University of Melbourne - The French Revolution
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The French Revolution at Coursera Overview
Duration | 24 hours |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Beginner |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
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- Beginner Level
- Approx. 24 hours to complete
- English Subtitles: English, Spanish, Romanian, French
The French Revolution at Coursera Course details
- The French Revolution was one of the most important upheavals in world history. This course examines its origins, course and outcomes.
- This course is designed for you to work through successfully on your own. However you will not be alone on this journey. Use the resources included in the course and take part in the suggested learning activities to get the most out of your learning. To successfully complete this course, it is recommended that you devote at least six hours to every module over the six weeks of the course. In that time you should watch the video lectures, reflect and respond to in-video pause points, and complete the quizzes.
- As part of the required reading for this course, during each week of this course you will have free access to a chapter of Peter McPhee's textbook, The French Revolution, which is also available for purchase as an e-book.
- View the MOOC promotional video here: http://tinyurl.com/gstw4vv
The French Revolution at Coursera Curriculum
Week 1 - France in the 1780s
Welcome to the French Revolution MOOC
1.1 An Introduction to the French Revolution
1.2 The Essentials of Eighteenth-Century France
1.3 The First & Second Estates: Clergy and Nobility
1.4 Paris and the Provinces
1.5 The 'Enlightenment': 'from above'
1.6 The 'Enlightenment': 'from below'
Course Overview
Your teaching team
Start of course survey
France in the 1780s
Week one quiz - 12% of final grade
Week 2 - The Revolution of 1789
2.1 An Atlantic crisis
2.2 A fiscal crisis and its repercussions
2.3 The Third Estate in revolt: bourgeoisie and menu people
2.4 The Third Estate in revolt: the peasantry
2.5 The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the August Decrees
2.6 The October Days - the end of the Revolution?
The Revolution of 1789
Week two quiz - 12% of final grade
Week 3 - The Reconstruction of France, 1789-92
3.1 Making the new nation 1789-91
3.2 The Revolution divides
3.3 Turning-point 1: Church reform
3.4 Turning-point 2: the King's flight June 1791
3.5 Turning-point 3: The outbreak of war April 1792
3.6 A second revolution: 10 August 1792
Reform, conflict, and a second Revolution, 1789-1792
Week three quiz - 12% of final grade
Week 4 - The Republic in crisis 1792-93
4.1 September 1792: blood and death
4.2 September 1792: republican unity and disunity in the National Convention
4.3 Revolution and counter-revolution: the balance of forces
4.4 The crisis of 1793
4.5 Emergency measures: the implementation of 'terror'
4.6 How to end 'terror', December 1793
Interview with Dr Marisa Linton
Interview with Professor Timothy Tackett
Interview with Professor Ian Germani
Interview with Charles Walton
The crisis of 1792-1793: war and terror
Week four quiz - 12% of final grade
Week 5 - Ending the Terror and Ending the Revolution
5.1 Robespierre and 'virtue'
5.2 The ideology and culture of the Terror
5.3 The Jacobin and sans-culottes alliance
5.4 Emergency measures or revolutionary violence?
5.5 Thermidor Year II - 27 July 1794
5.6 The 'settlement' of 1795: the end of the Revolution?
Ending the terror, ending the revolution, 1794-1799
Week five quiz - 12% of final grade
Week 6 - Change and continuity: How revolutionary was the Revolution?
6.1 Napoleon Bonaparte and the Restoration
6.2 The 'minimalist' approach to the signifance of the Revolution
6.3 Who is a citizen? The experience of women
6.4 Who is a citizen? The experience of slaves
6.5 The international repercussions: a global crisis?
6.6 The 'maximalist' approach: the turning-point of the modern world
Assignment video
The significance of the French Revolution
Academic integrity
End of course survey
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