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Summary of Course Content


First Level (1st year) First-level modules are devoted to the study of the early modern western world from c.1450 to the present day . Their main themes are the Reformation, growth of modern states, war and empire, but also intellectual, social and economic change. The critical examination of relevant primary sources and study skills are built into the coursework.


Second Level (usually 2nd year) Second-level modules provide an analytical survey of the history of Scotland, Britain and the British Empire as well as a grounding in the major themes and developments of history as a scholarly discipline and the study of historiography. The critical examination of relevant primary sources and study skills are built into the coursework.


Honours (3rd and 4th years) In third year, you will select from a range of Honours options modules, which offer specialised studies within the general area of British, American, European and Middle Eastern history. These may be period options: (e.g. Kaiser William II, or Heavenly Decade: The 1960s), or they may be thematic options (e.g. Disease and Environment, 1500-2000, or Art and Piety in Western Europe, 1400-1700).


In fourth year, you will take one more Honours option (a one-semester module), a dissertation, and a Special Subject (a two-semester, final year module). The dissertation offers the opportunity for intensive research on a topic of your choice. The Special Subject is the culmination of an undergraduate’s historical studies and involves an in-depth exploration of documentary sources on a specific topic. A wide range of choices is offered, from Mapping Modern Europe to Britain and Iran in the Modern Era.


Teaching Teaching is through a mixture of lectures, tutorials and seminars. The first and second year lectures are large but weekly tutorial groups contain only about six students. Teaching at Honours level consists of seminars, which average about thirteen students, special subjects, which average seven students, and dissertations, which are supervised individually or in groups of no more than six students.


Study Abroad The School of History encourages its students to take part in established exchange programmes which allow them to study abroad for a semester or a year in their third year. Students are given the opportunity to apply to the North American Exchange Programme, or Erasmus (the current Erasmus exchanges are with the University of Strasbourg and the University of Leiden), or the American University in Cairo. For more information on the University’s current exchange programmes, see pages 20-21.


Careers The study of Modern History produces men and women with well-trained, critical minds and good oral and written communication skills. This makes our graduates attractive to a wide range of employers who understand that the St Andrews Modern History graduate is a person of unique ability. In the last couple of years our graduates have gone to the Justice Department of the Scottish Executive, Telegraph Publishing Ltd, Radio Lynx, the International Council for Educational Exchange in New York, Goldman Sachs, Scottish & Newcastle Brewery, the Abernethy Trust School of Adventure Leadership, the RAF, Zenith Media, a Magistrates Court (as employee not participant!) to name but a few. Many of our graduates also go on to do further research in Modern History. More information: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/careers/wiki/School_of_History


Please see page 42 for details of the University’s Careers Centre.


Important Note The following Faculty regulations may apply for entry


to First level Modern History, depending on demand in a given year.


1. Any matriculated student wishing to study 1000 Level modules in Modern History must hold the Degree and Faculty Entrance Requirements as outlined on pages 52-85 for that degree.


2. Normally, no second year undergraduate student from the Faculties of Arts, Divinity or Science can study 1000 Level modules in Modern History.


3. Normally, students from Faculties other than Arts are precluded from taking 1000 Level modules in Modern History.


“Modern European History with Hugh Sellon wasn’t work, it was sheer jo!”


Iain C Gordon Campbell – MA 1935 in Modern and Mediaeval History


History (Modern)


“I have always had a strong interest in Modern History and St Andrews offered me a diverse and wide-range of topics within the subject. I was able to choose modules from the Renaissance period in first year, and more recently I am studying twentieth-century Soviet history for my Honours degree. This has made the subject highly rewarding and extremely enjoyable.”


Hayden (Leeds, West Yorkshire)


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