The Enlightenment
Code: 100362 ECTS Credits: 6| Degree | Type | Year |
|---|---|---|
| 2500501 History | OB | 3 |
Contact
- Name:
- Montserrat Jiménez Sureda
- Email:
- montserrat.jimenez@uab.cat
Teachers
- Enric Pujol Casademont
Teaching groups languages
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Prerequisites
It is recommended to have attended the subjects L'Època de la Reforma and L'Època del Barroc.
Objectives and Contextualisation
The subject aims to give a global view of the History of the Eighteenth century, paying special attention to the History of Europe. The phenomenon of the Enlightenment, considered in a broad sense, is the core and thread of the agenda. Precisely with the explanation of this agenda and the participation of the students (through exercises and programmed readings) it is intended to facilitate the fundamental elements to acquire an adequate knowledge of the main events and the problems of the period; as well as to stimulate the interest by the direct contact with the texts of time and by the knowledge of the main guidelines of the current historiography.
Competences
- Critically assessing the fonts and theoretical models in order to analyse the different historical periods.
- Developing critical thinking and reasoning and communicating them effectively both in your own and other languages.
- Mastering the basic diachronic and thematic concepts of the historical science.
- Respecting the diversity and plurality of ideas, people and situations.
- Students must be capable of applying their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional way and they should have building arguments and problem resolution skills within their area of study.
- Students must be capable of collecting and interpreting relevant data (usually within their area of study) in order to make statements that reflect social, scientific or ethical relevant issues.
- Students must develop the necessary learning skills in order to undertake further training with a high degree of autonomy.
Learning Outcomes
- Accurately describing an artistic object with the specific language of art criticism.
- Assessing the approach of the different branches of historical research that study the Early Modern Period.
- Communicating in your mother tongue or other language both in oral and written form by using specific terminology and techniques of Historiography.
- Developing the ability of historical analysis and synthesis.
- Explaining the most relevant historical processes of the Early Modern Period.
- Identifying and analysing the social, economic and political tensions that triggered the transition from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern Period.
- Identifying the main and secondary ideas and expressing them with linguistic correctness.
- Organising and planning the search of historical information.
- Relating elements and factors involved in the development of historical processes.
- Solving problems autonomously.
- Using the characteristic computing resources of the field of History.
- Working in teams respecting the other's points of view.
Content
The Age of Enlightenment
1. Demographic expansion and economic expansion. Promotion and transformation of economic activities
2. Towards a new conception of Europe-World relations
3. States and nations in eighteenth-century Europe
4. Old and new powers fighting for hegemony
5. The political emergence of women
6. Popular culture
7. Encyclopedism and Illustration
8. Reformism and Enlightened Absolutism
Activities and Methodology
| Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type: Directed | |||
| Theoretical classes | 54 | 2.16 | 1, 4, 5, 6, 8, 2 |
| Type: Supervised | |||
| Tutorials | 15 | 0.6 | 7, 8, 12 |
| Type: Autonomous | |||
| Autonomous activity of the student | 75 | 3 | 10, 3, 7, 8, 11 |
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Assessment
Continous Assessment Activities
| Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Exams (2) | 60% | 2 | 0.08 | 10, 6, 8, 9, 11, 2 |
| Oral expositions and active participation in class | 20% | 2 | 0.08 | 3, 1, 4, 5, 7, 12 |
| Papers | 20% | 2 | 0.08 | 3, 5, 6, 8, 11, 2 |
- During the course students will be compelled to perform a set of exercises, such as an oral presentation, a bibliographic work and two written tests. The oral presentation will be equivalent to 20% of the final grade, the bibliographic work to 20% and the exam to 60% (divided into two tests, counting 30 % + 30 %).
- The assessment activities will be scheduled all along the course. Students will be informed about the dates of the activities and when they have to submit the written works well in advance.
- The students will have the right to a review of the results of the tests carried out.
- At the time of completion/delivery of each assessment activity, the teacher will inform (Moodle, SIA) of the procedure and date of revision of the grades.
- The particular cases that need to be object of a specific treatment will be taken into account if they are adequately justified.
