NCHU Course Outline
Course Name (中) 大英國協史(3065)
(Eng.) History of Britain : Empire and Commonwealth
Offering Dept Department of History
Course Type Elective Credits 2 Teacher Chao-Chi Hsu
Department Department of History/Undergraduate Language English Semester 2025-SPRING
Course Description This course introduces the history of England from early modern era to modern. Following the History of England (110-1) in the last semester, this course started from the reign of Mary Tudor and will then march on the history of the House of Stuart. It is well remembered by people that England is the forerunner of the Industrial Revolution, that the Crown once held sway nearly one fourth of the population and the land of the whole world, and that England has set a paradigm of parliamentary system. However, these events or facts cannot comprise the whole picture of the history. In order to understand the history of England more properly and thoroughly, this course will provide basic analyses on the history and discuss their several different interpretations.
Prerequisites
self-directed learning in the course Y
Relevance of Course Objectives and Core Learning Outcomes(%) Teaching and Assessment Methods for Course Objectives
Course Objectives Competency Indicators Ratio(%) Teaching Methods Assessment Methods
1. To understand the developments of the history of England from early modern to modern.
1.Historical research ability
4.Social concern
5.International perspective
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50
Discussion
Lecturing
Attendance
Assignment
Quiz
Course Content and Homework/Schedule/Tests Schedule
Week Course Content
Week 1 Introduction
Week 2 The Growth of Protestantism to 1625: Mary I
Week 3 The Growth of Protestantism to 1625: Mary I
Week 4 The Growth of Protestantism to 1625: Elizabethan Settlement
Week 5 The Growth of Protestantism to 1625: Puritan and Catholic threats(I)
Week 6 The Growth of Protestantism to 1625: Puritan and Catholic threats(II)
Week 7 The Growth of Protestantism to 1625: Survival of English Catholics
Week 8 State and Society 1536-1625: England and Wales (I) - Population and Prices
Week 9 State and Society 1536-1625: England and Wales (II) - Peers and Gentry
Week 10 Witchcraft and Society in Early Modern England (I)
Week 11 Witchcraft and Society in Early Modern England (II)
Week 12 Witchcraft and Society in Early Modern England (III)
Week 13 Madness, Anxiety, and Suicide in Early Modern England (I) General Development
Week 14 Madness, Anxiety, and Suicide in Early Modern England (II) Causes and Healing
Week 15 Madness, Anxiety, and Suicide in Early Modern England (II) Causes and Healing
Week 16 Final
Week 17 Self-directed Learning Week: Jeffrey R. Watt, ‘Introduction’, in From Sin to Insanity: Suicide in Early Modern Europe (Ithaca, N.Y: Cornell University Press, 2004).
Week 18 Self-directed Learning Week: Secrets of a Tudor Manor House | Harvington Hall
Evaluation
Mid-term, Final, Class Attendance
Textbook & other References
Textbook:
John Miller, Early modern Britain: 1450-1750. West Nyack: Cambridge University Press, 2017.

References:
1. Christopher Haigh ed., The Cambridge Historical Encyclopedia of Great Britain and Ireland (1985)
2. Simon Schama, A History of Britain, 3vols. (2000)
3. David Harris Willson and Stuart E. Prall, A History of England (1984)
Teaching Aids & Teacher's Website
Textbook:
1. John Miller, Early modern Britain: 1450-1750. West Nyack: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
2. Michael MacDonald, Mystical Bedlam: Madness, Anxiety, and Healing in Seventeenth-Century England, Cambridge Monographs on the History of Medicine. (Cambridge; Cambridge University Press, 1981).
Office Hours
Monday 3-5 pm by appointment.
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