Modernity and Enlightenment

An introduction to fundamental elements of what has come to be termed the epochs of Modernity and the Enlightenment. This course explores the emerging elements of an age of exploration, scientific advancement, and radical new ideas, through selections from authors such as Shakespeare (The Tempest), Bacon, Descartes, Hobbes, Locke, Hume, Adam Smith, Diderot, Bentham, Kant, Goethe, Shelley, Marx, and Mill. CVSP 203 cannot be taken if the student has taken CVSP 206. Sequence one courses (201, 202, 205, 207) focus on the ancient world up to the Renaissance, sequence two courses (203, 204, 206, 208) on the pre-modern to contemporary world. Students have to take a sequence one course, before enrolling in a sequence two course.