MO3331 The Victorians: Religion and Respectability

Academic year

2024 to 2025 Semester 1

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Key module information

SCOTCAT credits

30

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SCQF level

SCQF level 9

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Planned timetable

TBC

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Module coordinator

Dr W H W Jenkins

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Module Staff

Dr Bill Jenkins

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Module description

The Victorians often get a bad press, seen as pious, prudish do-gooders. Yet Britain in the nineteenth century had a powerful industrial economy, an expanding global influence and a vibrant culture of art, literature and leisure. This module focuses on the people who made Britain modern, and aims to look behind the stereotype of the Victorians. It uses the themes of religion and respectability to investigate the ideals and realities of middle-class life, including business and leisure, attitudes to gender and children, consumerism and the domestic interior. It also considers threats to these ideals, from the lifestyle of the industrial working classes, and from the advance of secularisation.

Assessment pattern

Written Exmination = 40%, Coursework = 60%

Re-assessment

4,000-word essay = 100%

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact

1 x 2-hour seminar, plus 1 office hour.

Scheduled learning hours

20

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.