BA (Hons) History with Gaelic Studies

History

You will study the following core module:

• What is history? (S1)

PLUS a choice of two of the following 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)

Gaelic Studies

You will also study:

• Gaelic for learners 1a (S1)

• Gaelic for learners 1b (S2)

If you are a fluent Gaelic speaker, Gaelic medium modules may be available. 

You will choose one further option module from a range of history, literature, archaeology, and other humanities subjects, including Gaelic Studies options, which may include:

• Gaelic story and song (S2)

• Introduction to Gaelic Prose (S1)

• The Gaelic world 1 (S1)

History

You will study the following core skills module:

• Historians and history (S2)

Plus a choice of two of the following 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

Gaelic Studies

You will also study two modules that may include:

• Gaelic for learners 2a (S1)

• Gaelic for learners 2b (S2)

If you are a fluent Gaelic speaker, Gaelic medium modules may be available. 

You will choose one further option module from a range of history, literature, archaeology, and other humanities subjects, including Gaelic studies - these may include:

• Folklore (S1)

• Introduction to Gaelic poetry (S1)

• Onomastics (S2)

History

You will undertake the following core module:

• Public history (S2)

Plus three modules which may include:

• A study of things: material culture of medieval and early modern Europe

• 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

Students wishing to specialize in Scottish History at Level 10 and exit with a BA (Hons) in Scottish History with Gaelic Studies are advised to take at least one Scottish History option, plus undertake a Scottish topic for their Public History project, or two Scottish History options.

Gaelic Studies

You will also study two modules which may include: 

• Gaoir nam ban: Gaelic women's poetry 1644-1746 (S2)

• Language policy and planning 1 (S2)

• Nationalism and national identity (S2)

• Traditional Gaelic culture (S1)

In the fourth year, you will be required to undertake a dissertation in History. This is a double-credit module that runs across both semesters.

History

You will also choose two options that may include:

• 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 

If you wish to exit with a BA (Hons) in Scottish History with Gaelic Studies, you must undertake a Scottish History dissertation plus at least one further Scottish History module. 

Gaelic Studies

You will also study two modules which may include: 

• Iarshader to Iraq (S1) 

• Language policy in the workplace (S2) 

• Traditional Gaelic Culture in the 21st Century (S1) 

If you are a fluent Gaelic speaker, Gaelic medium modules may be available.