CS101-4-FY-CO:
The Enlightenment
2015/16
Interdisciplinary Studies Centre (ISC)
Colchester Campus
Full Year
Undergraduate: Level 4
Current
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14 August 2001
Requisites for this module
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LT146
BA T700 American Studies (United States),
BA T708 American Studies (United States) (Including Year Abroad),
BA T7P3 American Studies (United States) with Film,
BA T7W6 American Studies (United States) with Film (Including Year Abroad),
BA MT27 Criminology and American Studies (Including Year Abroad),
BA MT2R Criminology and American Studies,
BA QV21 History and Literature,
BA QV2C History and Literature (Including Foundation Year),
BA VQ12 History and Literature (Including Year Abroad),
BA T711 Latin American Studies (Including Year Abroad),
BA T731 Latin American Studies,
BA LQV0 Liberal Arts (Including Foundation Year),
BA QV00 Liberal Arts (Including Year Abroad),
BA V900 Liberal Arts
The Enlightenment can be considered a foundational module for humanities disciplines, and many students over many years have regarded it as perhaps the most rewarding experience of their time at University. The module addresses the explosion of European thought and knowledge that took place at the beginning of the seventeenth century and continued into the eighteenth century and provided the foundation for modern disciplines in the humanities. The module is interdisciplinary, drawing on expertise of both lecturers and class teachers from numerous departments. The major topics include: the revolution in thinking occasioned by Cartesianism; the grounding of modern political theory in Hobbes and Locke; the effect on Europe of the great age of discovery and exploration; the incipient roots of capitalism and the developments of modern law and medicine; the beginnings of comparative sociology in Montesquieu; the early critique of modernism in Rousseau; the formative moments of the American Revolution as enshrined in the Declaration of Independence; the classic debate over the French Revolution engaged in by Burke and Paine; and the early feminist manifesto of Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Women - as well as much else.
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A one-hour lecture and a one-hour class each week.
Module Learning Outcomes
The following Learning Outcomes will be demonstrated through successfully passing the coursework assessment:
1. To demonstrate an ability to read, assess and summarise the argument of a long text.
2. To demonstrate a knowledge of the conventions of an academic essay including structure, quotation, reference, and bibliography.
3. To show the ability to work from particular questions on a specific text, and to write a coherent and cohesive essay in response.
4. To assess and evaluate specific arguments and texts and write a critical analysis.
5. To compare and contrast two or more selected texts in one particular aspect, and express their similarities and differences.
The following Learning Outcomes will be demonstrated through successfully passing the examination assessment:
6. To explicate a set passage from one of the texts on the programme, to relate it to rest of the text and to fit it in the contextual, conceptual and comparative framework, the Enlightenment itself, established during the module.
7. To test the ability to respond to general, thematic questions that demand a broad grasp of the intellectual and historical developments considered in the module.
8. To analyse types of language of a set passage and to relate that language to historical and discursive factors.
Assessment items, weightings and deadlines
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CS101 AUTUMN TERM ESSAY |
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CS101 SPRING TERM ESSAY |
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CS101 SUMMER TERM ESSAY |
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Main exam: 180 minutes during Summer (Main Period)
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Additional coursework information
50 percent Coursework mark. Coursework consists of 3x 2000 word assignments (equally weighed). 50 percent Exam mark.
Exam format definitions
- Remote, open book: Your exam will take place remotely via an online learning platform. You may refer to any physical or electronic materials during the exam.
- In-person, open book: Your exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer to any physical materials such as paper study notes or a textbook during the exam. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, open book (restricted): The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer only to specific physical materials such as a named textbook during the exam. Permitted materials will be specified by your department. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, closed book: The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may not refer to any physical materials or electronic devices during the exam. There may be times when a paper dictionary,
for example, may be permitted in an otherwise closed book exam. Any exceptions will be specified by your department.
Your department will provide further guidance before your exams.
Overall assessment
Reassessment
Module supervisor and teaching staff
Dr Matt Burch, Dr Catherine Crawford, Dr Lorcan Whitehead, Joseph Cozens, Ian Dudley, David Murrieta Flores, Kate Seymour
Contact details: Katherine Bailey, Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities (CISH), Telephone 01206 873845 / 872688, E-mail: cish@essex.ac.uk
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