CELTIC

Credit Points

20

Course Coordinator

To be confirmed

Pre-requisites

None. The course is not open to students qualified for CE 1022 or CE 1023.

Notes

This course may not be included as part of a graduating curriculum with CE 1022 or CE 1023.

Overview

This is an intensive language course for students who have little or no previous knowledge of Gaelic. It concentrates on the acquisition of basic grammar and vocabulary, and on the development of reading, writing, speaking and listening skills.

Structure

4 one-hour classes per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: Continuous assessment (20%); oral assessment (20%); 1 two-hour written examination (60%).

Resit: 1 two-hour written examination (100%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

To be confirmed

Pre-requisites

Pass in Gaelic (Learners) Higher at B or better.

Notes

This course may not be included as part of a graduating curriculum with CE 1021 or CE 1023.

Overview

A course in Gaelic for students who have already undertaken some study of the language, but who are not native speakers. It enables students to consolidate and extend their knowledge and understanding of Gaelic grammar and vocabulary, and to improve their reading, writing, speaking, listening and translation skills.

Structure

2 one-hour language classes and 1 one-hour oral practice class per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 two-hour written examination (66%) and an oral examination (34%).

Resit: 1 two-hour written examination (66%) and an oral examination (34%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

To be confirmed

Pre-requisites

Pass in Gaelic (Native Speakers) Higher.

Notes

This course may not be included as part of a graduating curriculum with CE 1021 or CE 1022.

Overview

By the end of the course, students will have acquired a deeper understanding of the functioning of their own language, particularly some of its many sociolinguistic variables, basic skills of textual analysis, translation and presentation, as applied to a variety of literary and non-literary contexts.

Structure

2 one-hour language classes and 1 one-hour oral practice class per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 two-hour written examination (70%) and an oral presentation (30%). A satisfactory level of performance in course work will exempt candidates from the examination.

Resit: 1 two-hour written examination (70%) and an oral examination (30%).

Credit Points

10

Course Coordinator

To be confirmed

Pre-requisites

This course is not open to students qualified for CE 1022 or CE 1023.

Notes

This course may not be included as part of a graduating curriculum with CE 1025 or CE 1026.

Overview

The work of the course will focus on the close reading of simple authentic Gaelic texts, together with the discovery of such background information as is needed to understand these texts in their context, at a level appropriate for beginners in the language. A range of topics will be covered with a view to enhancing both linguistic and text-critical skills as well as factual knowledge.

Structure

2 one-hour classes per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 two-hour written examination (100%).

Resit: 1 two-hour written examination (100%).

Credit Points

10

Course Coordinator

To be confirmed

Pre-requisites

Pass in Gaelic (Learners) Higher at B or better, or CE 1521.

Notes

This course may not be included as part of a graduating curriculum with CE 1024. When taken in the second year of study in conjunction with CE 2021, the credit points obtained from this course may be counted as credit points at Level 2.

Overview

The work of the course will focus on the close critical appreciation of Modern Gaelic textual and creative material, together with such background information as is needed to understand this material in its context, at a basic level.

Structure

2 one-hour classes per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 two-hour written examination (100%).

Resit: 1 two-hour written examination (100%).

Credit Points

10

Course Coordinator

To be confirmed

Pre-requisites

None.

Overview

The course explores the history and culture of the Insular Celts from the late Iron Age until the arrival of the Vikings. This will include an overview of their politics, religion, society and artistic achievements. Among other things, the course will consider the origins of Celtic Christianity, the influence of Romans and the legends of King Arthur.

Structure

1 one-hour lecture and 1 one-hour tutorial per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 two-hour written examination (100%).

Resit: 1 two-hour written examination (100%).

Credit Points

20

Course Coordinator

To be confirmed

Pre-requisites

CE 1021

Notes

This course may not be included as part of a graduating curriculum with CE 1522 or CE 1523.

Overview

This course builds on the foundation laid in CE 1021 (Introductory Gaelic Language 1), and concentrates on the acquisition of further basic grammar and vocabulary, and on the development of more advanced reading, writing, speaking and listening skills.

Structure

4 one-hour classes per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: Continuous assessment (20%); oral assessment (20%); 1 two-hour written examination (60%).

Resit: 1 two-hour written examination (100%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

To be confirmed

Pre-requisites

CE 1022

Notes

This course may not be included as part of a graduating curriculum with CE 1521 or CE 1523.

Overview

This course builds on the foundations laid in CE 1022 (Gaelic Language 1), and enables students further to consolidate and extend their knowledge and understanding of Gaelic grammar and vocabulary, and to improve their reading, writing, speaking, listening and translation skills.

Structure

2 hours of language work per week, 1 hour's oral class with native speaker, formative exercises.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 two-hour written examination (66%) and an oral examination (34%).

Resit: 1 two-hour written examination (70%) and an oral examination (30%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

To be confirmed

Pre-requisites

CE 1023

Notes

This course may not be included as part of a garduating curriculum with CE 1521 or CE 1522.

Overview

This course builds on and continues the work of CE 1023 (Gaelic Language for Native Speakers 1).

Structure

2 one-hour language classes and 1 one-hour oral practice class per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 two-hour written examination (70%) and an oral presentation (30%).

Resit: 1 two-hour written examination (70%) and an oral examination (30%).

Credit Points

10

Course Coordinator

To be confirmed

Pre-requisites

None. CE 1024 is not required, but is strongly recommended. The course is not open to students qualified for CE 1022 or CE 1023.

