Scottish History

PROGRAMME STRUCTURE

You’ll take:

You’ll also write a dissertation.

Core Course DOING HISTORY: SOURCES AND SKILLS FOR HISTORIANS

Optional Courses

With permission, you can also take courses from other subjects in the College of Arts and in other colleges.

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.

Dissertation DISSERTATION (MSC HISTORY)

ISSUES, IDEOLOGIES AND INSTITUTIONS OF MODERN SCOTLAND MILITARY SCOTLAND IN THE AGE OF PROTO-GLOBALIZATION, C.1600-C.1800 WORKING WITH MANUSCRIPTS AS HISTORIANS GAELIC IN SCOTLAND: THE HISTORY OF A LANGUAGE, 1400-1914

Other courses in History available to you include:

APPROACHES TO HISTORY (FOR POSTGRADUATES) GENDER, POLITICS AND POWER GENDER, CULTURE AND TEXT MEDIEVAL PALAEOGRAPHY: AN INTRODUCTION TO READING MEDIEVAL DOCUMENTS HERETICS AND INQUISITORS IN EUROPE,800-1600 THE UNITED STATES SINCE 1945 THE LIFE AND AFTERLIFE OF MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS

Dissertation DISSERTATION (MSC HISTORY)

You should begin identifying a dissertation topic, and the relevant sources, at an early stage. In late April and early May you give a dissertation poster presentation, and submit a dissertation proposal. The final part of the programme is devoted to researching and writing up your dissertation, with the support of an assigned supervisor.