History

PROGRAMME STRUCTURE

You’ll take:

You’ll also produce a dissertation.

Core Course DOING HISTORY: SOURCES AND SKILLS FOR HISTORIANS

Optional Courses You can choose courses from within History to suit your own interests:

Semester 1 Semester 1 APPROACHES TO HISTORY (FOR POSTGRADUATES) ISSUES, IDEOLOGIES AND INSTITUTIONS OF MODERN SCOTLAND MILITARY SCOTLAND IN THE AGE OF PROTO-GLOBALIZATION, C.1600-C.1800 THE GLOBAL HISTORY OF INEQUALITIES COMMODITY HISTORIES IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH, 1500-2000 THE OTTOMANS IN HISTORY, 1300-1922 SEEKING REFUGE FROM SLAVERY: ENSLAVED RESISTANCE FROM AFRICA TO THE AMERICAS SIN AND THE COURTS: SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CONFLICT IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND

Semester 2 SCOTTISH RADICALISM 1848-1950 MEDIEVAL PALAEOGRAPHY: AN INTRODUCTION TO READING MEDIEVAL DOCUMENTS HERETICS AND INQUISITORS IN EUROPE,800-1600 THE AMERICAN WAY OF WAR WORKING WITH MANUSCRIPTS AS HISTORIANS AMERICA'S TWO QUAGMIRES: VIETNAM AND IRAQ VIOLENCE AND THE COLONIAL ENCOUNTER THE LIFE AND AFTERLIFE OF MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS THE GLOBAL COLD WAR, 1947-2008 THE UNITED STATES SINCE 1945 GAMES AND GAMING HISTORY A 'NEW FORM OF SLAVERY'?: INDENTURED LABOUR IN POST-SLAVERY CARIBBEAN SOCIETIES, C. 1836-1917 QUALITATIVE APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF POLITICAL VIOLENCE WESTERN INTELLIGENCE IN AN AGE OF TERRORWith permission, you can also take courses from other subjects in the College of Arts and beyond.

Please note the availability of a particular course depends on student numbers and patterns of staff leave. Not all courses will be available every year.

Summer: April to September DISSERTATION (MSC HISTORY)

Teaching and Assessment

Teaching is mainly seminar and discussion-based, in small classes.Technical skills are taught through lectures and workshops associated with the core course, while the conceptual foundations for gender history are taught through the weekly seminars. Independent and self-reflective critical work is fostered through written assignments and seminar presentations, culminating in the dissertation.