Module Identifier | WH31230 | ||
Module Title | WALES SINCE 1945 | ||
Academic Year | 2000/2001 | ||
Co-ordinator | Professor Aled Jones | ||
Semester | Intended For Use In Future Years | ||
Next year offered | N/A | ||
Next semester offered | N/A | ||
Mutually Exclusive | HC31230 , MW31220 | ||
Course delivery | Lecture | 18 Hours | |
Seminars / Tutorials | 10 Hours | ||
Assessment | Exam | 3 Hours | 60% |
Essay | 2 essays (1 x 4,000 words, 1 x 2,500 words) | 40% |
Brief description
This module will enable students to explore the major social, cultural and political changes that have taken place in Wales since the end of the Second World War. At one level it will address the ways in which one region of the United Kingdom was transformed by structural economic change, and how its people responded to that process. At another, it will examine the means by which political and cultural institutions moulded new, and at times contradictory, forms of national identity. Finally, concepts of political representation and leadership will be placed in the context of current historical and sociological writing on modern Wales.
Reading Lists
Books
** Recommended Text
T. Herbert & G.E. Jones. (1988)
The Remaking of Wales in the Eighteenth Century.
E. Hobsbawm & T. Ranger. (1983)
The Invention of Tradition.