Crash Course Enlightenment
Crash Course on Enlightenment equips humanities professionals with essential skills to analyse classic texts, compare major thinkers, and relate concepts of rights, reason, and power to contemporary issues. It enhances critical thinking and builds a strong teaching portfolio for classroom use, making complex ideas accessible and relevant today.

flexible workload of 4 to 360h
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
This course offers quick, practical tools to read and teach key Enlightenment texts confidently. You will learn to summarise arguments, identify rhetorical strategies, detect assumptions, and compare views of thinkers like Rousseau, Hume, Locke, Wollstonecraft, Voltaire, Montesquieu, and Kant. It links ideas such as social contract, autonomy, rights, secularisation, and progress to modern debates, helping you create a professional teaching portfolio.
Elevify advantages
Develop skills
- Master close reading: summarise Enlightenment arguments in two concise sentences.
- Develop rhetorical analysis: identify satire, polemics, and hidden assumptions in texts.
- Gain comparative theory skills: quickly contrast Locke, Rousseau, Kant, Hume, and Wollstonecraft.
- Apply concepts to classroom: connect Enlightenment ideas to current rights and public debates.
- Design teaching dossier: create a compact, impactful course module on Enlightenment.
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