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Master of Arts (Honours) Classical Studies and Scottish History


MA (Hons) Classical Studies (Joint Honours): First year
Code Module name Credits
( View list 40 credits from Module List: CL1004 - CL1005 OR
CL1004 Myth and Community in Ancient Greek Literature and Culture 20
CL1005 Images of Augustan Rome 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
View list 40 credits from Module List: AN1001 - AN1004, GK1001 - GK1002, GK1005 - GK1006, LT1001 - LT1004 ) AND
AN1003 Ancient Empires 20
AN1004 Cities and communities in the ancient Mediterranean 20
GK1001 Greek Language for Beginners 20
GK1002 Greek Literature for Beginners 20
GK1005 Greek Language and Literature 1 20
GK1006 Greek Pastoral and Passion 20
LT1001 Elementary Latin 1 20
LT1002 Elementary Latin 2 20
LT1003 World of Latin 1 20
LT1004 World of Latin 2 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
Remaining credits from Level 1000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year

MA Classical Studies (Joint Honours) First and Second Year Programme Requirements:
  • For the Classical studies element of their degree, over the two subhonours years, students must pass 80 credits in 1000-level or 2000-level modules in Ancient History (AN), Classical Studies (CL), Greek (GK) or Latin (LT), including at least 40 credits at 2000-level.
  • The 80 credits must include one or both of the following pairs of modules: CL1004 + CL1005, CL2003 + CL2004.
Note: most students taking Classical Studies joint or single Honours take CL1004 and CL1005 in their first year and CL2003 and CL2004 in their second, but many other combinations of modules within the School of Classics are possible.
MA (Hons) Scottish History (Joint Honours): First year
Code Module name Credits
ME1006 The Kingdom of the Scots, c.900-1707 20 AND
( ME1003 The Fall of Rome and the Origins of Europe (400-1000) 20 OR
MO1007 The Early Modern Western World (c. 1450 - c. 1770) 20 OR
MO1008 Themes in Late Modern History (c. 1776 - 2001) 20 ) AND
Remaining credits from Level 1000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year
MA (Hons) Classical Studies (Joint Honours): Second year
Code Module name Credits
( View list 40 credits from Module List: AN2002 - AN2005, CL2003 - CL2004, GK2001 - GK2004, LT2001 - LT2004 OR
AN2004 Ancient Societies: Gender, ethnicity, and inequality in the ancient world 20
AN2005 Narratives of antiquity 20
CL2003 Early Greek Poetry and Philosophy 20
CL2004 Culture and Thought in the Late Roman Republic 20
GK2001 The Landscape of Greek Prose (A) 20
GK2002 The Landscape of Greek Poetry (A) 20
GK2003 The Landscape of Greek Prose (B) 20
GK2004 The Landscape of Greek Poetry (B) 20
LT2001 Latin Language and Literature 1 20
LT2002 Latin Language and Literature 2 20
LT2003 Latin in Progress 1 20
LT2004 Latin in Progress 2 20
AN2002 The Roman Empire 20
AN2003 Mediterranean Communities 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
View list 40 credits from Module List: CL2003 - CL2004 ) AND
CL2003 Early Greek Poetry and Philosophy 20
CL2004 Culture and Thought in the Late Roman Republic 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
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

MA Classical Studies (Joint Honours) First and Second Year Programme Requirements:
  • For the Classical studies element of their degree, over the two subhonours years, students must pass 80 credits in 1000-level or 2000-level modules in Ancient History (AN), Classical Studies (CL), Greek (GK) or Latin (LT), including at least 40 credits at 2000-level.
  • The 80 credits must include one or both of the following pairs of modules: CL1004 + CL1005, CL2003 + CL2004.
Note: most students taking Classical Studies joint or single Honours take CL1004 and CL1005 in their first year and CL2003 and CL2004 in their second, but many other combinations of modules within the School of Classics are possible.


Automatic entry to Honours requires:
An average of 7 or better must be obtained in two 2000-level AN, CL, GK or LT modules. If more than two are taken the average will be based on the best two results.
MA (Hons) Scottish History (Joint Honours): Second year
Code Module name Credits
^ MO2008 Scotland, Britain and Empire (c. 1500 - 2000) 20 AND
( ^ HI2001 History as a Discipline: Development and Key Concepts 20 OR
^ ME2003 Medieval Europe (11th - 15th c.) 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

  • passes 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/students/academic/academic-advising/glossary/honours-entry/ )

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 level and at least a further 120 credits at 3000 and/or 4000 levels.