Notes

This course may not be included as part of a graduating curriculum with CE 1525 or CE 1526.

Overview

The work of the course will focus on the close reading of simple and more complex authentic Gaelic texts, together with the discovery of such background information as it needed to understand these texts in their context, at a level appropriate for near beginners in the language. A range of registers and topics will be covered, building on those studied in CE 1024, with a view to enhancing further both linguistic and text-critical skills as well as factual knowledge.

Structure

2 one-hour classes per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 two-hour written examination (100%).

Resit: 1 two-hour written examination (100%).

Credit Points

10

Course Coordinator

To be confirmed

Pre-requisites

Pass in Gaelic (Learners) Higher at B or better, or CE 1521. CE 1025 is not required, but is strongly recommended.

Notes

This course may not be included as part of a graduating curriculum with CE 1524 or CE 1526. When taken in the second year of study in conjunction with CE 2521, the credit points obtained from this course may be counted as credit points at Level 2.

Overview

The work of the course will focus on the close critical appreciation of Modern Gaelic textual and creative material, together with such background information as is needed to understand this material in its context, at an intermediate level.

Structure

2 one-hour classes per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 two-hour written examination (100%).

Resit: 1 two-hour written examination (100%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

To be confirmed

Pre-requisites

None.

Overview

Students will acquire an understanding of the salient facts about Continental Celtic history and culture of the period, about the extent and nature of the archaeological and written evidence, and the problems attendant on its interpretation.

Structure

1 one-hour lecture and 1 one-hour tutorial per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 two-hour written examination (100%).

Resit: 1 two-hour written examination (100%).

Credit Points

20

Course Coordinator

To be confirmed

Pre-requisites

CE 1521

Notes

This course may not be included as part of a graduating curriculum with CE 1022 or CE 1023.

Overview

A course in Gaelic for students who started as beginners at Level 1, and who wish to continue with their studies. Building on the foundations laid in Level 1, it enables students to consolidate and extend their knowledge and understanding of Gaelic grammar and vocabulary, and to improve their reading, writing, speaking, listening and translation skills.

Structure

3 one-hour language classes and 1 one-hour oral practice class per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 two-hour written examination (66%) and an oral examination (34%).

Resit: 1 two-hour written examination (66%) and an oral examination (34%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

To be confirmed

Pre-requisites

CE 1522 or CE 1523

Overview

A course in Gaelic for students who have followed either CE 1522 or CE 1523, and who wish to continue with their studies. Building on the foundations laid in Level 1, it enables students to consolidate and extend their knowledge and understanding of Gaelic grammar and vocabulary, and to improve their reading, writing, speaking, listening, text-analytical, translation and presentation skills.

Structure

2 one-hour language classes and 1 one-hour oral practice class per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 two-hour written examination (66%) and an oral examination (34%).

Resit: 1 two-hour written examination (66%) and an oral examination (34%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

To be confirmed

Pre-requisites

CE 1024 or CE 1524 or CE 1025 or CE 1525.

Notes

This is a course for beginners. It is not available to students with A-levels or the Ardteistiméireacht in Irish.

Overview

This is an intensive course in Modern Irish for students who have little or no previous knowledge of the language. It concentrates on the acquisition of basic grammar and vocabulary, and on the development of reading, writing, speaking and listening skills. The course will also take some account of the similarities and differences between Scottish Gaelic and Irish.

Structure

2 one-hour meetings per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 two-hour written examination (100%).

Resit: 1 two-hour written examination (100%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

To be confirmed

Pre-requisites

CE 1024 or CE 1524 or CE 1025 or CE 1525.

Overview

This course sets out to provide an overview of the historical development and linguistic structures of the Celtic languages. It will also study aspects of the history of scholarship in this area. It aims to help students acquire an appreciation of the evolution and diversity of both Continental and Insular Celtic.

Structure

1 one-hour lecture and 1 one-hour tutorial per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 two-hour written examination (100%).

Resit: 1 two-hour written examination (100%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

To be confirmed

Pre-requisites

This course is only available to students in programme year 2 or above.

Overview

This course sets out to explore the history and culture of the Insular Celts from the fourth century AD to ca 800, and deals with political, social, religious and literary history.

Structure

1 one-hour lecture and 1 one-hour tutorial per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 two-hour written examination (100%).

Resit: 1 two-hour written examination (100%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

To be confirmed

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in programme year 2 or above.

Overview

This course will analyse the interaction of peoples around the Irish Sea from the fall of the Roman empire to the English invasion of Ireland in 1170. Issues that will be exposed include piracy and trade, the impact of Anglo-Saxons, Vikings and Normans, religious links, alliances, rivalries and ethnic identities.

Structure

1 one-hour lecture and 1 one-hour tutorial per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 two-hour written examination (100%).

Resit: 1 two-hour written examination (100%).

Credit Points

20

Course Coordinator

To be confirmed

Pre-requisites

CE 2021.

Notes

This course may not be included as part of a graduating curriculum with CE 1522 or CE 1523.

Overview

This course builds on the foundations laid in CE 2021 (Advanced Introductory Gaelic Language 1), and enables students further to consolidate and extend their knowledge and understanding of Gaelic grammar and vocabulary, and to improve their reading, writing, speaking, listening and translation skills.

Structure

1st Attempt: 1 two-hour written examination (66%) and an oral examination (34%).

