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Master of Arts (Honours) Spanish with Geography


MA (Hons) 'with' Geography Degrees: First year
Code Module name Credits
GG1001 Welcome to the Anthropocene: Society, Population, Environment 20 AND
GG1002 Worlds of Crisis and Hope 20 AND
Remaining credits from Level 1000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year

MA (Hons) Spanish 'with' Degrees: First Year
Code Module name Credits
( SP1001 Spanish Language and Texts 1 20 AND
SP1002 Spanish Language and Texts 2 20 ) OR
( SP1003 Spanish for Beginners 1 20 AND
SP1004 Spanish for Beginners 2 20 ) AND
Remaining credits from Level 1000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year


MA (Hons) 'with' Geography Degrees: Second year
Code Module name Credits
* GG2013 Geography: Exploring the discipline 1 20 AND
* GG2014 Geography: Exploring the discipline 2 20 AND
* SD2100 Sustainable Scotland 20

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) Spanish 'with' Degrees: Second Year
Code Module name Credits
( SP2001 Spanish Language and Critical Approaches to Texts 1 20 OR
SP2005 Spanish Language and Texts: ex-Beginners 20 ) AND
SP2002 Spanish Language and Critical Approaches to Texts 2 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 all of the Spanish modules taken

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) 'with' Geography Degrees: Third year
Code Module name Credits
View list 60 credits from Module List GG3280-GG4299
GG3280 Geopolitics 30
GG3281 Quaternary Environmental Change 30
GG3282 Human ecodynamics: understanding ecosystem change in the Anthropocene 30
GG3283 Migration and Mobilities 30
GG3284 European Population: trends, patterns and future challenges 30
GG4201 Advanced Debates in Geography 10
GG4221 Review Essay 20
GG4226 Advanced Topics in Remote Sensing 20
GG4243 Geographies of Race, Racialisation and Racism 30
GG4244 Decolonial Geographies 30
GG4245 Biogeography and the Earth System 30
GG4246 Geographies of Disability 30
GG4247 Geographies of health in sub-Saharan Africa 30
GG4248 The Nature of Political Ecology 30
GG4249 Placing Peru: a decolonial development geography 30
GG4250 Diversity, inequality and place 30
GG4251 Volcanic ash: dispersal, impacts and applications 30
GG4252 Ice and climate 30
GG4253 Cultural geographies of climate activism 30
GG4254 Health and Social Inequalities Across the Life Course 30
GG4255 Geographies of Urban Housing 30
GG4256 Coastal Processes 30
GG4257 Urban Analytics: A Toolkit for Sustainable Urban Development 30
GG4298 Single Honours Research Dissertation in Geography 50
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

Students must select 60 credits from 3 modules in range GG3221-GG3289 across Year 3 and 4.
MA (Hons) Spanish 'with' Degrees: Third Year
Code Module name Credits
SP3001 Spanish Language 1 15 AND
SP3002 Spanish Language 2 15 AND
View list Between 0 and 60 credits from Module List: SP3000 - SP3999, ML3201, SP4224
SP3006 Literary Translation 15
SP3011 History of the Spanish Language 15
SP3101 Spanish Integrated Year Abroad 60
SP3121 Spanish American Literature I (Gauchos and Indians) 15
SP3122 Spanish American Literature 2 15
SP3138 Mexico in the Nineteenth Century 15
SP3145 Post-1975 Writing in Spain 1 15
SP3147 The Art of Subversion in Post-War Spain (1939-1975) 15
SP3148 The Argentine and Chilean Avant-Garde (1920s-1930s) 15
SP3157 Autobiographical Writing in Twentieth-Century Spain 15
SP3158 Representations of the Urban: Twentieth-Century Buenos Aires 15
SP3160 Facing the New: Spanish Literature and Society (1888 - 1918) 15
SP3162 Strange Girls and Domestic Angels: Women's Writing in Spain 15
SP3163 Tales of the Nation 15
SP3222 Love and Loss 15
SP4224 Reality and Illusion 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 between 120 to 160 credits in academic year


