Course code

AIG6303.HT

old course code

Course title in Estonian

Uusaegne maailm

Course title in English

Modern History

ECTS credits

6.0

Assessment form

Examination

lecturer of 2026/2027 Autumn semester

Kaarel Vanamölder (language of instruction:Estonian)

lecturer of 2026/2027 Spring semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

Brief description of the course

The course examines the principal developments of the modern period from the Peace of Westphalia to the end of the nineteenth century. It considers the development of absolutist and parliamentary systems of government, the emergence of the European great powers, the Enlightenment, colonial expansion and the Atlantic Revolutions. The second half of the course addresses the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era, industrialisation, nationalism, liberalism, socialism, imperialism and the emergence of mass society. Political change is considered in relation to the economic, social, cultural, technological and artistic developments that paved the way for the twentieth century.

Learning outcomes in the course

Upon completing the course the student:
- is familiar with the principal developments and problems of the modern period from the Peace of Westphalia to the end of the nineteenth century;
- uses the core terminology of the period;
- identifies causal relationships during the period under consideration;
- cexplains how the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries differed from the medieval and early modern periods and from the twentieth century, and identifies the principal reasons for these differences;
- demonstrates a command of theoretical knowledge of modern history through an oral presentation;
- understands the art and architecture of the modern period in their historical, political and cultural contexts.

Teacher

Kaarel Vanamölder

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