The Highland Community: Sources and Perspectives (P01914)

? Credit Points : 20 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : LLC-P-P01914

This course offers a case-study approach to Highland community life (social, economic, cultural, religious), drawing on a range of evidence including oral testimony (family history, township history, place-names, song), documentary, published and visual sources, much of it to be found in the School of Scottish Studies Archives and other collections. A series of communities is studied in depth and all the resources are readily accessible (including translations from Gaelic originals where relevant) in either original or electronic form.

Entry Requirements

? This course is not available to visting students.

? Pre-requisites : Entry to MSc Highland Studies.

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Scottish Ethnology, (School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, Schedule G)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Semester 2 (Blocks 3-4)

? Contact Teaching Time : 2 hour(s) per week for 11 weeks

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

Students will gain:
Knowledge of the range of sources available for the study of Highland community life (social, cultural, religious, economic) and the context of these;
Skills in the critical evaluation of a variety of types of evidence (oral, written, visual) with wider application , including issues of memory, viewpoint, authenticity, sense of place, mapping and language;
Appreciation of the ways in which sources of evidence are generated from within or outwith a community;
Experience in undertaking project work in a case-study format, drawing upon on-line databases such as the Statistical Accounts of Scotland and other national surveys, and archive collections including those of the School of Scottish Studies and the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), and synthesis of evidence of several sorts in written presentation;
Understanding of the variety of experience as well as the common features of Highland community life and the unique sources for their study which come from Gaelic tradition.