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Degree Programme Table: History (MSc) (Full-time) (PTMSCHISTY1F)

Year 1, Academic year 2011/12, Starting month: September

  • Notes: Before selecting your outside courses, please ensure you have met your Director of Studies.


    • COMPULSORY COURSES
    This DPT has 3 compulsory course(s).


    Code  Course Name  Period  Credits 
    PGHC11313 Dissertation, Taught MSc in History Full Year 60
    PGHC11334 Historical Research: Skills and Sources Semester 1 20
    PGHC11335 Historical Methodology Semester 2 20




    COURSE OPTIONS
    This DPT has 4 set(s) of course options with the following rules.


    Overarching rule collection group: A  
    Select exactly 40 credits from these collections:  

    Select a minimum of 20 credits and maximum of 40 credits from the following list of courses, during Semester 1
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    PGHC11106    Sources for Scottish Studies   20  
    PGHC11111    Contemporary Scotland   20  
    PGHC11117    Scotland and Ireland, 1800-1922   20  
    PGHC11120    The Scottish Highlands, 1350-1850: Imagery, Violence and Romance   20  
    PGHC11122    Scottish Studies Archival Internship 'B'   20  
    PGHC11125    Scottish Palaeography 12th-16th centuries   20  
    PGHC11139    The Dal Riata   20  
    PGHC11140    The Life and Works of Adomnan of Iona   20  
    PGHC11142    Britain and America in the Eighteenth Century: Material and Visual Cultures   20  
    PGHC11144    The Material Culture of Gender in Eighteenth Century Britain   20  
    PGHC11145    Mind and World in Early Greek Philosophy   20  
    PGHC11147    Early Modern Theories of Slavery, from Grotius to the Enlightenment (c. 1600-1800)   20  
    PGHC11148    Slavery, Society and Law at Rome   20  
    PGHC11149    Slavery in the British Atlantic World, 1650-1834   20  
    PGHC11153    The British at War, 1939-1945   20  
    PGHC11155    Exploitation, Expulsions, Extermination   20  
    PGHC11156    Home Fronts: Belligerents (excluding Britain) and Neutrals   20  
    PGHC11157    Invasion, Occupation, Collaboration, Resistance   20  
    PGHC11158    Unionism in Ireland and Britain, c. 1800-2000   20  
    PGHC11159    Themes in Modern British and Irish Historiography   20  
    PGHC11160    Anglo-Spanish Relations, 1936-1950   20  
    PGHC11164    Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain: Edinburgh Archives and Sources   20  
    PGHC11170    Charlemagne Man and Myth   20  
    PGHC11171    Contacts and Conflicts between East and West 600-900: the Pirenne Thesis Re-examined   20  
    PGHC11174    Governance in Scotland, 1424-1625   20  
    PGHC11176    Home Rule in Ireland and Britain, 1800-2000   20  
    PGHC11180    Late Antique Visual Culture   20  
    PGHC11181    Epicurus and Epicureanism   20  
    PGHC11182    Hellenistic Court and Society   20  
    PGHC11189    Tocqueville's America   20  
    PGHC11190    Conservatism in the United States, c.1930-c.1990   20  
    PGHC11192    The Civil Rights Movement   20  
    PGHC11201    A Crucible for Change: Enlightenment in Britain, 1688-1801   20  
    PGHC11202    Core Topics in Enlightenment Studies   20  
    PGHC11203    The 'Science of Man' in the Scottish Enlightenment   20  
    PGHC11204    British Enlightenment: Moral and Political Thought from Hobbes to Smith   20  
    PGHC11205    Man and the Natural World in the Enlightenment   20  
    PGHC11206    The Enlightenment - Questions of Geography   20  
    PGHC11208    Gender, Nationalism and Modernity in East Asia   20  
    PGHC11207    Historiography and Theory of Social and Cultural History   20  
    PGHC11209    Approaches to Gender History   20  
    PGHC11210    Gender and Empire: Contested Meanings and Divergent Practices   20  
    PGHC11211    Gender and Society in Europe; 1914-1945   20  
    PGHC11212    Women in Medieval Europe, c.1000-c.1500   20  
    PGHC11213    Clothing Cultures in Comparative Historical Contexts   20  
    PGHC11214    The Sources of Medieval History   20  
    PGHC11215    Normandy and the Normans c. 900-1204   20  
    PGHC11216    Religion and Ritual in Late Medieval Towns   20  
    PGHC11217    Empire and Nation: the Scottish Experience, 1650-1850   20  
    PGHC11218    Armed Struggle: The Northern Ireland Troubles and their Origins   20  
    PGHC11219    PG Research Skills and Methods   20  
    PGHC11221    Methods and Sources in First Millennium Studies   20  