Assessment

Resit: 1 two-hour written examination (70%) and an oral examination (30%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

TBC

Pre-requisites

CE 2022

Overview

This course builds on the foundation laid in CE 2022 (Advanced Gaelic Language 1), and enables students further to consolidate and extend their knowledge and understanding of Gaelic grammar and vocabulary, and to improve their reading, writing, speaking, listening, text-analytical, translation and presentation skills. Classes follow the same pattern as CE 2022, but at a more advanced level.

Structure

2 one-hour language classes and 1 one-hour oral practice class per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 two-hour written examination (66%) and an oral examination (34%). A satisfactory level of performance in course work will exempt candidates from the examination.

Resit: 1 two-hour written examination (70%) and an oral examination (30%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

To be confirmed

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in programme year 2 or above.

Overview

This course sets out to examine the history and culture of the Insular Celts until the end of the nineteenth century. It aims to cover the main facts of politics, social, religious and literary history, including the impact of the Ossianic controversy, Romanticism and nationalism.

Structure

1 one-hour lecture and 1 one-hour tutorial per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 two-hour written examination (100%).

Resit: 1 two-hour written examination (100%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

To be confirmed

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in programme year 2 or above.

Overview

This course sets out to examine what classical authors had to say about the Celts between the sixth century BC and the fourther century AD. Through a mixture of lectures and tutorials it will examine the main accounts of the Celts provided by Greek and Latin authors and help students to set them in their historical context. (Texts will be studies in translation, and no knowledge of Greek or Latin is required).

Structure

1 one-hour lecture and 1 one-hour tutorial per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 two-hour written examination (100%).

Resit: 1 two-hour written examination (100%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr M Macleod & Dr M Watson

Pre-requisites

CE 2021 or CE 2022 or equivalent.

Overview

This course aims to introduce students to some of the concepts and skills involved in folklore studies and to give them the opportunity to examine aspects of the corpus of extant Gaelic folk materials. It will also support students' acquisition of Gaelic language. Through a mixture of lectures and tutorials the course will cover a range of topics, such as: collectors and collecting, rites of passage and practices, songs and tales.

Structure

One lecture and one tutorial per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 one-hour written examination (100%). Satisfatory performance in coursework will exempt students from further examination.

Resit: 1 two-hour written examination (100%).

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr J H Grant

Pre-requisites

CE 2509 or CE 2507

Notes

May be taken only by students in Gaelic Studies or Celtic Studies Single Honours or Celtic Joint Honours. This course will be available in 2004/05.

Overview

The course aims to continue the development of language skills including textual analysis and translation in a wide range of styles and registers (eg reports, advertisements, documents, descriptive writing, essays, narrative), with instruction in a range of grammatical topics (the verbal noun, interrogatives, numerals, nouns of quantity, adverbials, emphasis). Guidance will also be provided for the course project which involves the development of word registers in the form of a dictionary of usage. The course is taught through the medium of Gaelic.

Structure

3 one-hour tutorials per week.

Assessment

1 two-hour examination (50%), continuous assessment (40%) and tutorial assessment mark (10%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr S J Arbuthnot

Pre-requisites

CE 2507, CE 2509, or CE 2510

Notes

This course will not be available in 2004/053.

Overview

This course aims to provide the students with a knowledge of Early Modern Gaelic (c1200-c1700) language and the prose literature associated with it, including historical texts, religious works and romance narrative produced in Ireland and Scotland during this period.

Structure

1 two-hour seminar per week.

Assessment

1 one-hour written examination (60%) and continuous assessment (40%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Ms C J MacKenzie

Pre-requisites

CE 2509 or CE 2507

Notes

This course will be available in 2004/05. This course is run over the full session.

Overview

This course provides a programme of structured and free oral discourse in Scottish Gaelic. The structured element is designed to ensure that students acquire the necessary vocabulary and constructions to operate in any Gaelic language context; the free discourse element is designed to enable them to acquire the fluency in spoken language to do so effectively.

Structure

1 two-hour tutorial per week.

Assessment

1 thirty minute oral examination (60%) and continuous assessment: 3 oral tests (40%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr K Hollo

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 or by permission of the Head of School.

Notes

This course may not be included as part of a graduating curriculum with CE 4037. This course will not be available in 2004/05.

Overview

The philological links between Common Celtic and the Indo-European family of languages. The links between Continental and Insular Celtic, and between the Gaelic and Brittonic language groups. The philological history of the Gaelic languages/dialects.

Structure

1 two-hour seminar per week.

Assessment

1 one-hour examination (40%) and continuous assessment (60%).

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

To be advised

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 or above, or by permission of the Head of School.

Notes

This course will be available in 2004/05 and in alternate sessions thereafter.

Overview

This course offers students the opportunity to study the introduction of a new religion in an insular Celtic context. Themes covered include native reactions to Christianity, the Roman and Celtic churches, early monasticism in the insular world, controversy and heresy, artistic achievements in manuscripts and sculpture, place-name studies and Christian influence upon native kingship during the early medieval period.

Structure

1 two-hour seminar per week and one-hour of directed resource-based study.

Assessment

1 two-hour examination (60%) and continuous assessment (40%).

Credit Points

20

Course Coordinator

Ms C J Mackenzie

Pre-requisites

Students in Programme Year 3, or with permission of the Head of School. The ability to function in a Gaelic-medium learning environment is essential.

Notes

This course may not be included as part of a graduating curriculum with CE 4040. This course will not be available in 2004/05.

Overview

The course will examine a number of key texts of the major Gaelic poets of the period 1700-1900. The texts have been specifically chosen for their focus on issues of panegyric poetry, war, romanticism, land, language and identity, clearance, emigration, religion and nature.

