Current active course description (last updated 2021/22)
Modern Norwegian History after 1815
HI118S
Current active course description (last updated 2021/22)

Modern Norwegian History after 1815

HI118S
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
Higher Education Entrance Qualification.
General study competance

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 one-year programme and bachelor in history. Elective course for other students
Lectures, colloquia, oral presentations, writing with student peer review, assignments, organised for both net- and campus students. 
Annual evaluations which are included in the university´s quality assurance system.

Compulsory assignment: written assignment of about 3 pages, comprises 0/100 of the grade. Graded pass/no pass. Compulsory participation in colloquia, comprises 0/100 of the grade. Graded approved/not approved. Written home exam 6 hours. Graded A-F.

The exam can be answered in either Norwegian or English.

Generating an answer using ChatGPT or similar artificial intelligence and delivering it in whole or in part as your own answer is considered cheating.
Adequate knowledge of the English language to read and analyse texts in English.

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

HI105S-001 - Modern Norwegian History (after 1780) - 8 credits

HI105S-002 - Modern Norwegian History (after 1780) - 2 credits

HI118LS - Modern Norwegian History after 1814 - 10 credits

HIS1000 - History of the North - 10 credits

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Curriculum literature
Leganto
Course language
English
Credits
10
Study location
Bodø
Responsible faculty
Faculty of Social Sciences
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