Scottish Historiography (PG) (P01066)

? Credit Points : 20 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : HCL-P-SHISTORPG

This proposed course aims to explore the development of historical writing in Scotland from the Renaissance to the present. By examining a number of influential modern Scottish historiographers and intellectual movements in their cultural contexts, students will consider how the nature of, approaches to, and motives surrounding Scottish historical writing have changed over the past five hundred years. The course will be team-taught, and its content will reflect the teaching and research interests of members of staff whose expertise ranges from the Early Christian period to contemporary Scotland, such that students of all periods should find the course of practical use. As historiographical theory is becoming an increasingly common component of history programmes, it is anticipated that this course will offer a degree of wider applicability that ought to benefit any student of history.

Entry Requirements

none

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Postgraduate (School of History and Classics), (School of History and Classics, Schedule E)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Not being delivered

? Contact Teaching Time : 2 hour(s) per week for 11 weeks

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of the course, students will emerge with the tools necessary to evaluate critically examples of historical writing in different periods on the writers' own terms. This will, in turn, enable students to handle primary evidence with more skill, having developed a greater sensitivity for the kinds of scholarly assumptions that might otherwise have tended to skew their perceptions.