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By the end of the course, you'll be able to...
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Develop an understanding of the origins and functions of the Scottish Highland clans, and assess their social structures, economy and culture
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Investigate the contrast between hostile stereotypes of the clans as barbaric and warlike and their day-to-day role as complex social communities
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Reflect on the processes of feuding, civil war, revolt and social-economic change between 1500 and 1800 that resulted in the slow transformation and decline of the clans
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Identify and assess the modern legacies of the clans in events such as Highland Games, Clan Societies and Tartan Parades, as well as their portrayal in film and television
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Assess in an informed way the key characteristics of Scottish Highland clanship, their history, their decline and their modern reinvention
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Assess the social and cultural basis of the new representations of clans, such as Highland games and clan societies, that developed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
