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Degree Programme Table: Scottish Ethnology and Scottish History (MA Hons) (UTSEYSHMAH)

Jump to: Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4

Year 1 Academic year: 2025/26, Starting in: September

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

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses
The Historian's Toolkit

Must be passed

HIST08032 20 credits
The History of Edinburgh: From Din Eidyn to Festival City

Must be passed

HIST08036 20 credits
Scottish Studies 1A: Conceptualising Scotland

Must be passed

SCET08006 20 credits
Scottish Studies 1B: Creating Scotland

Must be passed

SCET08007 20 credits

Course options

Group A

Select exactly 40 credits in this group.

Level 7 and 8 courses in Schedules A to Q, S, T, W and Y

Select between 20 and 40 credits from Level 7 and 8 courses in Schedules A to Q, S, T, W and Y
AND

Challenge Courses: Engaging with complex problems through interdisciplinary collaboration

Select between 0 and 20 credits of the following courses
Notes:
Challenge Courses are designed to bring together students from different degree programmes to explore the complex issues facing the world today through interdisciplinary collaboration and creative thinking.
Working with each other and expert academics, students will gain new perspectives and develop important life skills highly valued by employers, such as teamwork, problem-solving and adaptability.
Our Changing World
BIME08006 20 credits
Sustainability and Social Responsibility (UG)
EDUA08116 20 credits
Wicked problems: Reason and Rhetoric
EDUA08126 20 credits
Understanding decolonisation in a globalised world
EDUA08127 20 credits
Sustainable Development Goals: History, Progress and Beyond 2030
EFIE08008 20 credits
Living in the Anthropocene
GESC08004 20 credits
Understanding Gender in the Contemporary World
SSPS08012 20 credits
Healthy Eating for People and Planet
VETS08016 20 credits

Year 2 Academic year: 2025/26, Starting in: August

Notes:
Entry into Honours:
1. Students must normally achieve 50% or more in Themes in Scottish History since 1560 and Introduction to Historiography.
2. Students must normally achieve 50% or more in Scotland & Orality and Visualising Scotland.

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses
Scotland and Orality

Must be passed at 50%

SCET08008 20 credits
Visualising Scotland

Must be passed at 50%

SCET08009 20 credits
Introduction to Historiography

Must be passed at 50%

HIST08044 20 credits
Themes in Scottish History since 1560

Must be passed at 50%

HIST08042 20 credits

Course options

Group A

Select exactly 40 credits in this group.

Level 7 and 8 courses in Schedules A to Q, S, T, W and Y

Select between 20 and 40 credits from Level 7 and 8 courses in Schedules A to Q, S, T, W and Y
Notes:
You may NOT choose more than 20 credits of History courses (with codes starting HIST) in this collection.
AND

Challenge Courses: Engaging with complex problems through interdisciplinary collaboration

Select between 0 and 20 credits of the following courses
Notes:
Challenge Courses are designed to bring together students from different degree programmes to explore the complex issues facing the world today through interdisciplinary collaboration and creative thinking.
Working with each other and expert academics, students will gain new perspectives and develop important life skills highly valued by employers, such as teamwork, problem-solving and adaptability.
Our Changing World
BIME08006 20 credits
Sustainability and Social Responsibility (UG)
EDUA08116 20 credits
Wicked problems: Reason and Rhetoric
EDUA08126 20 credits
Understanding decolonisation in a globalised world
EDUA08127 20 credits
Sustainable Development Goals: History, Progress and Beyond 2030
EFIE08008 20 credits
Living in the Anthropocene
GESC08004 20 credits
Understanding Gender in the Contemporary World
SSPS08012 20 credits
Healthy Eating for People and Planet
VETS08016 20 credits

Year 3 Academic year: 2025/26, Starting in: August

Notes:
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. Dissertation in Scottish Ethnology or Scottish History
2. Dissertation in Scottish Ethnology or Scottish History
3. Honours option course in Scottish Ethnology
4. Honours option course in Scottish Ethnology
5. Honours option course in Scottish Ethnology
6. Honours option course in Scottish Ethnology
7. Honours option course in Scottish History
8. Honours option course in Scottish History
9. Honours option course in Scottish History
10. Honours option course in Scottish History
11. Honours option course in Scottish Ethnology or Scottish History
12. Honours option course in Scottish Ethnology or Scottish History

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

Course options

Group A

Select exactly 40 credits in this group.