MA (Hons) Classical Studies (Joint Honours): Third year
Code Module name Credits
CL3304 Classical Studies: Interpretations and Receptions 30 AND
View list Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List: CL4000 - CL4989 (excluding CL4794 - CL4797) AND
CL401A Study Abroad: Classical Studies (4) 4
CL401B Study Abroad: Classical Studies (5) 5
CL401C Study Abroad: Classical Studies (6) 6
CL402A Study Abroad: Classical Studies (4) 4
CL402B Study Abroad: Classical Studies (5) 5
CL402C Study Abroad: Classical Studies (6) 6
CL404A Study Abroad: Classical Studies (4) 4
CL404B Study Abroad: Classical Studies (5) 5
CL404C Study Abroad: Classical Studies (6) 6
CL405A Study Abroad: Classical Studies (4) 4
CL405B Study Abroad: Classical Studies (5) 5
CL405C Study Abroad: Classical Studies (6) 6
CL406A Study Abroad: Classical Studies (4) 4
CL406B Study Abroad: Classical Studies (5) 5
CL406C Study Abroad: Classical Studies (6) 6
CL407A Study Abroad: Classical Studies (4) 4
CL407B Study Abroad: Classical Studies (5) 5
CL407C Study Abroad: Classical Studies (6) 6
CL408A Study Abroad: Classical Studies (4) 4
CL408B Study Abroad: Classical Studies (5) 5
CL408C Study Abroad: Classical Studies (6) 6
CL409A Study Abroad: Classical Studies (4) 4
CL409B Study Abroad: Classical Studies (5) 5
CL409C Study Abroad: Classical Studies (6) 6
CL410A Study Abroad: Classical Studies (4) 4
CL410B Study Abroad: Classical Studies (5) 5
CL410C Study Abroad: Classical Studies (6) 6
CL411A Study Abroad: Classical Studies (4) 4
CL411B Study Abroad: Classical Studies (5) 5
CL411C Study Abroad: Classical Studies (6) 6
CL412A Study Abroad: Classical Studies (4) 4
CL412B Study Abroad: Classical Studies (5) 5
CL412C Study Abroad: Classical Studies (6) 6
CL4406 Herodotus 30
CL4413 Logos, Nature, and Psyche: The Origins of Western Thought 30
CL4419 Magic in Greco-Roman Literature and Life 30
CL4420 Fame, Tradition and Narrative: Homer's lliad 30
CL4435 Greek Theatre 30
CL4437 Modern Classics: Classics in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 30
CL4438 Animals in Greco-Roman Antiquity 30
CL4445 Women in Ancient Societies 30
CL4449 After Virgil: The Aeneid and its Reception 30
CL4455 Roman Praise 30
CL4460 Classical Collections 30
CL4461 Senecan Tragedy and its Reception 30
CL4462 Leaders and Leadership in the Ancient World 30
CL4463 Travels and Marvels in the Graeco-Roman World 30
CL4464 The Religious Sense in the Classical Roman World 30
CL4465 Gender and Sexuality in Greek Literature 30
CL4466 A People's History of Scottish Classics 30
CL4467 Classics for the Modern World: interventions and applications 30
CL4468 Classics and the Left 30
CL4469 Christianity and the Classics: Conflict, Competition, Conservation 30
CL4470 Approaching Women in Greek Tragedy 30
CL4471 Landscape and environment in ancient Greek and Roman literature 30
CL4472 Visualising War and Peace in Antiquity 30
CL4473 Roman Literature and Queer Theory 30
CL4500 Pleasure, Goodness and Happiness: Hellenistic Ethics 30
CL4504 Justice, politics and the good life: Plato's Republic and its critics in the ancient world 30
CL4601 Art of the Roman Empire 30
CL4603 Greek Painted Pottery 30
CL4604 Greek Sculpture 30
CL4605 Classical Bodies 30
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
View list Between 0 and 60 credits from Module List: AA4000 - AA4989, AN4000 - AN4989, CL4000 - CL4989 (excluding CL4794 - CL4797)
AA4001 Cities and Urban Life in Late Antiquity (300-700 CE) 30
AA4002 From Pompeii to Aquileia: the Archaeology of Roman Italy (50 BCE - 300 CE) 30
AA4003 From Pagan to Christian Rome, AD 300-900 30
AA4004 The Archaeology of Identities in the First Millennium BCE Mediterranean World 30
AA4005 Sanctuaries and the Sacred in the Greek World 30
AA4006 Early Rome and its Neighbours 30
AA4007 Greek Sculpture 30
AA401A Study Abroad: Archaeology (4) 4
AA401B Study Abroad: Archaeology (5) 5
AA401C Study Abroad: Archaeology (6) 6
AA401D Study Abroad: Archaeology (10) 10
AA401F Study Abroad: Archaeology (12) 12
AA401J Study Abroad: Archaeology (15) 15
AA401L Study Abroad: Archaeology (20) 20
AA401N Study Abroad: Archaeology (24) 24
AA401R Study Abroad: Archaeology (30) 30
AA401U Study Abroad: Archaeology (40) 40
AA401W Study Abroad: Archaeology (45) 45
