Type of course: |
Compulsory |
Language of instruction: |
Romanian |
Erasmus Language of instruction: |
English |
Name of lecturer: |
Sorin Arhire |
Seminar tutor: |
Sorin Arhire |
Form of education |
Full-time |
Form of instruction: |
Lecture |
Number of teaching hours per semester: |
70 |
Number of teaching hours per week: |
5 |
Semester: |
Summer |
Form of receiving a credit for a course: |
Grade |
Number of ECTS credits allocated |
6 |
Course aims:
The discovery and use of bibliographic and archival resources specific of specialization;
Learning to study twentieth century history from a critical perspective;
Creating a coherent historiographical discourse with educational or scientific purpose.
Course Entry Requirements:
History of Modern Romania
Course contents:
1. Introductory lecture
2. Romanians in the first two decades of the twentieth century.
3. Political regime in Romania (1918-1938).
4. Political parties in Romania during 1918-1938.
5. Government activity in interwar Romania I.
6. Government activity in interwar Romania II.
7. Economy and Society in Romania (1918-1941).
8. Romanian culture and the trends of ideas after 1918.
9. Romanian totalitarism: Carlist regime (1938-1940).
10. Romanian totalitarism II: National Legionary State and Antonescu’s dictatorship.
11. International relations of Romania during 1918-1941.
12. Romania in World War II.
13. Romania under the communist regime.
14. Final lecture.
Teaching methods:
Lectures, discussions.
Learning outcomes:
retrieval of written sources on the historical past;
establishing historical facts on the basis of historical sources and outside of these;
concrete production of new historical knowledge on the basis of deeper insights within the study of an epoch and/or of a medium complexity historical subject.
Learning outcomes verification and assessment criteria:
Oral exam – 50%; Research paper – 25%; Seminar activities – 25%.
Recommended reading:
Bulei, Ion,,
A Short History of Romania, Meronia
, Bucharest
, 2007
, 134
Hitchins, Keith,
Rumania 1866-1947, Oford University Press
, New York
, 1994
, 579
Treptow, Kurt W.,
A History of Romania, Center for Romanian Studies
, Jassy
, 1996