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Degree Programme Table: Scottish Studies (MA Hons) (UTSCOTS)

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
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.

ScotHist_Year1

Select exactly 40 credits of the following courses
The Historian's Toolkit
HIST08032 20 credits
The History of Edinburgh: From Din Eidyn to Festival City
HIST08036 20 credits
OR

Scottish Literature Y1 courses

Select exactly 40 credits of the following courses
Literary Studies 1A
ENLI08020 20 credits
Literary Studies 1B
ENLI08021 20 credits
OR

Celtic_Year 1_Gaelic

Select exactly 40 credits of the following courses
Gaelic 1A
CELT08004 40 credits
Gaelic 1B
CELT08005 40 credits
OR

Celtic_Year 1_Celtic Civ

Select exactly 40 credits of the following courses
Celtic Civilisation 1B: Domination, Dislocation, and Defiance
CELT08024 20 credits
Celtic Civilisation 1A: Barbarians, Saints, and Scholars
CELT08025 20 credits
OR

Celtic_Year 1_IGLAC

Select exactly 40 credits of the following courses
Introduction to Gaelic Language and Culture
CELT08017 20 credits
Celtic Civilisation 1B: Domination, Dislocation, and Defiance
CELT08024 20 credits
AND

Group B

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
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:
Students must 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

Course options

Group A

Select exactly 40 credits in this group.

ScotHist_Year2

Select exactly 40 credits of the following courses
Themes in Scottish History since 1560
HIST08042 20 credits
Introduction to Historiography
HIST08044 20 credits
OR

Scottish Literature 2

Select exactly 40 credits of the following courses
Scottish Literature 2
ENLI08004 40 credits
OR

Celtic_Year 2_Gaelic

Select exactly 40 credits of the following courses
Gaelic 2A
CELT08006 40 credits
Gaelic 2B
CELT08007 40 credits
OR

Celtic_Year 2_Celtic Literature in Translation

Select exactly 40 credits of the following courses
Heroes, Wonders, Saints and Sagas: Medieval Celtic Literature in Translation
CELT08022 20 credits
Songs, Swords, Rebels and Revivals: Modern Celtic Literature in Translation
CELT08023 20 credits
OR

Archaeol_Year 2

Select exactly 40 credits of the following courses
Notes:
If students wish to choose this course option, they MUST have passed Archaeology 1A (ARCA08004) AND Archaeology 1B (ARCA08005).
Archaeology 2B: Archaeology in Action
ARCA08012 20 credits
Archaeology 2A: Scotland before History
ARCA08013 20 credits
AND

Group B

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
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. 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

You must take these courses
Scottish Studies Dissertation Part A

Must be passed

SCET10029 20 credits

Course options

Group A

Select exactly 80 credits in this group.

Scottish Ethnology Level 10 courses

Select between 0 and 80 credits from Scottish Ethnology Level 10 courses
Selected courses must be passed
AND

Archaeology Year 3 Honours Courses

Select between 0 and 80 credits of the following courses
Selected courses must be passed
The Neo-Hittite Kingdoms: A World between Empires
ANHI10117 20 credits
Archaeological Illustration
ARCA10014 20 credits
Ritual and Monumentality in North-West Europe: Mid-6th to Mid-3rd Millennium BC
ARCA10034 20 credits
Bronze Age Civilisations of the Near East and Greece
ARCA10047 20 credits
The Hittites: The Archaeology of an Ancient Near Eastern Civilisation
ARCA10063 20 credits
Scientific Methods in Bio-Archaeology
ARCA10077 20 credits
Archaeology of Architecture
ARCA10082 20 credits
Here comes the war: conflict archaeology and the human past
ARCA10083 20 credits
The archaeology of animal remains
ARCA10084 20 credits
GIS for Archaeologists
ARCA10086 20 credits
The Archaeology and History of Egypt: the Early Dynastic until the end of the Middle Kingdom (c. 3100-1650 BC)
ARCA10088 20 credits
Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs: The Basics and Beyond
ARCA10091 20 credits
The Archaeology of Iron Age Europe: Hillforts, Burials and Landscapes
ARCA10093 20 credits
Marine Archaeology
ARCA10097 20 credits
The Archaeology of Children and Childhood
ARCA10098 20 credits
Ancient Bodies: Archaeological Human Remains in their Social and Cultural Context
ARCA10099 20 credits
Island Worlds in Mediterranean Prehistory
ARCA10100 20 credits
Archaeomaterials Analysis
ARCA10102 20 credits
Heritage Studies and the Archaeology of the Contemporary World: Investigating How the Past Shapes the Present
ARCA10103 20 credits
Data Science for the Past: from points to pictures
ARCA10105 20 credits
Paganism and Christianity in the Roman Empire
CACA10007 20 credits
The City in the Late Antique Mediterranean World
CACA10042 20 credits
Bestiary: Animals in the Middle Ages
HIST10433 20 credits
AND

