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Degree Programme Table: Scandinavian Studies and History (MA Hons) (UTSCSTHMAH)

Year 1, Academic year 2016/17, Starting month: September

  • Notes: Before selecting your outside courses, please ensure you have met your Personal Tutor.

    The information on the History curriculum is correct for September 2016 entry. The History curriculum for subsequent years is currently under review.


    • COMPULSORY COURSES
    This DPT has 0 compulsory course(s).


    Code  Course Name  Period  Credits 




    COURSE OPTIONS
    This DPT has 3 set(s) of course options with the following rules.


    Select exactly 40 credits from the following list of courses, as available
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    CELT08015    Celtic Civilisation 1B   20  
    ECHS08004    History of Christianity as a World Religion 1B   20  
    ECHS08005    History of Christianity as a World Religion 1A   20  
    ECSH08029    British Society, 1650 - c.1880 (Social History 1.1)   20  
    ECSH08036    British Economic and Environmental History since 1900   20  
    CLGE08001    The Greek World 1A: Greece in the Making   20  
    CLGE08002    The Greek World 1B: Greece's New Horizons   20  
    CLGE08003    The Roman World 1A: The Rise of Rome   20  
    CLGE08004    The Roman World 1B: The Roman Empire   20  
    HIST08035    Medieval Worlds: A Journey through the Middle Ages   20  
    HIST08034    Early Modern History: A Connected World   20  
    HIST08033    Making of the Modern World   20  
    HIST08036    The History of Edinburgh: From Din Eidyn to Festival City   20  
    HIST08032    The Historian's Toolkit   20  

     

    Select exactly 40 credits from Level 7 and 8 courses in Schedules A to Q, T and W, as available

    Notes:Level 7 language courses cannot be taken for credits on this degree programme.
     

    Select exactly 40 credits from the following list of courses, as available
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    ELCS08027    Swedish 1   40  
    ELCS08028    Norwegian 1   40  
    ELCS08033    Danish 1   40  

     


    Year 2, Academic year 2016/17, Starting month: August


    COMPULSORY COURSES
    This DPT has 0 compulsory course(s).


    Code  Course Name  Period  Credits 




    COURSE OPTIONS
    This DPT has 6 set(s) of course options with the following rules.


    Select exactly 20 credits from the following list of courses, as available
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    ELCS08011    Norwegian Language 2   20  
    ELCS08008    Danish Language 2   20  
    ELCS08013    Swedish Language 2   20  

     
    AND   

    Select exactly 40 credits from the following list of courses, as available
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    ECSH08039    Economic History 2.2: The Global Economy Part 2   20  
    ECSH08040    Economic History 2.1: The Global Economy Part 1   20  
    SCHI08011    Modern Scottish History   20  
    SCHI08012    Scottish History since 1914   20  
    ECSH08041    Social History 2.2: The Making of the Modern Body   20  
    ANHI08014    Ancient History 2a: Past and Present in the Ancient World   20  
    ANHI08013    Ancient History 2b: Themes and Theories in Ancient History   20  
    HIST08027    Introduction to Medieval Europe 2B   20  
    HIST08028    Asia and Africa 2a: Societies, Cultures, and Empires, c. 1600-1880   20  
    HIST08029    Asia and Africa 2b: Nationalisms, Liberation Movements and the Legacies of Colonialism, c. 1880-Present Day   20  
    ECHS08009    Social Christianity in Britain, Germany and the United States, 1848-1930   20  
    ECHS08002    Popular Religion, Women and Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe   20  
    ECHS08010    Christianity in Formation 100-313   20  
    HIST08038    Modern United States History   20  
    HIST08037    The Making of the United States   20  

     


    Select exactly 20 credits course level 08, as available
    ELCS08029     Scandinavian Literature 2     (20 credits)

     
    OR   

    Select exactly 20 credits course level 08, as available
    ELCS08010     Scandinavian Languages 2     (20 credits)

     

    Overarching rule collection group: A  
    Select exactly 40 credits from these collections:  

