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Master of Arts (Honours) Film Studies and Social Anthropology


MA (Hons) Film Studies (Joint Honours): First year
Code Module name Credits
FM1001 Key Concepts in Film Studies 20 AND
FM1002 Global Film History and Historiography 20 AND
Remaining credits from Level 1000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year
MA (Hons) Social Anthropology (Joint Honours): First year
Code Module name Credits
SA1002 Ways of Thinking 20 AND
Remaining credits from Level 1000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year

It is recommended to select SA1001 in addition to SA1002.
MA (Hons) Film Studies (Joint Honours): Second year
Code Module name Credits
^ FM2002 Film Theory 20 AND
^ FM2003 Screen Cultures today: media and methods 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 ^
MA (Hons) Social Anthropology (Joint Honours): Second year
Code Module name Credits
^ SA2001 The Foundations of Social Anthropology 20 AND
^ SA2002 Ethnographic Encounters 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 or 5000 level and at least a further 120 credits at 3000 and/or 4000 or 5000 levels.

MA (Hons) Film Studies (Joint Honours): Third year
Code Module name Credits
View list 60 credits from Module List: FM4100 - FM4899
FM4102 Cinema and Politics 30
FM4104 Film and History 30
FM4106 War and Cinema 30
FM4107 Cinema and Nation 30
FM4108 Cinema and Media in the Digital Age 30
FM4109 Film and the Archive 30
FM410A Study Abroad: Film Studies (4) 4
FM410B Study Abroad: Film Studies (5) 5
FM410C Study Abroad: Film Studies (6) 6
FM4110 Images and Impact: The Uses of Film 30
FM4113 Ecocinema: The Nature of Film 30
FM4114 Film Genres 30
FM4115 Sensory Cinema 30
FM4116 Stars 30
FM4117 Modernity and the Moving Image 30
FM4118 Film and Fashion 30
FM4119 Horror on screen 30
FM411A Study Abroad: Film Studies (4) 4
FM411B Study Abroad: Film Studies (5) 5
FM411C Study Abroad: Film Studies (6) 6
FM4120 Silent Cinema 30
FM4121 Screen Comedy 30
FM4122 Watching the Detectives: Murder, Mystery and the Media 30
FM4123 Artists' Film and Video 30
FM4124 Race and Representation 30
FM4125 Global Film Colour 30
FM4126 Creativity in screen cultures: collaboration, labour and scholarship 30
FM4127 Animation 30
FM4128 Television Form and Culture 30
FM4129 Film Materiality 30
FM412A Study Abroad: Film Studies (4) 4
FM412B Study Abroad: Film Studies (5) 5
FM412C Study Abroad: Film Studies (6) 6
FM4202 The Cinema in Eastern Europe 30
FM4204 Asian Cinemas 30
FM4205 Cinema in Scotland 30
FM4206 Cinemas of India 30
FM4207 British Cinemas: Conventions, Subversions, and Outsiders 30
FM4208 City in Asian Cinema 30
FM4303 Documentary Cinema 30
FM4306 Feminist Film Studies 30
FM4308 Film Sound 30
FM4796 Joint Project (30cr) 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

