Core Topics in Enlightenment Studies (P01716)

? Credit Points : 20 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : HCA-P-EnligCore

The purpose of this obligatory core course is to introduce students to current scholarship and debates on the Enlightenment. The course will be taught in weekly seminars, which will have the following themes:
1. Introduction: general trends in historiography on the Enlightenment(s).
2. Geographical contexts of Enlightenment: local, national, European, trans-atlantic, exotic (voyages of discovery).
3. Enlightenment and the "rise of the public sphere".
4. Institutions of Enlightenment (universities, academies, museums, societies).
5. Science in the Enlightenment.
6. Political Thought in the Enlightenment.
7. Historiography in the Enlightenment
8. The Enlightenment and religion.
9. Popular culture and the Enlightenment.
10. Material culture of the Enlightenment.
11. Presentation of dissertation research proposals by students

Entry Requirements

? This course is not available to visting students.

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Postgraduate (School of History and Classics), (School of History, Classics and Archaeology, Schedule E)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Semester 1 (Blocks 1-2)

? Contact Teaching Time : 1 hour(s) 50 minutes per week for 11 weeks

First Class Information

Date	Start	End	Room	Area	Additional Information
18/09/2007	14:00	15:50			William Robertson 332

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

The course aims in particular

- To introduce students to central debates in Enlightenment scholarship
- To familiarize students with a variety of possible approaches to the study of the Enlightenment, c. 1650 to 1840.
- To help students in defining their own research methodology.

It is anticipated that students who have successfully taken part in this course will have developed a thorough understanding of current developments in scholarship on the Enlightenment. It is also expected that students will have had an opportunity to formulate a possible approach to the subject of their dissertation.