Crash Course Enlightenment
Crash Course on Enlightenment provides humanities educators with precise tools to analyse classic texts, compare influential thinkers, and relate concepts of rights, reason, and authority to contemporary issues. It enhances your critical thinking skills and bolsters your teaching credentials with a ready-to-use module on Enlightenment philosophy, making complex ideas accessible and relevant for today's classrooms.

from 4 to 360h flexible workload
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
This course equips you with quick, practical methods to read and teach essential texts confidently. You will learn to summarise arguments, identify rhetorical strategies, uncover assumptions, and compare viewpoints of major philosophers including Rousseau, Hume, Locke, Wollstonecraft, Voltaire, Montesquieu, and Kant. Link ideas like social contract, autonomy, rights, secularisation, and progress to modern discussions while creating a professional teaching portfolio ready for the classroom.
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Develop skills
- Master close reading: condense Enlightenment arguments into two clear sentences.
- Analyse rhetoric: detect satire, debates, and underlying assumptions in key texts.
- Compare theories: quickly contrast views of Locke, Rousseau, Kant, Hume, and Wollstonecraft.
- Apply concepts: connect Enlightenment principles to current rights and public discourse.
- Design teaching materials: create a compact, effective course unit on Enlightenment ideas.
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