Course aims:

Knowing, understanding and a correct using of fundamental ideas concerning concepts specific to Contemporary Historiography.
Integration in a coherent structure of main theorizations and value landmarks recognised in Contemporary Historiography
Knowing, understanding and a correct using of fundamental ideas concerning concepts specific to Contemporary Historiography.

Course Entry Requirements:

History of Romanian Historiography; History of Historiography

Course contents:

1. Introduction: European Historiography of the 20th century. 2. Introduction in Romanian historiography of the 20th century. 3. Introduction in the Romanian historiography during Nicolae Ceauşescu’s epoch. 4. Introduction in the American historiography in the 20th century. 5. Introduction in the Romanian historiography today. 6. About new tendencies in the contemporary Romanian historiography. 7. Introduction in gender historiography after 1990. 8. Introduction in the studies of history and interdisciplinarity. 9. Introduction: History and historians from a regime to another one (Italy, Germany). 10. Introduction: History and historians from a regime to another one (Austria, Hungary). 11. Introduction: History and historians from a regime to another one (Russia, Bulgaria, Poland). 12. Introduction: History and historians from a regime to another one (Slovakia, Czech Republic, Croatia). 13. About historic discourse and its spreading. 14. Course’s conclusions. Evaluation.

Teaching methods:

Lecture, conversation, exemplification

Learning outcomes:

• retrieval of written sources on the historical past; • establishing historical facts on the basis of historical sources and outside of these; • the 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:

Written paper – interpretative essay – 60%; continuous assessment – 40%.

Recommended reading:

Lucian Boia, History and Myth in Romanian Consciousness, CEU, Budapest, 2000, 180.
Macintyre, Stuart, Maiguashca, Juan, Pók Attila (Eds.), The Oxford History of Historical Wrinting, vol 4 (1800-1945) Oxford, 2015, 860.
Novick, Peter, That Noble Dream, The “Objectivity Question” and the American Historical Profession Cambridge, 1996, 370.
Schneider, Axel, Woolf, Daniel (eds.), The Oxford History of Historical Wrinting, vol 5 (since 1945) Oxford, 2015, 760.
Munslow, Alun, Deconstructing History London & New York, 1997, 460.