HIS-10045 - Module Specification
School of Humanities
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Programme/Approved Electives for 2024/25

Available as a Free Standing Elective

Co-requisites

None

Prerequisites

None

Barred Combinations

None

Description for 2024/25

This module introduces first-year students from any discipline to the study of the most significant developments in early modern history from the late fifteenth century to the late seventeenth century (i.e. from about the 1490s, when Columbus first landed in the New World, to the end of the seventeenth century, when Isaac Newton was publishing his ideas about gravity). It covers political, economic, religious and social themes, and considers Europe within a global context. It aims to advance students' historical knowledge and understanding by enabling participants on the module to comprehend sympathetically a society and culture very different to today, because people's ideas and motivations were based on beliefs and knowledge that might seem quite alien to us in the twenty-first century.

Intended Learning Outcomes

recognise and explain the most significant political, economic, social and religious developments in European history of the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries, and to discuss sympathetically a society and culture distinct from their own: 1,2
assess critically different historical explanations: 1,2
develop and demonstrate general skills in time-management, reading effectively, note-taking from lectures and reading material, oral presentation and debate, essay writing and exam revision: 1,2
assess the balance between change and continuity in early modern European history, and to relate detailed evidence and case studies to more general issues: 1,2

Study hours

12 one-hour lectures; 12 one-hour whole-cohort workshops; 12 one-hour seminar classes; 38 hours seminar preparation; 38 hours essay preparation; 38 hours exam revision and completion.

School Rules

None

Description of Module Assessment