Skip to content

Breadcrumbs navigation

Master of Arts (Honours) Medieval History and Middle East Studies


MA (Hons) Medieval History (Joint Honours): First year
Code Module name Credits
ME1003 The Fall of Rome and the Origins of Europe (400-1000) 20 AND
ME1006 The Kingdom of the Scots, c.900-1707 20 AND
Remaining credits from Level 1000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year

Over the first two years, a further pass (other than ME2003) must be at 11 or better and at least 40 credits must be gained in modules other than those in the ranges AN, HI, ME, MH, MO and DI2006.

MA (Hons) Middle East Studies (Joint Honours): First year
Code Module name Credits
View list Between 0 and 40 credits from Module List: ME1003, MO1007 - MO1008 AND
ME1003 The Fall of Rome and the Origins of Europe (400-1000) 20
MO1007 The Early Modern Western World (c. 1450 - c. 1770) 20
MO1008 Themes in Late Modern History (c. 1776 - 2001) 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
Between 0 and 80 credits from Level 1000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year

Over the first two years, a further pass (other than ME2003) must be at 11 or better and at least 40 credits must be gained in modules other than those in the ranges AN, HI, ME, MH, MO and DI2006.


MA (Hons) Medieval History (Joint Honours): Second year
Code Module name Credits
^ ME2003 Medieval Europe (11th - 15th c.) 20 AND
^ View list 20 credits from Module List: AN2003, HI2001, MH2002, MO2008 AND
AN2003 Mediterranean Communities 20
HI2001 History as a Discipline: Development and Key Concepts 20
MH2002 Introduction to Middle Eastern History 20
MO2008 Scotland, Britain and Empire (c. 1500 - 2000) 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

Over the first two years, a further pass (other than ME2003) must be at 11 or better and at least 40 credits must be gained in modules other than those in the ranges AN, HI, ME, MH, MO and DI2006.

Automatic entry to Honours requires

  • passes in modules marked ^
MA (Hons) Middle East Studies (Joint Honours): Second year
Code Module name Credits
^ MH2002 Introduction to Middle Eastern History 20 AND
( ^ HI2001 History as a Discipline: Development and Key Concepts 20 OR
^ ME2003 Medieval Europe (11th - 15th c.) 20 OR
^ MO2008 Scotland, Britain and Empire (c. 1500 - 2000) 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

Over the first two years, a further pass (other than ME2003) must be at 11 or better and at least 40 credits must be gained in modules other than those in the ranges AN, HI, ME, MH, MO and DI2006.

