The study of History at university differs in breadth, range and depth, from that undertaken in secondary education and at Edinburgh the large body of staff means that you can choose from a very wide variety of courses. The Honours degree programme is spread over four years of study. The great benefit of this structure is that it allows you to become skilled in managing general as well as specific information and gives you the time to pursue topics of interest in some depth under the guidance of experts in the field.
History Programmes
History can be taken as a joint degree
with Classics, History of Art, Politics,
Scottish History, and Sociology. For details
see Undergraduate
Programmes.
In the first year
you will choose between two year-long and
four semester-long, wide ranging survey
courses from a menu including courses in
Ancient
History, British
History, The
British Economy and British Society,
European
History, Scottish
History, East
Asian Civilisation, and The
History of Christianity as a World Religion.
These are survey courses taught by means
of lectures and small group tutorials or
larger seminars. You will also follow courses
from a different subject grouping.
In the second year you will take between
two and four more survey courses chosen
from among Ancient
History, Medieval
History, American History, Asian, African
and Australasian History, Scottish
History, Social
and Economic History, and Ecclesiastical
History.
In addition, in the first two years of
the four years MA Honours Degree, you will
study up to two outside subjects chosen
from courses on offer across the the whole
University.
In the third year, you will take two compulsory
courses on historical
theory and methodology alongside a number
of more specialised optional courses that
are taught seminar-style.
In the fourth year you will continue with
specialised courses, one of them for the
duration of your final year. In addition,
you will complete a dissertation based on
primary research.
For full details of courses offered in any year, see the Undergraduate section of the School website.
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