Structure

2 lectures and 1 tutorial per week for 6 weeks; 1 tutorial and 2 seminars per week for 6 weeks.

Assessment

1 two-hour written examination (60%) and continuous assessment (40%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr K Hollo

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 with some previous knowledge of a Celtic language.

Notes

This course will not be available in 2004/05.

Overview

Students will become familiar with the language of the Middle Welsh period (12th – 14th Centuries), and learn to read Middle Welsh texts in the original.

Structure

1 two-hour seminar per week.

Assessment

1 two-hour written examination (80%) and continuous assessment (20%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr K Hollo

Pre-requisites

CE2507 or CE2509 or CE 2510 or permission of the Head of School. Available only to students in Programme Year 3.

Notes

This course may not be included as part of a graduating curriculum with CE 4028. This course will not be available in 2004/05.

Overview

Students are introduced to the grammar and vocabulary of Old Irish (600-900 AD). They read a number of passages from the medieval epic Táin Bό Cualnge (The Cattle Raid of Cooley) and short poems in the original.

1 two-hour seminar per week.

1 two-hour examination (90%) and continuous assessment (10%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr K Hollo

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3.

Notes

Compulsory for third year Gaelic Studies honours students. This course will not be available in 2004/05.

Overview

During the 20th Century, the genres of the short story, novella and, to a lesser extent, the novel, came to the fore in both Scottish Gaelic and Irish. In this class, students will read and examine a selection of Scottish Gaelic and Irish texts in their historical and cultural contexts, and investigate the factors that led to the development of these genres at this particular historical juncture. Attention will be given to continuities / discontinuities of these works with earlier writing in Scottish Gaelic and Irish, as well as to sources of external influence (eg social realism, existentialism, etc). A comparative Scottish Gaelic / Irish approach will be adopted throughout.

1 two-hour seminar per week.

1 two-hour written examination (60%), continuous assessment (40%).

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr M Macleod

Pre-requisites

CE 2507 and CE 2509

Overview

This course will give students an opportunity to study the modern Gaelic community from a social and sociolinguistic perspective. Students will study a variety of topics such as: the identity of the modern Gael; the relationship between language and identity; Gaelic as a minority language; the place of the Gael and Gaelic in modern society; ethnographics and demographics.

Structure

1 one-hour lecture and 1 two-hour seminar per week.

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr K Hollo

Pre-requisites

Available only to candidates for Junior and Senior Honours in Gaelic, Celtic or Celtic Civilisation.

Notes

This course will be available in 2004/05.

Overview

Dissertation: A 10,000 word dissertation on a topic by the Head of School.

Assessment

Dissertation (100%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr S J Arbuthnot

Pre-requisites

CE 3032 Available only to students in Programme Year 3.

Notes

This course will not be available in 2004/05.

Overview

Content: Building of the liguistic knoweldge gained in CE 3032, this course is concerned with the study of the syllabic verse of the period 1200 –1650. In addition to teaching selected praise, religious, and love poems (with particular attention given to metrical analysis), students will become more familiar with the social context of the verse and with the manuscript tradition that preserved it.

Structure

1 two-hour seminar per week.

Assessment

1 two-hour written examination (50%) and continuous assessment (50%).

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

To be advised

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 or above, or by permission of the Head of School.

Notes

This course will be available in 2004/05.

Overview

This course studies the history, culture and religion of all of the kingdoms in North Britain before c900AD. A number of different themes are tackled including tribal and social organisation, the spread of Christianity, political and diplomatic links, Pictish matriliny and artistic influences from both Ireland and Carolingian Europe.

Structure

1 two-hour seminar and 1 one-hour tutorial per week.

Assessment

1 two-hour examination (60%) and continuous assessment (40%).

Credit Points

20

Course Coordinator

Dr K Hollo

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 or above, or by permission of the Head of School. Not available to candidates for Gaelic Studies Single Honours, Celtic Studies Single Honours, or Celtic Joint Honours.

Notes

This course will not be available in 2004/05.

Overview

Students study a wide range of examples of folk tales and other folk narrative, particularly translations of material collected in the Irish and Scottish Gaidhealtachd and from Gaelic speakers in Canada. Students are required to familiarise themselves with comparative studies of the tales, in relation to earlier Gaelic tales or as examples of international motifs. The place of tales and taletellers in traditional Gaelic society is examined.

Structure

1 two-hour examination (60%) and continuous assessment: 2 essays (40%).

Assessment

2 one-hour seminars per week.

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr J H Grant

Pre-requisites

CE2509 or CE2507. Available only to students in Programme Year 3.

Notes

This course may not be included as part of a graduating curriculum with CE 4540. This course will not be available in 2004/05.

Overview

This course introduces students to the principles of dialectal distribution. The main features which distinguish Gaelic dialects from each other are exemplified. Students are required to study a number of dialects of Scottish Gaelic from the central dialect area and a selection of dialects from peripheral dialect areas in order to acquire a competent knowledge of the range of distinctive varieties. These dialects are placed within their common Gaelic context.

Structure

1 one-hour lecture and 1 one-hour tutorial per week.

Assessment

1 two-hour examination (60%) and continuous assessment (40%).

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

To be advised

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3, or by permission of the Head of School.

Notes

This course may not be included as part of a graduating curriculum with CE 4543. This course will not be available in 2004/05.

Overview

This course offers a comparative study in the history, culture and kingship of Alba and Ireland during the early medieval period. Major themes tackled will include the development of kingship and national identity, social organisation, law tracts, political and diplomatic links and culture.