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) Medieval History (Joint Honours): Third year
Code Module name Credits
View list 60 credits from Module List: ME3001 - ME3689, MO3026, MO3036, MO3037, MO3043 - MO3044, MO3080 - MO3081
ME3018 Conflict and cooperation: church and monarchy in Britain, 1066-1307 30
ME3019 Early English Society c.600-850 30
ME301A Study Abroad: Medieval History (4) 4
ME301B Study Abroad: Medieval History (5) 5
ME301C Study Abroad: Medieval History (6) 6
ME3020 The Chastising Church: Excommunication, Public Penance and Interdict in the High Middle Ages 30
ME302A Study Abroad: Medieval History (4) 4
ME302B Study Abroad: Medieval History (5) 5
ME302C Study Abroad: Medieval History (6) 6
ME303A Study Abroad: Medieval History (4) 4
ME303B Study Abroad: Medieval History (5) 5
ME303C Study Abroad: Medieval History (6) 6
ME304A Study Abroad: Medieval History (4) 4
ME304B Study Abroad: Medieval History (5) 5
ME304C Study Abroad: Medieval History (6) 6
ME305A Study Abroad: Medieval History (4) 4
ME305B Study Abroad: Medieval History (5) 5
ME305C Study Abroad: Medieval History (6) 6
ME306A Study Abroad: Medieval History (4) 4
ME306B Study Abroad: Medieval History (5) 5
ME306C Study Abroad: Medieval History (6) 6
ME307A Study Abroad: Medieval History (4) 4
ME307B Study Abroad: Medieval History (5) 5
ME307C Study Abroad: Medieval History (6) 6
ME308A Study Abroad: Medieval History (4) 4
ME308B Study Abroad: Medieval History (5) 5
ME308C Study Abroad: Medieval History (6) 6
ME309A Study Abroad: Medieval History (4) 4
ME309B Study Abroad: Medieval History (5) 5
ME309C Study Abroad: Medieval History (6) 6
ME3105 Archaeological Methods 30
ME3106 The History and Archaeology of Medieval Monasticism 30
ME310A Study Abroad: Medieval History (4) 4
ME310B Study Abroad: Medieval History (5) 5
ME310C Study Abroad: Medieval History (6) 6
ME311A Study Abroad: Medieval History (4) 4
ME311B Study Abroad: Medieval History (5) 5
ME311C Study Abroad: Medieval History (6) 6
ME312A Study Abroad: Medieval History (4) 4
ME312B Study Abroad: Medieval History (5) 5
ME312C Study Abroad: Medieval History (6) 6
ME3142 The Castle in Medieval Scotland (1100 - 1550) 30
ME3162 The Medieval Castle 30
ME3163 The Imperial City: Byzantine and Ottoman Constantinople 30
ME3164 Archaeology of Late Antiquity and the Early Islamic Middle East: Architecture and Representations of Power (C4th-C12th) 30
ME3206 Inclusion and Exclusion in the Middle Ages 30
ME3214 Italian City States: from Communes to Signorie c. 1000- c. 1350 30
ME3223 The Rise and Fall of the Carolingian Empire, c.750 - 900 30
ME3231 Medieval Apocalyptic Traditions 400 - 1200 30
ME3232 Queens and Queenship in Early Medieval Europe 30
ME3236 Soldiers and Saints in Late Roman Gaul 30
ME3237 Legal Cultures in Late Antiquity 30
ME3238 Holy Lives in Late Antiquity 30
ME3239 Christians, Jews and Muslims in the Early Medieval West 30
ME3240 Pandemic, Medicine and Society in the Early Middle Ages 30
ME3241 Sex and Gender in Medieval Europe 30
ME3242 'In a Dark Wood Wandering': War, Plague, and Society in Valois France, 1328-1422 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
ME3407 Courtroom Dramas: Literature, Law and Lordship 30
ME3420 Rich and Poor in the Later Middle Ages 30
ME3423 Justifying Medieval Warfare 30
ME3425 The Age of Revolt (1250 - 1450) 30
ME3426 Women and Gender in the Later Middle Ages 30
ME3427 Nature and the Occult in the Late Middle Ages 30
ME3428 Death and the Afterlife in Later Medieval Europe 30
ME3429 England and France at War in the Fourteenth Century 30
ME3430 The Papal Monarchy: Popes, emperors and kings in the high middle ages 30
ME3431 Senses and Feelings in the Later Middle Ages 30
ME3432 The Devil's Brood: English kings and kingship from Henry II to Henry III 30
ME3433 The Medieval Landscape and Environment 30
ME3502 The Medieval Book 30
ME3602 The Crusades viewed from the other side: Muslim perspectives 30
ME3608 Eastern Approaches: Early Medieval Armenia c. 500 - 750 30
ME3611 The Eastern Roman Empire in the Reign of Justinian 527 - 565 30
ME3612 Cataclysm and Consolidation: the Reconfiguration of the Middle East in the Seventh Century 30
ME3613 Arabs, Persians and Turks in the Early Islamic East in the Age of the Caliphates (600 - 1200) 30
ME3616 Missionaries, Assassins and State-builders: Militant Shiæism in the Medieval Muslim World 30
ME3617 The Mamluks And The Mamluk Sultanate 30
MO3026 Art and Piety in Western Europe 1400 - 1750 30
MO3043 Early Modern Rome (1300 - 1667) 30
MO3044 Topics in Renaissance Venice 30
MO3080 Nomadic Heritage and Persianate Culture: the Iranian world from Timurids to the Safavids (1370-1722) 30
MO3081 The Ottoman Empire 1300 - 1700 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

