MA History and Language & Linguistics
Entry requirements
A level: BBC IB: 32 points including 5, 5, 5 at HL. SL in English is also required. SQA Highers: BBBB. BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma: DMM in related subjects. Note: BTEC Level 3 Extended Certificate (Subsidiary Diploma) achieved at Distinction level, is normally acceptable in lieu of one A Level at grade B.) GCSE English (or equivalent) is required at Grade C/4 or above. GCSE Mathematics at Grade C/4 is also required for Accountancy, Economics and Finance programmes. Irish Leaving Certificate: Five subjects at Higher at H3.
About this course
MA in Linguistics and History, combining two complementary disciplines. Core topics include Research Methods, Historical Research, Communication & Writing, and Critical & Analytical Thinking. Students complete an independent dissertation project in their final year.
Modules
- Getting Started at the University of Aberdeen
- Making History
- Academic Writing for Language & Literature
- Language Structure and use
- Living Language
- English Past and Present
- Language in Society
- Elements of English
- Thinking History
- History of Medicine (ME33HM)
- Architecture and Power
- Painting in Tudor and Early Stuart England
- Dissertation in Language and Linguistics
- History in Practice
- Undergraduate Dissertation in History
- Special Subject: Myths of the North
- Special Sub.: Britain and Revolutionary Russia 1917 - 1924
- Special Sub:european Constitutional Monarchies in the Long 19thcentury
- Spec Sub: Court Society in Late Medieval Europe (C. 1300 – C. 1500)
- Special Sub: the Child as Subject in the British World
- Special Subject: History of the Israeli Palestinian Conflict
- Special Sub: Enlightenment Compared: Ireland, Scotland, Central Europe