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Master of Arts (Honours) Management and Psychology


MA (Hons) Management (Joint Honours): First year
Code Module name Credits
MN1001 Organisations and Society 20 AND
MN1002 Organisations and Analysis 20 AND
Remaining credits from Level 1000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year
MA (Hons) Psychology (Joint Honours): First year
Code Module name Credits
PS1001 Fundamentals of Psychology 1 20 AND
PS1002 Fundamentals of Psychology 2 20 AND
Remaining credits from Level 1000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year
MA (Hons) Management (Joint Honours): Second year
Code Module name Credits
^ MN2001 Management and Society 20 AND
^ MN2002 Management and Analysis 20 AND
Remaining credits from Levels 1000 and 2000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year
Choose a minimum of 80 Level 2000 credits

Automatic entry to Honours requires

  • pass and have an average grade 7 or better in modules marked ^
MA (Hons) Psychology (Joint Honours): Second year
Code Module name Credits
^ PS2001 Advanced Principles of Psychology 1 30 AND
^ PS2002 Advanced Principles of Psychology 2 30 AND
Remaining credits from Levels 1000 and 2000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year
Choose a minimum of 80 Level 2000 credits

Automatic entry to Honours requires

  • pass and have an average grade 7 or better in modules marked ^

Entry to Honours

Students who meet the requirements specified above, and who meet all other programme requirements, will be given automatic entry into Honours programmes.

See: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/media/teaching-and-learning/policies/honsentry.pdf )

MA Honours

The general requirements are 480 credits over a period of normally four years (and not more than five years) or part-time equivalent, of which the final two years form an approved Honours programme of 240 credits, of which 90 credits are at 4000 or 5000 level and at least a further 120 credits at 3000 and/or 4000 or 5000 levels.

MA (Hons) Management (Joint Honours): Third year
Code Module name Credits
MN3102 Organisation Studies 20 AND
View list 40 credits from Module List: MN3023 - MN3025, MN3060, MN3213, MN3311
MN3023 Management Accounting and Control 20
MN3024 Public Sector Management 20
MN3025 Marketing 20
MN3060 Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development 20
MN3213 Human Resource Management 20
MN3311 Dynamic Strategic Management 20
MN3101 Corporate Finance and Control 20
MN3126 International Business 20
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year


In Third or Fourth Year up to 20 credits may be substituted by credits from another School or ID or VP modules, with the permission of the Honours Adviser and the Head of the relevant Head of School.;
MA (Hons) Psychology (Joint Honours): Third year
Code Module name Credits
View list At least 60 credits from Module List: PS3023 - PS3024, PS3031 - PS3038, PS4040
PS3023 Psychological Statistics and Research Methods 3A 15
PS3024 Psychological Statistics and Research Methods 3B 15
PS3031 Conceptual Issues and Theoretical Perspectives 10
PS3032 Assessment in Clinical Psychology 10
PS3033 Developmental Psychology 10
PS3034 Social Psychology 10
PS3035 Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience 10
PS3036 Evolutionary and Comparative Psychology 10
PS3037 Perception 10
PS3038 Cognition 10
PS4040 Psychology Review 10
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year

PS3035 cannot be taken with PS3036. PS3037 cannot be taken with PS3038.
MA (Hons) Management (Joint Honours): Fourth year
Code Module name Credits
MN4100 Contemporary Issues in Management 20 AND
View list 40 credits from Module List: MN4000 level modules
MN4100 Contemporary Issues in Management 20
MN4103 Creativity in Context Enterprise Project 20
MN4116 Financial Markets and Investments 20
MN4211 International Marketing 20
MN4214 Management of Change 20
MN4223 International Banking 20
MN4227 Corporate Social Responsibility, Accountability and Reporting 20
MN4236 Sociology of Finance 20
MN4238 Sustainable Development and Management 20
MN4241 Knowledge Work: Practice and Context 20
MN4242 Advertising and Marketing Communications 20
MN4243 Philanthropy and Philanthropreneurs: The Business Of Doing Good 20
MN4244 Behavioural Decision Making 20
MN4245 Leadership Development 20
MN4266 Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs): Contexts, Contributions, and Challenges 20
MN4268 Equality and Diversity in Organisations 20
MN4269 Earth Matters: Orthodoxy, Heterodoxy, and the Re-imagining of Sustainability 20
MN4310 Scenario Thinking 20
MN4301 Management Project 20
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year


