POLITICAL AND SOCIOECONOMICAL HISTORY OF BELGIUM
 
Lectured in 1ste jaar Handelswetenschappen
Theory [A] 26.0
Exercises [B] 0.0
Training and projects [C] 0.0
Studytime [D] 90
Studypoints [E] 3
Lecturer Henri VAN VELTHOVEN
Co-lecturers  
Reference HKHAWE01A00061
 
Key words
Political and socioeconomical history of Belgium

Objectives
Giving an insight into the functioning of the current political-societal system and developing the students' active and critical citizenship from a historical frame of reference 19th-20th century.


Prerequisites
General knowledge


Topics
1. Theoretical frame of reference
2. Belgium
- The creation of the nation-state; political, industrial and cultural revolution
- The effects of the social movements, of World War I, of the economic depression in the 1930s, of World War II
- The consociational democracy
- The Welfare State, growing tensions between the Dutch-speaking and French-speaking communities
- Postindustrial society, European Union, federalized Belgium, new social movements....


Teaching Methods
lectures


Materials used
teacher's text
- other text- and/or casebook(s)



Study guidance


Assessment
closed book - open book written examination
Course

Study costs


Lecturer(s)
Henry VAN VELTHOVEN

Language
Dutch