CS201-5-FY-CO:
The World in Question: the Social, Political and Psychological Legacies of the Enlightenment
2017/18
Interdisciplinary Studies Centre (ISC)
Colchester Campus
Full Year
Undergraduate: Level 5
Current
Thursday 05 October 2017
Friday 29 June 2018
30
17 April 2009
Requisites for this module
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BA LQV0 Liberal Arts (Including Foundation Year),
BA Q900 Liberal Arts (Including Foundation Year and Year Abroad),
BA QV00 Liberal Arts (Including Year Abroad),
BA V900 Liberal Arts,
BA LL36 Social Anthropology,
BA LL3P Social Anthropology (Including Year Abroad),
BA LL6P Social Anthropology (Including Placement Year),
BA L903 Global Studies,
BA L904 Global Studies (including year abroad),
BA L908 Global Studies (Including Foundation Year and Year Abroad),
BA LL37 Social Anthropology with Human Rights,
BA LL38 Social Anthropology with Human Rights (Including Year Abroad),
BA LL39 Social Anthropology with Human Rights (Including Placement Year),
BA LR04 Global Studies and Modern Languages (Including Year Abroad)
What kind of societies have we created in 20th and 21st centuries? What makes them new? What makes them simply new expressions of old ideas? This interdisciplinary module looks at recent and contemporary issues arising from the Enlightenment. The module covers three broad themes Empire, The Self, and Nature. Through historical, literary, and sociological studies, we will learn how Western ideas about non-Europeans fuelled Empire and with it colonial domination of Africa, Asia and the Americas. We then examine how new conceptions of The Self were fashioned from sociological, psychoanalytic and economic ideas about the mind, and how these in turn created cultural templates about illness, sexuality and the body. Finally, we consider the changing conceptions of Nature, which have arisen from mass consumption, industrialism and global warming. The emphasis will be both on the forces that have caused so much destruction of nature, and the attempts to maintain and reclaim connections with it through nature writing and art.
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Core for 2nd year BA Liberal Arts students (open to students on other degree courses).
Weekly lecture, plus a weekly seminar that will include staff presentations, student-led intellectual discussion.
This module does not appear to have a published bibliography.
Assessment items, weightings and deadlines
| Coursework / exam |
Description |
Deadline |
Coursework weighting |
| Coursework |
SPRING ESSAY |
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40% |
| Coursework |
READING WEEK ASSIGNMENT |
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20% |
| Coursework |
SUMMER ESSAY |
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40% |
| Exam |
Main exam: 180 minutes during Summer (Main Period)
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Additional coursework information
50 percent Course Work Mark (Learning outcomes 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5). 50 percent Exam Mark (Learning outcomes 6, 7 & 8)
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 Jane Hindley, email: janeh@essex.ac.uk.
Dr Jane Hindley & a range of staff from across the university will contribute to the module.
janeh (Non essex users should add @essex.ac.uk to create the full email address). Tel 01206 872662, or ISC Office, room 6.132, istudies@essex.ac.uk
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No external examiner information available for this module.
Available via Moodle
Of 40 hours, 38 (95%) hours available to students:
2 hours not recorded due to service coverage or fault;
0 hours not recorded due to opt-out by lecturer(s).
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