    Select exactly 40 credits from the following list of courses, as available
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    CLLC08002    Introduction to European Theatre   20  
    CLLC08001    Prose Fiction in Comparative Perspective   20  
    ELCF08009    Politics and Institutions of Contemporary France A   20  
    ELCS08010    Scandinavian Languages 2   20  
    LASC08018    LEL2B: Phonetic Analysis and Empirical Methods   20  
    LASC08019    LEL2C: English in Time and Space   20  
    LASC08020    LEL2D: Cross-linguistic Variation: Limits and Theories   20  
    LASC08021    LEL2E: Structure and History of European Languages   20  
    ELCR08006    The Golden and Silver Ages of Russian Literature (1820-1920s)   20  
    ELCH08015    Catalan language for beginners   20  
    ELCC08002    Literature and Culture in Medieval Europe   20  
    ELCC08003    Introduction to European Cinema   20  
    ELCS08037    Scandinavian Civilisation A: Vikings, Sagas and the Road to Enlightenment   20  

    Notes:Politics and Institutions of Contemporary France is only available to students who have passed French 1A or French 1B.
    For LEL2 courses students must have passed: Linguistics and English Language 1 or A Brief Introduction to Language.
     
    OR   

    Select exactly 40 credits from Level 8 courses in Schedules A to Q, T and W, as available

     




    Year 3, Academic year 2016/17, Starting month: August

  • Notes: Entry into Honours: (1) students must pass courses to the required value of 240 credits in the first two years; (2) students must achieve 50% or more in 40 credits of second year History courses at the first attempt; (3) students must achieve at least 50% overall in the relevant second-year language course(s), including at least 50% in the language component of that course, at the first attempt.

    All courses (including outside subjects) must be passed before embarking on the year abroad, an outside course passed at Resit in August will be acceptable.

    At least 30 weeks spent in the relevant country and prescribed work in History and the relevant language in an approved establishment.


    • COMPULSORY COURSES
    This DPT has 2 compulsory course(s).


    Code  Course Name  Period  Credits 
    ELCC10001 Language Acquisition through residence/study As available 60
    CHCA10004 Year Abroad Work for Degrees in Languages and History As available 40




    COURSE OPTIONS
    This DPT has 2 set(s) of course options with the following rules.



    Select exactly 20 credits course level 10, as available
    ELCC10005     MEL dissertation preparation     (20 credits)

     
    OR   

    Select exactly 20 credits course level 10, as available
    ELCC10002     Modern European Languages Year Abroad Assessment     (20 credits)

     



    Year 4, Academic year 2016/17, Starting month: August

  • Notes: Final Assessment: One unit of assessment is allocated to every 20 credits and constitutes one 20-credit paper. The following are the twelve 20-credit papers on which the classification of the degree is based. (Papers that for the purposes of degree classification acquire a weighting of 40 credits are, therefore, listed twice.). 1. (Scandinavian Studies 4 Honours Language Paper 1). 2. (Scandinavian Studies 4 Honours Language Paper 1). 3. (Scandinavian Studies 4 Honours Language Paper 2). 4. (Scandinavian Studies Oral). 5. (Year abroad work for degrees in Scandinavian Studies & History). 6. (Year abroad work for degrees in Scandinavian Studies & History). 7. (Scandinavian Studies Dissertation Preparation OR MEL Year Abroad Assessment (same mark as 8)). 8. (Scandinavian Studies Dissertation Completion OR MEL Long Essay). 9. (Honours course option in Scandinavian Studies). 10. (Honours option course in Scandinavian Studies). 11. (Course in History). 12. (Course in History).


    • COMPULSORY COURSES
    This DPT has 2 compulsory course(s).


    Code  Course Name  Period  Credits 
    ELCS10008 Scandinavian Studies Language Paper 1 As available 10
    ELCS10009 Scandinavian Studies Language Paper 2 As available 10




    COURSE OPTIONS
    This DPT has 11 set(s) of course options with the following rules.