    PGHC11222    Core Topics in First Millennium Studies   20  
    PGHC11223    The Late Medieval Chronicle Tradition in Scotland   20  
    PGHC11224    Saints Cults, Pilgrimage and Piety in Scotland   20  
    PGHC11225    Kingship in Late Medieval Scotland   20  
    PGHC11226    The Lordship of the Isles: a political history   20  
    PGHC11227    War and Society in Dark Age Scotland   20  
    PGHC11228    Kingship in Early Medieval Scotland   20  
    PGHC11235    Cinema and Society in Britain   20  
    PGHC11236    Themes in American Historiography   20  
    PGHC11245    Dissertation Preparation, Scottish History   20  
    PGHC11247    Special Topics in Scholarly Methods: Anglo-Scottish Print Culture, 1700-2007   20  
    PGHC11250    Gender, Crime and Deviancy: Britain c. 1860-1960   20  
    PGHC11252    Core Themes in Intellectual History   20  
    PGHC11256    Twentieth-Century Africa: Ethnicity, Class and Power   20  
    PGHC11264    Empire and the Construction of Identities in Britain   20  
    PGHC11267    Intermediate Latin (PG) 1   20  
    PGHC11268    Intermediate Latin (PG) 2   20  
    PGHC11269    Intermediate Greek (PG) 1   20  
    PGHC11270    Intermediate Greek (PG) 2   20  
    PGHC11272    Themes in African Social History   20  
    PGHC11273    The United States and the Vietnam War: Origins and Repercussions   20  
    PGHC11274    The Sixties in the United States   20  
    PGHC11275    Intellectual History of the American Revolution   20  
    PGHC11276    The Occult Renaissance   20  
    PGHC11277    Archival Internship   20  
    PGHC11278    Directed Reading and Research (Taught Degrees)   20  
    PGHC11279    Greek Text Seminar 1   20  
    PGHC11281    Latin Text Seminar 1   20  
    PGHC11282    Latin Text Seminar 2   20  
    PGHC11283    The Demise of the Slave-Holding American South, 1846-1877   20  
    PGHC11284    Introduction: Why Study Historical Landscapes and Environments?   10  
    PGHC11285    Urban Environments   10  
    PGHC11286    Landscape and Environment: Diverse Approaches   10  
    PGHC11287    Time, Space, Settlement   10  
    PGHC11288    Historical Sources in the Digital Age   10  
    PGHC11289    Academic Practice and Methods   10  
    PGHC11291    Early American Foreign Policy, 1776-1823   20  
    PGHC11292    Historical Writing, Identity and the Norman Conquest of 1066   20  
    PGHC11293    The Middle Ages and the Movies   20  
    PGHC11295    Ethnic and National Identities in Medieval Scotland   20  
    PGHC11297    General Research Skills   20  
    PGHC11298    Ethnicity, Class and Power in 20th Century Africa   20  
    PGHC11300    DIASPORA, MIGRATION AND EXILE: THE HISTORY OF THE GLOBAL IRISH SINCE 1700   20  
    PGHC11303    Approaches to Diaspora and Migration History   20  
    PGHC11304    British Emigration, 1603-1914   20  
    PGHC11024    Greek Lyric   20  
    PGHC11025    Greek Historiography   20  
    PGHC11026    Latin Historiography   20  
    PGHC11027    Late Latin   20  
    PGHC11028    Medieval Lyric   20  
    PGHC11030    Medieval Epic   20  
    PGHC11033    Greek Palaeography and Textual Criticism   20  
    PGHC11034    Reading Medieval Latin   20  
    PGHC11041    Economic and Social Theory for Historical Analysis   20  
    PGHC11048    Urban Society and Civil Society in England, Scotland and Ireland Since 1688   20  
    PGHC11086    Elementary Latin (PG) 1   20  
    PGHC11087    Elementary Latin (PG) 2   20  
    PGHC11088    Elementary Greek (PG) 1   20  
    PGHC11089    Elementary Greek (PG) 2   20  
    PGHC11091    Historical Methodology   20  
    PGHC11097    Primary Sources   20  
    SCHI10011    The Scottish Revolution, 1596-1651   20  
    PGHC11217    Empire and Nation: the Scottish Experience, 1650-1850   20  
    PGHC11338    Sources and methods for the study of Scotland in the Central Middle Ages, 1000-1300   20  
    PGHC11342    Medieval Universities: Academic Communities, Learning and the Wider Society   20  
    PGHC11341    The United States and the Cold War   20  
    PGHC11339    War and Identities in Twentieth Century Britain and Ireland   20  
    PGHC11332    History as Romance, Profession, Critique: Theory and Scholarship in the West, 1835 to 1985   20  
    PGHC11331    Medicine, Science and Society in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy   20  
    PGHC11330    The Politics of Historiography in Post-Colonial South Asia   20  
    PGHC11328    Women in Britain, c. 1300-c. 1700   20  