In Third or Fourth Year up to 20 credits may be substituted by credits from another School or ID or VP modules, with the permission of the Honours Adviser and the Head of the relevant Head of School.;

In total, 240 credits must be achieved at 3000 and 4000 level, including at least 90 credits at 4000 level.
MA (Hons) Psychology (Joint Honours): Fourth year
Code Module name Credits
( View list Between 0 and 40 credits from Module List: PS3031 - PS3034 AND
PS3031 Conceptual Issues and Theoretical Perspectives 10
PS3032 Assessment in Clinical Psychology 10
PS3033 Developmental Psychology 10
PS3034 Social Psychology 10
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above
( PS3035 Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience 10 OR
PS3036 Evolutionary and Comparative Psychology 10 ) AND
( PS3037 Perception 10 OR
PS3038 Cognition 10 )) AND
View list Credits from Module List: PS3000 - PS3800, PS4000 - PS4195
PS3021 Research Design and Analysis 1 15
PS3023 Psychological Statistics and Research Methods 3A 15
PS3024 Psychological Statistics and Research Methods 3B 15
PS3031 Conceptual Issues and Theoretical Perspectives 10
PS3032 Assessment in Clinical Psychology 10
PS3033 Developmental Psychology 10
PS3034 Social Psychology 10
PS3035 Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience 10
PS3036 Evolutionary and Comparative Psychology 10
PS3037 Perception 10
PS3038 Cognition 10
PS4040 Psychology Review 10
PS4050 Psychology Project (30) 30
PS4055 Psychology Team Enterprise Project 30
PS4060 The Impact of Science 15
PS4065 Vision in a complex world 15
PS4069 Collective Behaviour 15
PS4071 Behavioural Neuroscience 15
PS4074 Cognitive Psychology and the Emotional Disorders 15
PS4083 Psychology of Music 15
PS4084 Psychology of Visual Art 15
PS4085 Topics in Social Cognition: Developmental and Comparative Perspectives 15
PS4086 Theory of Mind in development, evolution and autism 15
PS4089 Memory mechanisms and Alzheimer's disease 15
PS4091 Computer-aided Research 15
PS4093 The Psychosocial Impact of Dementia 15
PS4094 Communicating Psychology and Neuroscience 15
PS4096 Mechanisms of Behaviour: Integrating Psychological and Neuroscience Perspectives 15
PS4097 Research Methods in Cognitive Neuroscience 15
PS4101 Selves and Identities 15
PS4102 The Psychology of Social Change 15
PS4103 The subjective experience of cognition 15
PS4104 Aggressive Behaviour 15
PS4105 Clinical Neuropsychology 15
PS4106 Data Science for Psychology & Neuroscience 15
PS4107 Evolution of Human Behaviour and Culture 15
PS4108 Animal Models in Psychology and Neuroscience 15
PS4109 The Origins of Causal Thinking 15
PS4110 The Narratives that Shape Psychology and Neuroscience 15
PS4111 Special Topics in Psychology and Neuroscience 15
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year



Unless taken in Third Year students must take 20 credits from PS3035 - PS3038.
Other credits must be taken from PS3000 - PS3900, PS4000 - PS4195 to a maximum of 155 from this range across Third and Fourth Year.
At least 60 credits must be taken in Fourth year to make at least 120 credits from Psychology modules across Honours years.

Study abroad

In the case of students who spend part of the Honours programme on a recognised Study Abroad scheme, the Programme Requirements will be amended to take into account overseas courses which are approved by the relevant St Andrews School in the Learning Agreement (see www.st-andrews.ac.uk/students/study-abroad/academic ).