This module will present key ideas characteristic of the 18th and 19th Centuries in Europe, including those of the scientific revolution and Enlightenment, liberal and revolutionary politics in both centuries, romanticism, critical hermeneutics and Darwinism. The module will comprise reading and discussion of original texts, but also explore the interaction of these ideas on wider cultural or social movements and events. We will focus particularly on cultural artefacts, novels, plays, music, political pamphlets, cartoons or satires, etc. The module should be of interest to students of history, sociology, politics or literature, among others, insofar as it provides context for their other studies, and insofar as it provides a number of cases studies of the reciprocal influence of various types of culture (understood very broadly).

Portfolio, 100%
Totalling the equivalent of 2500 words (Learning Outcomes 1-4)

Key information set data:
100% coursework.

This module will be entirely taught through a series of workshops, two hours per week. The workshops will permit a flexible use of time, divided as the subject requires between brief lectures, screenings, group discussion, or small group work.

Key information set data:
15% scheduled learning and teaching activities
85% guided independent learning

Library facilities, online learning facilities.

Beethoven. (2006) Fidelio. Cond. Bernstein. Universal Classics DVD.
Blake, William. (2000) The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. Dover.
Byron, Lord. (2009) Manfred. Wilder.
Coleridge, Samuel. (2008) Biographia Literaria in The Major Works. Oxford.
Locke, John. (1996) Some Thoughts Concerning Education. Hackett.
Swift, Jonathan. (2009) 'An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity', in The Essential Writings of Jonathan Swift. Norton.
Thompson, James. (1793) The Seasons. pdf on archive.org
Voltaire. (2002) Micromegas. In Micromegas and Other Short Fictions. Trans. Cuffe. Penguin.

1. UNDERSTANDING OF SOME OF THE KEY IDEAS IN THE FORMATION OF THE MODERN WORLD, AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO WIDER CULTURAL OR SOCIAL EVENTS AND ARTEFACTS.
Application
Knowledge & Understanding

2. THE ABILITY TO ENGAGE WITH ORIGINAL HISTORICAL TEXTS, RESOURCEFULLY AND WITH UNDERSTANDING.
Analysis
Enquiry
Learning

3. THE CAPACITY TO PURSUE, IN WRITTEN DISCUSSION AND IN ESSAY FORM, THE MEANING, JUSTIFICATION, IMPLICATIONS AND CONTEXTS OF MAJOR IDEAS.
Communication

4. AN APPRECIATION OF THE DISTINCTIVE METHODS AND CHALLENGES ASSOCIATED WITH THE HISTORY OF IDEAS AS A DISCIPLINE, AND WITH THE RELATION OF INTELLECTUAL HISTORY TO OTHER ACADEMIC DISCIPLINES.
Enquiry
Learning
Reflection