Latest Module Specifications
Current Academic Year 2025 - 2026
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Description In this module, taught over eleven weeks in the first semester, students will encounter the early exploration and trading activities of Portugal and Castile (later Spain) in Asia, the Americas, Africa and the Caribbean; the commercial rivalry and struggle for colonies by the European states of England, France, Spain and Portugal, the Dutch and the Danes; European trade overseas, mercantilism and the overseas empires; the establishment of administrative and judicial machinery outside Europe; the activities of Christian missionaries in the imperial projects in Asia and the Americas in the Golden Age of Spain; England, and the Elizabethan Age; the trans-Atlantic slave trade, the industrial revolution, and the wonders of science and technology and the colonisation of North America, Latin America, Asia, the Middle East and Africa. Examining these explorations and themes allows us to see the shift towards globalisation as several parts of the world were incorporated into European empires, giving rise to interconnectivity, change and continuity, transforming the world’s cultural, demographic, socio-economic and political landscape. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Learning Outcomes 1. LO1: Historicise how Portugal, Spain, Holland, England, and France expanded beyond Europe to other parts of the world in the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries and explain the significant social, political, and cultural changes that resulted from these voyages of discovery, expansion, and empire. 2. LO2: Describe the nature of European empires in Africa, the Far East, Brazil, the New World, the Americas, and Asia between the fifteenth and the twentieth centuries. 3. LO3: Critically evaluate the Trans-Atlantic Slave trade and how it changed the tide of world history. 4. LO4: Develop a basic understanding of the external and internal historical forces that contributed to the Industrial Revolution, Christian missionary revival in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and colonial expansion. 5. LO5: Evaluate the impact of European expansion, empire-making, new imperialism, and globalisation on other parts of the world and a fundamental historical outline of global history to 1945. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml |
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