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Degree Programme Table: Scottish History (MSc) (Full-time) (PTMSCSCOHI1F)

Year 1, Academic year 2015/16, Starting month: September

  • Notes: Courses will run in either Semester 1 OR Semester 2, subject to staffing availability. The range of option courses available may vary. Students complete six courses, normally three per Semester, and the MSc Dissertation.



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


    Code  Course Name  Period  Credits 
    PGHC11312 Dissertation, Taught MSc in Scottish History As available 60
    PGHC11334 Historical Research: Skills and Sources As available 20
    PGHC11335 Historical Methodology As available 20




    COURSE OPTIONS
    This DPT has 2 set(s) of course options with the following rules.


    Overarching rule collection group: A  
    Select exactly 80 credits from these collections:  

    Select a minimum of 0 credits and maximum of 80 credits from the following list of courses, as available
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    PGHC11111    Contemporary Scotland   20  
    PGHC11125    Scottish Palaeography 12th-16th centuries   20  
    PGHC11144    The Material Culture of Gender in Eighteenth Century Britain   20  
    PGHC11149    Slavery in the British Atlantic World, 1650-1834   20  
    PGHC11153    The British at War, 1939-1945   20  
    PGHC11159    Themes in Modern British and Irish Historiography   20  
    PGHC11164    Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain: Edinburgh Archives and Sources   20  
    PGHC11171    Contacts and Conflicts between East and West 600-900: the Pirenne Thesis Re-examined   20  
    PGHC11190    Conservatism in the United States, c.1930-c.1990   20  
    PGHC11192    The Civil Rights Movement   20  
    PGHC11209    Approaches to Gender History   20  
    PGHC11210    Gender and Empire: Contested Meanings and Divergent Practices   20  
    PGHC11212    Women in Medieval Europe, c.1000-c.1500   20  
    PGHC11214    The Sources of Medieval History   20  
    PGHC11215    Normandy and the Normans c. 900-1204   20  
    PGHC11224    Saints Cults, Pilgrimage and Piety in Scotland   20  
    PGHC11235    Cinema and Society in Britain   20  
    PGHC11236    Themes in American Historiography   20  
    PGHC11250    Gender, Crime and Deviancy: Britain c. 1860-1960   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  
    PGHC11278    Directed Reading and Research (Taught Degrees)   20  
    PGHC11283    The Demise of the Slave-Holding American South, 1846-1877   20  
    PGHC11291    Early American Foreign Policy, 1776-1823   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  
    PGHC11041    Economic and Social Theory for Historical Analysis   20  
    PGHC11345    Propaganda in Renaissance Scotland   20  
    PGHC11347    Medicine and Society in Modern Britain   20  
    PGHC11351    Approaches to Modern British Political History   20  
    PGHC11352    Cultural Sensibility in the Age of Richardson's Clarissa   20  
    PGHC11357    The Crusades: Thirteenth Century Crossroads   20  
    PGHC11358    Cinema and Society in South Asia, 1947-Present   20  
    PGHC11362    Introduction to Contemporary History   20  
    PGHC11411    Diaspora, Migration and Exile: The History of the Global Irish since 1600   20  
    PGHC11418    The Global Renaissance   20  
    PGHC11397    An uncertain world: the West since the 1970s   20  
    PGHC11396    China in Western Minds   20  
    PGHC11384    China's foreign and security policy: a twentieth-century perspective   20  
    PGHC11402    Civil Wars in Twentieth Century Europe   20  
    PGHC11417    Currents of Radicalism, 1776-1848   20  
    PGHC11372    Eighteenth Century Cultural History 1   20  
    PGHC11373    Eighteenth-Century Cultural History 2   20  
    PGHC11407    Genocide in Contemporary History   20  
    PGHC11370    Making War, Making Peace: European International History, 1914-1945   20  
    PGHC11369    Medieval Men and Masculinities   20  
    PGHC11405    Merchants, Pirates and Crusaders in the late medieval Mediterranean   20  
    PGHC11398    Myth and the History of Scholarship in Early Modern Europe   20  
    PGHC11401    Revolutions in Twentieth Century Europe   20  
    PGHC11092    Supervised Reading Course (E&SH)   20  
    PGHC11408    The Closest of Enemies: Cuban-American relations 1898-2014   20  
    PGHC11055    The Fall of Rome   20  
    PGHC11383    Thinking the 20th Century - Hannah Arendt and the breakdown of European Civilization   20  
    PGHC11421    Theories of Empire in the Early Modern Period   20  
    PGHC11425    Culture and the Arts in Post-war Scotland   20  
    PGHC11426    Citizens and Subjects: concepts of citizenship in modern African intellectual history   20  

    Notes:Further to discussion with the Programme Director a student may also choose an option from the suite of courses offered by the School of History, Classics and Archaeology or from other Schools.
     
    AND   

    Select a minimum of 0 credits and maximum of 80 credits from the following list of courses, as available
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    PGHC11377    Consensus to Thatcherism: Government and Politics in Post-War Britain   20  
    PGHC11376    Seeking 'Japan' in a Westernizing World: Revolution, Romance, and Imperialism, 1868 - 1945   20  
    PGHC11371    Willingly to War? The Origins of the First World War   20  
    PGHC11390    Scotland and Ireland, 1800 to 1945   20  
    PGHC11394    The Shadow of Versailles: Europe Between the Wars, 1918-1939   20  
    PGHC11391    The American Civil War and Reconstruction   20  
    PGHC11392    The Rise of Modern U.S. Conservatism   20  
    PGHC11393    Athens of the North: the Origins and Ideas of the Scottish Enlightenment   20  
    PGHC11389    The Crusades and the Euro-Mediterranean world of the Central Middle Ages   20  
    PGHC11420    Diaspora, Migration & Exile: A History of the Global Irish since 1600 (ODL)   20  
    PGHC11404    The Lords of the Isles: Clan Donald, c.1336 - c.1545 (ODL)   20  
    PGHC11415    British Empires, 1601-1948 (ODL)   20  
    PGHC11409    Ideology and Politics in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Space (ODL)   20  
    PGHC11416    Maps and Mappery in Historical Research: The Case of Scotland (ODL)   20  
    PGHC11419    Society and Culture in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Space   20  
    PGHC11406    Angels and Inverts: Sexuality, Gender and Power in Britain, 1837 - 1914   20  
    PGHC11422    Myth and the History of Scholarship in Early Modern Europe (ODL)   20  

    Notes:These courses are taught online and are prioritised for students taking an online degree, limited numbers of places may be available to on-campus students.
     



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