About the course

This interdisciplinary course focuses on European culture between 1780 and 1830, examining the transition between the ideals of 'The Enlightenment' and those of 'Romanticism'. Rather than asserting a complete break between those cultural movements, the course is interested in both the continuities and discontinuities between them. The movements are approached by studying a range of humanities disciplines, including literature, history, art history, music, and philosophy.

What's in the course

• Block 1: Death of the Old Regime (including Mozart's Don Giovanni, Hume, Rousseau, de Sade).
  
• Block 2: The Napoleonic Phenomenon (including the artists Gros and Goya)
  
• Block 3: Religion, Exploration and Slavery (including Newton, Cowper, and Mungo Park's Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa)
  
• Block 4: Industry and Changing Landscapes (including Wordsworth, Constable, Turner, and Robert Owen)
  
• Block 5: European Exploration of the Pacific (including James Cook and the artists of his voyages)
  
• Block 6: New Conceptions of Art and the Artist (including Goethe's Faust I, Schubert, and Byron)
  
• Block 7: The Exotic and the Oriental (including Delacroix and the Royal Pavilion at Brighton)

What students learn

Students on this course learn to:

• Demonstrate knowledge of the historical and cultural significance of the transition between the European Enlightenment and European Romanticism through familiarity with a range of texts from the period 1780-1830
• Critically and qualitatively analyse texts from this period
• Undertake research for, and evaluate, relevant secondary sources
• Apply generic concepts about the period to specific texts
• Critically analyse the interface between cultural theory and practice
• Communicate and present academic argument in a clear and organised way using appropriate scholarly conventions

Prerequisites

Assessment

This course is assessed by 7 assignments, mostly in essay form. The due dates for these assignments are spread throughout a period of 40 weeks. There is no exam.

Fees

(The course runs over 40 weeks, and is worth 60 credits of a BA degree).

What do I do now?

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