Labour Studies (LBST) 470

Overview

LBST 470 is an advanced level course designed for students who wish to begin an in-depth study of the history of socialist thought and the goals and fortunes of the European labour movement before the twentieth century. The course surveys the development of radical social thinking from its origins in the ancient world to the era of the French Revolution.

Among the topics treated in the course are the beginnings of socialist thought in ancient Israel and ancient Greece, Christian social thought under the Roman Empire and in the Middle Ages, Renaissance utopianism, the contribution of the Reformation to religious communitarianism, the ideas of the radical wing of anti-monarchist forces in the English Revolution, the ideology of the eighteenth-century British labourer and of the sans-culottes in the French Revolution, and the development of English Radicalism from Spence to Hall.

Outline

Unit 1: The Old Testament Prophets

Unit 2: Social Thought in Ancient Greece

Unit 3: Communalism and Social Ethics in Early Christianity

Unit 4: Religious Communism in the Middle Ages

Unit 5: Langland and the Peasants Revolt

Unit 6: Thomas More and Renaissance Utopianism

Unit 7: The Radical Reformation

Unit 8: Republicans, Levellers, and Diggers in the English Revolution

Unit 9: Work, Poverty, Labourers and Artisans in Eighteenth-Century Europe

Unit 10: Rousseau and Enlightenment Socialism

Unit 11: The Social Thought of the French Revolutionaries

Unit 12: English Radicalism: Spence to Hall

Evaluation

To receive credit for LBST 470, you must achieve a course composite grade of at least “D” (50 percent) and a grade of at least 50 percent on the final examination. The weighting of the course assignments is as follows:

Essay 1	Essay 2	Final Exam	Total
30%	30%	40%	100%

To learn more about assignments and examinations, please refer to Athabasca University's online Calendar.

Course Materials

Textbooks

Other Materials

The course materials include a study guide, a student manual, and three reading files.

Challenge for Credit Course Overview

The Challenge for Credit process allows students to demonstrate that they have acquired a command of the general subject matter, knowledge, intellectual and/or other skills that would normally be found in a university level course.

Full information for the Challenge for Credit can be found in the Undergraduate Calendar.

• Undergraduate Challenge for Credit Policy
• Undergraduate Challenge for Credit Procedures

Challenge Evaluation

To receive credit for the LBST 470 challenge registration, you must achieve a grade of at least “D” (50 percent) on the entire challenge examination.

Part I: Exam	Part II: Exam	Total
50%	50%	100%

Undergraduate Challenge for Credit Course Registration Form

• Challenge for Credit Form