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Master of Arts (Honours) French and Psychology (With Integrated Year Abroad)


MA (Hons) French (Joint Honours with Year Abroad): First Year
Code Module name Credits
FR1001 French Language and Literature 1 20 AND
FR1002 French Language and Literature 2 20 AND
Remaining credits from Level 1000 options

Further requirements

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

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year
MA (Hons) French (Joint Honours with Year Abroad): Second Year
Code Module name Credits
FR2201 Second Level French Language (1) 10 AND
FR2202 Second Level French Language (2) 10 AND
View list At least 20 credits from Module List: FR2000 - FR2999 (excluding FR2201 and FR2202) AND
FR2203 French Civilisation: from the Middle Ages to the Age of Enlightenment 10
FR2204 French Civilisation: from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century 10
FR2205 French Literature: from the Middle Ages to the Age of Enlightenment 10
FR2206 French Literature: from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century 10
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above
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 the two compulsory modules and 20 further credits in French
MA (Hons) Psychology (Joint Honours with Year Abroad): Second year
Code Module name Credits
^ PS2001 Advanced Principles of Psychology 1 30 AND
^ PS2002 Advanced Principles of Psychology 2 30 AND

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 with Integrated Year Abroad

The general requirements are 540 credits over a period of normally five years (and not more than six years) or part-time equivalent, of which the final three years are an approved Honours programme of 300 credits, of which 60 credits are gained during the integrated year abroad, 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) French (Joint Honours with Year Abroad): Year Abroad
Code Module name Credits
View list Between 0 and 60 credits from Options for Year Abroad Study
AR3101 Arabic Integrated Year Abroad 60
FR3101 French Integrated Year Abroad 60
GM3101 German Integrated Year Abroad 60
IT3101 Italian Integrated Year Abroad 60
ML3101 Modern Languages Integrated Year Abroad 60
RU3101 Russian Integrated Year Abroad 60
RU3102 Semester of Study in a Russian-speaking country 60
SP3101 Spanish Integrated Year Abroad 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

select 60 credits in acadeimc year
MA (Hons) French (Joint Honours with Year Abroad): Third Year
Code Module name Credits
FR3001 French Language 1 15 AND
FR3002 French Language 2 15 AND
View list Between 0 and 60 credits from Module List: FR3010 - FR3099, FR4011 - FR4197
FR3021 An Introduction to the French Classical Period 15
FR3028 Plays, Players and Playwrights (1620 - 1680) 1 15
FR3059 From One War to Another: French Politics, Culture and Society 1914 - 1945 (1) 15
FR3063 De Gaulle and Since: Topics in the Politics, Culture and Society of the Fifth Republic (1) 15
FR3077 Contemporary French Fiction 15
FR3078 Writing the Self in Twentieth- and Twenty-first Century French literature 15
FR3079 From Text to Screen: Novels and their Film Adaptations 15
FR3080 Intellectuals in Modern France 15
FR4079 Diversifying C19th French Poetry 15
FR4080 Bodies and Words in Libertine Literature 15
FR4081 Page-turners: Literature and the Press in Nineteenth-Century France 15
FR4082 Francophone Vocal Cultures: Song and Identity 15
FR4103 Translation Methodology 1 15
FR4104 Translation Methodology 2 15
FR4105 Communication Skills in French 1 15
FR4106 Communication Skills in French 2 15
FR4110 Translating French Opera 15
FR4111 Discovering the Renaissance: Imitation, Interpretation and Imagination 15
FR4115 Representations of the Renaissance: Sixteenth-century France in Historical Novels and Films 15
FR4116 Medieval Marvels: The Exotic, the East and the Other in Medieval French Literature 15
FR4117 Politics, Propaganda and Mythmaking in Medieval France 15
FR4118 Women's Voices in Renaissance France 15
FR4123 Libertine Literature and Libertinage in Eighteenth-Century France 15
FR4125 The French Age of Enlightenment: an age of enchantment? 15
FR4126 Flaubert's France 15
FR4127 Nineteenth-Century French Narratives of the Sea 15
FR4128 A semester with Casanova: myths and afterlives of Histoire de ma vie 15
FR4130 Saint-Domingue: Theatre and Society in a Caribbean Slave Colony 15
FR4131 Images of the Fall in the French 18th century: new perspectives on the Age of Enlightenment 15
FR4149 Aspects of Gender in Seventeenth-Century Theatre 15
FR4150 Creative Writing in French 15
FR4160 From One War to Another: French Politics, Culture and Society 1914 - 1945 (2) 15
FR4161 Antillean Identities 15
FR4164 De Gaulle and Since: Topics in the Politics,Culture and Society of the Fifth Republic (2) 15
FR4176 Recent Women's Writing in French: Theory and Practice 15
FR4180 Modern French Thought 15
FR4181 Contemporary French Crime Fiction 15
FR4182 Goods and Ads: Consumerism in Modern France 15
FR4183 African Francophone Fiction 15
FR4184 Francophone Screen Cultures: Shaping French Identities 15
FR4196 French Creative Writing Short Dissertation 15
FR4197 French Creative Writing Long Dissertation 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

