Course I3107B · Year III · Autumn 2026-2027

INTRODUCTION IN HISTORIOGRAPHY OF THE 20TH CENTURY

Elective (1 of 3) course in History, taught by Laura-Claudia Stanciu.

Overview

Lecturer
Laura-Claudia Stanciu
Seminar tutor
Laura-Claudia Stanciu
Type of course
Elective (1 of 3)
Language of instruction
English
Erasmus language
English
Domain
History
Field of study
History
Form of education
Full-time
Form of instruction
Class
Credit awarded by
Grade
Teaching methods
Lecture, conversation, exemplification
Entry requirements
History of Romanian Historiography; History of Historiography

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 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.

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.

Assessment

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

Recommended reading

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