| Delivery Type | Delivery length / details |
|---|---|
| Lecture | 14 Hours. (14 x 1 hour) |
| Seminars / Tutorials | 10 Hours. (5 x 2 hours) |
| Assessment Type | Assessment length / details | Proportion |
|---|---|---|
| Semester Assessment | 1 x 2,500 word essay | 40% |
| Semester Exam | 1 x 2 hour exam | 60% |
| Supplementary Exam | Students may, subject to Faculty approval, have the opportunity to resit this module, normally during the supplementary examination period. For further clarification please contact the Academic Administrator in the Department of International Politics. |
On completion of this module, students should be able to:
1. Discuss the historical origins and development of modern France in the period covered
2. Compare the degree of menace to the established French political and social order in 1919-39 that came from Communism and fascism/proto-fascism
3. Identify reasons for the election of the reformist French Popular Front experiment in 1936, and illustrate and evaluate its achievements and failings
4. Describe and analyze de Gaulle's military role and impact on French defence policies
5. Evaluate how de Gaulle used British support and overcame American hostility to become leader of Free France from 1940-44.
6. Explain and illustrate de Gaulle's relations with collaborationist Vichy France and with the non-Gaullist Resistance
7. Illustrate French problems of decolonisation, explaining why France adopted peculiarly militarized responses to nationalist challenges to empire in the 1940s/1950s.
8. Demonstrate an understanding through written work and in seminar discussions of the chief constitutional and systemic features of the Gaullist Fifth Republic
9. Describe and discuss Gaullist France's foreign, defence and domestic policies, 1958-70
This module provides students with an understanding of the nature of political, economic, social and constitutional changes in France in the middle fifty years of the C20th, attending to crises for the legitimacy of French regimes from the Third to Fifth Republics, the impacts of the 1914-18 and 1939-45 wars, France'r traumatic loss of empire from 1936 to the 1960s, and the character of the Gaullist 'renewal' of the French state and national confidence by 1970.
This module allows interested students to gain specialist knowledge of modern France'r evolution from a crisis of national confidence after the World War One bloodletting to economic success, the shedding of empire and a new assertiveness under de Gaulle'r Fifth Republic.
This module is at CQFW Level 6