MO3264 Microhistories of a Global Nation: Scotland, c.1707– c.1843

Academic year

2024 to 2025 Semester 1

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Key module information

SCOTCAT credits

30

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SCQF level

SCQF level 9

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Availability restrictions

Available only for Honours History students

Planned timetable

TBC

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Module coordinator

Dr V H Wallace

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Module Staff

Dr Valerie Wallace

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Module description

Focusing on a series of local microhistories, this course illuminates the importance to Scotland of long-distance connections in the era of British state formation and imperial expansion. Students are first introduced to the approaches of global microhistory before applying these approaches to Scotland’s history in the long eighteenth century. By studying isolated events, marginal lives and microclimates, students will rethink Scotland’s history and bring the processes of globalisation into clearer view. Students will consider a range of sources including ‘ego documents’, court records, and a family archive to uncover the history of the world in Scotland and Scotland in the world.

Relationship to other modules

Pre-requisites

BEFORE TAKING THIS MODULE, STUDENTS MUST HAVE SATISFIED THE HONOURS ENTRY REQUIREMENTS ESTABLISHED BY THE SCHOOL OF HISTORY.

Assessment pattern

100% Coursework

Re-assessment

100% Coursework

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact

1 x 2-hour seminar (x 10 weeks) and 1 office hour (x 10 weeks)

Scheduled learning hours

20

The number of compulsory student:staff contact hours over the period of the module.

Guided independent study hours

280

The number of hours that students are expected to invest in independent study over the period of the module.

Intended learning outcomes

  • demonstrate knowledge of the main features of Scottish history in the long eighteenth century
  • demonstrate an understanding of eighteenth-century Scotland’s relations with the rest of the world
  • demonstrate an understanding of the approaches of microhistorians, global historians and global microhistorians
  • demonstrate the ability to construct well-supported historical arguments by way of essays and seminar presentations
  • demonstrate the acquisition of certain transferable skills (oral, organisational and interpersonal skills) through participating in group discussions and making presentations to the group