Scottish Historiography (U00896)

? Credit Points : 20 ? SCQF Level : 10 ? Acronym : HCL-4-SHISTOR

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. It is to be a core course in the Scottish Historical Studies degree programme. 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

? Pre-requisites : A pass in any first level historical course and any second level historical course or equivalent. Visiting students should normally have 3 to 4 History courses at grade B or above.

Variants

? This course has variants for part year visiting students, as follows

Scottish Historiography (VS1) (Semester 1 (Blocks 1-2))

Subject Areas

Home subject area

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

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : 4th year

? Delivery Period : Semester 1 (Blocks 1-2)

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

First Class Information

Date	Start	End	Room	Area	Additional Information
20/09/2006	11:00	13:00	Room G.12, 17 Buccleuch Place	Central	Seminar Room

All of the following classes

Type	Day	Start	End	Area
Lecture	Wednesday	11:10	13:00	Central

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.