BIS

Code: ELL 315
Name: British History and Culture
Semester: 5
Lecture hours: 4.00
Seminar hours: 0.00
Laborator hours: 0.00
Credits: 4.00
ECTS: 5.00
Description: A course that seeks to teach students the main elements of Modern British Culture and History
Objectives: 1. To teach students the importance of class in understanding how English people think and behave. 2. To teach students the history of Britain from the end of the Roman occupation up to and including the Industrial Revolution. 3. To allow students to appreciate and understand how this history has made the society/ body politic that is in evidence in Britain today and how it has influenced the nature of British people. 4. To show students how British people interact and why they choose the forums and ways they do. 5. To encourage students to ask questions and draw conclusions about their own culture and compare it with British culture 6. To teach students the essence of Englishness. 7. To teach them what effect globalization has or hasn’t had on Englishness

1: To be able to appreciate the importance of class in understanding how English people think and behave.
2: To have an understanding of the history of Britain from the end of the Roman occupation through the Dark Ages and especially since the Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions.
3: To be able to appreciate and understand how this history has made the society/ body politic that is in evidence in Britain today and how it has influenced the nature of British people.
4: To be able to identify how British people interact and why they choose the forums and ways they do.
5: To be able to identify how their culture and British culture is different and the same and why it is so and to try to ask the same type of questions about their own culture as are being applied to British culture and society in this course.

Histori dhe Kulturë Britanike