AA401Y Study Abroad: Archaeology (60) 60
AA402A Study Abroad: Archaeology (4) 4
AA402B Study Abroad: Archaeology (5) 5
AA402C Study Abroad: Archaeology (6) 6
AA402D Study Abroad: Archaeology (10) 10
AA402F Study Abroad: Archaeology (12) 12
AA402L Study Abroad: Archaeology (20) 20
AA402N Study Abroad: Archaeology (24) 24
AA402R Study Abroad: Archaeology (30) 30
AA402U Study Abroad: Archaeology (40) 40
AA402W Study Abroad: Archaeology (45) 45
AA402Y Study Abroad: Archaeology (60) 60
AA404A Study Abroad: Archaeology (4) 4
AA404B Study Abroad: Archaeology (5) 5
AA404C Study Abroad: Archaeology (6) 6
AA404D Study Abroad: Archaeology (10) 10
AA404F Study Abroad: Archaeology (12) 12
AA404J Study Abroad: Archaeology (15) 15
AA404L Study Abroad: Archaeology (20) 20
AA404N Study Abroad: Archaeology (24) 24
AA404R Study Abroad: Archaeology (30) 30
AA404U Study Abroad: Archaeology (40) 40
AA405A Study Abroad: Archaeology (4) 4
AA405B Study Abroad: Archaeology (5) 5
AA405C Study Abroad: Archaeology (6) 6
AA405D Study Abroad: Archaeology (10) 10
AA405F Study Abroad: Archaeology (12) 12
AA405J Study Abroad: Archaeology (15) 15
AA405L Study Abroad: Archaeology (20) 20
AA405N Study Abroad: Archaeology (24) 24
AA406A Study Abroad: Archaeology (4) 4
AA406B Study Abroad: Archaeology (5) 5
AA406C Study Abroad: Archaeology (6) 6
AA406D Study Abroad: Archaeology (10) 10
AA406F Study Abroad: Archaeology (12) 12
AA406J Study Abroad: Archaeology (15) 15
AA406L Study Abroad: Archaeology (20) 20
AA406N Study Abroad: Archaeology (24) 24
AA407A Study Abroad: Archaeology (4) 4
AA407B Study Abroad: Archaeology (5) 5
AA407C Study Abroad: Archaeology (6) 6
AA407D Study Abroad: Archaeology (10) 10
AA407F Study Abroad: Archaeology (12) 12
AA407J Study Abroad: Archaeology (15) 15
AA408A Study Abroad: Archaeology (4) 4
AA408B Study Abroad: Archaeology (5) 5
AA408C Study Abroad: Archaeology (6) 6
AA408D Study Abroad: Archaeology (10) 10
AA408F Study Abroad: Archaeology (12) 12
AA408J Study Abroad: Archaeology (15) 15
AA409A Study Abroad: Archaeology (4) 4
AA409B Study Abroad: Archaeology (5) 5
AA409C Study Abroad: Archaeology (6) 6
AA409D Study Abroad: Archaeology (10) 10
AA409F Study Abroad: Archaeology (12) 12
AA410A Study Abroad: Archaeology (4) 4
AA410B Study Abroad: Archaeology (5) 5
AA410C Study Abroad: Archaeology (6) 6
AA410D Study Abroad: Archaeology (10) 10
AA410F Study Abroad: Archaeology (12) 12
AA411A Study Abroad: Archaeology (4) 4
AA411B Study Abroad: Archaeology (5) 5
AA411C Study Abroad: Archaeology (6) 6
AA411D Study Abroad: Archaeology (10) 10
AA4121 The Ancient City of Rome 30
AA4122 Sacred Spaces in the Roman Empire 30
AA4127 In the Footsteps of the Ancients: Exploring the Archaeology and Topography of Greece 30
AA412A Study Abroad: Archaeology (4) 4
AA412B Study Abroad: Archaeology (5) 5
AA412C Study Abroad: Archaeology (6) 6
AA412D Study Abroad: Archaeology (10) 10
AA4130 The Roman Army 30
AA4131 The Phoenician and Punic Mediterranean 30
AA4145 The Archaeology of Roman Britain 30
AA4149 The Archaeology of Minoan Crete 30
AN401A Study Abroad: Ancient History (4) 4
AN401B Study Abroad: Ancient History (5) 5
AN401C Study Abroad: Ancient History (6) 6
AN402A Study Abroad: Ancient History (4) 4
AN402B Study Abroad: Ancient History (5) 5
AN402C Study Abroad: Ancient History (6) 6
AN404A Study Abroad: Ancient History (4) 4
AN404B Study Abroad: Ancient History (5) 5
AN404C Study Abroad: Ancient History (6) 6
AN405A Study Abroad: Ancient History (4) 4
AN405B Study Abroad: Ancient History (5) 5
AN405C Study Abroad: Ancient History (6) 6
AN406A Study Abroad: Ancient History (4) 4
AN406B Study Abroad: Ancient History (5) 5
AN406C Study Abroad: Ancient History (6) 6
AN407A Study Abroad: Ancient History (4) 4
AN407B Study Abroad: Ancient History (5) 5
AN407C Study Abroad: Ancient History (6) 6
AN408A Study Abroad: Ancient History (4) 4
AN408B Study Abroad: Ancient History (5) 5
AN408C Study Abroad: Ancient History (6) 6
AN409A Study Abroad: Ancient History (4) 4
AN409B Study Abroad: Ancient History (5) 5
AN409C Study Abroad: Ancient History (6) 6
AN4106 Persia and the Greeks 30
AN410A Study Abroad: Ancient History (4) 4
AN410B Study Abroad: Ancient History (5) 5
AN410C Study Abroad: Ancient History (6) 6