Structure

1 two-hour seminar per week and one-hour of directed resource-based study.

Assessment

1 two-hour examination (60%) and continuous assessment (40%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr K Hollo

Pre-requisites

CE 3050

Notes

This course will not be available in 2004/05.

Overview

Students, building on the reading ability acquired in CE 3050 will read and become familiar with a range of poetry from the Old and Middle Welsh periods. They will also gain a basic understanding of the metrical structure of Welsh poetry. Students will also engage in directed reading about medieval Welsh poetry and its social and historical context.

Structure

1 two-hour seminar per week.

Assessment

1 two-hour examination (80%) and continuous assessment (20%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr S J Arbuthnot

Pre-requisites

CE 3051. Available only to students in Programme Year 3.

Notes

This course may not be included as part of a graduating curriculum with CE 4551. This course will not be available in 2004/05.

Overview

This course builds upon the knowledge gained in CE3028. Students will develop an understanding of the linguistic changes that occurred in the transition from Old Gaelic (c600 - c900 AD) to Middle Gaelic (c900 – c1200 AD), and of developments within the Middle Gaelic period itself. Students will also become familiar with the literature of the period through reading and discussing a selection of texts.

Structure

1 two-hour seminar per week.

Assessment

1 two-hour examination (80%) and continuous assessment (20%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr S J Arbuthnot

Pre-requisites

Open only to students in Programme Year 3 in Gaelic Studies or Celtic Studies, or with the permission of the Head of School. Either CE 3552 or CE 4552 is compulsory for Gaelic Studies honours students.

Notes

This course may not be included as part of a graduating curriculum with CE 4552. This course will be available in 2005/06 and alternate years thereafter.

Overview

‘One would feel a great sense of surprise if a new writer were to appear on the scene now, using older styles’ (Thomson, An Introduction to Gaelic Poetry, 249). Since around the mid-twentieth century innovation has been a major feature of poetry in Irish and Scottish Gaelic. In this class students read the work of a selection of poets, all active after 1940, focusing on individual concerns the techniques, and more generally on the developments in style, approach and subject-matter that mark the poetry of this period. Attention will be paid to external influences on these works and to continuities/discontinuities with earlier Gaelic literature.

Structure

1 two-hour seminar per week.

Assessment

1 two-hour examination (60%), continuous assessment (40%).

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

To be advised

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 or above, or by permission of the Head of School.

Notes

This course will be available in 2004/05.

Overview

The period covered by this course is c700 BC to c50 BC, from the emergence of the first clearly identifiable Celts to the defeat of the Gauls by Julius Caesar; the ancestry of the earliest Celts and the Celtic survival on the continent will also be discussed. Celtic migrations in Europe and into Asia Minor will be studied through archaeological evidence, the testimony of Greek and Roman writers and place-name evidence. Religion and social and cultural institutions will be examined.

Structure

1 two-hour seminar and 1 one-hour tutorial per week.

Assessment

1 two-hour examination (60%) and continuous assessment: 2 essays (40%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr K Hollo

Pre-requisites

Only available to students in Programme Year 3.

Notes

This course will be available in 2004/05.

Overview

Students will read a selection of medieval Irish and Welsh texts in translation organised loosely around four themes: kingship, men and women, becoming a poet, and women’s words, women’s honour. They will also read a number of scholarly essays about the tales. By the end of the course students will have an understanding of some of the central concerns of the literatures concerned, and have strengthened their critical skills through discussion and writing.

Structure

1 two-hour seminar per week.

Assessment

1 two-hour written exam (60%) and continuous assessment (40%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr M Watson

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 who have passed CE 2507, CE 2509, CE 2521, or CE 2522.

Notes

This course will be available in 2004-2005 and in alternate sessions thereafter. May not be taken as part of a graduating curriculum with CE 4555, The Gaelic Short Story B.

Overview

This course studies the development of shorter prose fiction in Gaelic in the twentieth (and twenty-first) century. It will investigate the importance of the short story and consider its place within the wider Gaelic culture. It will involve reading, analysing and discussing several of the most important Gaelic short stories of the period. Students will also be engaged in directed self-study outside of class, which will involve substantial amounts of additional reading in fields such as the literature of other languages, history, biography, social commentary, philosophy, critical practice and critical theory.

Structure

Two hours of seminars per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: Continuous assessment (100%).

Resit: 1 two-hour written examination (100%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr R Dunbar

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 who have passed CE 2507, CE 2509, CE 2521 or CE 2522.

Notes

This course will be available in 2004-2005 and in alternate sessions thereafter. It may not be included as part of a graduating curriculum with CE 4556, Scottish Gaels in the New World B.

Overview

Students will be introduced to historical patterns of emigration from the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, as well as the historical patterns of immigration to and settlement in the New World. Primarily through the medium of Gaelic poetry and prose, supplemented by secondary sources, students will explore the Gaels' perspectives on emigration, immigration and settlement, as well as the development of Gaelic poetry and and prose in the New World settlements. Students will be introduced to genres of song, styles of instrumental music and dance, and folk beliefs that were retained and developed in the New World. Finally, students will explore the decline of the emigrant Gaelic communities and consider their legacy and their prospects for survival.

Structure

Two hours of seminars per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: Continuous assessment (100%).

Resit: 1 two-hour written examination (100%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr R Dunbar

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3.

Notes

This course will be available in 2004-2005 and in alternate sessions thereafter. It may not be included as part of a graduating curriculum with CE 4557, Language Policy and Planning and the Insular Celtic Languages B.

