Postgraduate Course: Governance in Scotland, 1424-1625 (PGHC11174)
Course Outline
| School | School of History, Classics and Archaeology |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | Postgraduate (School of History and Classics) |
Other subject area | None |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | This supervised reading course is about how Scotland was governed in the late medieval period, with discussion of kings and their magnates, the church, and local government. There is particular emphasis on continuities into, and contrasts with, the period of more rapid governmental change in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
| The principal objective of the course is to provide students with specialist knowledge and understanding of how late medieval Scotland was governed. The main modes of recent scholarly analysis of Scottish kingship are analysed, together with the primary evidence which has been used to support analytical frameworks. Students will emerge from the course having developed a sufficient degree of expertise in the subject to undertake a Masters dissertation. |
Assessment Information
| Students will be required to submit one individual essay of no less than 4000 words, and no more than 5000 words, to be handed in on the last Monday of the semester in which the course is run. The essay mark will count as 100% of the final grade. |
Special Arrangements
| Session 2009/10 - Please note that this course will run at mutually convenient times agreed by course members and the organiser. |
Additional Information
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Julian Goodare
Tel: (0131 6)50 4021
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Course secretary | Mrs Lindsay Scott
Tel: (0131 6)50 9948
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