Not more than 90 Honours credits may be chosen from modules taught by any one member of staff and not more than 90 Honours credits may be chosen from modules in British History

MA (Hons) Middle East Studies (Joint Honours): Third year
Code Module name Credits
View list 60 credits from Module List: Various Groupings of AH, IR, ME and MO Modules
AH3131 A Survey of Islamic Art 30
AH4050 Approaches to Persian Painting and the Arts of the Book 30
IR3300 Conflict in the Middle East 30
IR3301 Politics and State Formation in the Middle East 30
IR3302 Democracy and Revolution in North Africa 30
IR3303 The Arab - Israeli Conflict 30
IR3304 The International, Modernity and Contemporary Gulf Politics 30
IR3305 Cyber Security and the Global Politics of the Internet 30
ME3162 The Medieval Castle 30
ME3163 The Imperial City: Byzantine and Ottoman Constantinople 30
ME3164 Archaeology of Late Antiquity and the Early Islamic Middle East: Architecture and Representations of Power (C4th-C12th) 30
ME3602 The Crusades viewed from the other side: Muslim perspectives 30
ME3608 Eastern Approaches: Early Medieval Armenia c. 500 - 750 30
ME3611 The Eastern Roman Empire in the Reign of Justinian 527 - 565 30
ME3612 Cataclysm and Consolidation: the Reconfiguration of the Middle East in the Seventh Century 30
ME3613 Arabs, Persians and Turks in the Early Islamic East in the Age of the Caliphates (600 - 1200) 30
ME3616 Missionaries, Assassins and State-builders: Militant Shiæism in the Medieval Muslim World 30
ME3617 The Mamluks And The Mamluk Sultanate 30
MO3080 Nomadic Heritage and Persianate Culture: the Iranian world from Timurids to the Safavids (1370-1722) 30
MO3081 The Ottoman Empire 1300 - 1700 30
MO3280 Persia in the 18th Century, 1722-1834 (Age of the Warlords) 30
MO3381 French Algeria (1830-1962) 30
MO3385 Modern Iran from 1834-1941: Enlightenment, Nationalism & Revolution 30
MO3386 Religion and State in Iran from the Rise of the Safavid dynasty until the Constitutional Movement (1501-1911) 30
MO3389 Gender and Sexuality in South Asia (1800s-2000s) 30
MO3390 The Late Ottoman Empire 1700–1922 30
MO3392 Scotland and the Pacific World, 1788–1914 30
MO3581 From World War 2 to Thermidor: Iran in the Short 20th Century 30
MO3583 From Allied Invasion to Coup d'Etat: Iran Between 1941 and 1953 30
AH3131 A Survey of Islamic Art 30
AH4050 Approaches to Persian Painting and the Arts of the Book 30
MO3367 A Graveyard of Empires? Afghanistan in the Twentieth Century 30
MO3390 The Late Ottoman Empire 1700–1922 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

Access to level 3000 and 4000 level IR modules requires permission from the Honours Advisers in Middle East Studies and International Relations. Students will normally be expected to have met the requirements for Honours entry to the School of International Relations.