Overview

The course will begin with a consideration of the relevance of language in the formation of personal, ethnic and national identities and will then explore key concepts in language planning and the main types of language policies pursued by states. Building on these core themes, the sociological, psychological, economic, political and other reasons for language shift will be explored, the reasons for being concerned about language shift will be critically assessed and the methods of addressing language shift will be analysed. This course will conclude by an application of the concepts developed in the first part of the course to the historical socio-linguistic development of the insular Celtic languages, with particular references to Welsh, Irish and Scottish Gaelic.

Structure

Two hours of seminars per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: Continuous assessment (100%).

Resit: 1 two-hour written examination (100%).

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr B Maier

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3.

Notes

Available in session 2004/05 and in alternate sessions thereafter.

Overview

The course will deal with themes and characters from the Welsh Arthurian tradition, their Celtic origins and their impact on European imagination. Students will become familiar with this large cast of characters, the roles they have played in European literary and artistic traditions, and the ways in which the history of the Arthurian material reflects the development of cultural, political and social ideas. (The course develops the material introduced in CE 20##, but it is not necessary to have followed the level 2 course in order to benefit from this one).

Structure

Three hours of classes per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 two-hour written examination (60%); continuous assessment (40%).

Resit: 1 two-hour written examination (100%).

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr J H Grant

Pre-requisites

CE 3026

Notes

This course is run over the full session. This course will be available in 2004/05.

Overview

This course continues the work of CE 3026. Candidates get a practical training in the writing of Scottish Gaelic over a wide range of uses. This includes formal and informal registers, functional writing, eg reports, advertisements, documents; descriptive writing; essays; narrative. They practise translation, structured discourse and free writing.

Structure

3 one-hour tutorials per week.

Assessment

1 two-hour examination (60%) and continuous assessment: 6 written assignments and 1 essay (40%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr S J Arbuthnot

Pre-requisites

CE 2507, CE 2509, or CE 2510.

Notes

This course will not be available in 2004/05.

Overview

This course aims to provide the students with a knowledge of Early Modern Gaelic (c1200–c1700) language and the prose literature associated with it, including historical texts, religious works and romance narrative produced in Ireland and Scotland during this period. Students will explore the relationship between the language of this period and the modern forms of Gaelic.

Structure

1 two-hour seminar per week.

Assessment

1 two-hour written examination (50%) and continuous assessment (50%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Ms C J MacKenzie

Pre-requisites

CE 3035

Notes

This course is run over the full session. This course will be available in 2004/05.

Overview

This course continues the work of CE 3002. It provides a programme of structured and free oral discourse in Scottish Gaelic. The structured element is designed to ensure that students acquire the necessary vocabulary and constructions to operate in any Gaelic language context; the free discourse element is designed to enable them to acquire the fluency in spoken language to do so effectively.

Structure

1 two-hour tutorial per week.

Assessment

1 thirty minute oral examination (60%) and continuous assessment: 3 oral tests (40%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr K Hollo

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 4 or with permission of the Head of School.

Notes

This course may not be included as part of a graduating curriculum with CE 3037. This course will not be available in 2004/05.

Overview

The philological links between Common Celtic and the Indo-European family of languages. The links between Continental and Insular Celtic, and between the Gaelic and Brittonic language groups. The philological history of the Gaelic languages/dialects.

Structure

1 two-hour seminar per week.

Assessment

1 one-hour examination (40%) and continuous assessment (60%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr K Hollo

Pre-requisites

Only available to students in Programme Year 4.

Notes

This course will be available in 2002/03 and alternate sessions thereafter.

Overview

Students will read a selection of medieval Irish and Welsh texts in translation, organised loosely around four themes: kingship, men and women, becoming a poet, and women’s words. women’s honour. They will also read a number of scholarly essays about the tales. By the end of the course students will have an understanding of some of the central concerns of the literatures concerned, and have strengthened their critical skills through discussion and writing.

Structure

1 two-hour seminar per week.

Assessment

1 two-hour written examination (60%) and continuous assessment (40%).

Credit Points

20

Course Coordinator

To be advised

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 4 by permission of the Head of School.

Notes

This course may not be included as part of a graduating curriculum with CE 3039. This course will be available in 2004/5 and in alternate sessions thereafter.

Overview

This course offers students the opportunity to study the introduction of a new religion in an insular Celtic context. Themes covered include native reactions to Christianity, the Roman and Celtic churches, early monasticism in the insular world, controversy and heresy, artistic achievements in manuscripts and sculpture, place-name studies and Christian influences upon native kingship during the early medieval period.

Structure

One two-hour seminar per week and one-hour of directed resource-based study.

Assessment

1 two-hour examination (60%) and continuous assessment (40%).

Credit Points

20

Course Coordinator

Ms C J MacKenzie

Pre-requisites

Students in Programme Year 4, or with permission of the Head of School. The ability to function in a Gaelic-medium learning environment is essential.

Notes

This course may not be included as part of a graduating curriculum with CE 3040. This course will not be available in 2004/05.

Overview

The course will examine a number of key texts of the major Gaelic poets of the period 1700-1900. The texts have been specifically chosen for their focus on issues of panegyric poetry, war, romanticism, land, language and identity, clearance, emigration, religion and nature.

Structure

2 lectures and 1 tutorial per week for 6 weeks; 1 tutorial and 2 seminars per week for 6 weeks.

Assessment

1 two-hour written examination (60%) and continuous assessment (40%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr K Hollo

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 4.

