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This joint honours degree in history and politics offers you the chance to study two distinct but complementary subjects, based in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, yet with an international approach that will prepare you for life and employment beyond university.
As you progress through the course, you will choose from a combination of modules, equally balanced between history and politics. You will study the history and politics of Scotland, Britain, Europe, the North Atlantic, and North America.
Each year, you will build on your analytical and research abilities through a series of skills modules.
You can also choose to specialize in Scottish History at the upper levels and graduate with a BA (Hons) in Scottish History and Politics degree.
3 Scottish Highers at grade BBC or above, or
2 A levels at grade BC or above
At least two should be from the list of relevant academic subjects.
Applicants with other relevant qualifications or experience will be considered on an individual basis
This is a Category 2 PVG course: PVG Scheme membership is required for specific optional modules/unit(s), where there is guaranteed contact with vulnerable groups in optional module/unit(s), but an alternative pathway exists to achieve target qualification.
Advanced entry to year two:
HNC Social Sciences (12 SQA credits) with 3 additional SQA credits at level 7, and at least grade C in the Graded Unit, will be considered for direct entry to year two
20 hours work permit for international students
History
You will study the following core module:
What is history? (S1)
Plus, a choice of one of the following history modules:
People, protest and power: themes in modern British history (S1)
A middle age? Europe c. 1100-1500 (S2)
Empire, environment, and identity: Scotland 1600-2000 (S2)
Politics
You will study the following modules:
Ideas and ideologies in politics (S1)
The evolving politics of the British Isles (S2)
You will also choose two further option modules from a range of history, politics, and other humanities subjects.
Historians and history (S2)
Plus, a choice of one of the following three modules:
A curious age: European society and culture, 1500-1750 (S1)
Court, kirk, and burgh in Medieval and Early Modern Scotland
Themes in American history
History of political ideas (S1)
Comparative politics (S2)
You will study one of the following core project modules:
Public History (S2) OR Advanced Social Research Methods (S1)
You will also study a further five option modules, ensuring a balance of three History modules and three Politics modules in total.
Modules may include:
Clash of civilizations: the Crusades, 1096-1198
The Alps, hills, and plain? Central Europe to 1918
Crime, custom and conflict, 1700-1850
Crown-Magnate relations in later medieval Northern Scotland
Queer Britannia: gender, sexuality and performative identities in Britain, 1800-1950
Scots in North America
The Jacobites: patriots, rebels, or opportunists?
War and chivalry in medieval Britain and France
Dynastic decline and religious violence: Valois France, 1550-1610
You will complete a dissertation in History or Politics. This is a double-credit module that runs across both semesters.
You will also study one option module from your chosen dissertation subject plus three option modules from the other subject. Please see the notes below if you wish to specialize in Scottish History.
Death and destruction: the social impact of the Thirty Years’ War (1618-1648)
Fight the power: music and the politics of Black America
The Scottish Highlands before Culloden (1603-1707)
Chaos and conflict?: 'Civil Wars' in high medieval Scandinavia
Reaching the estate of manhood in later medieval and early modern Europe
Noble, rebel, king: Robert Bruce and medieval Scotland
The empire strikes back: how the British Empire shaped Scotland
The Highland wars: origins, aftermath, and interpretations
War cruel and sharp: a military history of the Hundred Years' War
Applicants must have an IELTS score- 6.0 or equivalent
English (PTE) Academic-58 average with 51 in each component
TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) iBT4-Min 80 or above with min 18 in each section
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