Not more than 90 Honours credits may be chosen from modules taught by any one member of staff and not more than 90 Honours credits may be chosen from modules in British History


MA (Hons) Medieval History (Joint Honours): Fourth year
Code Module name Credits
View list 60 credits from Module List: ME4701 - ME4889 OR
ME4712 'A Century of Iron': Rulers, Warriors and Scholars in Tenth-Century England and Germany 60
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
ME4806 The Age of Charlemagne c. 750 - 830 60
ME4807 The Early Mendicants: Francis, Clare and Dominic (c. 1180 - c. 1270) 60
ME4813 The Merovingian World 60
ME4815 France from Philip Augustus to Philip the Fair, c.1180-1315 60
ME4816 The Western Just War Tradition: Ethics, Laws, and Practices of War from Antiquity to the Renaissance 60
ME4852 From Leo VI to Basil II: Byzantium in the Tenth Century 60
ME4855 Crusaders, Mongols and Mamluks: West and East in the Mid-Thirteenth Century 60
ME4856 From Byzantium to the Ottoman Empire 60
ME4857 The Mongol Empire and the Islamic World 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 30 credits from Module List: HI4999, HI4997 AND
HI4999 Honours Dissertation in History 30
HI4997 Recording 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
View list 30 credits from Module List: ME3001 - ME3689, MO3026, MO3036, MO3037, MO3043 - MO3044, MO3080 - MO3081 ) OR
ME3018 Conflict and cooperation: church and monarchy in Britain, 1066-1307 30
ME3019 Early English Society c.600-850 30
ME301A Study Abroad: Medieval History (4) 4
ME301B Study Abroad: Medieval History (5) 5
ME301C Study Abroad: Medieval History (6) 6
ME3020 The Chastising Church: Excommunication, Public Penance and Interdict in the High Middle Ages 30
ME302A Study Abroad: Medieval History (4) 4
ME302B Study Abroad: Medieval History (5) 5
ME302C Study Abroad: Medieval History (6) 6
ME303A Study Abroad: Medieval History (4) 4
ME303B Study Abroad: Medieval History (5) 5
ME303C Study Abroad: Medieval History (6) 6
ME304A Study Abroad: Medieval History (4) 4
ME304B Study Abroad: Medieval History (5) 5
ME304C Study Abroad: Medieval History (6) 6
ME305A Study Abroad: Medieval History (4) 4
ME305B Study Abroad: Medieval History (5) 5
ME305C Study Abroad: Medieval History (6) 6
ME306A Study Abroad: Medieval History (4) 4
ME306B Study Abroad: Medieval History (5) 5
ME306C Study Abroad: Medieval History (6) 6
ME307A Study Abroad: Medieval History (4) 4
ME307B Study Abroad: Medieval History (5) 5
ME307C Study Abroad: Medieval History (6) 6
ME308A Study Abroad: Medieval History (4) 4
ME308B Study Abroad: Medieval History (5) 5
ME308C Study Abroad: Medieval History (6) 6
ME309A Study Abroad: Medieval History (4) 4
ME309B Study Abroad: Medieval History (5) 5
ME309C Study Abroad: Medieval History (6) 6
ME3105 Archaeological Methods 30
ME3106 The History and Archaeology of Medieval Monasticism 30
ME310A Study Abroad: Medieval History (4) 4
ME310B Study Abroad: Medieval History (5) 5
ME310C Study Abroad: Medieval History (6) 6
ME311A Study Abroad: Medieval History (4) 4