AN4110 The Culture of Roman Imperialism 30
AN411A Study Abroad: Ancient History (4) 4
AN411B Study Abroad: Ancient History (5) 5
AN411C Study Abroad: Ancient History (6) 6
AN412A Study Abroad: Ancient History (4) 4
AN412B Study Abroad: Ancient History (5) 5
AN412C Study Abroad: Ancient History (6) 6
AN4141 Greek Tyranny 30
AN4146 The Supremacy of Greece: Athens, Sparta and Thebes 479-366 BCE 30
AN4152 Ancient Empires 30
AN4155 Religious Communities in the Late Antique World 30
AN4156 Memory and Dynasty 30
AN4157 The Environmental History of the Ancient Mediterranean World 30
AN4158 Local Communities under Empire in Ancient Persia, 550-330 BCE 30
AN4159 Egypt at the Crossroads: Multiculturalism in Late Antiquity 30
AN4426 Roman Slavery 30
AN4427 Greeks and Others 30
AN4428 Eight Scenes from the Life of Alexander 30
AN4429 Early Greece between Egypt and Anatolia 30
AN4430 Floods, famines, plagues and volcanoes: Roman adaptation to the environment 30
AN4431 Poverty and social life in Late Antiquity 30
AN4432 Magic in the Greco-Roman World 30
AN4433 Belief and Unbelief in Classical Greek Religion 30
AN4434 Experiencing the Gods in Ancient Greece 30
AN4436 Water History of the Ancient World 30
CL401A Study Abroad: Classical Studies (4) 4
CL401B Study Abroad: Classical Studies (5) 5
CL401C Study Abroad: Classical Studies (6) 6
CL402A Study Abroad: Classical Studies (4) 4
CL402B Study Abroad: Classical Studies (5) 5
CL402C Study Abroad: Classical Studies (6) 6
CL404A Study Abroad: Classical Studies (4) 4
CL404B Study Abroad: Classical Studies (5) 5
CL404C Study Abroad: Classical Studies (6) 6
CL405A Study Abroad: Classical Studies (4) 4
CL405B Study Abroad: Classical Studies (5) 5
CL405C Study Abroad: Classical Studies (6) 6
CL406A Study Abroad: Classical Studies (4) 4
CL406B Study Abroad: Classical Studies (5) 5
CL406C Study Abroad: Classical Studies (6) 6
CL407A Study Abroad: Classical Studies (4) 4
CL407B Study Abroad: Classical Studies (5) 5
CL407C Study Abroad: Classical Studies (6) 6
CL408A Study Abroad: Classical Studies (4) 4
CL408B Study Abroad: Classical Studies (5) 5
CL408C Study Abroad: Classical Studies (6) 6
CL409A Study Abroad: Classical Studies (4) 4
CL409B Study Abroad: Classical Studies (5) 5
CL409C Study Abroad: Classical Studies (6) 6
CL410A Study Abroad: Classical Studies (4) 4
CL410B Study Abroad: Classical Studies (5) 5
CL410C Study Abroad: Classical Studies (6) 6
CL411A Study Abroad: Classical Studies (4) 4
CL411B Study Abroad: Classical Studies (5) 5
CL411C Study Abroad: Classical Studies (6) 6
CL412A Study Abroad: Classical Studies (4) 4
CL412B Study Abroad: Classical Studies (5) 5
CL412C Study Abroad: Classical Studies (6) 6
CL4406 Herodotus 30
CL4413 Logos, Nature, and Psyche: The Origins of Western Thought 30
CL4419 Magic in Greco-Roman Literature and Life 30
CL4420 Fame, Tradition and Narrative: Homer's lliad 30
CL4435 Greek Theatre 30
CL4437 Modern Classics: Classics in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 30
CL4438 Animals in Greco-Roman Antiquity 30
CL4445 Women in Ancient Societies 30
CL4449 After Virgil: The Aeneid and its Reception 30
CL4455 Roman Praise 30
CL4460 Classical Collections 30
CL4461 Senecan Tragedy and its Reception 30
CL4462 Leaders and Leadership in the Ancient World 30
CL4463 Travels and Marvels in the Graeco-Roman World 30
CL4464 The Religious Sense in the Classical Roman World 30
CL4465 Gender and Sexuality in Greek Literature 30
CL4466 A People's History of Scottish Classics 30
CL4467 Classics for the Modern World: interventions and applications 30
CL4468 Classics and the Left 30
CL4469 Christianity and the Classics: Conflict, Competition, Conservation 30
CL4470 Approaching Women in Greek Tragedy 30
CL4471 Landscape and environment in ancient Greek and Roman literature 30
CL4472 Visualising War and Peace in Antiquity 30
CL4473 Roman Literature and Queer Theory 30
CL4500 Pleasure, Goodness and Happiness: Hellenistic Ethics 30
CL4504 Justice, politics and the good life: Plato's Republic and its critics in the ancient world 30
CL4601 Art of the Roman Empire 30
CL4603 Greek Painted Pottery 30
CL4604 Greek Sculpture 30
CL4605 Classical Bodies 30
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 between 120 to 160 credits in academic year

