History
Entry requirements
A level: ABB or BBB (Additional requirements: A-level English or another Humanities subject.) IB: 34 (6,5,5) (Additional requirements: English HL6 or Humanities HL6 with English SL6.) Scottish Higher: BBBB is the minimum requirement from S5 to be reviewed for an S6 offer Offers are not guaranteed to applicants who meet the minimum from S5 Typically offers will be made at AAAAB by end of S6. B at Advanced Higher is equivalent to A at Higher Additional requirements: Higher English and a Higher Humanities subject at AA. (AB or BA may be considered). Scottish Higher (widening access): MD20 : BBBB (also other target groups*) MD40 : AABB* (minimum requirement of ABB in S5) Additional requirements: Higher English and a Higher Humanities subject. Successful completion of Top-Up or one of our Summer Schools.
About this course
MA/MA(SocSci) in History, a history degree in the Psychology and History subject area. Core topics include Research Methods. The programme spans four to five years, incorporating options for a History Dissertation or an Applied Dissertation with Placement in History. The first year covers foundational topics through History 1A: Scotland's Millennium: Kingdom, Union and Nation c.1000-2014, History 1B: A Medieval Mosaic: Europe and Its Neighbours in the Middle Ages, c.400-1500, Introduction to Scottish Culture Semester 1, and Introduction to Scottish Culture Semester 2. The second year builds on this with History 2A: The Social and Cultural History of Europe, 1500-2000 and History2B: An Introduction to Global History. In later years, students select from a broad range of optional modules such as Demanding The Impossible: European Societies In The 1960s, Gaelic Scotland: The Scottish Highlands C1400-1609, and Patriarchy, Sex and Gender in Early Modern Europe.
Modules
- History 1A: Scotland's Millennium: Kingdom, Union and Nation c.1000-2014
- History 1B: A Medieval Mosaic: Europe and Its Neighbours in the Middle Ages, c.400-1500
- Introduction to Scottish Culture Semester 1
- Introduction to Scottish Culture Semester 2
- History2B: An Introduction to Global History
- History 2A: The Social and Cultural History of Europe, 1500-2000
- Demanding The Impossible: European Societies In The 1960s
- Gaelic Scotland: The Scottish Highlands C1400-1609
- Patriarchy, Sex and Gender in Early Modern Europe
- REBELLION, TREASON AND POLITICAL OPPOSITION - 1066-1352
- Saints And Sinners
- The First Scottish War Of Independence, 1286-1329
- The Lost Empire: Byzantium And The Slavs, 800-1600
- Anarchy & Society:The Reign Of Stephen
- The Black Death And The Transformation Of The West
- Oral History Theory and Methods (Hons)
- The French Revolut 1786-95 (SS)
- The Highland Clearances
- The Picts And The Formation Of Alba
- The Reign Of Charlemagne 768-814: A Barbarian Empire
- The Vietnam War In American History And Culture
- The Rise of Chivalry: War and Chivalric Culture in Britain and France, c1000 - c1300
- Punishment, Internment and Containment: The History and Archaeology of Prisons and Camps
- Scottish Radicalism and Scottish Society, 1790-1945 (SS)
- The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Development of Plantation Slavery
- France, 1789-1914: Nation, Revolution and Empire (HIST 4211) - Honours.
- Sex and Religion in Britain, Ireland and North America 1945-1980
- The United States in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (SS)
- Lenin and Leninism (SS)
- Society and Religion in the Medieval Crusader States
- Poland and its Neighbours, 1000-1795
- Culture Wars: Reformation and Revolution in England, 1530-1700 (SS)
- Gender, Sexuality and Modernity in Scotland, c. 1800-1918
- The Mongols and the West, c.1200 - c.1500
- The Rise and Fall of an Empire: France and Algeria, c.1830-1962 (SS)
- The Medievalists: the Middle Ages in 20th century Eastern and Central Europe
- Plantation and Civility in the Hebrides and in Ulster, c1541-1639
- Century of the refugee: refugees & statelessness in the long twentieth century, c.1900-present (SS)
- The Norman Conquest 1042-1087 (SS)
- Atheists: A Social History in the West
- The Making of Britain? Scotland and Ireland, 1707-c.1815
- Czechoslovakia: A case study of a country in Europe through the history of film
- A Global History of Giving: from Begging to Basic Income
- Genocide in the Modern World
- Atomic Dreams: Society, Science and Soldiers in Nuclear America, 1945-1979
- Shining City Upon A Hill: American in the 1980s
- Urban Lives: Gender, Culture and Society in the Eighteenth-Century Town
- History through film and literature: Crisis situations
- Covert action: the secret pursuit of foreign policy from the Second World War to today
- The Life and Afterlife of Mary Queen of Scots
- The Second World War in History and Legacy, 1939-1945
- Scotland and the American Revolution, c.1763-c.1783 (SS)
- What's in a Cup? The Global History of Coffee
- Silver and Sacraments: The Making of the Spanish Empire
- Islands at War in the 20th Century: Invaders, Occupiers and Liberators:
- From the Space Race to Star Wars: US Conflict and Cooperation in Orbit, 1945-2019
- Imperial States: Race, War, and Expansion in American History, 1860s-1920s
- Becoming an Historian
- Manliness to #MeToo: A Global History of Modern Masculinities
- Rwanda: Peace, Conflict and the Politics of History
- The Social Life of Things: Material Culture and Everyday Life
- The Making of the Spanish Empire: Indigenous American, African, Asian and European perspectives
- From Scrolls to Screens: the Materiality of Manuscripts in the 21st Century
- Surviving and Resisting Enslavement in the British Caribbean
- The United States in the Age of Polarisation, 1960-Present
- History Dissertation
- Applied Dissertation with Placement in History
- Landscape and Power in Ancient Western Asia and the Eastern Mediterranean
- Kingdoms and societies in northern Britain AD 400-800
- Geographical Information Systems in Archaeology
- Archaeology of Religion
- Viking Movements
- Environmental Archaeology; Plants, Animals and People
- Archaeology, Games and Interactive Media
- Contemporary and future archaeologies
- Archaeological Digital Imaging
- Assembling the Artefacts
- Medieval Welsh Literature In Translation
- Cleopatra: Life and Legend (Hons)
- Religion in Ancient Greece
- The Later Roman Empire, 270-400 AD
- Imperium Indivisum?: The Collapse of the West Roman Empire in the fifth century AD
- Polybius between Greece and Rome
- Stargazing: Astronomy, Astrology and Meteorology in Antiquity
- Narrating the City: Representation of Urban Space in Literature and Film
- Classic European Cinema East and West
- Subsidiary Czech Language (Beginners)
- Gaelic (Beginners) for Honours Students
- Subsidiary Polish Language (Beginners)
- Russian Literature and State Power