The Enlightenment in a Social-Cultural Context

Undergraduate

explores the Enlightenment as an intellectual movement within a social and cultural setting. The course focuses on Europe and the Americas, from the late seventeenth century to the late eighteenth century. The course is thematic in nature, investigating such themes as human rights, sentiment, gender difference, settler-Indigenous interactions and exchanges, slavery and Enlightenment constructs of race, and the legacies and impact of the Enlightenment.