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DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2024/2025

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Year 1 Academic year: 2024/25, Starting in: September

Students should aim to divide the number of credits they take in each academic year evenly between Semester 1 and Semester 2

Compulsory courses

Scottish Studies 1A: Conceptualising Scotland

Must be passed

Scottish Studies 1B: Creating Scotland

Must be passed

Course options

The Historian's Toolkit

The History of Edinburgh: From Din Eidyn to Festival City

OR

Literary Studies 1A

Literary Studies 1B

OR

Gaelic 1A

Gaelic 1B

OR

Celtic Civilisation 1B: Domination, Dislocation, and Defiance

Celtic Civilisation 1A: Barbarians, Saints, and Scholars

OR

Introduction to Gaelic Language and Culture

Celtic Civilisation 1B: Domination, Dislocation, and Defiance

AND

Year 2 Academic year: 2024/25, Starting in: August

Entry into Honours:
Students must achieve 50% or more in Scotland & Orality and Visualising Scotland.

Compulsory courses

Scotland and Orality

Must be passed at 50%

Visualising Scotland

Must be passed at 50%

Course options

Themes in Scottish History since 1560

Introduction to Historiography

OR

Scottish Literature 2

OR

Gaelic 2A

Gaelic 2B

OR

Heroes, Wonders, Saints and Sagas: Medieval Celtic Literature in Translation

Songs, Swords, Rebels and Revivals: Modern Celtic Literature in Translation

OR

If students wish to choose this course option, they MUST have passed Archaeology 1A (ARCA08004) AND Archaeology 1B (ARCA08005).

Archaeology 2B: Archaeology in Action

Archaeology 2A: Scotland before History

AND

Year 3 Academic year: 2024/25, Starting in: August

Final Assessment:
One unit of assessment is allocated to every 20 credits and constitutes one 20-credit paper. The following are the twelve 20-credit papers on which the classification of the degree is based. (Papers that for the purposes of degree classification acquire a weighting of 40 credits are, therefore, listed twice.)
1. Scottish Studies Dissertation Part A
2. Scottish Studies Dissertation Part B
3. to 11. Honours option courses from the following subjects:
Scottish Studies, Scottish History, Scottish Ethnology, Celtic, English Literature, Archaeology
12. Level 10 option course

Compulsory courses

Scottish Studies Dissertation Part A

Must be passed

Course options

Selected courses must be passed

AND

Selected courses must be passed

Ancient Superpowers: The Armies and Military Monuments of Rome and Persia

Roman Egypt

Archaeological Illustration

Conceptualising the Neolithic

Bronze Age Civilisations of the Near East and Greece

The Hittites: The Archaeology of an Ancient Near Eastern Civilisation

Scientific Methods in Bio-Archaeology

Here comes the war: conflict archaeology and the human past

The Archaeology and History of Egypt: the Second Intermediate Period until the end of the Late Period (1650-332 BC)

The Archaeology and History of Egypt: the Early Dynastic until the end of the Middle Kingdom (c. 3100-1650 BC)

Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs: The Basics and Beyond

The Archaeology of Iron Age Europe: Hillforts, Burials and Landscapes

Mariners, Monks and Mobility: the archaeology of the early medieval Atlantic Archipelago

Marine Archaeology

The Archaeology of Children and Childhood

Ancient Bodies: Archaeological Human Remains in their Social and Cultural Context

Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs II: Texts and Contexts

Archaeomaterials Analysis

Heritage Studies and the Archaeology of the Contemporary World: Investigating How the Past Shapes the Present

Themes in Scottish Archaeology: from field to lab, collection to curation

Hellenistic Art

Inscribed Objects: Roman Coins and Latin Inscriptions

Archaeology, Politics, and the Making of the Modern Middle East

Constantinople: The History of a Medieval Megalopolis from Constantine the Great to Süleyman the Magnificent

The kings in the north: Scotland in the early Middle Ages

Bestiary: Animals in the Middle Ages

African Environmental History

AND

Selected courses must be passed

Themes in Scottish Archaeology: from field to lab, collection to curation

Christianity and the Crisis of Faith in Nineteenth-Century Scotland

Leisure and the Rise of Industrial Society in Britain C.1780-1880

Print Culture and the Enlightenment: Edinburgh and London, 1710-1814

The kings in the north: Scotland in the early Middle Ages

Revelry and Riot: Popular Culture in Britain, c.1400-1800

Improving the Nation. Change and Modernisation in Scotland, 1660-1730

Histories of the NHS: A National Religion?