MA Classical Studies (Joint Honours) Third and Fourth Year Programme Requirements:30 credits: CL3304 (in Third Year only)
30 credits: CL4000 - CL4989, ((CL4999 or CL4794) - in Fourth Year only).
At least 30 further credits: AA4000-AA4989, AN4000-AN4989, CL4000-CL4989, (CL4998 or (ID4002 and CL4990) - in Fourth Year only).
Only one of CL4998, CL4999 and CL4794 can be taken.

In total 240 credits must be achieved at 3000 and 4000 levels with a minimum of 90 credits at 4000 level.
MA (Hons) Scottish History (Joint Honours): Third year
Code Module name Credits
View list 60 credits from Modules: ME3140-3159, ME3301-3389, MO3060-3079, MO3160-3179,MO3260-3279,MO3360-3379,MO3460-3479,MO3560-3579,MO3760-3779,
ME3142 The Castle in Medieval Scotland (1100 - 1550) 30
ME3304 Age of Conquest: Edward I - Scotland and Wales (1239 - 1307) 30
ME3308 Between Britain and Ireland: Iona and the World in the Long Seventh Century 30
ME3309 Medieval St Andrews 30
ME3313 Early Irish Society (c. 600-800) 30
ME3314 Times of trouble: civil conflicts in the later fifteenth century 30
ME3315 Scandinavians in the First Millennium 30
MO3063 Pirates and Privateers in Early Modern Scottish History 30
MO3065 Crown and Nobility in early modern Scotland 30
MO3162 Early Modern Scotland in the age of British Unions (1603-1707) 30
MO3163 Scotland and the Wider World 30
MO3165 North Britons: Patriotism and Identity in Scotland 1680 - 1830 30
MO3166 Debating Britain: Anglo-Scottish Unionism 1521 - 1707 30
MO3263 British Culture in the Eighteenth Century 30
MO3264 Microhistories of a Global Nation: Scotland, c.1707– c.1843 30
MO3362 Highland Clearances: Reality and Myth 30
MO3363 Crime, Protest and Policing in Scotland (1780-1914) 30
MO3364 Hidden from History: Women in Scotland 30
MO3365 Nationalism and Unionism in Modern Scotland 30
MO3366 Technology and Society since 1750 30
MO3367 A Graveyard of Empires? Afghanistan in the Twentieth Century 30
MO3461 Britain in the 1920s and 1930s: Aspects of everyday life 30
MO3561 Thatcherism, the 'new right', and the remaking of British politics, c. 1940 - 1997 30
MO3053 The Power of Persuasion: Propaganda in Renaissance and Reformation Scotland 30
MO3390 The Late Ottoman Empire 1700–1922 30
MO3392 Scotland and the Pacific World, 1788–1914 30
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 between 120 to 160 credits in academic year

