Work and Everyday Life 1800-2000

This course will give a historical introduction to selected themes from what people at all times have filled their life with: work and everyday life. At the focus of attention is how work and everyday life have been transformed over the last two centuries, with industry, urbanization, mass communication and new family patterns. Perhaps work and everyday life have undergone more basic changes during the last fifty years than since the beginning of industrialization?

A candidate who passes this course is expected to have the following learning outcome according to the course curriculum, defined as knowledge and skills:

Knowledge
The candidate is expected to
- have a general knowledge about some chosen themes within the history of work and everyday life since 1800
- get an understanding of how historians work when doing research in this field

Skills
The candidate is expected to
- be able to reason, argue and orient on chosen topics from the history of work and everyday life
- be able to consider the history of work and everyday life's role as a subject to both study and teaching, and how this role has changed throughout history
- reflect on how different sources, theories and methods can be used to gain knowledge on these topics
- be able to present the their work in a written asignment

Lectures and seminars.
Every student must write one approved essay, or give a seminar presentation during the course.