Notes

This course will not be available in 2004/05.

Overview

Students will become familiar with the language of the Middle Welsh period (12th – 14th centuries),
and learn to read Middle Welsh texts in the original. Students will also make a private study of the central literary prose work of this period, the Mabinogi, a sophisticated and enjoyable collection of related tales.

Structure

1 two-hour seminar per week.

Assessment

1 two-hour written examination (60%) and continuous assessment (40%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr K Hollo

Pre-requisites

CE 2507 or CE 2509 or CE 2510 or permission of the Head of School. Available only to students in Programme Year 4.

Notes

This course may not be included as part of a graduating curriculum with CE 3028. This course will not be available in 2004/05.

Overview

Students are introduced to the grammar and vocabulary of Old Irish (600-900 AD). They read a number of passages from the medieval epic Táin Bό Cualnge (The Cattle Raid of Cooley) and short poems in the original.

Structure

1 two-hour seminar per week.

Assessment

1 two-hour examination (90%) and continuous assessment (10%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr K Hollo

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3.

Notes

This course is compulsory in either its level 3 or level 4 version for Gaelic Studies. This course will not be available in 2004/05.

Overview

During the 20th Century, the genres of the short story, novella and, to a lesser extent the novel, came to the fore in both Scottish Gaelic and Irish. In this class, students will read and examine a selection of Scottish Gaelic and Irish texts in their historical and cultural contexts, and investigate the factors that led to the development of these genres at these particular historical juncture. Attention will be given to continuities / discontinuities of these works with earlier writing in Scottish Gaelic and Irish, as well as to sources of external influence (eg social realism, existentialism, etc). A comparative Scottish Gaelic / Irish approach will be adopted throughout.

Structure

1 two-hour seminar per week.

Assessment

1 two-hour written examination (60%), continuous assessment (40%).

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr Michelle Macleod

Pre-requisites

CE 2507 or CE 2509, available only to students in Programme Year 4.

Notes

This course may not be included as part of a graduating curriculum with CE 3053.

Overview

1 one-hour lecture and two hours of seminars per week on topics such as: the identity of the modern Gael; the relationship between language and identity. Gaelic as a minority language; the place of the Gael in modern society; ethnographics and demographics. Students will be required to follow a programme of prescribed reading and participate in seminars. Seminar participation will count towards continuous assessment.

Assessment

1 one-hour lecture and 1 two-hour seminar per week.

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr S J Arbuthnot

Pre-requisites

CE 3032. Available only to students in Programme Year 4.

Notes

This course will not be available in 2004/05.

Overview

Building on the linguistic knowledge gained in CE 3032, this course is concerned with the study of the syllabic verse of the period 1200-1650. In addition to reading selected praise, religious, and love poems (with particular attention given to metrical analysis), students will become familiar with the social context of the verse and with the manuscript tradition that preserved it. Each student will also do an in-depth study of a particular poet, group of poets, genre, or manuscript source.

Structure

1 two-hour seminar per week.

Assessment

1 two-hour written examination (50%) and continuous assessment (50%).

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr D Horsburgh

Pre-requisites

Notes

Open only to students in Programme Year 4.

Overview

Topics covered include: the politics of the North Britons; Pictish kings and kingship; the growth of the Scottish Dalriada; the rise and fall of Northumbria; the spread of Christianity; class and social stratification; ethnicity and identity; language and literature; schools of art; the chroniclers and their work.

Structure

1 two-hour seminar and 1 one-hour tutorial per week.

Assessment

1 two-hour examination (60%), essay (20%), book review (10%) and document study (10%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr J H Grant

Pre-requisites

CE 2509 or CE 2507. Available only to students in Programme Year 4.

Notes

This course will not be available in 2004/05.

Overview

This course introduces students to the principles of dialectal distribution. The main features which distinguish Gaelic dialects from each other are exemplified. Students are required to study a number of dialects of Scottish Gaelic from the central dialect area and a selection of dialects from peripheral dialect areas in order to acquire a competent knowledge of the range of distinctive varieties. These dialects are placed within their common Gaelic context.

Structure

1 one-hour lecture and 1 one-hour tutorial per week.

Assessment

1 two-hour examination (60%) and continuous assessment (40%).

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

To be advised

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 4, or by permission of the Head of School.

Notes

This course may not be included as part of a graduating curriculum with CE 3543. This course will not be available in 2004/05.

Overview

This course offers a comparative study in the history, culture and kingship of Alba and Ireland during the early medieval period. Major themes tackled will include the development of kingship and national identity, social organisation, law tracts, political and diplomatic links and culture.

Structure

1 two-hour seminar per week and one-hour of directed resource-based study.

Assessment

1 two-hour examination (60%) and continuous assessment (40%).

Credit Points

20

Course Coordinator

Dr K Hollo

Pre-requisites

Available only to candidates for Honours in Gaelic, Celtic or Celtic Civilisation.

Notes

This course will be available in 2004/05.

Overview

A 10,000 word dissertation on a topic approved by the Head of School.

Assessment

Dissertation (100%)

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr K Hollo

Pre-requisites

None.

Notes

This course will not be available in 2004/05.

Overview

Students building on the reading ability acquired in CE 3050, will read and become familiar with a range of poetry from the Old and Middle Welsh periods. They will also gain a basic understanding of the metrical structure of Welsh poetry. Students will also engage in directed and independent reading about medical Welsh poetry and its social and historical context, as well as investigating a specific genre or subgenre more fully.

Structure

1 two-hour seminar per week.

