Undergraduate Course: Enlightenment Scotland c.1690 - c.1800 (HIST10339)
Course Outline
| School | School of History, Classics and Archaeology |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 40 |
ECTS Credits | 20 |
| Summary | The principal aim of the course is to allow students to familiarize themselves with some of the most influential and important developments in Scottish intellectual culture of the eighteenth century, including the ideas of major figures such as Adam Smith and David Hume, and to relate these debates to their respective institutional, political and cultural contexts. |
| Course description |
The principal aim of the course is to allow students to familiarize themselves with some of the most influential and important debates and trends in Scottish intellectual culture of the eighteenth century, including the ideas of major figures such as Adam Smith and David Hume, and to relate these debates to their respective institutional, political and cultural contexts. Students will be encouraged to engage with the conflicting interpretations to be found in the secondary literature and, above all, to draw directly on evidence from primary texts, which are readily available in print and online, in order to develop and substantiate their arguments.
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Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2016/17, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: 15 |
| Course Start |
Full Year |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
400
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Seminar/Tutorial Hours 44,
Summative Assessment Hours 4,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 8,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
344 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
67 %,
Coursework
33 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Coursework:
During the year students must submit two essays with a maximum of 3,000 words each (including footnotes). Each of the two essays counts for one sixth of the final mark for the course. One third of the final mark will therefore be based on coursework.
Examinations:
Towards the end of the academic year students will sit two examinations of two hours each. Each of these examinations counts for one third of the final mark for the course. In each of the exams students must answer two out of a total of six or more questions.
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| Feedback |
Students will receive written feedback on their coursework, and will have the opportunity to discuss that feedback further with the Course Organiser during their published office hours or by appointment. |
| Exam Information |
| Exam Diet |
Paper Name |
Hours & Minutes |
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| Main Exam Diet S2 (April/May) | 1 | 2:00 | | | Main Exam Diet S2 (April/May) | 2 | 2:00 | |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- demonstrate, by way of coursework and examination as required, command of the body of knowledge considered in the course;
- demonstrate, by way of coursework and examination as required, an ability to read, analyse and reflect critically upon relevant scholarship;
- demonstrate, by way of coursework and examination as required, an ability to understand, evaluate and utilise a variety of primary source material;
- demonstrate, by way of coursework and examination as required, the ability to develop and sustain scholarly arguments in oral and written form, by formulating appropriate questions and utilising relevant evidence;
- demonstrate independence of mind and initiative; intellectual integrity and maturity; an ability to evaluate the work of others, including peers.
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Reading List
Alexander Broadie, The Scottish Enlightenment (Edinburgh, 2001).
Roy Porter, Enlightenment. Britain and the Creation of the Modern World (London, 2000).
Nicholas Phillipson, David Hume: the philosopher as historian (London, 2011).
Thomas Ahnert, The Moral Culture of the Scottish Enlightenment, 1690 - 1805 (London and New Haven, 2014).
John Robertson, The Case for the Enlightenment. Scotland and Naples 1680 ¿ 1760 (Cambridge, 2005),
R. Sher, Church and University in the Scottish Enlightenment (Edinburgh and Princeton, 1985).
Colin Kidd, Subverting Scotland's Past: Scottish Whig historians and the creation of an Anglo-British identity, c. 1689 - c. 1830 (Cambridge, 1993). |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Keywords | Enlightenment |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Thomas Ahnert
Tel: (0131 6)50 3777
Email: Thomas.Ahnert@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Stephanie Blakey
Tel: (0131 6)50 3580
Email: steph.blakey@ed.ac.uk |
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