Teaching and assessment

We offer a wide range of core and optional modules, meaning that you can tailor your qualification to your own interests.

Content is available online and you will work through it carrying out a series of assessed, self-study, and group tasks. You will be given the opportunity to communicate with your fellow students via the discussion board and to work on embedded source material.

You will always have a subject expert as your tutor and many tutors will also offer voluntary webinar sessions.

Assessment is carried out via coursework and discussion board participation. There are variations across modules however weighting is usually as follows:

• 1 x final assignment = 50%
• 2 x assessed tasks = 20% each
• Discussion board participation = 10%

Core modules

These modules are an essential part of your course.

HY51042 - Debates and Issues in Scottish History: Sources, Interpretations and Arguments

HY51037 - MLitt Scottish History (by Distance Learning): Research Proposal and Dissertation (to be undertaken upon completion of the Diploma)

Optional modules

You need to choose one or more of these modules as part of your course.

HU51006 - Scotland and Atlantic Slavery

HY51039 - Scottish National Identities Since 1807

HY51046 - Witchcraft and Witch-Hunting in Early Modern Scotland

HY52026 - Health, Politics and Society in the Scottish Highlands, 1840-1945

HY52027 - Scotland in the Age of Mary Queen of Scots

HY53001 - War, Empire and Society: Scotland c. 1870-1922

HY53002 - Scotland: Land and People

HY53004 - Kingship, the Kingdom, and Identity: Scotland in the Thirteenth Century (Distance Learning)

HY53005 - Scotland and the Jacobite Cause

RM50007 - Scots Palaeography & Diplomatic

RM50008 - Skills & Sources for Family & Local History in Scotland

RM50037 - Public History