Current active course description (last updated 2020/21)
Modern Norwegian History after 1814
HI118LS
Current active course description (last updated 2020/21)
Modern Norwegian History after 1814
HI118LS
The course covers the following main topics:
- Norway in 1814
- The demographic transition - population growth in the 19th century
- The industrial breakthrough after ca. 1840 - "hamskiftet" - the agricultural upheaval
- The "civil servant's state" 1814-84, the parliamentary system and the party-political breakthrough
- The union with Sweden 1814-1905
- Economic, social and political polarising in the inter-war period
- Norwegian foreign policy 1905-2000
- The ascendancy of the Labour Party - the post-war Welfare State
- Neo-liberalism after ca. 1980
Students must be admitted to the Senior Teacher Education Programme in Social Science.
On successful completion of the course:
Knowledge
- The student should have acquired a basic knowledge of central events and development processes regarding the economic, social and political history of Norway from 1814 until ca.2000. This will include knowledge of major social and cultural institutions and the relationships between these, throughout the period.
Abilities
- The student should be able to discuss historical problems and reach their own conclusions.
General competence.
- The student should be able to access a comprehensive scientific literature, to review relevant knowledge from the literature and to argue for their own conclusions in written work.
None, except semester fee and course literature.
Compulsory for the Senior Teacher Programme in Social Science
Lectures and seminars, full time.
Annual evaluations which are included in the university´s quality assurance system.
Pencil, penn, ruler, simple calculator and dictionary.
Overlap refers to a similarity between courses with the same content. Therefore, you will receive the following reduction in credits if you have taken the courses listed below:
HI118NS - Modern Norwegian History from 1814 - 10 credits
HI118NS - Modern Norwegian History after 1814 - 10 credits
HI118S - Modern Norwegian History after 1815 - 10 credits
HIS1000 - History of the North - 10 credits