With the permission of the Director of Teaching of Film Studies and the relevant Head of School a student may substitute 30 Level-4000 Film Studies credits for another subject.
MA (Hons) Social Anthropology (Joint Honours): Third year
Code Module name Credits
View list 30 credits from Module List: SA3000 - SA3999 (excluding SA3901 - SA3903) AND
SA301A Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (4) 4
SA301B Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (5) 5
SA301C Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (6) 6
SA302A Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (4) 4
SA302B Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (5) 5
SA302C Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (6) 6
SA3030 Critical Thinkers and Formative Texts 30
SA3031 Anthropological Study of Language and Culture 30
SA3032 Regional Ethnography 1 30
SA3033 Anthropology of the Cold War 30
SA303A Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (4) 4
SA303B Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (5) 5
SA303C Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (6) 6
SA304A Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (4) 4
SA304B Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (5) 5
SA304C Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (6) 6
SA3053 Individuality, Community and Morality 30
SA3055 Anthropology and History 30
SA3057 Sex and Gender 30
SA3059 Colonial and Post-Colonial Representations 30
SA305A Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (4) 4
SA305B Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (5) 5
SA305C Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (6) 6
SA3060 Contemporary Issues in Social Anthropology 30
SA3061 Reading Ethnography 30
SA3062 Anthropology, Indigenous Peoples and Resource Extraction 30
SA3064 The Anthropology of Migration 30
SA3065 Anthropology of Economic Life 30
SA3066 Sorcery and Conspiracy: The Anthropology of Alternate Realities 30
SA3067 Colonial and Postcolonial Medicine 30
SA3068 Anthropology of Global Capitalism 30
SA3069 The Anthropology of Borders, Boundaries and Frontiers 30
SA306A Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (4) 4
SA306B Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (5) 5
SA306C Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (6) 6
SA3070 Anthropology of Planetary Health 30
SA3071 Anthropology of the City: From Ur to Urban Hip Hop 30
SA3072 The Anthropology of Political Violence 30
SA307A Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (4) 4
SA307B Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (5) 5
SA307C Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (6) 6
SA308A Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (4) 4
SA308B Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (5) 5
SA308C Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (6) 6
SA309A Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (4) 4
SA309B Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (5) 5
SA309C Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (6) 6
SA310A Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (4) 4
SA310B Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (5) 5
SA310C Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (6) 6
SA311A Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (4) 4
SA311B Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (5) 5
SA311C Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (6) 6
SA312A Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (4) 4
SA312B Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (5) 5
SA312C Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (6) 6
SA3506 Methods in Social Anthropology 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 30 credits from Module List: SA3000 - SA4089, SA4400 - SA4899 (except SA3901 - SA3903, SA4794 - SA4797)
SA301A Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (4) 4
SA301B Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (5) 5
SA301C Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (6) 6
SA302A Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (4) 4
SA302B Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (5) 5
SA302C Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (6) 6
SA3030 Critical Thinkers and Formative Texts 30
SA3031 Anthropological Study of Language and Culture 30
SA3032 Regional Ethnography 1 30
SA3033 Anthropology of the Cold War 30
SA303A Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (4) 4
SA303B Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (5) 5
SA303C Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (6) 6
SA304A Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (4) 4
SA304B Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (5) 5
SA304C Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (6) 6
SA3053 Individuality, Community and Morality 30
SA3055 Anthropology and History 30
SA3057 Sex and Gender 30
SA3059 Colonial and Post-Colonial Representations 30
SA305A Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (4) 4
SA305B Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (5) 5
SA305C Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (6) 6
SA3060 Contemporary Issues in Social Anthropology 30
SA3061 Reading Ethnography 30
SA3062 Anthropology, Indigenous Peoples and Resource Extraction 30
SA3064 The Anthropology of Migration 30
SA3065 Anthropology of Economic Life 30
SA3066 Sorcery and Conspiracy: The Anthropology of Alternate Realities 30
SA3067 Colonial and Postcolonial Medicine 30
SA3068 Anthropology of Global Capitalism 30
SA3069 The Anthropology of Borders, Boundaries and Frontiers 30
SA306A Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (4) 4
SA306B Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (5) 5
SA306C Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (6) 6
SA3070 Anthropology of Planetary Health 30
SA3071 Anthropology of the City: From Ur to Urban Hip Hop 30
SA3072 The Anthropology of Political Violence 30
SA307A Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (4) 4
SA307B Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (5) 5
SA307C Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (6) 6
SA308A Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (4) 4
SA308B Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (5) 5
SA308C Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (6) 6
SA309A Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (4) 4
SA309B Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (5) 5
SA309C Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (6) 6
SA310A Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (4) 4
SA310B Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (5) 5
SA310C Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (6) 6
SA311A Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (4) 4
SA311B Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (5) 5
SA311C Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (6) 6
SA312A Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (4) 4
SA312B Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (5) 5
SA312C Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (6) 6
SA3506 Methods in Social Anthropology 30
SA4005 The West Indies and the Black Atlantic 30
SA401A Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (4) 4
SA401B Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (5) 5
SA401C Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (6) 6
SA402A Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (4) 4
SA402B Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (5) 5
SA402C Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (6) 6
SA4040 Perception, Imagination and Communication 30
SA404A Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (4) 4
SA404B Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (5) 5
SA404C Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (6) 6
SA4058 Visual Anthropology 30
SA4059 Living with Material Culture 30
SA405A Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (4) 4
SA405B Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (5) 5
SA405C Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (6) 6
SA4060 Anthropology and Religion 30
SA4061 Contagion: Anthropology and Global Health 30
SA4062 Anthropology of Justice 30
SA4063 Anthropology of Catastrophe 30
SA4064 Anthropology of Energy 30
SA4065 The Anthropology of Art 30
SA406A Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (4) 4
SA406B Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (5) 5
SA406C Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (6) 6
SA407A Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (4) 4
SA407B Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (5) 5
SA407C Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (6) 6
SA408A Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (4) 4
SA408B Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (5) 5
SA408C Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (6) 6
SA4850 Andes 30
SA4855 Anthropology, Literature and Writing 30
SA4857 West Africa 30
SA4862 Imagining the World: The Anthropology of Consciousness 30
SA4863 Youth in Africa 30
SA4864 Melanesian Anthropology 30
SA4866 Anthropology and Eurasia 30
SA4867 Anthropology of Politics and Governance 30
SA4868 Anthropology of Latin America: Contemporary issues 30
SA4870 Crisis and Rupture: Theories of social change in the contemporary world 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

