Course Details
Course Information Package
Course Unit Title | MODERN HISTORY OF CYPRUS - CYPRUS PROBLEM | ||||||||
Course Unit Code | AJER261 | ||||||||
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Number of ECTS credits allocated | 4 | ||||||||
Learning Outcomes of the course unit | By the end of the course, the students should be able to:
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Mode of Delivery | Face-to-face | ||||||||
Prerequisites | NONE | Co-requisites | NONE | ||||||
Recommended optional program components | NONE | ||||||||
Course Contents | Historiography: the construction of history; uses of the past; ideology and science. Social history and levels of analysis. The The Ottoman period and its decline: social, political, and cultural structures of the empire. Decline and the processes of integration in the European world economy. The “introduction” of modernity in the eastern The advent of British colonialism. The geopolitical context. The political and cultural framework. The archibishopic issue at the beginning of the 20th century and its multiple implications. Sociological dynamics of Modernization: Changes in social structure, culture and class formation. The impact of external trends and developments. Local dynamics: the restless 20’s, 1931, the rise of the “people’s movement”, the upheaval of the 40’s.
The emergence of the modern political-ideological formations: Left and Right anti-colonial discourses and mobilizations. World War II and the change in the geopolitical reality and dynamics of the area. Anticolonial mobilizations. Internal intercommunal tension/conflict: the crisis of 1963 and 67. Their multiple interpretations. The geopolitical context [crisis in the western alliance and regional anti-colonial alliances] and the internal shift to independence. Conflicts within the G/C community. The growing rift between New form of the | ||||||||
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods | This course is delivered to the students by means of lectures and class discussions. Lectures are supplemented with assignments aimed at engaging the students with the subject matter as an area of research. The students are encouraged to focus on areas and dimensions which interest them and develop analytic interpretations on data and rival approaches. | ||||||||
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Language of instruction | Greek | ||||||||
Work placement(s) | NO |