History

If you are interested in putting people and society at the centre of your studies of the past, then the BA (Hons) History degree is exactly what you are looking for. Throughout the course you will investigate the cultural, political, social and economic history of Britain, Europe and the Atlantic World, across a variety of chronologies from medieval to modern, with opportunities to specialise in Scottish History.

Each year, you will build on your analytical and research abilities through a series of skills modules.

In the first and second years, you will follow a broad approach to the study of history from the medieval to the modern period.

In years three and four, you will examine in-depth particular topics of history, allowing you to study specific places, periods, themes and approaches which reflect staff research specialisms, including public and community history. You can choose to specialise in Scottish History at the upper levels and graduate with a BA (Hons) Scottish History degree.

Please see our FAQ sheet on our website for further information on this course.

Please note this fully online course can be studied from anywhere in the world. If you are not based near to one of the listed locations: you should apply to UHI House, and you will be enrolled and supported by our team at UHI Centre for History. If you are based near to one of the listed locations: you can still choose to apply to UHI House or you can apply to, and will be enrolled and supported by, your local campus.

Module outline

Year 1 - CertHE

You will study the following core modules:

• A Middle Age? Europe c.1100‐1500

• Empire, environment and identity: Scotland, 1600-2000

• People, protest and power: themes in modern British history, 1780-1918

• What is history?

You will also choose two further option modules from other humanities and social science subjects.

Year 2 - DipHE

You will study the following core modules:

• A curious age: European society and culture

• Court, kirk and burgh in medieval and early modern Scotland

• Historians and history

• Themes in American history

You will also choose two further option modules from other humanities and social science subjects.

Year 3 - BA

You will study the following core module:

• Public history

You will also choose four history option modules which may include:

• Conquerors, crusaders and churchmen: the world of the Normans, c.911-c.1204

• Dynastic decline and religious violence: Valois France, 1550-1610

• Jacobites: patriots, rebels or opportunists?

• Land as power: the making of the modern Scottish landscape from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries

• Scots in North America: experience and identity

• Study of things: material culture of medieval and early modern Europe

You will also choose one further option modules from other humanities and social science subjects.

If you wish to specialise in Scottish History at Level 10, you are advised to take at least one Scottish History option and undertake a Scottish topic for your Public History project.

Year 4 - BA (Hons)

You will complete a history dissertation, which is a double-credit module that runs across both semesters.

You will also select four option modules which may include:

• Death and destruction: the social impact of the Thirty Years’ War (1618-1648)

• Deviants, rebels, outcasts and villains: history from the margins in medieval and early modern society

• Empire and ‘others’: the shaping of British imperialism in North America

• Reaching the ‘estate of manhood’ in medieval and early modern Europe

• The empire strikes back: how the British empire shaped Scotland\

If you wish to exit with a BA (Hons) Scottish History, you must undertake a Scottish History dissertation plus at least two further Scottish History module.

This outline reflects the modules as currently delivered and is subject to change.

For more information on what you’ll study on your degree, as well as our range of other degree options, please explore our Humanities subject area page on our website.