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AH4183   The Senses, Objects, and Buildings in Early Modern Europe

Academic year(s): 2017-2018

Key information

SCOTCAT credits : 30

ECTS credits : 15

Level : SCQF level 10

Semester: 2

Planned timetable: 11.00 am - 1.00 pm Thu (lecture)

This module explores the role of the senses in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century European art and architectural design and experience. It begins in the late sixteenth century with rising scientific and philosophical debates about sensory stimuli sparking human knowledge and behavior and ends in the late eighteenth-century with the sublime and picturesque as aesthetic categories grounded in sensory experience. Topics to be considered include: representations of the senses; scientific tools and illustrations; built environments of surveillance; and mirrors and wonder.

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact: 1 x 2-hour lecture (x 11 weeks); 1 x 1-hour seminar (x 11 weeks)

Scheduled learning hours: 33

Guided independent study hours: 280

Assessment pattern

As used by St Andrews: Coursework = 100%

As defined by QAA
Written examinations : 100%
Practical examinations : 0%
Coursework: 0%

Re-assessment: 1 x Written Assignment to be agreed by the Board of Examiners

Personnel

Module coordinator: Dr E J M van Kessel
Module teaching staff: Dr K Skelton