Venues

Old Aberdeen Campus

Content

First and Second Year:
Songs, Myths and Hero-Tales of the Old North; Barbarians, Romans, Gods and Warriors; Arthur in Medieval Celtic and Scandinavian Literature; Vikings in Celtic and Germanic Scotland; Love, Loss and Revival: Gaelic Ireland, 1700 to the Present; The Celts, their Neighbours, and the Classical World; Modern Irish Language 1 and 2; Latin Language and Literature 1.

Third and Fourth Year (Honours):
You will write a dissertation and undertake a substantial research project on a subject of your choice.
Courses offered include: Old Gaelic; Medieval Welsh; Old English language; Tales of Vengeance and Enchantment: The Heroic Age in Irish and Icelandic Saga Literature; Celtic and Anglo-Saxon Kingship and the Exercise of Authority in the Earlier Middle Ages; Dangerous Liaisons: Love, Sex and Romance in the Celtic West and the Old North; Celtic Myth in the Modern World: From Ossian
to the New Age; Celtic and Anglo-Saxon Poetry.

Entry Requirements

2026 entry requirements:

Standard entry:
4 Highers at BBBB plus English at National 5.

For second year entry you would require the above plus 2 Advanced Highers at AB in relevant subjects.

Widening access entry:
3 Highers at BBC plus English at National 5.

1 Foundation Apprenticeship is accepted in place of a Higher.