James Cook University Subject Handbook - 2016

EL2851 - The Eighteenth Century and the Enlightenment

[Offered in even-numbered years]

Credit points: 03
Year: 2016
Student Contribution Band: Band 1
Administered by: College of Arts, Society & Education

This subject focuses on one of the most vital eras in the history of Western ideas. Picking up from the English discipline's offering on the Renaissance, and anticipating its offering on the Romantic movement, it examines the philosophical, rationalist, political, and intellectual - as well as litteray - ambitions of this prodigious age, from its dawn in England with figures like Bacon, Hobbes, and Locke, through its high noon in mid-century France, to its climax and destruction in the French Revolution of 1789. And because the Enlightenment was largely made up of debates about what Enlightenment was, some of its enemies and come of thos groups exluded from it will be heard also.

Learning Outcomes

Inadmissible
Subject
Combinations:
EL3051 AND EL3851 AND EL5051 AND EL5851

Availabilities

Cairns, Internal, Study Period 1
Census Date 24-Mar-2016
Coordinator: Assoc. Professor Richard Lansdown
Contact hours:
  • 39 hours workshops/Seminars
    Assessment:end of semester exam (30%); tutorial attendance and participation (20%); essays (50%).

    External, Study Period 1
    Census Date 24-Mar-2016
    Coordinator: Assoc. Professor Richard Lansdown
    Contact hours:
    • 39 hours - online participation via LearnJCU
      Method of Delivery:WWW - LearnJCU
      Assessment:end of semester exam (30%); tutorial attendance and participation (20%); essay (50%).

      Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.