SA3506 must be taken if the student wishes to take SA4099, SA4794 or SA4796 in Fourth Year.
MA (Hons) Film Studies (Joint Honours): Fourth year
Code Module name Credits
View list 60 credits from Module List: FM4000 - FM4899
FM401A Study Abroad: Film Studies (4) 4
FM401B Study Abroad: Film Studies (5) 5
FM401C Study Abroad: Film Studies (6) 6
FM402A Study Abroad: Film Studies (4) 4
FM402B Study Abroad: Film Studies (5) 5
FM402C Study Abroad: Film Studies (6) 6
FM404A Study Abroad: Film Studies (4) 4
FM404B Study Abroad: Film Studies (5) 5
FM404C Study Abroad: Film Studies (6) 6
FM405A Study Abroad: Film Studies (4) 4
FM405B Study Abroad: Film Studies (5) 5
FM405C Study Abroad: Film Studies (6) 6
FM406A Study Abroad: Film Studies (4) 4
FM406B Study Abroad: Film Studies (5) 5
FM406C Study Abroad: Film Studies (6) 6
FM407A Study Abroad: Film Studies (4) 4
FM407B Study Abroad: Film Studies (5) 5
FM407C Study Abroad: Film Studies (6) 6
FM408A Study Abroad: Film Studies (4) 4
FM408B Study Abroad: Film Studies (5) 5
FM408C Study Abroad: Film Studies (6) 6
FM4099 Film Studies Dissertation 30
FM409A Study Abroad: Film Studies (4) 4
FM409B Study Abroad: Film Studies (5) 5
FM409C Study Abroad: Film Studies (6) 6
FM4102 Cinema and Politics 30
FM4104 Film and History 30
FM4106 War and Cinema 30
FM4107 Cinema and Nation 30
FM4108 Cinema and Media in the Digital Age 30
FM4109 Film and the Archive 30
FM410A Study Abroad: Film Studies (4) 4
FM410B Study Abroad: Film Studies (5) 5
FM410C Study Abroad: Film Studies (6) 6
FM4110 Images and Impact: The Uses of Film 30
FM4113 Ecocinema: The Nature of Film 30
FM4114 Film Genres 30
FM4115 Sensory Cinema 30
FM4116 Stars 30
FM4117 Modernity and the Moving Image 30
FM4118 Film and Fashion 30
FM4119 Horror on screen 30
FM411A Study Abroad: Film Studies (4) 4
FM411B Study Abroad: Film Studies (5) 5
FM411C Study Abroad: Film Studies (6) 6
FM4120 Silent Cinema 30
FM4121 Screen Comedy 30
FM4122 Watching the Detectives: Murder, Mystery and the Media 30
FM4123 Artists' Film and Video 30
FM4124 Race and Representation 30
FM4125 Global Film Colour 30
FM4126 Creativity in screen cultures: collaboration, labour and scholarship 30
FM4127 Animation 30
FM4128 Television Form and Culture 30
FM4129 Film Materiality 30
FM412A Study Abroad: Film Studies (4) 4
FM412B Study Abroad: Film Studies (5) 5
FM412C Study Abroad: Film Studies (6) 6
FM4202 The Cinema in Eastern Europe 30
FM4204 Asian Cinemas 30
FM4205 Cinema in Scotland 30
FM4206 Cinemas of India 30
FM4207 British Cinemas: Conventions, Subversions, and Outsiders 30
FM4208 City in Asian Cinema 30
FM4303 Documentary Cinema 30
FM4306 Feminist Film Studies 30
FM4308 Film Sound 30
FM4794 Joint Dissertation (30cr) 30
FM4796 Joint Project (30cr) 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

