Topic assignment (2800 words) 70%

The main criterion for assessment of the topic assignment is the ability to present in a clearly argued and accurately footnoted written form an investigation of a topic from the module to demonstrate relevant learning outcomes.

Sources assignment (1200 words) 30%

The main criterion for assessment of the sources assignment is the ability to explain the meaning, significance, historical and historiographical context of selected primary and secondary source quotations to demonstrate relevant learning outcomes.

Blanning, T.C.W. The Culture of Power and the Power of Culture: Old Regime Europe 1660-1789 (O.U.P., Oxford, 2002)
Censer, Jack R. & Hunt, Lynn Liberty, Equality and Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution (Penn Univ. Press,
Pennsylvania, 2001) [with cd-rom]
Chartier, Roger The Cultural Origins of the French Revolution (Duke Univ. Press, Durham and London, 1991)
Doyle, William The Oxford History of the French Revolution (O.U.P., Oxford,1989)
Hunt, Lynn Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution (Methuen, London, 1986)
Jones, Peter (ed) The French Revolution in Social and Political Perspective (Arnold, London, 1996)
Kennedy , Emmet A Cultural History of the French Revolution (Yale Univ. Press, New Haven & London, 1989)
Kramnick, Isaac (ed) The Portable Enlightenment Reader (Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1995)
Melton, James Van Horn The Rise of the Public in Enlightenment Europe (CUP, Cambs, 2001
Munck, Thomas The Enlightenment: A Comparative Social History 1721-1794 (Arnold, London, 2000)
Outram, Dorinda The Enlightenment (C.U.P., Cambridge, 1995)
Roche, Daniel France in the Enlightenment (Harvard UP, Cambs Mass., 1998)
Williams, David The Enlightenment [Source Readings], CUP, Cambridge, 1998
J. Yolton (ed) Blackwell Companion to the Enlightenment (Blackwell, Oxford, 1991)

Academic General Learning Outcomes
(1) An understanding of the nature of particular approaches to history such as cultural history, in the works of Lynn
Hunt and others.
(2) An understanding of the interaction of key concepts, such as culture and power, for example how a new scientific
'empirical' culture could bring with it a challenge to the unquestioned power of the Church.
(3) Ability to investigate a single topic in considerable depth and with use of primary sources and journal articles to the
20 credit topic assignment length.
(4) An ability to interpret and contextualise source extracts with an awareness of the historiographical context and to the
20 credit sources assignment word length.

Subject-Specific Learning Outcomes
(1) Knowledge of the social context of the Enlightenment (such as the growth of coffee houses and literary Salons) and
the creation of political cultures in the French Revolution (such as political clubs, use of revolutionary symbols,
festivals and architecture).
(2) An understanding of the main ideological developments associated with the Enlightenment (such as the belief in
reason and progress) and the French Revolution (such as the articulation of the concepts of 'liberty, equality and
fraternity').
(3) A greater in-depth knowledge and a greater awareness of historiographical issues than in the 10 credit version,
including research beyond the module reading list.

Transferable and Key Skills
(1) Ability to engage in conceptual thinking in the topic assignment and make interpretations in the sources
assignment.
(2) Ability to undertake and make due use of the very substantial amount of self-directed study allocated in the 20 credit
version and utilise research skills to complete the assignments.

A ASSIGNMENT length 2800 WORDS weighted at 70%. A ASSIGNMENT - SECOND ASSIGNMENT length 1200 WORDS weighted at 30%.

The module will comprise 160 hours total learning time, of which approximately 24 will be student contact hours, generally in the form of a weekly one hour lecture, and a one hour seminar alternating with a tutorial hour, with approximately 136 hours independent learning assisted by making regular use of the timetabled tutorial hour.
The lecture will introduce the main themes and arguments of the module content, including use of slides and video extracts.
The format of the fortnightly seminar will be determined by the tutor and students in a discussion at the beginning of the module, and arranged and monitored by the tutor and student representatives for 10 and 20 credits. Formats can include seminar presentations, reading groups, discussion of source extracts or a combination of these and other ways of stimulating prior preparation and discussion.
In addition module information and discussion will be available by e-mail discussion list and/or a VLE component.
The independent study should be used for reading key texts, reading for seminar topics, and for research, planning and writing of assignments, assisted by regular use of the class tutorial hours and regular use of e-mail discussion list and/or VLE component.
The substantial independent learning element constitutes the main difference between the 10 and 20 credit mode of studying this module. You will be required to study for the module in more depth with more use of primary sources and/or journal articles, and more reference to historiographical debate.

Recommended library books, journals and videos.
University networked computers for internet research.
E-mail module discussion list, or VLE component if set up by tutor.

The Enlightenment saw the creation of a secular intelligentsia with a belief in reason, freedom of thought, and the pursuit of progress. In the French Revolution there was an unprecedented overthrow and dismantling of Absolutist Royal authority, and the attempt by the revolutionaries to create a new society based on 'liberty, equality, and fraternity'. The module will use the concepts of culture and power to consider topics such as Popular cultures in C18 France; Enlightenment cultures and power; Women and nature in the Enlightenment; The making of political cultures in the French Revolution; Justice and Punishment - the guillotine and the Terror; Gender and sexuality in the French Revolution; Festivals, space and time in the French Revolution; Rousseau, the Enlightenment and the French Revolution.