course Coefficient: 3

    Teacher Information
    Teacher in charge: Dr. Zeyneb Yousfi
    Email: zeyneb_yousfi@univ-tlemcen.dz
    Meeting location: Teachers' room/ internet room 
    availability hours: Tuesday from  10:00 to 11:30 and from 13:00 to 14:00     

                                                              
                                                          Learning Outcome/  Competencies: 

                             By the end of SCt Course, students would have developed an understanding of:

    • Key events and dates in British and American history, particularly the period between the 1900s and the 1960s
    • The relationship between Britain and America and these two with other countries in Europe, Latin America and Asia, which had played a fundamental role in making today's Great Britain and America.
    • British and American popular culture and its capacity at shaping the contemporary social,  political and economic domains of the U.K. and the U.K.
    • Prominent figures and noteworthy persons in Britain and America.
    • Historical evidence and its adequate utilisation.


    Course Contents: 

                     Semester 1                                                                               Semester 2

    Week 1: Edwardian Era                                                      Week 1: The Progressive Era/ students' presentation
    Week 2: Britain during WWI (part one)                               Week 2: America in WWI (part one)/ students' presentation
    Week 3: Britain during WWI (part two)                               Week 3: America in WWI (part two)/ students' presentation
    Week 4: The Roaring Twenties                                           Week 4: The Jazz Age/ students' presentation
    Week 5: The Great Depression                                          Week 5: The Great Depression/ students presentation
    Week 6: Continuous Evaluation                                         Week 6: America in WWII (part one)/ students presentation
    Week 7: Britain during WWII (part one)                              Week 7: America in WWII (part two)/ students' presentation 
    Week 8: Britain during WWII (part two)                               Week 8: America during the 1940s
    Week 9: Britain during the 1940s                                        Week 9: America during the 1950s
    Week 10: Britain during the 1950s                                      Week10: America during the 1960s 
    Weeks 11to 13: Revision for the exam                               Week 11: Revision for the exam 

    Grading Scale: 
    Exam:50%
    TD: 50% (20% in-class assignment writing (S1) group presentation (S2)) 
                  (15% class participation)
                  (15% quiz) 

    • Lecture two: The Edwardian Period

       Queen Victoria once wondered; "What will become of the country when I die? I forsee, if Bertie succeeds...he would spend his life in one whirl of amusements". Indeed, neither Queen Victoria nor the people of the kingdom had confidence in King Edward's reignining capacities. If the Victorian period was recognised as a the Age of Reason, under the reign of EdwardVII, Britain acquired a new reference marking it in history as the "golden summer".                                

                  

      Before Edward VII ascended to throne in 1901, he would have already cultivted his reputation as a playboy and a gambler, it was not surprising thus when the nation regarded him with much sucpicion and skepticism when he was handed the reign following the death of his mother. In especially tense times, and particularly with the Boer War exposing Britain's vulnerable political and military systems, the future under Edward's control seemed uncertain.  

                                                                                                                  

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