This course focuses on the history of Modern Greece (1800 to the present) and starts with two weeks intensive reading and discussion of key historical events before moving to Athens for a month. In Greece, the course combines in-class sessions with mostly on-site teaching to provide in-depth understanding of major\u202fdevelopments in social, cultural, economic and political history of Greece since 1800.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The course starts by\u202fexploring the history of Ottoman and Venetian areas that formed the Greek State and includes themes such\u202fas: the Revolution of 1821, economic and social change in the nineteenth century; Greece in the Balkans; WWI\u202fand the interwar period; war and occupation in the 1940s; emigration and the Greek Diaspora; the 1967-1974 dictatorship and the post-1980s period of European integration, to the present and recent crises and\u202fchallenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Teaching is based primarily on experiential learning through visits to museums that provide a\u202funique insight to modern and contemporary history and present-day Greece, as well as visits to historical\u202farchives and research centres to understand how historians do research. In the second week of the\u202fcourse,\u202fstudents may have the opportunity to visit the island of Syros for a three-day summer school in Greek and Mediterranean history offered in\u202fassociation with the National Research Institute, as well as a two-day trip to the island of Hydra.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","pass-course-subject":[396],"summer-aboard-year":[1334],"class_list":["post-365501","summer-abroad","type-summer-abroad","status-publish","hentry","pass-course-subject-hist","summer-aboard-year-1334"],"yoast_head":"\n