Scottish Ethnology Level 10 courses

Select exactly 40 credits from Scottish Ethnology Level 10 courses
Selected courses must be passed
AND

Group B

Select exactly 40 credits in this group.

Scottish History Honours Electives

Select between 0 and 40 credits of the following courses
Selected courses must be passed
Society in an Age of 'Mass' Leisure C.1880-1939
ECSH10005 20 credits
Youth and Modernity, c.1880-1970
ECSH10070 20 credits
Kings and Kindreds: Scotland, Wales and Ireland in the Later Middle Ages
SCHI10005 20 credits
Contemporary Scotland
SCHI10010 20 credits
Scotland and the Great War
SCHI10073 20 credits
The Swinging Sixties? Exploring Culture and Society in Britain, c. 1956-1974
SCHI10074 20 credits
AND

History Honours Skills Courses for joint degrees

Select between 0 and 40 credits of the following courses
Notes:
Historical Skills and Methods II is strongly recommended if intending to take Dissertation in History.
Selected courses must be passed
Historical Skills and Methods II
HIST10425 20 credits
Historical Skills and Methods I
HIST10426 20 credits
AND

Group C

Select exactly 40 credits in this group.

Scottish Ethnology Level 10 courses

Select exactly 40 credits from Scottish Ethnology Level 10 courses
Selected courses must be passed
OR

Scottish History Honours Electives

Select exactly 40 credits of the following courses
Selected courses must be passed
Society in an Age of 'Mass' Leisure C.1880-1939
ECSH10005 20 credits
Youth and Modernity, c.1880-1970
ECSH10070 20 credits
Kings and Kindreds: Scotland, Wales and Ireland in the Later Middle Ages
SCHI10005 20 credits
Contemporary Scotland
SCHI10010 20 credits
Scotland and the Great War
SCHI10073 20 credits
The Swinging Sixties? Exploring Culture and Society in Britain, c. 1956-1974
SCHI10074 20 credits

Year 4 Academic year: 2025/26, Starting in: August

Notes:
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. Dissertation in Scottish Ethnology or Scottish History
2. Dissertation in Scottish Ethnology or Scottish History
3. Honours option course in Scottish Ethnology
4. Honours option course in Scottish Ethnology
5. Honours option course in Scottish Ethnology
6. Honours option course in Scottish Ethnology
7. Honours option course in Scottish History
8. Honours option course in Scottish History
9. Honours option course in Scottish History
10. Honours option course in Scottish History
11. Honours option course in Scottish Ethnology or Scottish History
12. Honours option course in Scottish Ethnology or Scottish History

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

Course options

Group A

Select exactly 40 credits in this group.

History Dissertation

Select exactly 40 credits of the following courses
Notes:
If the dissertation in History is chosen, the topic must be in Scottish History
History Dissertation
HIST10309 40 credits
OR

Scottish Ethnology Hons Dissertation

Select exactly 40 credits of the following courses
Scottish Ethnology Hons Dissertation
SCET10017 40 credits
AND

Group B

Select exactly 40 credits in this group.

Scottish Ethnology Level 10 courses

Select exactly 40 credits from Scottish Ethnology Level 10 courses
AND

Group C

Select exactly 40 credits in this group.

Scottish History Year 4 Special Subjects

Select exactly 40 credits of the following courses
The Stewarts: Family, Feud and Faction in a late medieval kingdom
HIST10535 40 credits
Highland Problems,1851 to 1953
SCHI10018 40 credits
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