Postgraduate Course: The Enlightenment - Questions of Geography (PGHC11206)
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 | This is a course about the Enlightenment understood geographically. Where historians and others on the whole debate the 'what', the 'when' and the 'why' of the Enlightenment, this course will examine what it means to think about the 'where' of the Enlightenment.
Recent work by geographers, historians and historians of science has begun to consider the Enlightenment as, in several ways, geographically constituted. Consideration has been given to the connections between the Enlightenment, the practices of geographical knowledge and the nature of Enlightenment geography. Historians have sought to understand the Enlightenment 'above national context', are offering new insight into national Enlightenments and have explored questions of the institutional nature of Enlightenment sociability. Historians of science have recognised the geographical nature of the sciences in the Enlightenment. This course will draw upon these and other ideas in order to consider the geographical dimensions of the Enlightenment.
Three main themes will help order these intentions: The Geographical Scales of the Enlightenment; The Enlightenment World as a Matter of Geography; Geography in the Enlightenment.
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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
Students who successfully complete the course will in general acquire a detailed understanding of the geographical variations intrinsic to the Enlightenment, a critical appreciation of the ways the world was geographically examined in the Age of Reason and an understanding of the content and nature of Enlightenment geography together with an awareness of the located nature of audiences for Enlightenment geography and other forms of knowledge.
In particular, students will acquire
- an understanding of the importance of geographical difference in what the Enlightenment was;
- an awareness of the importance of geographical difference to current debates in Enlightenment studies;
- an ability to appreciate the constitutive interaction between ideas and the geographical contexts in which they were and are developed;
- an ability to present complex ideas in a reasoned and articulate manner, in written and in verbal forms;
- skills in textual analysis (including maps)
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Assessment Information
| One essay of 3000 words. |
Special Arrangements
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Additional Information
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Prof Charles Withers
Tel: (0131 6)50 2559
Email: C.W.J.WITHERS@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mrs Lindsay Scott
Tel: (0131 6)50 9948
Email: Lindsay.Scott@ed.ac.uk |
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