Studying Scottish Literature and Scottish History helps us understand the world in which we live now, as well as shedding light on the past. It prepares you to contribute to a society in which an understanding of texts of all kinds is crucially important.This programme aims to develop your critical, analytic, linguistic and creative skills by engaging with a broad range of texts and a variety of approaches to reading. Studying the human past, you will interact with evidence in primary form, and through sceptical reading of a wide body of historical writing.With a particular emphasis on the history of Scotland, the Edinburgh experience is distinctive for the range of historical themes and chronological periods you can study using a variety of different intellectual approaches to the past.