    Select exactly 20 credits from European Languages & Cultures - Scandinavian Stud Level 10 courses, as available

     
    AND   

    Select exactly 40 credits from the following list of courses, as available
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    HIST10083    Britain and the Second World War   40  
    HIST10305    Britain in an Age of Revolutions, 1783-1815   40  
    HIST10303    The Spanish Civil War   40  
    HIST10360    Becoming Modern: Society and Culture in Ireland since 1780   40  
    HIST10306    The Rise of the Right in the United States, c.1945-c.1990   40  
    HIST10372    In Search of Modern Selves: Psychiatry and Psychotherapies in India and Japan, 1880 - the Present   40  
    HIST10334    The American Civil War: History and Memory   40  
    SCHI10018    Highland Problems,1851 to 1953   40  
    SCHI10017    Clan Campbell and the Lordship of the Isles in the Later Middle Ages   40  
    HIST10385    Dreams and nightmares: the culture and politics of postwar Europe, 1945-1975   40  
    HIST10092    Gandhi and Popular Movements in India 1915-1950   40  
    HIST10368    Genocide in the Modern World: theories and case studies   40  
    HIST10356    The Conquest Generation, 1087-1135: England and Henry 1   40  
    HIST10388    Daughters, Wives and Mothers: Women in England, c.1300-1500   40  
    SCHI10075    Atlantic Encounters. Scotland and the North Atlantic World in the Seventeenth Century   40  
    HIST10390    Culture and the Arts in Post-war Scotland   40  
    HIST10391    The Bandung Moment: Revolution, Anti-Imperialism and Afro-Asian Connections in the Global Twentieth Century   40  
    HIST10392    The United States and the Nuclear Proliferation Problem, 1945-2015   40  
    HIST10386    Rational Animals: Human Nature in Early Modern Thought   40  
    HIST10400    Cultures of Disaster: History and the Environment, ca. 1400-1750   40  
    HIST10339    Enlightenment Scotland c.1690 - c.1800   40  
    HIST10402    The Lands Between: Eastern Europe from the Partitions of Poland to the Fall of Communism   40  
    SCHI10021    The European Witch-Hunt   40  
    HIST10308    The United States in Vietnam: History and Consequences   40  
    HIST10336    Stalin's Russia, 1921-1941   40  
    HIST10358    Colonial Wars and Modernizing Missions: Europe's violent Transformations of the non-European World in the 20th Century   40  
    HIST10401    Chinese Whispers: China in the Western Imagination, 1600-2008   40  
    HIST10155    The American Civil Rights Movement   40  
    HIST10404    Revolution and the End of Slavery in the British and French Atlantic Worlds   40  
    HIST10403    Damnation and redemption in the medieval world: a journey through Dante's Inferno and Purgatorio   40  

     
    AND   

    Overarching rule collection group: A  
    Select exactly 20 credits from these collections:  


    Select exactly 20 credits course level 10, as available
    ELCC10006     MEL dissertation completion     (20 credits)

     
    OR   

    Select exactly 20 credits course level 10, as available
    ELCC10011     MEL Long Essay     (20 credits)

     



    AND   


    Select exactly 0 credits course level 10, as available
    ELCC10020     Oral for Danish     (0 credits)

     
    OR   

    Select exactly 0 credits course level 10, as available
    ELCC10021     Oral for Norwegian     (0 credits)

     
    OR   

    Select exactly 0 credits course level 10, as available
    ELCC10019     Oral for Swedish     (0 credits)

     



    AND   

    Overarching rule collection group: C  
    Select exactly 20 credits from these collections:  

    Select a minimum of 0 credits and maximum of 20 credits from History Level 10 courses, as available

    Notes:1. Only 20-credit courses may be chosen.
    2. ARCA10035: The Scottish Lowlands: Archaeology and Landscape before the Normans (20 credits) is also available as an option choice in this group.
     
    OR   

    Select a minimum of 0 credits and maximum of 20 credits from Economic and Social History Level 10 courses, as available

    Notes:Only 20-credit courses may be chosen.
     
    OR   

    Select a minimum of 0 credits and maximum of 20 credits from Scottish History Level 10 courses, as available

    Notes:Only 20-credit courses may be chosen
     
    OR   

    Select a minimum of 0 credits and maximum of 20 credits from Ancient History Level 10 courses, as available

    Notes:Only 20-credit courses may be chosen
     



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