Undergraduate Course: Rulers and Subjects - the Medieval Origins of the Nation State (LAWS10173)
Course Outline
| School | School of Law |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | Law |
Other subject area | None |
| Course website |
None |
Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | The course is meant as an introduction to the manifold subject of sovereignty in its historical evolution, from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance and the Absolutism.
The course will focus especially on:
a) the sovereignty of emperor and pope
b) the growth of national kingdoms;
c) the main theories on consent;
d) the problem of resistance;
e) the limits of sovereignty
f) the Absolutism
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | No |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2014/15 Semester 2, Available to all students (SV1)
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Learn enabled: No |
Quota: 25 |
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Web Timetable |
Web Timetable |
| Course Start Date |
12/01/2015 |
| Breakdown of Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Please contact the School directly for a breakdown of Learning and Teaching Activities |
| Additional Notes |
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| Breakdown of Assessment Methods (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
1. Knowledge and Sources of Law
Demonstrate and/or work with:
- Knowledge that covers and integrates most of the principal areas, features, boundaries, terminology and conventions of a subject discipline.
- A critical understanding of the principal theories, concepts and principles.
- Detailed knowledge and understanding in one or more specialisms some of which is informed by or at the forefront of a subject/discipline.
- Knowledge and understanding of the ways in which the subject/discipline is developed, including a range of established techniques of enquiry or research methodologies.
2. Subject-specific Skills
- Synthesis of complex information and ability to subject to informed critique
- Offer professional level insights, interpretations and solutions to problems and issues.
- Critically review and consolidate knowledge, skills, practices and thinking in a subject/discipline.
- Interdisciplinary understandings of complex problems
3. General Transferable Intellectual Skills
- Demonstrate some originality and creativity in dealing with professional level issues.
- Synthesis of complex information and ability to subject to informed critique
- Make judgments where data/information is limited or comes from a range of sources.
4. Key Personal Skills
Knowledge and understanding as well as the practice of it, transferable cognitive skills, communication and ICT skills, autonomy, accountability and the ability to work with others.
5. Subject-specific Legal and Ethical Values
- Autonomy
- Critical self-reflection
- Appreciation of the value of history in recreating the past and influencing the present.
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Assessment Information
| The course will be assessed by 2 essays, one due in the middle of the course (30%), the other at the end of the course (70%). Essay 1 will be 2,500 words maximum, essay 2 will be 3,500 words maximum. |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
| Academic description |
Not entered |
| Syllabus |
The course covers the main aspects of sovereignty and the creation of the nation state in their historical evolution, from the 11th to the 17th centuries. Special attention will be devoted to: the sovereignty of emperor and pope, the growth of national kingdoms, the main theories on consent, the problem of resistance, the limits of sovereignty, the path to Absolutism. |
| Transferable skills |
Not entered |
| Reading list |
Not entered |
| Study Abroad |
Not entered |
| Study Pattern |
One 2 hour seminar per week |
| Keywords | Rulers and Subjects |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Guido Rossi
Tel: (0131 6)50 2052
Email: Guido.Rossi@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Ms Krystal Hanley
Tel: (0131 6)50 2056
Email: Krystal.Hanley@ed.ac.uk |
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