    Notes:1. Not all courses run in Semester one. The range of other option modules available may vary according to staffing arrangements.
    2. Up to 20 credits of option courses may be substituted for a skills course from the list below.
    3. Across the full year, at least 40 credits must be selected from options relevant to the dissertation field you intend to study.
     
    AND   

    Select a minimum of 0 credits and maximum of 20 credits from the following list of courses, during Semester 1
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    PGHC11209    Approaches to Gender History   20  
    CLLC11058    Approaches to Medieval Culture and Society   20  
    PGHC11213    Clothing Cultures in Comparative Historical Contexts   20  
    PGHC11041    Economic and Social Theory for Historical Analysis   20  
    PGHC11207    Historiography and Theory of Social and Cultural History   20  
    PGHC11281    Latin Text Seminar 1   20  
    PGHC11282    Latin Text Seminar 2   20  
    PGHC11086    Elementary Latin (PG) 1   20  
    PGHC11087    Elementary Latin (PG) 2   20  
    PGHC11159    Themes in Modern British and Irish Historiography   20  
    CLLC11094    Palaeography and Codicology I   20  
    CLLC11095    Palaeography and Codicology II   20  
    CLLC11099    Palaeography and Codicology III   40  
    PGSP11016    Research Skills in the Social Sciences: Data Collection   20  
    PGHC11214    The Sources of Medieval History   20  
    PGHC11236    Themes in American Historiography   20  
    PGHC11267    Intermediate Latin (PG) 1   20  
    PGHC11268    Intermediate Latin (PG) 2   20  
    PGHC11026    Latin Historiography   20  
    PGHC11027    Late Latin   20  
    PGHC11034    Reading Medieval Latin   20  

    Notes:1. Not all skills courses run in Semester one. The range of other skills modules available may vary according to staffing arrangements.
    2. Across the full year, at least 40 credits must be selected from options relevant to the dissertation field you intend to study.
     


    AND   

    Overarching rule collection group: B  
    Select exactly 40 credits from these collections:  