With the permission of the Director of Teaching of Film Studies and the relevant Head of School a student may substitute 30 Level-4000 Film Studies credits for another subject.
MA (Hons) Social Anthropology (Joint Honours): Fourth year
Code Module name Credits
View list 60 credits from Module List: SA4000 - SA4299, SA4400 - SA4899, (SA4301 and ID4002)
SA4005 The West Indies and the Black Atlantic 30
SA401A Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (4) 4
SA401B Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (5) 5
SA401C Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (6) 6
SA402A Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (4) 4
SA402B Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (5) 5
SA402C Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (6) 6
SA4040 Perception, Imagination and Communication 30
SA404A Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (4) 4
SA404B Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (5) 5
SA404C Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (6) 6
SA4058 Visual Anthropology 30
SA4059 Living with Material Culture 30
SA405A Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (4) 4
SA405B Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (5) 5
SA405C Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (6) 6
SA4060 Anthropology and Religion 30
SA4061 Contagion: Anthropology and Global Health 30
SA4062 Anthropology of Justice 30
SA4063 Anthropology of Catastrophe 30
SA4064 Anthropology of Energy 30
SA4065 The Anthropology of Art 30
SA406A Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (4) 4
SA406B Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (5) 5
SA406C Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (6) 6
SA407A Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (4) 4
SA407B Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (5) 5
SA407C Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (6) 6
SA408A Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (4) 4
SA408B Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (5) 5
SA408C Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (6) 6
SA4098 Library-based Dissertation 30
SA4099 Primary Research-based Dissertation 30
SA409A Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (4) 4
SA409B Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (5) 5
SA409C Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (6) 6
SA410A Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (4) 4
SA410B Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (5) 5
SA410C Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (6) 6
SA411A Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (4) 4
SA411B Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (5) 5
SA411C Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (6) 6
SA412A Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (4) 4
SA412B Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (5) 5
SA412C Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (6) 6
SA4794 Joint Dissertation (30cr) 30
SA4795 Joint Dissertation (60cr) 60
SA4796 Joint Project (30cr) 30
SA4797 Joint Project (60cr) 60
SA4850 Andes 30
SA4855 Anthropology, Literature and Writing 30
SA4857 West Africa 30
SA4862 Imagining the World: The Anthropology of Consciousness 30
SA4863 Youth in Africa 30
SA4864 Melanesian Anthropology 30
SA4866 Anthropology and Eurasia 30
SA4867 Anthropology of Politics and Governance 30
SA4868 Anthropology of Latin America: Contemporary issues 30
SA4870 Crisis and Rupture: Theories of social change in the contemporary world 30
ID4002 Communication and Teaching in Arts and Humanities 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

If selected SA4301 must be taken with ID4002.

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 ).