HIST293-24S2 (C) Semester Two 2024

Fascism and the Far-Right in Europe

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 15 July 2024
End Date: Sunday, 10 November 2024
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 28 July 2024
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 29 September 2024

Description

This course examines the rise of Fascist movements in Italy, Germany, France and Eastern Europe during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries before considering the far-right and fascist regimes created by Franco, Mussolini and Hitler. The course also reflects on the state of the European radical right today.

This course examines the rise of fascist movements in Europe following the First World War before considering the fascist regimes created by Mussolini and Hitler. While Italian Fascism and German National Socialism provide the principal and historically most important examples of fascism examined in this course, students will also have the opportunity to learn about numerous other fascist and far-right movements of the inter-war period that failed to reach the regime stage. In the second half of the course, we look at fascism thematically, considering fascists’ approaches to race, gender and violence as well as the attempts of the fascist regimes to shape their citizens’ everyday lives. In the last weeks of the course we will look at both post-war fascism and the state of European neo-fascism and the far-right today.

Learning Outcomes

  • On completion of HIST293 you will:
  • Demonstrate familiarity with the main theories and debates around fascism and the far-right in Europe by completing the course assessment;
  • Demonstrate an understanding of how fascist movements develop and what makes them successful or unsuccessful by completing your first essay;
  • Demonstrate an understanding of how fascist regimes exercise power and how fascism relates to race, gender, violence and culture by completing your second essay, and;
  • Demonstrate knowledge of the historiography around fascism and the far-right in Europe by completing your tutorial presentation and discussing such issues in both essays.

    Skills include:
  • Managing your work and time;
  • Research: locating information and using Library, electronic and other resources; interpreting primary sources;
  • Essay writing;
  • Critical analysis of primary sources and historiographical arguments;
  • Basic scholarly conventions: referencing, compiling bibliographies, use of quotation, and;
  • Oral presentations
    • University Graduate Attributes

      This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attributes specified below:

      Critically competent in a core academic discipline of their award

      Students know and can critically evaluate and, where applicable, apply this knowledge to topics/issues within their majoring subject.

Prerequisites

Any 15 points at 100 level in HIST or CLAS120, or
any 60 points at 100 level from the Schedule V of the BA.

Restrictions

Timetable 2024

Students must attend one activity from each section.

Lecture A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Monday 15:00 - 16:00 Jack Erskine 031 Lecture Theatre
15 Jul - 25 Aug
9 Sep - 20 Oct
Lecture B
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Wednesday 09:00 - 10:00 E6 Lecture Theatre
15 Jul - 25 Aug
9 Sep - 20 Oct
Tutorial A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Friday 10:00 - 11:00 E12
22 Jul - 25 Aug
9 Sep - 20 Oct
02 Thursday 12:00 - 13:00 Psychology - Sociology 251
22 Jul - 25 Aug
9 Sep - 20 Oct

Course Coordinator

Heather Wolffram

Assessment

Please check the course LEARN page for further details and updates.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $844.00

International fee $3,950.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

Minimum enrolments

This course will not be offered if fewer than 20 people apply to enrol.

For further information see Humanities .

All HIST293 Occurrences

  • HIST293-24S2 (C) Semester Two 2024