Topics in Scottish History (HIST*4040)

Code and section: HIST*4040*01

Term: Winter 2024

Details

COURSE FORMAT: 

Two seminar classes per week (1.5 hours each)

COURSE SYNOPSIS: 

This course consists of four units spanning the semester, each acting as an introduction to a key era of Scotland’s history and its study: (1) the Viking Age; (2) the Wars of Independence; (3) the Reformation; (4) the phenomenon of Jacobitism. Each unit has an associated historiography, reception, and research essay project, thus enabling students to take a deeper dive into whichever unit interests them most. By the end of the course, students will have become familiar with aspects of Scotland’s early medieval, late medieval and early modern history and the different ways in which scholarship deals with these periods, thus providing a baseline sense of the current state of Scottish historical studies.

TEXTS AND OTHER RESOURCES:

Houston, R. Scotland: a very short introduction (Oxford University Press, 2008)

METHODS OF EVALUATION AND GRADE-WEIGHTINGS:

• historiography project - 20%
• reception project - 20%
• seminar work - 25%
• research essay project - 35%

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