Contemporary Scotland

The Swinging Sixties? Exploring Culture and Society in Britain, c. 1956-1974

From Covenanting Revolution to Jacobite Rebellion: Scottish Politics, 1638-1747

AND

Selected courses must be passed

AND

Selected courses must be passed

AND

Selected courses must be passed

From Jacobitism to Romanticism: The (Re)invention of Scotland in Visual and Material Culture

Scottish Art in the Age of Change 1945-2000

Scotland: Social Structure and Social Change

Nations and Nationalism

AND

Selected courses must be passed

Thinking Translation: a Beginner's Guide

AND

Selected courses must be passed

Year 4 Academic year: 2024/25, Starting in: August

Final Assessment:
One unit of assessment is allocated to every 20 credits and constitutes one 20-credit paper. The following are the twelve 20-credit papers on which the classification of the degree is based. (Papers that for the purposes of degree classification acquire a weighting of 40 credits are, therefore, listed twice.)
1. Scottish Studies Dissertation Part A
2. Scottish Studies Dissertation Part B
3. to 11. Honours option courses from the following subjects:
Scottish Studies, Scottish History, Scottish Ethnology, Celtic, English Literature, Archaeology
12. Level 10 option course

Compulsory courses

Scottish Studies Dissertation Part B

Course options

AND

Crime, Policing and Punishment: Great Britain and Ireland since 1800

Documenting Britain: The Documentary Film and British Society, 1896-c.1982

Disunited kingdoms: why do union states fail?

Global Scotland: Empire, Encounter, Enslavement, 1650-1850

Reformation and Society in Scottish Communities, 1530-1650

Highland Problems,1851 to 1953

AND

AND

AND

Ancient Superpowers: The Armies and Military Monuments of Rome and Persia

Roman Egypt

Archaeological Fieldwork

Archaeological Illustration

Conceptualising the Neolithic

Bronze Age Civilisations of the Near East and Greece

The Hittites: The Archaeology of an Ancient Near Eastern Civilisation

Theoretical Archaeology

Archaeology in Practice

Scientific Methods in Bio-Archaeology

Here comes the war: conflict archaeology and the human past

The Archaeology and History of Egypt: the Second Intermediate Period until the end of the Late Period (1650-332 BC)

The Archaeology and History of Egypt: the Early Dynastic until the end of the Middle Kingdom (c. 3100-1650 BC)

Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs: The Basics and Beyond

The Archaeology of Iron Age Europe: Hillforts, Burials and Landscapes

Mariners, Monks and Mobility: the archaeology of the early medieval Atlantic Archipelago

Marine Archaeology

The Archaeology of Children and Childhood

Ancient Bodies: Archaeological Human Remains in their Social and Cultural Context

Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs II: Texts and Contexts

Archaeomaterials Analysis

Heritage Studies and the Archaeology of the Contemporary World: Investigating How the Past Shapes the Present

Themes in Scottish Archaeology: from field to lab, collection to curation

Hellenistic Art

Inscribed Objects: Roman Coins and Latin Inscriptions

Archaeology, Politics, and the Making of the Modern Middle East

Constantinople: The History of a Medieval Megalopolis from Constantine the Great to Süleyman the Magnificent

Geoscience Outreach and Engagement

The kings in the north: Scotland in the early Middle Ages

Bestiary: Animals in the Middle Ages

African Environmental History

AND

From Jacobitism to Romanticism: The (Re)invention of Scotland in Visual and Material Culture

Scottish Art in the Age of Change 1945-2000

Scotland: Social Structure and Social Change

Nations and Nationalism

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