You will take several courses across two semesters of teaching, including two compulsory courses and a range of optional courses. Core courses You will take two compulsory courses, which will provide a general introduction to graduate study in history and give you the opportunity to develop your research skills. Course name Credits Historical Research: Skills and Sources 20 Historical Methodology 20 Optional courses You will choose a further 80 credits from a wide selection of optional courses, subject to availability. Option Courses 2024-2025 * * Please note that the list of courses below is provisional and subject to change. Select between 40 and 80 credits of the following Intellectual History courses. Course name Credits An uncertain world: the West since the 1970s 20 Architectural Theory: Texts and Discourses 20 Creeds, Councils and Controversies: Patristic and Medieval 20 Creeds, Councils and Controversies: Reformation and Modern 20 Education and Empire: Decolonising the Mind 20 Enlightenment and Romanticism 1688 - 1815 20 Idolatry: Images and the Sacred in the Americas and Europe, 1400-1700. 20 Intellectual History of the American Revolution 20 Making Histories: Theories and Practices in Writing History 20 Martyrdom, Monasticism and Mysticism: Women Writers of the Early and Medieval Church 20 Picturing Authority: Art and Politics at the Tudor and Stuart Courts 20 Religion and the Enlightenment: The Birth of the Modern 20 Science, Knowledge and Expertise 20 The European Enlightenments, 1670 - 1820 20 The Global Renaissance 20 The Politics of History in the Arabic-Speaking World (c.1750-Present) 20 Theology in the Long Reformation 1400-1600 20 Thinking with Things: History and Material Culture Studies 20 Select between 0 and 40 credits of the following History courses Course name Credits An uncertain world: the West since the 1970s 20 Black Activism in Britain since 1800 20 Cinema and Society in England and Scotland 20 Cinema and Society in South Asia, 1947-Present 20 Conservatism in the United States, c.1930-c.1990 20 Constantinople: The History of a Medieval Megalopolis from Constantine the Great to Suleyman the Magnificent 20 Contemporary Scotland 20 Economic and Social Theory for Historical Analysis 20 Gender, Crime and Deviancy: Scotland and England c. 1860-1960 20 Genocide in Contemporary History 20 Global Environmental History 20 Intellectual History of the American Revolution 20 Making Histories: Theories and Practices in Writing History 20 Nepotism and Venality: Corruption and Accountability in the Middle Ages 20 Queens, Heiresses and Lords: Women Making Medieval Scotland 20 Race, Religion, and Ridicule: The American South from Reconstruction to World War I 20 Saints Cults, Pilgrimage and Piety in Scotland 20 Scottish Reformation Culture, c. 1540-c. 1640 20 The Civil Rights Movement 20 The Cold War in Latin America 20 The European Enlightenments, 1670 - 1820 20 The Future of the Past? Doing History in the Digital Era 20 The Global Renaissance 20 The Medieval Indian Ocean: Climates, Communities and Commodities 20 The Politics of History in the Arabic-Speaking World (c.1750-Present) 20 The United States and the Cold War 20 Thinking with Things: History and Material Culture Studies 20 Select between 0 and 20 credits of the following online courses Course name Credits British Empires, 1601-1948 (online) 20 Debating Marriage Between Antiquity and the Middle Ages (online) 20 Gender, Empire, and Labour in the Nineteenth Century: Perspectives from the Wider World (online) 20 Myth and the History of Scholarship in Early Modern Europe (online) 20 Race, Religion, and Ridicule: The American South from Reconstruction to World War I (online) 20 The Closest of Enemies: Cuban-American Relations 1898-2014 (online) 20 The Contemporary Theory of War (online) 20 The Holocaust (online) 20 The Lords of the Isles: Clan Donald, c.1336 - c.1545 (online) 20 Theories of Empire in the Early Modern Period (online) 20 Option courses 2023/24 Select between 40 and 80 credits of the following Contemporary History courses: Body and soul in early medieval thought Debating Marriage between Antiquity and the Middle Ages The European Enlightenments, 1670 - 1820 The Politics of History in the Arabic-Speaking World (c.1750-Present) 'The wisest fool in Christendom': the Ideas and Writings of James VI & I Thinking with Things: History and Material Culture Studies Select between 0 and 40 credits of the following History courses: An uncertain world: the West since the 1970s Black Activism in Britain since 1800 Body and soul in early medieval thought Conservatism in the United States, c.1930-c.1990 Contemporary Scotland Debating Marriage between Antiquity and the Middle Ages Economic and Social Theory for Historical Analysis Genocide in Contemporary History Nepotism and Venality: Corruption and Accountability in the Middle Ages Queens, Heiresses and Lords: Women Making Medieval Scotland Race, Religion, and Ridicule: The American South from Reconstruction to World War II Saints Cults, Pilgrimage and Piety in Scotland Scottish Palaeography 12th-16th centuries Studying Women in Late Medieval England: Sources and Approaches The Civil Rights Movement The Cold War in Latin America The 'Dark Side': Dark Tourism and Difficult Heritages The Demise of the Slave-Holding American South, 1846-1877 The European Enlightenments, 1670 - 1820 The Material Culture of Gender in Eighteenth Century Britain The Politics of History in the Arabic-Speaking World (c.1750-Present) The Sixties in the United States The United States and the Cold War 'The wisest fool in Christendom': the Ideas and Writings of James VI & I Thinking with Things: History and Material Culture Studies Select between 0 and 20 credits of the following online courses: An Age of Great Dreams: The 1960s in the United States (online) An Imperial Game? Cricket, Culture & Society (online) Charles Martel in the Digital Age (Online) Consensus to Thatcherism: Government and Politics in Post-War Britain (online) Crisis and Conflict in Late-Victorian Britain (online) Empire or Continent?: British Foreign Policy in the Era of the Great War (online) Freedom and Coercion in the Making of the Atlantic World (online) Islamic Africa (Online) Medicine and Society in Modern Britain (Online) Seeking 'Japan' in a Westernizing World: Revolution, Romance, and Imperialism, 1868 - 1945 (online) The Crusades and the Euro-Mediterranean world of the Central Middle Ages (online) The School of Statecraft: History, Leadership, and Policymaking (online) Option courses 2022/23 Select between 60 and 80 credits of the following courses: African Print Cultures: Newspapers and their Publics in Modern African History, c. 1880 to 1975 Athens of the North: The Scottish Enlightenment Debating Marriage between Antiquity and the Middle Ages Law and the Enlightenment Religion and the Enlightenment: The Birth of the Modern The European Enlightenments, 1670 - 1820 The Scientific Revolution in Global Perspective 'The wisest fool in Christendom': the Ideas and Writings of James VI & I Theology in the Long Reformation 1400-1600 Thinking the 20th Century - Hannah Arendt and the breakdown of European Civilization Thinking with Things: History and Material Culture Studies Select between 0 and 20 credits of the following online courses: Athens of the North: the Origins and Ideas of the Scottish Enlightenment (online) Seeking 'Japan' in a Westernizing World: Revolution, Romance, and Imperialism, 1868 - 1945 (online) Courses for those studying from September 2025 will be available from April 2025. Teaching and assessment HTML You will take a variety of seminar-style courses in small groups. Most courses are assessed by means of an extended piece of written work, while some courses may also assess non-written skills. Further information You can see more details about the 2024/25 programme structure on the Degree Programme Table for the MSc in Intellectual History. We expect the 2025/26 programme structure to be available from May 2025. This article was published on 2024-06-19
HTML You will take a variety of seminar-style courses in small groups. Most courses are assessed by means of an extended piece of written work, while some courses may also assess non-written skills.
