University of Edinburgh

This course introduces students to the study of Scottish history in the period from 1560 to the present. The program of lectures and tutorials emphasizes key themes of political, religious, economic, social, and cultural change. The course encourages students to think about the multiple transitions between early modern and modern Scotland, and to consider the forces shaping contemporary politics and culture. It analyses the main political developments, social transitions, and cultural shifts in Scotland since 1560. Beginning with the Reformation and the union of crowns of 1603, the course tracks the enormous political and religious changes in early modern Scotland. It then examines the Anglo-Scottish union of 1707 and post-union Scotland, including such themes as Jacobitism, the Scottish Enlightenment and imperial expansion. The course encompasses 19th-century industrialization, political reform and social change, before turning to the radical political and cultural upheavals of the 20th century. It culminates in the present day, addressing such topics as gender, the arts and the debate about devolution, and independence.

This course introduces students to the pervasive nature of animation by examining key texts in both historic and contemporary culture and to interrogate the significance of the form. Drawing on current discourse in animation studies, the course enables students to think about the connection between animation and other moving image and visual cultural artefacts in a critically engaged way.

This is a course in abstract algebra, although connections with other fields will be stressed as often as possible. It is a systematic study of the basic structure of groups, finite and infinite. Topics include homomorphisms, isomorphisms, and factor groups; group presentations and universal properties; Sylow theorems and applications; simple groups and composition series; classification of finite abelian groups and applications; and solvable groups and the derived series.

All engineers make use of fundamental scientific principles to design and construct the future. They work in inter-disciplinary teams to solve complex problems within the ever-changing environmental, economic, societal and policy landscape. In this context, this course provides an insight into what it is to be an engineer and showcases how engineering is done. 

The course covers the political and social history of Rome down to Augustus, together with the material culture, monuments, art, literature and thought of the Romans during this period. Lectures cover topics such as early Rome, the conquest of Italy and the Mediterranean, Roman myth and religion, the city of Rome, Roman poetry and drama, the fall of the republic and the Augustan revolution.