HSY3950

Europe: Enlightenment and Revolution (6 points)

(ARTS)

Leader: David Garrioch

Offered:
Clayton Second semester 2004 (Day)

Synopsis:

Objectives: In addition to the general objectives common to all second and third-year History units, students successfully completing this subject should have gained a knowledge of the political and social systems and ideologies of eighteenth-century Europe; and a familiarity with some of the principal historiographical debates relevant to Europe during this period, in particular debates about the Enlightenment, class formation, the state, secularisation, gender relations, and the French Revolution and Empire. Third-year students will be expected to develop a more sophisticated understanding of the historiography and to make more extensive and more effective use of primary sources.

Assessment: Literature survey (500 words): 5% + Class test (50 minutes): 25% + Group presentation (approx.10 minutes per student): 30% + Research essay (2400 words): 40%

Contact Hours: 2.5 hours (1 lecture and 1.5 hour workshop) per week

Prerequisites: Second year history sequence or permission

Prohibitions: HSY2950, EUR2950, EUR3950