ME311B Study Abroad: Medieval History (5) 5
ME311C Study Abroad: Medieval History (6) 6
ME312A Study Abroad: Medieval History (4) 4
ME312B Study Abroad: Medieval History (5) 5
ME312C Study Abroad: Medieval History (6) 6
ME3142 The Castle in Medieval Scotland (1100 - 1550) 30
ME3162 The Medieval Castle 30
ME3163 The Imperial City: Byzantine and Ottoman Constantinople 30
ME3164 Archaeology of Late Antiquity and the Early Islamic Middle East: Architecture and Representations of Power (C4th-C12th) 30
ME3206 Inclusion and Exclusion in the Middle Ages 30
ME3214 Italian City States: from Communes to Signorie c. 1000- c. 1350 30
ME3223 The Rise and Fall of the Carolingian Empire, c.750 - 900 30
ME3231 Medieval Apocalyptic Traditions 400 - 1200 30
ME3232 Queens and Queenship in Early Medieval Europe 30
ME3236 Soldiers and Saints in Late Roman Gaul 30
ME3237 Legal Cultures in Late Antiquity 30
ME3238 Holy Lives in Late Antiquity 30
ME3239 Christians, Jews and Muslims in the Early Medieval West 30
ME3240 Pandemic, Medicine and Society in the Early Middle Ages 30
ME3241 Sex and Gender in Medieval Europe 30
ME3242 'In a Dark Wood Wandering': War, Plague, and Society in Valois France, 1328-1422 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
ME3407 Courtroom Dramas: Literature, Law and Lordship 30
ME3420 Rich and Poor in the Later Middle Ages 30
ME3423 Justifying Medieval Warfare 30
ME3425 The Age of Revolt (1250 - 1450) 30
ME3426 Women and Gender in the Later Middle Ages 30
ME3427 Nature and the Occult in the Late Middle Ages 30
ME3428 Death and the Afterlife in Later Medieval Europe 30
ME3429 England and France at War in the Fourteenth Century 30
ME3430 The Papal Monarchy: Popes, emperors and kings in the high middle ages 30
ME3431 Senses and Feelings in the Later Middle Ages 30
ME3432 The Devil's Brood: English kings and kingship from Henry II to Henry III 30
ME3433 The Medieval Landscape and Environment 30
ME3502 The Medieval Book 30
ME3602 The Crusades viewed from the other side: Muslim perspectives 30
ME3608 Eastern Approaches: Early Medieval Armenia c. 500 - 750 30
ME3611 The Eastern Roman Empire in the Reign of Justinian 527 - 565 30
ME3612 Cataclysm and Consolidation: the Reconfiguration of the Middle East in the Seventh Century 30
ME3613 Arabs, Persians and Turks in the Early Islamic East in the Age of the Caliphates (600 - 1200) 30
ME3616 Missionaries, Assassins and State-builders: Militant Shiæism in the Medieval Muslim World 30
ME3617 The Mamluks And The Mamluk Sultanate 30
MO3026 Art and Piety in Western Europe 1400 - 1750 30
MO3043 Early Modern Rome (1300 - 1667) 30
MO3044 Topics in Renaissance Venice 30
MO3080 Nomadic Heritage and Persianate Culture: the Iranian world from Timurids to the Safavids (1370-1722) 30
MO3081 The Ottoman Empire 1300 - 1700 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 60 credits from Module List: HI4998, (ID4002 and HI4101)
HI4998 Honours Project in History 30
ID4002 Communication and Teaching in Arts and Humanities 15
HI4101 Communication in 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

