3 ECTS credits
90 h study time
Offer 1 with catalog number 1023225AEW for working students in the 2nd semester at a (A) Bachelor - preliminary level.
In this introductory course, students will be familiarized with an important transformation within European history: the so-called 'Scientific Revolution' which came to full fruition during the seventeenth century. This course will focus on developments within physics, anatomy, astronomy, and natural history. At the same time, attention will be drawn to a series of crucial sixteenth- and seventeenth-century epistemological, ontological and social changes without which the emergence of the 'Scientific Revolution' simply cannot be understood. In Part I of the course, the standard narrative concerning the 'Scientific Revolution' will be explained and critically assessed by means of state-of-the-art-literature on the subject. In Parts II and III of the course, some important transformations and actors within sixteenth- and seventeenth-century science, respectively, will be outlined. In Part IV of the course, the students, armed with the knowledge they have obtained in Parts I-III, will write a paper on a chosen primary source.
The course reader will contain canonical or state-of-the-art literature. The reader will be distributed electronically and free of charge.
- The student is able to explain the old narrative of the 'Scientific Revolution' and to critically assess its shortcomings by means of the state of the art.
- The student can provide a detailed exposé of the differences and communalities between the scholarly analyses on the 'Scientific Revolution' that are treated in the course.
- The student is capable to describe, to contextualize and to illustrate sixteenth- and seventeenth-century transformations that are relevant for understanding the 'Scientific Revolution'.
- The student is able to explain the rôle and importance of several sixteenth- and seventeenth-century actors.
- Based on the knowledge obtained during the course, the student is able to adequately contextualize a chosen primary source in a paper.
The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Oral Exam determines 60% of the final mark.
PRAC Practical Assignment determines 10% of the final mark.
SELF Paper determines 30% of the final mark.
Within the Oral Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
Within the PRAC Practical Assignment category, the following assignments need to be completed:
Within the SELF Paper category, the following assignments need to be completed:
The grade for this course is determined by: (1) the oral exam (60% of the total grade) and (2) the student's participation in the activating exercises that require preparation (10% of the total grade), and (3) the paper write (30% of the total grade). Results obtained for WPO and the paper can be transferred to the resit exam.
Het eindresultaat van dit opleidingsonderdeel wordt bepaald door (1) mondeling examen met schriftelijke voorbereiding (60% van de eindscore), (2) deelname aan de activerende werkvormen (10% van de eindscore) en (3) het schrijven van een paper (30% van de eindscore). De resultaten voor (2) en (3) kunnen worden overgedragen naar de tweede zittijd op voorwaarde dat een 10/20 werd behaald.
This offer is part of the following study plans:
Bachelor of Philosophy and Moral Sciences: default (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of History: Standaard traject (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of History: Minor Minor Human Sciences (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of History: minor Social Sciences (only offered in Dutch)