Msc Highland Studies

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University of Edinburgh

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• Objectives
  The aim of the programme is to promote and facilitate advanced interdisciplinary study of the Gaidhealtachd past and present, its literature, its language and its culture, through providing a grounding in essential research skills and linguistic training. A secondary but very important aim is to cultivate a culture of collaborative teaching and research between academic and research staff (and postgraduates) across Schools.
• Entry requirements
  Entry Requirements Good honours degree in an appropriate subject (cultural anthropology/ethnology, history, linguistics, literary studies, sociology) preferably with a Scottish dimension.
• Academic title
  Msc Highland Studies
• Course description
  Learning Outcomes
  
  Graduates will have developed:
  
      * an understanding of Scottish Gaelic (or an appropriate alternative language) at an elementary, intermediate or advanced level (depending on prior exposure);
      * an understanding of current directions within Gaidhealtachd studies;
      * research skills essential to their particular field of interest within Gaidhealtachd studies;
      * the beginnings of specialist expertise in at least one field of study.
  
  How You Will Be Taught
  
  Languages are taught in manageable mixed classes of undergraduates and postgraduates of broadly similar linguistic competence (eg elementary Gaelic), including spoken, written and conversational elements. Skills and specialisms are taught in small seminars. Some courses are taught by a team of experts; others are taught by a single expert.

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