Venues

Stirling Campus

Content

This course is delivered in person on campus. It provides you with a knowledge and understanding of a wide range of historical periods, regions of the world, and topical issues, including heritage and identities, cultural politics, conflict, decolonisation, and environmental concerns.

Conceptual and theoretical understanding are combined with critical thinking and practical skills, to help you become an active, adaptable citizen capable of problem-solving in the face of complex global challenges.

The first and second years provide you with a grounding in essential skills for handling primary and secondary sources, as well as introductions to heritage approaches, through modules on medieval Scottish history, modern British history, concepts in history, and reputations in history. In your second year you will also take a dedicated employability module, ‘Back to the Future: putting history and heritage to work’, alongside a survey history module from a list of options.

In the third year you will take a compulsory module on heritage protection and select from a wide range of History and Heritage honours modules, as well as option modules from literature, sociology, management and marketing, which provide the opportunity to strengthen your knowledge and skills in complementary areas. A compulsory module in the third year prepares you to undertake independent, supervised research in your fourth year, leading to either a history dissertation or a heritage portfolio. In your fourth year you can also select further option modules, or have the opportunity to choose an in-depth history special subject.

Entry Requirements

2026 entry requirements:
4 Highers at AABB.

For entry to three year Honours degree, will require 3 Advanced Highers at ABB including History.