- In all evaluation exercises, special consideration will be given to: a) the ability to critically evaluate the social and economic models that explain the evolution of the Eighteenth century; b) the appropriate utilization of the specific vocabulary produced by each social and cultural sector studied, and c) the appropriate use of the lexicon proper to the discipline.
- In the event of a student committing any irregularity that may lead to a significant variation in the grade awarded to an assessment activity, the student will be given a zero for this activity, regardless of any disciplinary process that may take place. In the event of several irregularities in assessment activities of the same subject, the student will be given a zero as the final grade for this subject.
- In the written activities, spelling, syntactic or lexical errors will be taken into account. The penalty will be 0.1 points on the final grade for each mistake. Repeated errors will downgrade a maximun of 10% of the total taskassessment.
- In the event that tests or exams cannot be taken onsite, they will be adapted to anonline format made available through the UAB’s virtual tools (original weighting willbe maintained). Homework, activities and class participation will be carried outthrough forums, wikis and/or discussion on Teams, etc. Lecturers will ensure that students are able to access these virtual tools, or will offer them feasible alternatives.
Single assessment
The students who so request may take a single assessment.
It will consist of three assessment activities that represent 60% (written exam of the whole subject, divided in two tests counting 30 % + 30 %), 20% (reading and speech in class) and 20% (bibliographic work).
The grade for the course will correspond to the sum of the three activities.
Reassessment
- The students who, after being done the assessment tasks, have not obtained the pass grade, may take a reassessment test. In this case, the maximum qualification that students will be able to obtain is 5.0 (Pass).
- The students who will not complete at least 60% of the evaluation tasks programmed will be given a «Not Assessable» and will not be able to apply for the reassessment.
- The reassessment will consist in a global examination about all the course subject matter and will be held on the official dates established by the Faculty. Reassessment will not be considered as a mean to improve the qualification of the students who have already passed the course in the normal process of continuous evaluation.
Bibliography
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- ANDERSON,M.S.: Europa en el siglo XVIII, Madrid 1964, Aguilar.
- BÉLY, L.: Les relatios internationales en Europe (XVII-XVIII siécles), París, 2007, Ed. PUF.
- BLANNING, T.C.W. (ed.): El siglo XVIII. Europa 1688-1815, Barcelona 2002, ed. Crítica.
- BLACK, Jeremy: La Europa del siglo XVIII (1700-1789), Madrid 1997, ed. Akal.
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- BURBANK, J. and COOPER, F., Imperios. Una nueva visión de la Historia Universal, Barcelona 2011, ed. Crítica.
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- DELON, Michel: Dictionnaire européen des Lumières, París 1997, PUF.
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- IM HOF,Ulrix: La Europa de la Ilustración, Barcelona 1993, Crítica.
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- KUMIN, B., The European World, 1500-1800, Londres 2009, Routledge.
- LOUDEN, R.B.: The World We Want: How and Why the Ideals of the Enlightenment Still Elude Us, Oxford U.P. 2007.
- LUCENA SALMORAL, M.: Rivalidad colonial y equilibrio europeo. Siglos XVII-XVIII, Madrid 1999, ed. Síntesis.
- MUNCK, Thomas: Historia social de la Ilustración, Barcelona 2001 ed. Crítica
- OUTRAM, Dorinda: The Enlightenment, Cambridge 1995
- PAQUETTE, Gabriel B.: Enlightenment, Governance and Reform in Spain and its Empire, Cambridge 2008
- PONTON, Gonzalo: La lucha por la desigualad. Una historia del mundo occidental en el siglo XVIII, Barcelona 2016. Ed. Catedra.
- ROURA, Lluis: "Il·lustració i projectes per al país" dins ALBAREDA, J.(dir): Catalunya, nació d'Europa, 1714-2014, vol.I Barcelona, 2013
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- WILLIAMS, D. (de.): The Enlightenment, Cambridge U.P. 1999.
Software
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Language list
| Name | Group | Language | Semester | Turn |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (PAUL) Classroom practices | 1 | Catalan | second semester | morning-mixed |
| (PAUL) Classroom practices | 2 | Catalan | second semester | morning-mixed |
| (TE) Theory | 1 | Catalan | second semester | morning-mixed |
| (TE) Theory | 2 | Catalan | second semester | morning-mixed |