070331 UE Guided Reading East European History - Extracts of Hungarian History (2024S)

Students are to master some - economic or social - extracts of history of Hungary in the period of Austro-Hungarian Monarchy while learning the subject. They have to be problem-sensitive, prepared to reflect and argue, as well as familiar with current historical research. In addition to general literacy, they should also be able to acquire independent professional knowledge. Future professionals who deal with history or international relations should not visualize individual events in isolation, but in the correlation of cause and effect. It is of great importance to highlight historical people as well and to present their role in politics, economy, cultural history and in the history of ideas. Our goal is to create a historical viewpoint independent of politics and age that is preferably objective and problem-sensitive in the minds of our students.

1. Compromise and the history of Austro-Hungarian Monarchy from Hungarian perspective
2. Operation of Hungarian railway in the Great War
3. First railways in the Habsburg Empire and the development the Hungarian railway network
4. Interests behind the Hungarian railway network development
5. Collapse of Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and the Paris Peace Treaty Conference, Trianon peace
6. Impact of treaty of Trianon on Western Transdanubia network
7. History of cultural and world heritage
Railway as sustainable heritage due to Semmeringbahn, a Hungarian local railway under cultural protection