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This course introduces students to the crucible of the modern age. Hinging on the American, French and 1848 Revolutions, it explores how men and women in elite and popular communities generated new modes of living, experience and expression and how they understood and manipulated the natural world. Attention will be given to the Enlightenment, Revolution, Empire, Romanticism and Ideology with interrelated developments in politics, culture and science also being explored. Students will be introduced to the works of figures such as Newton, Voltaire, Paine, Goethe, Marx, Darwin and Nietzsche. Topics will include Salons, the Terror, nationalism and secularisation. Download course guide.
| Study Type | Undergraduate | Level | 2 |
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| Term | First Term | Credit Points | 30 credits (15 ECTS credits) |
| Campus | None. | Sustained Study | No |
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This course introduces students to the crucible of the modern age. Hinging on the American, French and 1848 Revolutions, it explores how men and women in elite and popular communities generated new modes of living, experience and expression and how they understood and manipulated the natural world. Attention will be given to the Enlightenment, Revolutions, Empire, Romanticism and Ideology with interrelated developments in politics, culture and science also being explored. Students will be introduced to the works of figures such as Newton, Voltaire, Paine, Goethe, Marx, Darwin and Nietzsche. Topics will include Salons, the Terror, nationalism and secularisation.
Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.
1st Attempt: 1 two-hour written exam (40%); continuous assessment: (60%); an essay of 2,500 words (30%); a Document Report of 1,000 words (20%) and seminar participation (10%).
Individual and group work in seminars.
The document report will be returned on a one-to one basis to provide an initial indication of the students' skills and to identify areas for improvement. Similarly the essay will be returned one-to-one. It will build upon the skills identified in the document report, and provide an opportunity for those skills which were identied as weak to be developed. The emphasis will be on teaching academic and transferable skills including written expression, in-depth knowledge, effective synthesis and the conscise and coherent structuring of argument and deployment of information. The exam will assess the extent to which the stduent has fully achieved these objectuves and developed the requisite skill set.
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