AH4183 The Senses, Objects, and Buildings in Early Modern Europe

Academic year

2025 to 2026 Semester 1

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Key module information

SCOTCAT credits

30

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SCQF level

SCQF level 10

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Availability restrictions

Not automatically available to General Degree students

Module Staff

Dr Pierre Von-Ow

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Module description

This module explores the role of the senses in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century European art and architectural design and experience. It begins in the late sixteenth century with rising scientific and philosophical debates about sensory stimuli sparking human knowledge and behavior and ends in the late eighteenth-century with the sublime and picturesque as aesthetic categories grounded in sensory experience. Topics to be considered include: representations of the senses; scientific tools and illustrations; built environments of surveillance; and mirrors and wonder.

Assessment pattern

Coursework = 100%

Re-assessment

1 x Written Assignment to be agreed by the Board of Examiners

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact

1 x 2-hour lecture (x 10 weeks); 1 x 1-hour seminar (x 10 weeks)

Scheduled learning hours

33

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

Guided independent study hours

280

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