    Select a minimum of 20 credits and maximum of 40 credits from the following list of courses, during Semester 2
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    PGHC11106    Sources for Scottish Studies   20  
    PGHC11111    Contemporary Scotland   20  
    PGHC11117    Scotland and Ireland, 1800-1922   20  
    PGHC11120    The Scottish Highlands, 1350-1850: Imagery, Violence and Romance   20  
    PGHC11122    Scottish Studies Archival Internship 'B'   20  
    PGHC11125    Scottish Palaeography 12th-16th centuries   20  
    PGHC11139    The Dal Riata   20  
    PGHC11140    The Life and Works of Adomnan of Iona   20  
    PGHC11142    Britain and America in the Eighteenth Century: Material and Visual Cultures   20  
    PGHC11144    The Material Culture of Gender in Eighteenth Century Britain   20  
    PGHC11145    Mind and World in Early Greek Philosophy   20  
    PGHC11147    Early Modern Theories of Slavery, from Grotius to the Enlightenment (c. 1600-1800)   20  
    PGHC11148    Slavery, Society and Law at Rome   20  
    PGHC11149    Slavery in the British Atlantic World, 1650-1834   20  
    PGHC11153    The British at War, 1939-1945   20  
    PGHC11155    Exploitation, Expulsions, Extermination   20  
    PGHC11156    Home Fronts: Belligerents (excluding Britain) and Neutrals   20  
    PGHC11157    Invasion, Occupation, Collaboration, Resistance   20  
    PGHC11158    Unionism in Ireland and Britain, c. 1800-2000   20  
    PGHC11159    Themes in Modern British and Irish Historiography   20  
    PGHC11160    Anglo-Spanish Relations, 1936-1950   20  
    PGHC11164    Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain: Edinburgh Archives and Sources   20  
    PGHC11170    Charlemagne Man and Myth   20  
    PGHC11171    Contacts and Conflicts between East and West 600-900: the Pirenne Thesis Re-examined   20  
    PGHC11174    Governance in Scotland, 1424-1625   20  
    PGHC11176    Home Rule in Ireland and Britain, 1800-2000   20  
    PGHC11180    Late Antique Visual Culture   20  
    PGHC11181    Epicurus and Epicureanism   20  
    PGHC11182    Hellenistic Court and Society   20  
    PGHC11189    Tocqueville's America   20  
    PGHC11190    Conservatism in the United States, c.1930-c.1990   20  
    PGHC11192    The Civil Rights Movement   20  
    PGHC11201    A Crucible for Change: Enlightenment in Britain, 1688-1801   20  
    PGHC11202    Core Topics in Enlightenment Studies   20  
    PGHC11203    The 'Science of Man' in the Scottish Enlightenment   20  
    PGHC11204    British Enlightenment: Moral and Political Thought from Hobbes to Smith   20  
    PGHC11205    Man and the Natural World in the Enlightenment   20  
    PGHC11206    The Enlightenment - Questions of Geography   20  
    PGHC11208    Gender, Nationalism and Modernity in East Asia   20  
    PGHC11207    Historiography and Theory of Social and Cultural History   20  
    PGHC11209    Approaches to Gender History   20  
    PGHC11210    Gender and Empire: Contested Meanings and Divergent Practices   20  
    PGHC11211    Gender and Society in Europe; 1914-1945   20  
    PGHC11212    Women in Medieval Europe, c.1000-c.1500   20  
    PGHC11213    Clothing Cultures in Comparative Historical Contexts   20  
    PGHC11214    The Sources of Medieval History   20  
    PGHC11215    Normandy and the Normans c. 900-1204   20  
    PGHC11216    Religion and Ritual in Late Medieval Towns   20  
    PGHC11217    Empire and Nation: the Scottish Experience, 1650-1850   20  
    PGHC11218    Armed Struggle: The Northern Ireland Troubles and their Origins   20  
    PGHC11219    PG Research Skills and Methods   20  
    PGHC11221    Methods and Sources in First Millennium Studies   20  
    PGHC11222    Core Topics in First Millennium Studies   20  
    PGHC11223    The Late Medieval Chronicle Tradition in Scotland   20  
    PGHC11224    Saints Cults, Pilgrimage and Piety in Scotland   20  
    PGHC11225    Kingship in Late Medieval Scotland   20  
    PGHC11226    The Lordship of the Isles: a political history   20  
    PGHC11227    War and Society in Dark Age Scotland   20  
    PGHC11228    Kingship in Early Medieval Scotland   20  
    PGHC11235    Cinema and Society in Britain   20  
    PGHC11236    Themes in American Historiography   20  
    PGHC11245    Dissertation Preparation, Scottish History   20  
    PGHC11247    Special Topics in Scholarly Methods: Anglo-Scottish Print Culture, 1700-2007   20  
    PGHC11250    Gender, Crime and Deviancy: Britain c. 1860-1960   20  
    PGHC11252    Core Themes in Intellectual History   20  
    PGHC11256    Twentieth-Century Africa: Ethnicity, Class and Power   20  
    PGHC11264    Empire and the Construction of Identities in Britain   20  
    PGHC11267    Intermediate Latin (PG) 1   20  
    PGHC11268    Intermediate Latin (PG) 2   20  
    PGHC11269    Intermediate Greek (PG) 1   20  
    PGHC11270    Intermediate Greek (PG) 2   20  
    PGHC11272    Themes in African Social History   20  
    PGHC11273    The United States and the Vietnam War: Origins and Repercussions   20  
    PGHC11274    The Sixties in the United States   20  
    PGHC11275    Intellectual History of the American Revolution   20  
    PGHC11276    The Occult Renaissance   20  
    PGHC11277    Archival Internship   20  
    PGHC11278    Directed Reading and Research (Taught Degrees)   20  
    PGHC11279    Greek Text Seminar 1   20  
    PGHC11281    Latin Text Seminar 1   20  
    PGHC11282    Latin Text Seminar 2   20  
    PGHC11283    The Demise of the Slave-Holding American South, 1846-1877   20  
    PGHC11284    Introduction: Why Study Historical Landscapes and Environments?   10  
    PGHC11285    Urban Environments   10  
    PGHC11286    Landscape and Environment: Diverse Approaches   10  
    PGHC11287    Time, Space, Settlement   10  
    PGHC11288    Historical Sources in the Digital Age   10  
    PGHC11289    Academic Practice and Methods   10  
    PGHC11291    Early American Foreign Policy, 1776-1823   20  
    PGHC11292    Historical Writing, Identity and the Norman Conquest of 1066   20  
    PGHC11293    The Middle Ages and the Movies   20  
    PGHC11295    Ethnic and National Identities in Medieval Scotland   20  
    PGHC11297    General Research Skills   20  
    PGHC11298    Ethnicity, Class and Power in 20th Century Africa   20  
    PGHC11300    DIASPORA, MIGRATION AND EXILE: THE HISTORY OF THE GLOBAL IRISH SINCE 1700   20  
    PGHC11303    Approaches to Diaspora and Migration History   20  
    PGHC11304    British Emigration, 1603-1914   20  
    PGHC11024    Greek Lyric   20  
    PGHC11025    Greek Historiography   20  
    PGHC11026    Latin Historiography   20  
    PGHC11027    Late Latin   20  
    PGHC11028    Medieval Lyric   20  
    PGHC11030    Medieval Epic   20  
    PGHC11033    Greek Palaeography and Textual Criticism   20  
    PGHC11034    Reading Medieval Latin   20  
    PGHC11041    Economic and Social Theory for Historical Analysis   20  
    PGHC11048    Urban Society and Civil Society in England, Scotland and Ireland Since 1688   20  
    PGHC11086    Elementary Latin (PG) 1   20  
    PGHC11087    Elementary Latin (PG) 2   20  
    PGHC11088    Elementary Greek (PG) 1   20  
    PGHC11089    Elementary Greek (PG) 2   20  
    PGHC11091    Historical Methodology   20  
    PGHC11097    Primary Sources   20  
    SCHI10011    The Scottish Revolution, 1596-1651   20  
    PGHC11217    Empire and Nation: the Scottish Experience, 1650-1850   20  
    PGHC11338    Sources and methods for the study of Scotland in the Central Middle Ages, 1000-1300   20  
    PGHC11342    Medieval Universities: Academic Communities, Learning and the Wider Society   20  
    PGHC11341    The United States and the Cold War   20  
    PGHC11339    War and Identities in Twentieth Century Britain and Ireland   20  
    PGHC11332    History as Romance, Profession, Critique: Theory and Scholarship in the West, 1835 to 1985   20  
    PGHC11331    Medicine, Science and Society in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy   20  
    PGHC11330    The Politics of Historiography in Post-Colonial South Asia   20  
    PGHC11328    Women in Britain, c. 1300-c. 1700   20  