Scottish History Honours Electives

Select between 0 and 80 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
Scotland and the Great War
SCHI10073 20 credits
AND

Celtic Level 10 courses

Select between 0 and 80 credits from Celtic Level 10 courses
Selected courses must be passed
AND

English Literature Level 10 courses

Select between 0 and 80 credits from English Literature Level 10 courses
Selected courses must be passed
AND

Courses from School(s) G/A/J/E - Scottish Studies (MA) - Level(s) 10

Select between 0 and 80 credits of the following courses
Selected courses must be passed
From Jacobitism to Romanticism: The (Re)invention of Scotland in Visual and Material Culture
HIAR10009 20 credits
Scottish Art in the Age of Change 1945-2000
HIAR10035 20 credits
Scotland: Social Structure and Social Change
SCIL10020 20 credits
Nations and Nationalism
SCIL10065 20 credits
AND

Thinking Translation: a Beginner's Guide

Select exactly 20 credits of the following courses
Selected courses must be passed
Thinking Translation: a Beginner's Guide
CLLC10003 20 credits
AND

Group B

Select exactly 20 credits in this group.

Level 10 courses in Schedules A to Q, T and W

Select exactly 20 credits from Level 10 courses in Schedules A to Q, T and W
Selected courses must be passed

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. 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

You must take these courses
Scottish Studies Dissertation Part B
SCET10030 20 credits

Course options

Group A

Select exactly 100 credits in this group.

Scottish Ethnology Level 10 courses

Select between 0 and 100 credits from Scottish Ethnology Level 10 courses
AND

Scottish History Year 4 Special Subjects

Select between 0 and 100 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
AND

Celtic Level 10 courses

Select between 0 and 100 credits from Celtic Level 10 courses
AND

English Literature Level 10 courses

Select between 0 and 100 credits from English Literature Level 10 courses
AND

Archaeology Year 4 Honours Courses

Select between 0 and 100 credits of the following courses
The Neo-Hittite Kingdoms: A World between Empires
ANHI10117 20 credits
Archaeological Fieldwork
ARCA10013 20 credits
Archaeological Illustration
ARCA10014 20 credits
Ritual and Monumentality in North-West Europe: Mid-6th to Mid-3rd Millennium BC
ARCA10034 20 credits
Bronze Age Civilisations of the Near East and Greece
ARCA10047 20 credits
The Hittites: The Archaeology of an Ancient Near Eastern Civilisation
ARCA10063 20 credits
Theoretical Archaeology
ARCA10064 20 credits
Archaeology in Practice
ARCA10065 20 credits
Scientific Methods in Bio-Archaeology
ARCA10077 20 credits
Archaeology of Architecture
ARCA10082 20 credits
Here comes the war: conflict archaeology and the human past
ARCA10083 20 credits
The archaeology of animal remains
ARCA10084 20 credits
GIS for Archaeologists
ARCA10086 20 credits
The Archaeology and History of Egypt: the Early Dynastic until the end of the Middle Kingdom (c. 3100-1650 BC)
ARCA10088 20 credits
Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs: The Basics and Beyond
ARCA10091 20 credits
The Archaeology of Iron Age Europe: Hillforts, Burials and Landscapes
ARCA10093 20 credits
Marine Archaeology
ARCA10097 20 credits
The Archaeology of Children and Childhood
ARCA10098 20 credits
Ancient Bodies: Archaeological Human Remains in their Social and Cultural Context
ARCA10099 20 credits
Island Worlds in Mediterranean Prehistory
ARCA10100 20 credits
Archaeomaterials Analysis
ARCA10102 20 credits
Heritage Studies and the Archaeology of the Contemporary World: Investigating How the Past Shapes the Present
ARCA10103 20 credits
Data Science for the Past: from points to pictures
ARCA10105 20 credits
Paganism and Christianity in the Roman Empire
CACA10007 20 credits
The City in the Late Antique Mediterranean World
CACA10042 20 credits
Bestiary: Animals in the Middle Ages
HIST10433 20 credits
AND

Courses from School(s) G/A/J/E - Scottish Studies (MA) - Level(s) 10

Select between 0 and 80 credits of the following courses
From Jacobitism to Romanticism: The (Re)invention of Scotland in Visual and Material Culture
HIAR10009 20 credits
Scottish Art in the Age of Change 1945-2000
HIAR10035 20 credits
Scotland: Social Structure and Social Change
SCIL10020 20 credits
Nations and Nationalism
SCIL10065 20 credits
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