Learning outcome

Objectives of the course:

Knowledge and understanding:

• A good command of the main features of Norwegian history after c. 1800.

• A broad knowledge of important historical events in this period, and of their background.

• Comprehension of methods used in different parts of the history field.

• Comprehension of how historical knowledge is established.

Skill:

• Ability to criticize, comment on or edit texts and documents according to the general critical rules used in the study of history.

• Ability to analyze critically historical information, sources and literature, and to draw independent conclusions from such materials.

• Ability to organize complex historical information in a logically consistent way.

• Knowledge of information retrieval tools.

Competence:

• Ability to impart historical material orally and in writing.

• Ability to work independently with a given problem.

• Ability to acquaint oneself with new problem areas and to analyze issues from several angles.

• Be conscious and respectful of perspectives having different national and cultural origins.

• Be critically conscious of the relations between the past and current events and processes.

Course Description

From the period of absolute monarchy until the agreements with the European Union

The main elements:

- 1814

- Demographic growth and changes in society

- Constitutional conflict and parliamentarianism

- National integration

- Dissolution of the Swedish-Norwegian union

- Norway becomes industrialised

- Conflicts and crises in the interwar period

- Norway during the Second World War

- Norway and the "Social democratic order" after 1945

- The drift towards conservatism and the spread of neo-liberalist economic thought

Assessment Methods

There will be a 4-hour written examination at the end of the semester. Questions may be given from the entire course syllabus. This form has been chosen to test both the students' knowledge and understanding of historical developments and their ability for analytical and critical thought and written communication, see above. Grading is on a scale from A-F, where A is best and F is failed.

Minor adjustments may occur during the academic year, subject to the decision of the Dean