Postgraduate Course: Core Topics in Enlightenment Studies (PGHC11202)
Course Outline
| School | School of History, Classics and Archaeology |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | Postgraduate (History, Classics and Archaeology) |
Other subject area | None |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | 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
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Course Delivery Information
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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. |
Assessment Information
| One essay of 3000 words. |
Special Arrangements
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Additional Information
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Thomas Ahnert
Tel: (0131 6)50 3777
Email: Thomas.Ahnert@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mrs Lindsay Scott
Tel: (0131 6)50 9948
Email: Lindsay.Scott@ed.ac.uk |
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