About

Delivered in an interactive online environment, this course is designed to provide students who cannot attend a fulltime postgraduate degree course in Scottish History with an opportunity to develop research skills and an understanding of the major topics and historiography of Scottish history.

This Scottish History course from University of Dundee builds upon the current expertise within the History programme at Dundee to provide an integrated programme of study including research skills, a critical understanding of the principal theories and concepts of Scottish History and historiography, and the chance through independent research to make a contribution to the development of Scottish history.

You will learn about:

• Debates and Issues in Scottish History from the sixteenth century to the present

• How to use the main sources available to historians of Scotland

• The Union of 1603 and the Covenanters

• The Scottish Reformation: Politics and Society

• The Union of 1707

• Jacobite risings

• Scottish Identity and Culture

• ‘The ‘Highland Question’: Clearance and Improvement

• Health and welfare in the Highlands

• The Industrial Revolution

• Landscape and Environment

• Scotland and Empire

Careers

Students who take this course will gain a solid foundation from which they can proceed to doctoral research.

However, due to the non-vocational nature of a History degree many students also enter jobs unrelated to their course of study. 

For these students this course provides them with an opportunity to further develop their written presentation skills, as well as the ability to work independently and plan independent research and study.