DPT: Scottish History (MSc) (Part-time) (PTMSCSCOHI1P)

Jump to: Year 1, Year 2

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

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 and the MSc Dissertation over the duration of their degree.

There are no compulsory courses in this year of this programme.

Course options

This compulsory course MUST be taken in either Year 1 or Year 2.

Historical Research: Skills and Sources

AND

This compulsory course MUST be taken in either Year 1 or Year 2.

Historical Methodology

AND

Students must take at least 2 courses in Scottish History over the course of the programme.

Please note that places on the courses are subject to availability. Popular courses may fill up quickly.

Further to discussion with the Programme Director a student may also choose an option from the suite of level 11 courses offered by the School of History, Classics and Archaeology or from other Schools.

Contemporary Scotland

Saints Cults, Pilgrimage and Piety in Scotland

Black Activism in Britain since 1800

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

Queens, Heiresses and Lords: Women Making Medieval Scotland

Gender, Crime and Deviancy: Scotland and England c. 1860-1960

Cinema and Society in England and Scotland

Scottish Reformation Culture, c. 1540-c. 1640

Scottish Archaeology: Topics in recent research, analysis, and curation

Comparing Nationalisms

AND

Please note that places on the courses are subject to availability and timetabling. Popular courses may fill up quickly.

Further to discussion with the Programme Director a student may also choose an option from the suite of level 11 courses offered by the School of History, Classics and Archaeology or from other Schools.

Economic and Social Theory for Historical Analysis

Contemporary Scotland

Conservatism in the United States, c.1930-c.1990

The Civil Rights Movement

Saints Cults, Pilgrimage and Piety in Scotland

Intellectual History of the American Revolution

The United States and the Cold War

Cinema and Society in South Asia, 1947-Present

An uncertain world: the West since the 1970s

Genocide in Contemporary History

The Global Renaissance

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

The European Enlightenments, 1670 - 1820

Thinking with Things: History and Material Culture Studies

Making Histories: Theories and Practices in Writing History

Global Environmental History

Black Activism in Britain since 1800

Nepotism and Venality: Corruption and Accountability in the Middle Ages

Queens, Heiresses and Lords: Women Making Medieval Scotland

The Politics of History in the Arabic-Speaking World (c.1750-Present)

The Cold War in Latin America

Gender, Crime and Deviancy: Scotland and England c. 1860-1960

Cinema and Society in England and Scotland

The Future of the Past? Doing History in the Digital Era

The Medieval Indian Ocean: Climates, Communities and Commodities

Scottish Reformation Culture, c. 1540-c. 1640

Race, Religion, and Ridicule: The American South from Reconstruction to World War I

AND

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.

Please note that places on the courses are subject to availability and timetabling. Popular courses may fill up quickly.

The Lords of the Isles: Clan Donald, c.1336 - c.1545 (online)

British Empires, 1601-1948 (online)

Myth and the History of Scholarship in Early Modern Europe (online)

Theories of Empire in the Early Modern Period (online)

The Closest of Enemies: Cuban-American Relations 1898-2014 (online)

The Holocaust (online)

Debating Marriage Between Antiquity and the Middle Ages (online)

Gender, Empire, and Labour in the Nineteenth Century: Perspectives from the Wider World (online)

The Contemporary Theory of War (online)

Race, Religion, and Ridicule: The American South from Reconstruction to World War I (online)

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

Compulsory courses

Dissertation, Taught MSc in Scottish History

Course options

This compulsory course MUST be taken in either Year 1 or Year 2.

Historical Research: Skills and Sources

AND

This compulsory course MUST be taken in either Year 1 or Year 2.

Historical Methodology

AND

Students must take at least 2 courses in Scottish History over the course of the programme.

Please note that places on the courses are subject to availability. Popular courses may fill up quickly

Further to discussion with the Programme Director a student may also choose an option from the suite of level 11 courses offered by the School of History, Classics and Archaeology or from other Schools.

Contemporary Scotland

Saints Cults, Pilgrimage and Piety in Scotland

Black Activism in Britain since 1800

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

Queens, Heiresses and Lords: Women Making Medieval Scotland

Gender, Crime and Deviancy: Scotland and England c. 1860-1960

Cinema and Society in England and Scotland

Scottish Reformation Culture, c. 1540-c. 1640

Scottish Archaeology: Topics in recent research, analysis, and curation

Comparing Nationalisms

AND