MO3054 Walking Early Modern Europe

Academic year

2024 to 2025 Semester 2

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Key module information

SCOTCAT credits

30

The Scottish Credit Accumulation and Transfer (SCOTCAT) system allows credits gained in Scotland to be transferred between institutions. The number of credits associated with a module gives an indication of the amount of learning effort required by the learner. European Credit Transfer System (ECTS) credits are half the value of SCOTCAT credits.

SCQF level

SCQF level 9

The Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework (SCQF) provides an indication of the complexity of award qualifications and associated learning and operates on an ascending numeric scale from Levels 1-12 with SCQF Level 10 equating to a Scottish undergraduate Honours degree.

Availability restrictions

Group walks may be undertaken as part of class time; these will be modified to accommodate all abilities

Planned timetable

TBC

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Module coordinator

Prof E D Michelson

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Module Staff

Dr Emily Michelson

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Module description

In early modern Europe, most people travelled on foot. Investigating their varied walking practices leads us directly to some of the concerns that most animated European history: the politics of space; landscape and memory; religion, pilgrimage, and sacred space; travel and tourism; information and communication; mobility and disability; gender and power; urban life; the growth and life of cities; exploration, topography, and mapping; war and troops; soundscapes and scent-scapes; street life, honour, and sociability; dress and deportment; health and the body. This module makes use of a wealth of recent scholarship taking a spatial approach to history, which tells us that space is understood and defined through bodily experience, and which has established the history of walking as a distinctive learning experience with intellectual and sensory stimulation. The module takes a thematic approach to examine how it might have felt to live and move through early modern Europe.

Relationship to other modules

Pre-requisites

BEFORE TAKING THIS MODULE YOU MUST PASS AT LEAST 60 CREDITS FROM {MO1007, MO1008, MO2008, HI2001, MH2002} OR PASS AT LEAST 60 CREDITS FROM {ME1003, ME1006, ME2003, HI2001, MH2002}

Assessment pattern

Coursework = 100%

Re-assessment

Coursework = 100%

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact

1 seminar (x11 weeks), 3 trips (x1 hour each) (or 1 trip x 3 hours), 1 office hour (x11 weeks)

Scheduled learning hours

25

The number of compulsory student:staff contact hours over the period of the module.

Guided independent study hours

275

The number of hours that students are expected to invest in independent study over the period of the module.