Assessment

1 two-hour examination (80%) and continuous assessment (20%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr S J Arbuthnot

Pre-requisites

CE 4051. Available only to students in Programme Year 4.

Notes

This course may not be included as part of a graduating curriculum with CE 3551. This course will not be available in 2004/05.

Overview

This course builds upon the knowledge gained in CE4028. Students will develop an understanding of the linguistic changes that occurred in the transition from Old Gaelic (c600 - c900 AD) to Middle Gaelic (c900 – c1200 AD), and of developments within the Middle Gaelic period itself. Students will also become familiar with the literature of the period through reading and discussing a selection of texts.

Structure

1 two-hour seminar per week.

Assessment

1 two-hour examination (80%) and continuous assessment (20%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr S J Arbuthnot

Pre-requisites

Open only to students in Programme Year 4 in Gaelic studies or Celtic Studies, or with the permission of the Head of School. Either CE 3552 or CE 4552 is compulsory for Gaelic Studies honours students.

Notes

This course may not be included as part of a graduating curriculum with CE 4552. This course will be available in 2005/06 and alternate years thereafter.

Overview

‘One would feel a great sense of surprise if a new writer were to appear on the scene now, using older styles’ (Thomson, An Introduction to Gaelic Poetry, 249). Since around the mid-twentieth century innovation has been a major feature of poetry in Irish and Scottish Gaelic. In this class students read the work of a selection of poets, all active after 1940, focusing on individual concerns the techniques, and more generally on the developments in style, approach and subject-matter that mark the poetry of this period. Attention will be paid to external influences on these works and to continuities/discontinuities with earlier Gaelic literature.

Structure

1 two-hour seminar per week.

Assessment

1 two-hour examination (60%), continuous assessment (40%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr M Watson

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 4 who have passed CE 2507, CE 2509, CE 2521, or CE 2522.

Notes

This course will be available in 2004-2005 and in alternate sessions thereafter. May not be taken as part of a graduating curriculum with the CE 3555, Gaelic Short Story A.

Overview

This course studies the development of shorter prose fiction in Gaelic in the twentieth (and twenty-first) century. It will investigate the importance of the short story and consider its place within the wider Gaelic culture. It will involve reading, analysing and discussing several of the most important Gaelic short stories of the period. Students will also be engaged in directed self-study outside of class, which will involve substantial amounts of additional reading in fields such as the literature of other languages, history, biography, social commentary, philosophy, critical practice and critical theory. Students will extend their understanding of the subject by exploring additional texts (both in Gaelic and in other languages they know) not covered on the syllabus by means of independent research, setting the topics treated in their wider context and synthesizing material from a range of sources.

Structure

Two hours of seminars per week.

Assessment

Continuous assessment (100%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr R Dunbar

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 4 who have passed CE 2507, CE 2509, CE 2521 or CE 2522.

Notes

This course will be available in 2004-2005 and in alternate sessions thereafter. It may not be included as part of a graduating curriculum with CE 3556, Scottish Gaels in the New World A.

Overview

Students will be introduced to historical patterns of emigration from the Highland and Islands of Scotland, as well as the historical patterns of immigration to and settlement in the New World. Primarily through the medium of Gaelic poetry and prose, supplemented by secondary sources, students will explore the Gaels' perspectives on emigration, immigration and settlement, as well as the development of Gaelic poetry and prose in the New World settlements. Students will be introduced to genres of song, styles of instrumental music and dance, and folk beliefs that were retained and developed in the New World. They will expolore the decline of the emigrant Gaelic communities and consider their legacy and their prospects for survival. Students will extend their understanding of the subject by means of independent research, setting the topics treated in their wider social, historical and literary context, and synthesizing material from a range of sources.

Structure

Two hours of seminars per week.

Assessment

Continuous assessment (100%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr R Dunbar

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 4.

Notes

This course will be available in 2004-2005 and in alternate sessions thereafter. It may not be included as part of a graduating curriculum with CE 3557, Langauge Policy and Planning and the Insular Celtic Languages A.

Overview

The course will begin with a consideration of the relevance of language in the formation of personal, ethnic and national identities, and will then explore key concepts in language planning and the main types of language policies pursued by states. Building on these core themes, the sociological, psychological economic, political and other reasons for language shift will be explored, the reasons for being concerned about language shift will be critically assessed and the methods of addressing language shift will be analysed. The course will conclude by an application of the concepts developed in the first part of the course to the historical socio-linguistic development of the insular Celtic languages, with particular reference to Welsh, Irish and Scottish Gaelic; such developments will be put in their broader European perspective. Students will extend their understanding of the subject by means of independent research, widening their field of study beyond the syllabus, and synthesizing material from a range of sources.

Structure

Two hours of seminars each week.

Assessment

Continuous assessment (100%).

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr B Maier

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 4.

Notes

Available in session 2004/05 and in alternate sessions thereafter.

Overview

The course will deal with themes and characters from the Welsh Arthurian tradition, their Celtic origins and their impact on the European imagination. Students will become familiar with this large cast of characters, the roles they have played in European literary and artistic traditions, and the ways in which the history of the Arthurian material reflects the development of cultural, political and social ideas. Students will extend their understanding of the subject by exploring additional material not covered on the syllabus through independent research, setting the topics treated in their wider context and synthesizing material from a range of sources. (The course develops the material introduced in CE 20##, but it is not necessary to have followed the level 2 course in order to benefit from this one).

Structure

Three hours of classes per week.

Assessment

1 two-hour written examination (60%); continuous assessment (40%).