MA (Hons) 'with' Geography Degrees: Fourth year
Code Module name Credits
View list 60 credits from Module List GG3280-GG4299
GG3280 Geopolitics 30
GG3281 Quaternary Environmental Change 30
GG3282 Human ecodynamics: understanding ecosystem change in the Anthropocene 30
GG3283 Migration and Mobilities 30
GG3284 European Population: trends, patterns and future challenges 30
GG4201 Advanced Debates in Geography 10
GG4221 Review Essay 20
GG4226 Advanced Topics in Remote Sensing 20
GG4243 Geographies of Race, Racialisation and Racism 30
GG4244 Decolonial Geographies 30
GG4245 Biogeography and the Earth System 30
GG4246 Geographies of Disability 30
GG4247 Geographies of health in sub-Saharan Africa 30
GG4248 The Nature of Political Ecology 30
GG4249 Placing Peru: a decolonial development geography 30
GG4250 Diversity, inequality and place 30
GG4251 Volcanic ash: dispersal, impacts and applications 30
GG4252 Ice and climate 30
GG4253 Cultural geographies of climate activism 30
GG4254 Health and Social Inequalities Across the Life Course 30
GG4255 Geographies of Urban Housing 30
GG4256 Coastal Processes 30
GG4257 Urban Analytics: A Toolkit for Sustainable Urban Development 30
GG4298 Single Honours Research Dissertation in Geography 50
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 from 3 modules in range GG3221-GG3289 across Year 3 and 4.
MA (Hons) Spanish 'with' Degrees: Fourth Year
Code Module name Credits
SP4003 Spanish Language 3 15 AND
SP4004 Spanish Language 4: Communication Skills 15 AND
View list Credits from Module List: SP3000 - SP4299 (not SP4099)
SP3006 Literary Translation 15
SP3011 History of the Spanish Language 15
SP3101 Spanish Integrated Year Abroad 60
SP3121 Spanish American Literature I (Gauchos and Indians) 15
SP3122 Spanish American Literature 2 15
SP3138 Mexico in the Nineteenth Century 15
SP3145 Post-1975 Writing in Spain 1 15
SP3147 The Art of Subversion in Post-War Spain (1939-1975) 15
SP3148 The Argentine and Chilean Avant-Garde (1920s-1930s) 15
SP3157 Autobiographical Writing in Twentieth-Century Spain 15
SP3158 Representations of the Urban: Twentieth-Century Buenos Aires 15
SP3160 Facing the New: Spanish Literature and Society (1888 - 1918) 15
SP3162 Strange Girls and Domestic Angels: Women's Writing in Spain 15
SP3163 Tales of the Nation 15
SP3222 Love and Loss 15
SP4012 Linguistic Study of the Spanish Language 15
SP4013 Culture and Conflict: Representing the Spanish Civil War 15
SP4014 Spanish Avant-garde(s) 15
SP4015 Action Heroes and Anti-heroes in Early-Modern Spain 15
SP4016 Contemporary Galician Women Writers 15
SP4017 (R)evolutions in Early Modern Love Lyric: Perilous, Provocative, Parodic 15
SP4018 Spanish American Urban Landscapes in the Eyes of Contemporary Chroniclers 15
SP4019 Guerreras: Women and Emancipation(s) in Colombian Cinema 15
SP4020 Women in motion: Gender and mobilities in Latin American contemporary literature 15
SP4098 Dissertation on a Spanish Topic 15
SP4099 Long Dissertation on a Spanish Topic 30
SP4098 Dissertation on a Spanish Topic 15
SP4223 History and Culture in Spanish Texts 15
SP4224 Reality and Illusion 15
SP4225 Staging Sex: Early Modern Women Playwrights 15
SP4226 True stories: Journalism and literature in Latin America 15
SP4227 Lesbian Narratives in Latin American Women’s Filmmaking 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

A total of 180 credits must be taken in Spanish across Third and Fourth 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 ).