    Notes:1. Not all courses run in Semester two. The range of other option modules available may vary according to staffing arrangements.
    2. Up to 20 credits of option courses may be substituted for a skills course from the list below.
    3. Across the full year, at least 40 credits must be selected from options relevant to the dissertation field you intend to study.
     
    AND   

    Select a minimum of 0 credits and maximum of 20 credits from the following list of courses, during Semester 2
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    PGHC11209    Approaches to Gender History   20  
    CLLC11058    Approaches to Medieval Culture and Society   20  
    PGHC11213    Clothing Cultures in Comparative Historical Contexts   20  
    PGHC11041    Economic and Social Theory for Historical Analysis   20  
    PGHC11207    Historiography and Theory of Social and Cultural History   20  
    PGHC11281    Latin Text Seminar 1   20  
    PGHC11282    Latin Text Seminar 2   20  
    PGHC11086    Elementary Latin (PG) 1   20  
    PGHC11087    Elementary Latin (PG) 2   20  
    PGHC11159    Themes in Modern British and Irish Historiography   20  
    CLLC11094    Palaeography and Codicology I   20  
    CLLC11095    Palaeography and Codicology II   20  
    CLLC11099    Palaeography and Codicology III   40  
    PGSP11016    Research Skills in the Social Sciences: Data Collection   20  
    PGHC11214    The Sources of Medieval History   20  
    PGHC11236    Themes in American Historiography   20  
    PGHC11267    Intermediate Latin (PG) 1   20  
    PGHC11268    Intermediate Latin (PG) 2   20  
    PGHC11026    Latin Historiography   20  
    PGHC11027    Late Latin   20  
    PGHC11034    Reading Medieval Latin   20  

    Notes:1. Not all courses run in Semester two. The range of other option modules available may vary according to staffing arrangements.
    2. Across the full year, at least 40 credits must be selected from options relevant to the dissertation field you intend to study.
     



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