Choices should be made from different module ranges.

Not more than 90 Honours credits may be chosen from modules taught by any one member of staff.
MA (Hons) Classical Studies (Joint Honours): Fourth year
Code Module name Credits
View list Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List: CL4000 - CL4989, CL4794, CL4999 AND
CL4794 Joint Dissertation (30cr) 30
CL4999 Dissertation (Short) in Ancient History, Ancient History & Archaeology, or Classical Studies 30
CL401A Study Abroad: Classical Studies (4) 4
CL401B Study Abroad: Classical Studies (5) 5
CL401C Study Abroad: Classical Studies (6) 6
CL402A Study Abroad: Classical Studies (4) 4
CL402B Study Abroad: Classical Studies (5) 5
CL402C Study Abroad: Classical Studies (6) 6
CL404A Study Abroad: Classical Studies (4) 4
CL404B Study Abroad: Classical Studies (5) 5
CL404C Study Abroad: Classical Studies (6) 6
CL405A Study Abroad: Classical Studies (4) 4
CL405B Study Abroad: Classical Studies (5) 5
CL405C Study Abroad: Classical Studies (6) 6
CL406A Study Abroad: Classical Studies (4) 4
CL406B Study Abroad: Classical Studies (5) 5
CL406C Study Abroad: Classical Studies (6) 6
CL407A Study Abroad: Classical Studies (4) 4
CL407B Study Abroad: Classical Studies (5) 5
CL407C Study Abroad: Classical Studies (6) 6
CL408A Study Abroad: Classical Studies (4) 4
CL408B Study Abroad: Classical Studies (5) 5
CL408C Study Abroad: Classical Studies (6) 6
CL409A Study Abroad: Classical Studies (4) 4
CL409B Study Abroad: Classical Studies (5) 5
CL409C Study Abroad: Classical Studies (6) 6
CL410A Study Abroad: Classical Studies (4) 4
CL410B Study Abroad: Classical Studies (5) 5
CL410C Study Abroad: Classical Studies (6) 6
CL411A Study Abroad: Classical Studies (4) 4
CL411B Study Abroad: Classical Studies (5) 5
CL411C Study Abroad: Classical Studies (6) 6
CL412A Study Abroad: Classical Studies (4) 4
CL412B Study Abroad: Classical Studies (5) 5
CL412C Study Abroad: Classical Studies (6) 6
CL4406 Herodotus 30
CL4413 Logos, Nature, and Psyche: The Origins of Western Thought 30
CL4419 Magic in Greco-Roman Literature and Life 30
CL4420 Fame, Tradition and Narrative: Homer's lliad 30
CL4435 Greek Theatre 30
CL4437 Modern Classics: Classics in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 30
CL4438 Animals in Greco-Roman Antiquity 30
CL4445 Women in Ancient Societies 30
CL4449 After Virgil: The Aeneid and its Reception 30
CL4455 Roman Praise 30
CL4460 Classical Collections 30
CL4461 Senecan Tragedy and its Reception 30
CL4462 Leaders and Leadership in the Ancient World 30
CL4463 Travels and Marvels in the Graeco-Roman World 30
CL4464 The Religious Sense in the Classical Roman World 30
CL4465 Gender and Sexuality in Greek Literature 30
CL4466 A People's History of Scottish Classics 30
CL4467 Classics for the Modern World: interventions and applications 30
CL4468 Classics and the Left 30
CL4469 Christianity and the Classics: Conflict, Competition, Conservation 30
CL4470 Approaching Women in Greek Tragedy 30
CL4471 Landscape and environment in ancient Greek and Roman literature 30
CL4472 Visualising War and Peace in Antiquity 30
CL4473 Roman Literature and Queer Theory 30
CL4500 Pleasure, Goodness and Happiness: Hellenistic Ethics 30
CL4504 Justice, politics and the good life: Plato's Republic and its critics in the ancient world 30
CL4601 Art of the Roman Empire 30
CL4603 Greek Painted Pottery 30
CL4604 Greek Sculpture 30
CL4605 Classical Bodies 30
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
View list Between 0 and 60 credits from Module List: CL4998, (ID4002 + CL4990), AA4000 - AA4989, AN4000 - AN4989, CL4000 - CL4989 (exc CL4794 - CL4797)
CL4998 Dissertation in Ancient History, Ancient History & Archaeology, or Classical Studies for Study Abroad Programmes 60
ID4002 Communication and Teaching in Arts and Humanities 15
AA4001 Cities and Urban Life in Late Antiquity (300-700 CE) 30
AA4002 From Pompeii to Aquileia: the Archaeology of Roman Italy (50 BCE - 300 CE) 30
AA4003 From Pagan to Christian Rome, AD 300-900 30
AA4004 The Archaeology of Identities in the First Millennium BCE Mediterranean World 30
AA4005 Sanctuaries and the Sacred in the Greek World 30
AA4006 Early Rome and its Neighbours 30
AA4007 Greek Sculpture 30
AA401A Study Abroad: Archaeology (4) 4
AA401B Study Abroad: Archaeology (5) 5
AA401C Study Abroad: Archaeology (6) 6
AA401D Study Abroad: Archaeology (10) 10
AA401F Study Abroad: Archaeology (12) 12
AA401J Study Abroad: Archaeology (15) 15
AA401L Study Abroad: Archaeology (20) 20
AA401N Study Abroad: Archaeology (24) 24
AA401R Study Abroad: Archaeology (30) 30
AA401U Study Abroad: Archaeology (40) 40
AA401W Study Abroad: Archaeology (45) 45
AA401Y Study Abroad: Archaeology (60) 60
AA402A Study Abroad: Archaeology (4) 4
AA402B Study Abroad: Archaeology (5) 5
AA402C Study Abroad: Archaeology (6) 6
AA402D Study Abroad: Archaeology (10) 10
AA402F Study Abroad: Archaeology (12) 12
AA402L Study Abroad: Archaeology (20) 20
AA402N Study Abroad: Archaeology (24) 24
AA402R Study Abroad: Archaeology (30) 30
AA402U Study Abroad: Archaeology (40) 40
AA402W Study Abroad: Archaeology (45) 45
AA402Y Study Abroad: Archaeology (60) 60
AA404A Study Abroad: Archaeology (4) 4
AA404B Study Abroad: Archaeology (5) 5
AA404C Study Abroad: Archaeology (6) 6
AA404D Study Abroad: Archaeology (10) 10
AA404F Study Abroad: Archaeology (12) 12
AA404J Study Abroad: Archaeology (15) 15
AA404L Study Abroad: Archaeology (20) 20
AA404N Study Abroad: Archaeology (24) 24
AA404R Study Abroad: Archaeology (30) 30
AA404U Study Abroad: Archaeology (40) 40
AA405A Study Abroad: Archaeology (4) 4
AA405B Study Abroad: Archaeology (5) 5
AA405C Study Abroad: Archaeology (6) 6
AA405D Study Abroad: Archaeology (10) 10
AA405F Study Abroad: Archaeology (12) 12
AA405J Study Abroad: Archaeology (15) 15
AA405L Study Abroad: Archaeology (20) 20
