MLitt Coastal and Maritime Societies and Cultures

Please see MLitt Coastal and Maritime Societies and Cultures (uhi.ac.uk) for the course curriculum.

PgCert

Core modules are:

• Rivers, ports and coasts in European history
• Archaeology of the Highlands and Islands
• From Atlantis to Utopia: the nature of ‘islandness’

PgDip

You will choose one option module from each of history, archaeology and northern studies which may include:

History

• Contemplating the clearances
• Introduction to palaeography and languages for North Atlantic history
• Maritime lives: the Scottish northern isles during the Early Modern period
• Primary sources in history
• The lordship of the isles
• Voices from the past: understanding and using oral history

Archaeology

• Digital analysis in archaeology
• Early medieval archaeology
• Exquisite islands
• Iron Age in the Atlantic world
• Neolithic studies
• Research and dissertation skills*
• Vikings and Norse in the North Atlantic

Northern studies

• From Muckle Flugga to Pladda: the Scottish Islands
• Governance in small islands
• Orkney and Shetland: myths and origins
• Selling ‘cold’ islands
• Vikings in the Scottish Islands and the Irish Sea region: settlement, burial and ritual

*Please note: if you wish to undertake a dissertation in archaeology, you must take the ‘Research and dissertation skills’ module as one of your archaeology options.

MLitt

To achieve the award of MLitt Coastal and Maritime Societies and Cultures you must complete a research dissertation which will be taken in any one of the three subject areas of history, archaeology or northern studies.