Simon Fraser University
Engaging the World

Course Outlines

Summer 2024 - HIST 315 OL01

Politics and Society in England, 1500-1707 (4)

Class Number: 3268

Delivery Method: Online

Overview

  • Course Times + Location:

    Online

  • Prerequisites:

    45 units, including six units of lower division history.

Description

CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:

This course provides a general overview of the social and political history of Tudor and Stuart England.

COURSE DETAILS:

This reading intensive advanced course is a selective survey of English politics and society from the opening decades of the sixteenth century to the Act of Union in 1707 which united the separate kingdoms of England and Scotland into the single state of Great Britain. This course is the foundation for all advanced work in early modern English History. Students will be given instruction in reading black letter type and expected to become familiar with a range of early printed works found in the database Early English Books Online (EEBO).

This course will be delivered entirely asynchronously. This means there will be no in person instruction on campus.

 

Grading

  • Four Written Responses (500 words each) 20%
  • First Essay (1800 words) 30%
  • Second Essay (1800 words) 30%
  • Two Online Tests 20%

Materials

REQUIRED READING:

Students will need to purchase the following three texts:

  • S. Sylvester and D. Harding eds., Two Early Tudor Lives (1990)
  • Miranda Kaufmann, Black Tudors (2017)
  • Mark Kishlansky, A Monarchy Transformed: Britain 1603-1714 (1997)
All other readings and viewings will be available electronically through the Library or on Canvas.

Registrar Notes:

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