The European Enlightenment

3 credits · Undergraduate

This course examines eighteenth-century European Enlightenment and the continuing controversies over its interpretations and its legacies. Class discussions focus on Enlightenment debates on religion, gender, science, non-European people, society and government, and the possible impact of the Enlightenment on the French Revolution. PREREQUISITES: HIST 1004X/Y.06, or HIST 1020.03 and HIST 1021.03 EXCLUSIONS: HIST 3012.03, HIST 5007.03 FORMATS: Seminar