AA405N Study Abroad: Archaeology (24) 24
AA406A Study Abroad: Archaeology (4) 4
AA406B Study Abroad: Archaeology (5) 5
AA406C Study Abroad: Archaeology (6) 6
AA406D Study Abroad: Archaeology (10) 10
AA406F Study Abroad: Archaeology (12) 12
AA406J Study Abroad: Archaeology (15) 15
AA406L Study Abroad: Archaeology (20) 20
AA406N Study Abroad: Archaeology (24) 24
AA407A Study Abroad: Archaeology (4) 4
AA407B Study Abroad: Archaeology (5) 5
AA407C Study Abroad: Archaeology (6) 6
AA407D Study Abroad: Archaeology (10) 10
AA407F Study Abroad: Archaeology (12) 12
AA407J Study Abroad: Archaeology (15) 15
AA408A Study Abroad: Archaeology (4) 4
AA408B Study Abroad: Archaeology (5) 5
AA408C Study Abroad: Archaeology (6) 6
AA408D Study Abroad: Archaeology (10) 10
AA408F Study Abroad: Archaeology (12) 12
AA408J Study Abroad: Archaeology (15) 15
AA409A Study Abroad: Archaeology (4) 4
AA409B Study Abroad: Archaeology (5) 5
AA409C Study Abroad: Archaeology (6) 6
AA409D Study Abroad: Archaeology (10) 10
AA409F Study Abroad: Archaeology (12) 12
AA410A Study Abroad: Archaeology (4) 4
AA410B Study Abroad: Archaeology (5) 5
AA410C Study Abroad: Archaeology (6) 6
AA410D Study Abroad: Archaeology (10) 10
AA410F Study Abroad: Archaeology (12) 12
AA411A Study Abroad: Archaeology (4) 4
AA411B Study Abroad: Archaeology (5) 5
AA411C Study Abroad: Archaeology (6) 6
AA411D Study Abroad: Archaeology (10) 10
AA4121 The Ancient City of Rome 30
AA4122 Sacred Spaces in the Roman Empire 30
AA4127 In the Footsteps of the Ancients: Exploring the Archaeology and Topography of Greece 30
AA412A Study Abroad: Archaeology (4) 4
AA412B Study Abroad: Archaeology (5) 5
AA412C Study Abroad: Archaeology (6) 6
AA412D Study Abroad: Archaeology (10) 10
AA4130 The Roman Army 30
AA4131 The Phoenician and Punic Mediterranean 30
AA4145 The Archaeology of Roman Britain 30
AA4149 The Archaeology of Minoan Crete 30
AN401A Study Abroad: Ancient History (4) 4
AN401B Study Abroad: Ancient History (5) 5
AN401C Study Abroad: Ancient History (6) 6
AN402A Study Abroad: Ancient History (4) 4
AN402B Study Abroad: Ancient History (5) 5
AN402C Study Abroad: Ancient History (6) 6
AN404A Study Abroad: Ancient History (4) 4
AN404B Study Abroad: Ancient History (5) 5
AN404C Study Abroad: Ancient History (6) 6
AN405A Study Abroad: Ancient History (4) 4
AN405B Study Abroad: Ancient History (5) 5
AN405C Study Abroad: Ancient History (6) 6
AN406A Study Abroad: Ancient History (4) 4
AN406B Study Abroad: Ancient History (5) 5
AN406C Study Abroad: Ancient History (6) 6
AN407A Study Abroad: Ancient History (4) 4
AN407B Study Abroad: Ancient History (5) 5
AN407C Study Abroad: Ancient History (6) 6
AN408A Study Abroad: Ancient History (4) 4
AN408B Study Abroad: Ancient History (5) 5
AN408C Study Abroad: Ancient History (6) 6
AN409A Study Abroad: Ancient History (4) 4
AN409B Study Abroad: Ancient History (5) 5
AN409C Study Abroad: Ancient History (6) 6
AN4106 Persia and the Greeks 30
AN410A Study Abroad: Ancient History (4) 4
AN410B Study Abroad: Ancient History (5) 5
AN410C Study Abroad: Ancient History (6) 6
AN4110 The Culture of Roman Imperialism 30
AN411A Study Abroad: Ancient History (4) 4
AN411B Study Abroad: Ancient History (5) 5
AN411C Study Abroad: Ancient History (6) 6
AN412A Study Abroad: Ancient History (4) 4
AN412B Study Abroad: Ancient History (5) 5
AN412C Study Abroad: Ancient History (6) 6
AN4141 Greek Tyranny 30
AN4146 The Supremacy of Greece: Athens, Sparta and Thebes 479-366 BCE 30
AN4152 Ancient Empires 30
AN4155 Religious Communities in the Late Antique World 30
AN4156 Memory and Dynasty 30
AN4157 The Environmental History of the Ancient Mediterranean World 30
AN4158 Local Communities under Empire in Ancient Persia, 550-330 BCE 30
AN4159 Egypt at the Crossroads: Multiculturalism in Late Antiquity 30
AN4426 Roman Slavery 30
AN4427 Greeks and Others 30
AN4428 Eight Scenes from the Life of Alexander 30
AN4429 Early Greece between Egypt and Anatolia 30
AN4430 Floods, famines, plagues and volcanoes: Roman adaptation to the environment 30
AN4431 Poverty and social life in Late Antiquity 30
AN4432 Magic in the Greco-Roman World 30
AN4433 Belief and Unbelief in Classical Greek Religion 30
AN4434 Experiencing the Gods in Ancient Greece 30
AN4436 Water History of the Ancient World 30
CL4406 Herodotus 30
CL4413 Logos, Nature, and Psyche: The Origins of Western Thought 30
CL4419 Magic in Greco-Roman Literature and Life 30
CL4420 Fame, Tradition and Narrative: Homer's lliad 30
CL4435 Greek Theatre 30
CL4437 Modern Classics: Classics in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 30
CL4438 Animals in Greco-Roman Antiquity 30
CL4445 Women in Ancient Societies 30
CL4449 After Virgil: The Aeneid and its Reception 30
CL4455 Roman Praise 30
CL4460 Classical Collections 30
CL4461 Senecan Tragedy and its Reception 30
CL4462 Leaders and Leadership in the Ancient World 30
CL4463 Travels and Marvels in the Graeco-Roman World 30
CL4464 The Religious Sense in the Classical Roman World 30
CL4465 Gender and Sexuality in Greek Literature 30
CL4466 A People's History of Scottish Classics 30
CL4467 Classics for the Modern World: interventions and applications 30
CL4468 Classics and the Left 30
CL4469 Christianity and the Classics: Conflict, Competition, Conservation 30
CL4470 Approaching Women in Greek Tragedy 30
CL4471 Landscape and environment in ancient Greek and Roman literature 30
CL4472 Visualising War and Peace in Antiquity 30
CL4473 Roman Literature and Queer Theory 30
CL4500 Pleasure, Goodness and Happiness: Hellenistic Ethics 30
CL4504 Justice, politics and the good life: Plato's Republic and its critics in the ancient world 30
CL4601 Art of the Roman Empire 30
CL4603 Greek Painted Pottery 30
CL4604 Greek Sculpture 30
CL4605 Classical Bodies 30
CL4990 Teaching and Learning in Classics and Ancient History 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

