Week 1 : The Directory and the legacy of the Revolution

• The heroic leader

Week 2: The Consulate

• Leadership teams

Week 3: The creation of the Empire

• Sustaining power: creating systems

Week 4: Napoleon the legend: visual imagery

• Legitimising power
• The importance of the brand

Week 5: Women in France 1800-1815

• Dealing with opposition

Week 7: Propaganda: Esménard's opera Le Triomphe de Trajan (1807)

• communication tactics

Week 8: Military leadership

• Campaigns 1807-1813

Week 9: 1814-1815: downfall

• what can we learn from Napoleon’s defeat

Week 10: Napoleon’s legacy

• Ward’s leadership life cycle

Week 11: revision of key themes and issues.