MA Scottish Studies
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 English and Celtic and History, exploring the languages, literature, and history of Scotland over four years. Core topics include Research Methods, Communication & Writing, and Critical & Analytical Thinking. Students complete an independent dissertation project in their final year.
Modules
- Academic Writing for Language & Literature
- Getting Started at the University of Aberdeen
- Acts of Reading
- Renaissances and Reformations
- Making History
- Rethinking Reading
- Gaelic for Beginners 1a
- Gaelic Scotland
- Gaelic Language 1a
- Kingship, Clearances and Conflict: Debates in Scottish History
- Triumph and Tragedy: A Literary and Historic Tour of Gaelic Scotland
- English Dissertation
- Dissertation in Scottish Literature
- Dissertation in Gaelic Studies
- Undergraduate Dissertation in History