This course is available on the BA in History, BSc in Government and History, BSc in International Relations and History and BSc in Politics and History. This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students.
This course is available on the BA in History, BSc in Government and History, BSc in International Relations and History and BSc in Politics and History. This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students.
Recorded lectures. The School aims to run in-person classes, subject to circumstances, with some online provision if and where necessary. There will be a reading week in week 6 of the Michaelmas and the Lent Terms.
Two pieces of formative assessment are required, the first a source-criticism exercise in the Michaelmas Term and the second a conventional essay in the Lent Term. In addition students will do a mock exam.
A full reading list will be provided at the start of the course. The following represent basic introductory reading only, and an indication of some primary sources: T C W Blanning, The culture of power and the power of culture (2002); D Outram, The Enlightenment (1995); T Munck, The Enlightenment (2000); R Porter, The Enlightenment (2001); Ritchie Robertson, The Enlightenment (2021); Anthologies: I Kramnik (Ed), The Portable Enlightenment Reader (1995); S Eliot & B Stern (Eds), The Age of Enlightenment (2 vols, 1979).
Exam (70%, duration: 3 hours) in the summer exam period. Presentation (15%) and class participation (15%) in the MT and LT. Students MUST give an assessed presentation in either the MT or the LT. Class participation will be graded across both the MT and the LT.