HI4997 is only available to students with permission from the Chair of the Degree.
Access to ID4002 and HI4101 requires the permission of the Director of Teaching.
HI4998 can replace HI4999 if the student has the permission to take (ID4002 and HI4101).

Not more than 90 Honours credits may be chosen from modules taught by any one member of staff and not more than 90 Honours credits may be chosen from modules in British History

MA (Hons) Middle East Studies (Joint Honours): Fourth year
Code Module name Credits
( View list Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List: Various Groupings of AH, IR, ME and MO Modules AND
AH3131 A Survey of Islamic Art 30
AH4050 Approaches to Persian Painting and the Arts of the Book 30
IR3300 Conflict in the Middle East 30
IR3301 Politics and State Formation in the Middle East 30
IR3302 Democracy and Revolution in North Africa 30
IR3303 The Arab - Israeli Conflict 30
IR3304 The International, Modernity and Contemporary Gulf Politics 30
IR3305 Cyber Security and the Global Politics of the Internet 30
ME3162 The Medieval Castle 30
ME3163 The Imperial City: Byzantine and Ottoman Constantinople 30
ME3164 Archaeology of Late Antiquity and the Early Islamic Middle East: Architecture and Representations of Power (C4th-C12th) 30
ME3602 The Crusades viewed from the other side: Muslim perspectives 30
ME3608 Eastern Approaches: Early Medieval Armenia c. 500 - 750 30
ME3611 The Eastern Roman Empire in the Reign of Justinian 527 - 565 30
ME3612 Cataclysm and Consolidation: the Reconfiguration of the Middle East in the Seventh Century 30
ME3613 Arabs, Persians and Turks in the Early Islamic East in the Age of the Caliphates (600 - 1200) 30
ME3616 Missionaries, Assassins and State-builders: Militant Shiæism in the Medieval Muslim World 30
ME3617 The Mamluks And The Mamluk Sultanate 30
MO3080 Nomadic Heritage and Persianate Culture: the Iranian world from Timurids to the Safavids (1370-1722) 30
MO3081 The Ottoman Empire 1300 - 1700 30
MO3280 Persia in the 18th Century, 1722-1834 (Age of the Warlords) 30
MO3381 French Algeria (1830-1962) 30
MO3385 Modern Iran from 1834-1941: Enlightenment, Nationalism & Revolution 30
MO3386 Religion and State in Iran from the Rise of the Safavid dynasty until the Constitutional Movement (1501-1911) 30
MO3389 Gender and Sexuality in South Asia (1800s-2000s) 30
MO3390 The Late Ottoman Empire 1700–1922 30
MO3392 Scotland and the Pacific World, 1788–1914 30
MO3581 From World War 2 to Thermidor: Iran in the Short 20th Century 30
MO3583 From Allied Invasion to Coup d'Etat: Iran Between 1941 and 1953 30
AH3131 A Survey of Islamic Art 30
AH4050 Approaches to Persian Painting and the Arts of the Book 30
MO3367 A Graveyard of Empires? Afghanistan in the Twentieth Century 30
MO3390 The Late Ottoman Empire 1700–1922 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: IR4099, IR4600 - IR4650, HI4997 - HI4999, HI4794 AND
IR4099 Honours Dissertation in International Relations 60
IR4600 Ideologies and Social Movements in the Middle East 30
IR4601 Political Order and Violence in the Middle East 30
IR4602 International Relations of the Middle East 30
IR4604 Political Islam and International Relations 30
IR4606 Propaganda, Persuasion and Information War in the Middle East 30
IR4607 Britain and Iraq 1914-2004 30
HI4997 Recording the Past 30
HI4998 Honours Project in History 30
HI4999 Honours Dissertation in History 30
HI4794 Joint Dissertation (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
View list Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List: ID4002, HI4101 and HI4996 ) OR
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
View list 60 credits from Module List: ME4850 - ME4895, MO4850 - MO4895 AND
ME4852 From Leo VI to Basil II: Byzantium in the Tenth Century 60
ME4855 Crusaders, Mongols and Mamluks: West and East in the Mid-Thirteenth Century 60
ME4856 From Byzantium to the Ottoman Empire 60
ME4857 The Mongol Empire and the Islamic World 60
MO4850 Britain and Iran in the Modern Era 60
MO4852 Experiencing the Past in the Middle East 60
MO4853 Under a Bright Red Star: Iranian Marxism in the 20th Century 60
MO4854 Equality, Institutions and the Development of the Modern State 60
MO4855 Law and Society in Scotland and its Empire, 1707-1914 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

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year

Access to HI4999 requires the permission of the Chair of the Degree Committee.

With the permission of the Director of Teaching 30 credits in Fourth Year may be replaced by ID4002 and HI4101.

Access to level 3000 and 4000 level IR modules requires permission from the Honours Advisers in Middle East Studies and International Relations. Students will normally be expected to have met the requirements for Honours entry to the School of International Relations.

Not more than 90 Honours credits may be chosen from modules taught by any one member of staff and not more than 90 Honours credits may be chosen from modules in British History


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 ).