This course assesses the overseas military history of Scotland from 1600 to 1800, an era which witnessed radical changes in military organization, state formation and new trends in global forms of warfare. The course will involve students engaging with a range of primary sources including official state records, military biographies, newspapers and novels.

2 hour seminars per week x 10 weeks

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The standard assessments for this course are:

■ Essay (3,000 words): 60%

■ Oral Presentation (a minimum of 15 mins. a max of 20 minutes): 20%

■ Accompanying PowerPoint presentation: 10%

■ Seminar contribution (inc. chairing and responding) = 10%

If required, for instance where a disability prevents a student from undertaking a specific method of assessment, the following alternatives are available:

■ There are no alternatives to the essay, but flexible deadlines can be offered as reasonable adjustments (students should follow the usual process for extensions)

■ Recorded presentation or 1-1 presentation with staff as alternative to oral presentation.

■ Written lesson plan as alternative to seminar contribution.

Further reasonable adjustments may be provided where necessary. Students are encouraged to consult with the course convenor.

It is the default expectation that all courses will offer opportunities for reassessment or deferred assessment. Where it is not possible to offer this in some assessment components, the grade achieved at the first attempt will be counted towards the final course grade, and any exceptions for this course are described below.

[No exceptions]

This course aims to:

■ Acquire a multifaceted and critical knowledge of Scotland's military history from c.1600 to c.1800

■ Evaluate, apply and critique concepts and models of historic state-formation and globalization

■ Identify, differentiate and utilise a range of relevant primary sources for the purposes of debating established interpretations and in the construction of new perspectives

■ Understand elementary skills in utilizing online research resources and databases

■ Formulate appropriate theses by inter-relating, comparing and rethinking concepts and conclusions drawn from relevant secondary and primary sources.

Construct, present and debate complex and specialized historical arguments in both written and oral forms.  

By the end of this course students will be able to:

■ Evidence a broad and critical knowledge of major trends in Scotland's military history from c.1600 to c.1800

■ Evaluate, critique, debate and reformulate specialised debates relating to historic globalization, state formation and Scotland's military history in these contexts

■ Identify, select, assess, compare and inter-relate specialized secondary literature and relevant primary sources

■ Find, select and use online databases of primary material

■ Formulate, organise, précis and debate interpretations in both written and oral forms

■ Engage in critical and constructive debate with peers and appreciate how such exercises advance subject knowledge and analyses.

■ Draw wider conclusions regarding the nature of proto-globalization through the case study of early modern Scotland