University of St Andrews

Key information

SCOTCAT credits : 30

ECTS credits : 15

Level : SCQF level 10

Semester: 1

Planned timetable: TBC

The Enlightenment is a contested historical category, with arguments about literature and philosophy contributing to the definition of what enlightens a human subject. As a result of reading major texts of poetry, fiction and non-fiction from the Eighteenth Century, students on this module will be encouraged to explore the ways in which literature constructs relationships between the rational, emotional, spiritual and physical aspects of human life. They will also be invited to ask how the physical, emotional and spiritual impinge upon rational accounts of enlightenment, and will study the way in which literary texts such as Rochester's poems, Pope's Essay on Man, and Sterne's Tristram Shandy complicate accounts of the age of reason given from the perspective of the history of ideas. (Group C)

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact:

Scheduled learning hours: 44

Guided independent study hours: 256

Assessment pattern

As used by St Andrews:

As defined by QAA
Written examinations : 50%
Practical examinations : 0%
Coursework: 50%

Personnel