SEMINAR IN EARLY MODERN STUDIES
Provides an overview of recent scholarly debates in the study of early modernity. Considers two key challenges involved in the study of early modernity: first, what (and when) constitutes early modernity; second, the study of early modernity is necessarily cross-disciplinary. Beginning with the question of what constitutes the "early modern," approach the topic of early modernity from a variety of disciplinary and thematic lenses. The themes include periodization, early modern legal and state formation, women in early modernity, race and early modernity, religion in early modernity, and global early modernities.
Prerequisites & course information
Requisites: Graduate/professional standing Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Learning Outcomes: 1. Communicate effectively, in both speech and writing, concepts, theories, and arguments related to the study of early modernity. Audience: Graduate 2. Develop a familiarity with methods and approaches to the study of early modernity from a variety of disciplines. Audience: Graduate 3. Develop the capacity to critique and analyze, in both speech and writing, studies of early modernity from a variety of disciplines. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Communicate effectively, in both speech and writing, concepts, theories, and arguments related to the study of early modernity. Audience: Graduate 2. Develop a familiarity with methods and approaches to the study of early modernity from a variety of disciplines. Audience: Graduate 3. Develop the capacity to critique and analyze, in both speech and writing, studies of early modernity from a variety of disciplines. Audience: Graduate
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027