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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.
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
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.
Any 15 points at 100 level in HIST or CLAS120, orany 60 points at 100 level from the Schedule V of the BA.
HIST393
Heather Wolffram
Domestic fee $785.00
International fee $3,500.00
* 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.
This course will not be offered if fewer than 20 people apply to enrol.
For further information see Humanities .