Level 1
- KL 1093 / KL 1593 - INTRODUCTION TO SCOTTISH HISTORY
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- Credit Points
- 20
- Course Coordinator
- Mr D Paterson
Pre-requisites
None
Notes
This course is available in the second half-session of 2009/10 as KL1593.
Overview
The course will run over the twelve weeks of second half-session and comprise the following themes taught via a 'Medieval', 'Early Modern' and 'Modern' lecture 1. Chronologies: 2. Land: 3. People: 4. Politics: 5. Economics: 6. Social Structures: 7. Religion: 8. The Highlands (or The Regions): 9. Towns: 10. Emigration/Immigration: 11. Art. Each theme has a dedicated tutorial.
Structure
1½ hour audio conferenced seminar per week for twelve weeks.
Assessment
1st Attempt: two-hour examination (50%), 1 essay (40%), and tutorial participation (10%).
Resit: In-course assessment: two essays of 2,000 words (60%) and one essay of 3,000 words (40%).
- KL 1095 / KL 1595 - MODERN ART 1820 - 1960
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- Credit Points
- 20
- Course Coordinator
- Mr D Paterson
Pre-requisites
None
Notes
This course will be available in the second half-session of 2009/10 as KL1595.
Overview
The course will introduce students to key developments in the history of art, focusing on the development of Modernism from c.1820 to the late twentieth century. Beginning with the development of Romanticism and examining developments in painting sculpture and architecture this course will consider key moments in modern art history and their significance within wider cultural developments.
Structure
1½ hour audio conferenced seminar per week.
Assessment
1st Attempt: Two 1,500 word essays (30% each) and a image based test.
Resit: Image based test.
- KL 1096 / KL 1596 - VIKINGS!
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- Credit Points
- 20
- Course Coordinator
- Dr L Clayton
Pre-requisites
None
Notes
This course will be available in the first half-session of 2009/10 as KL1091.
Overview
Vikings (Scandinavian pirates, traders, and migrants) emerge into history in the last decade of the eighth century AD. Their activities extended westwards to North America, eastwards to Russia, and southwards to the Black Sea, Istanbul, and the Mediterranean Basin. They established colonies in many places: in Iceland they created a republic which has remained Scandinavian in culture; elsewhere they adopted and modified the host-culture, as in (for example) Ireland, Britain, France, Russia, and Ukraine. By the twelth century Christian national kingdoms had been created in Scandinavian and the Viking Age came to an end.
Structure
1½ hour audio conferenced seminar per week for twelve weeks.
Assessment
1st Attempt: Continuous assessment (100%): 3 equally weighted essays of 2,000 words each.
Resit: In-course assessment: 3 equally weighted essays of 2,000 words each.