MA Classical Studies (Joint Honours) Third and Fourth Year Programme Requirements:30 credits: CL3304 (in Third Year only)
30 credits: CL4000 - CL4989, ((CL4999 or CL4794) - in Fourth Year only).
At least 30 further credits: AA4000-AA4989, AN4000-AN4989, CL4000-CL4989, (CL4998 or (ID4002 and CL4990) - in Fourth Year only).
Only one of CL4998, CL4999 and CL4794 can be taken.

In total 240 credits must be achieved at 3000 and 4000 levels with a minimum of 90 credits at 4000 level.
MA (Hons) Scottish History (Joint Honours): Fourth year
Code Module name Credits
View list 60 credits from Module List: ME4750-ME4789, MO4801 - MO4849 OR
ME4750 Conflict and Cohabitation: Northern Britain c.550 – 750 60
ME4752 Robert Bruce and Edward II: Kings, Nobles and Communities in the British Isles (1306 – 1346) 60
ME4756 Historia Brittonum: Inventing the Past in Ninth-Century Wales 60
ME4757 Monks and Nuns, Saints and Nobles: Germany in the High Middle Ages 60
ME4758 Gendered Lives: Men and Women in the Later Middle Ages 60
MO4805 The Scottish Enlightenment 60
MO4806 Britain and the Thirty Years' War (1618 - 1648) 60
MO4807 Mary, Queen of Scots, France, England and Ireland 60
MO4808 Class or Nation? Radical Politics in Twentieth Century Scotland 60
MO4810 Approaches to the American Century 60
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
( View list Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List: HI4794, HI4997 - HI4999 AND
HI4794 Joint Dissertation (30cr) 30
HI4997 Recording the Past 30
HI4998 Honours Project in History 30
HI4999 Honours Dissertation in History 30
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
View list Between 0 and 30 credits from Modules: ME3140-3159, ME3301-3389, MO3060-3079, MO3160-3179,MO3260-3279,MO3360-3379,MO3460-3479,MO3560-3579,MO3760-3779, AND
ME3142 The Castle in Medieval Scotland (1100 - 1550) 30
ME3304 Age of Conquest: Edward I - Scotland and Wales (1239 - 1307) 30
ME3308 Between Britain and Ireland: Iona and the World in the Long Seventh Century 30
ME3309 Medieval St Andrews 30
ME3313 Early Irish Society (c. 600-800) 30
ME3314 Times of trouble: civil conflicts in the later fifteenth century 30
ME3315 Scandinavians in the First Millennium 30
MO3063 Pirates and Privateers in Early Modern Scottish History 30
MO3065 Crown and Nobility in early modern Scotland 30
MO3162 Early Modern Scotland in the age of British Unions (1603-1707) 30
MO3163 Scotland and the Wider World 30
MO3165 North Britons: Patriotism and Identity in Scotland 1680 - 1830 30
MO3166 Debating Britain: Anglo-Scottish Unionism 1521 - 1707 30
MO3263 British Culture in the Eighteenth Century 30
MO3264 Microhistories of a Global Nation: Scotland, c.1707– c.1843 30
MO3362 Highland Clearances: Reality and Myth 30
MO3363 Crime, Protest and Policing in Scotland (1780-1914) 30
MO3364 Hidden from History: Women in Scotland 30
MO3365 Nationalism and Unionism in Modern Scotland 30
MO3366 Technology and Society since 1750 30
MO3367 A Graveyard of Empires? Afghanistan in the Twentieth Century 30
MO3461 Britain in the 1920s and 1930s: Aspects of everyday life 30
MO3561 Thatcherism, the 'new right', and the remaking of British politics, c. 1940 - 1997 30
MO3053 The Power of Persuasion: Propaganda in Renaissance and Reformation Scotland 30
MO3390 The Late Ottoman Empire 1700–1922 30
MO3392 Scotland and the Pacific World, 1788–1914 30
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
View list Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List: ID4002, HI4101 and HI4996 )
ID4002 Communication and Teaching in Arts and Humanities 15
HI4101 Communication in History 15
HI4996 Presenting the Past 30
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

Students must select 60 credits History credits.
With the permission of the Director of Teaching 30 credits in Fourth Year may be replaced by ID4002 and HI4101.
HI4999 requires the permission of the Chair of the Degree Committee.

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 ).