For Joint Honours degrees where both subjects are in the School of Modern Languages, the minimum requirement in each subject is 90 credits and the maximum allowed in one subject is 150 credits.

For Joint Honours degrees involving another School the normal requirement is 120 credits in each subject.
MA (Hons) Psychology (Joint Honours with Year Abroad): Third year
Code Module name Credits
View list Between 0 and 40 credits from Module List: PS3031 - PS3034 AND
PS3031 Conceptual Issues and Theoretical Perspectives 10
PS3032 Assessment in Clinical Psychology 10
PS3033 Developmental Psychology 10
PS3034 Social Psychology 10
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above
View list Between 0 and 10 credits from Module List: PS3035 - PS3036 AND
PS3035 Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience 10
PS3036 Evolutionary and Comparative Psychology 10
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above
View list Between 0 and 10 credits from Module List: PS3037 - PS3038 AND
PS3037 Perception 10
PS3038 Cognition 10
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above
Remaining credits from Module List PS3025 and PS4026

Further requirements

Choose between 120 to 160 credits in academic year

Must take at least 60 credits in 3rd Year from Module List: PS3025, PS4026, PS3031 - PS3038.

All Joint Psychology students must take a total of 60 credits from: PS3031-PS3034, (one of PS3035 or PS3036) and (one of PS3037 or PS3038) across 3rd and 4th Year.

For BPS Accreditation, students must take modules PS3025 and PS4026 in 3rd Year.
MA (Hons) French (Joint Honours with Year Abroad): Fourth Year
Code Module name Credits
FR4105 Communication Skills in French 1 15 AND
FR4106 Communication Skills in French 2 15 AND
View list Between 0 and 90 credits from Module List: FR3010 - FR3099, FR4000 - FR4199, ID4002, ML4794
FR3021 An Introduction to the French Classical Period 15
FR3028 Plays, Players and Playwrights (1620 - 1680) 1 15
FR3059 From One War to Another: French Politics, Culture and Society 1914 - 1945 (1) 15
FR3063 De Gaulle and Since: Topics in the Politics, Culture and Society of the Fifth Republic (1) 15
FR3077 Contemporary French Fiction 15
FR3078 Writing the Self in Twentieth- and Twenty-first Century French literature 15
FR3079 From Text to Screen: Novels and their Film Adaptations 15
FR3080 Intellectuals in Modern France 15
FR4079 Diversifying C19th French Poetry 15
FR4080 Bodies and Words in Libertine Literature 15
FR4081 Page-turners: Literature and the Press in Nineteenth-Century France 15
FR4082 Francophone Vocal Cultures: Song and Identity 15
FR4103 Translation Methodology 1 15
FR4104 Translation Methodology 2 15
FR4105 Communication Skills in French 1 15
FR4106 Communication Skills in French 2 15
FR4110 Translating French Opera 15
FR4111 Discovering the Renaissance: Imitation, Interpretation and Imagination 15
FR4115 Representations of the Renaissance: Sixteenth-century France in Historical Novels and Films 15
FR4116 Medieval Marvels: The Exotic, the East and the Other in Medieval French Literature 15
FR4117 Politics, Propaganda and Mythmaking in Medieval France 15
FR4118 Women's Voices in Renaissance France 15
FR4123 Libertine Literature and Libertinage in Eighteenth-Century France 15
FR4125 The French Age of Enlightenment: an age of enchantment? 15
FR4126 Flaubert's France 15
FR4127 Nineteenth-Century French Narratives of the Sea 15
FR4128 A semester with Casanova: myths and afterlives of Histoire de ma vie 15
FR4130 Saint-Domingue: Theatre and Society in a Caribbean Slave Colony 15
FR4131 Images of the Fall in the French 18th century: new perspectives on the Age of Enlightenment 15
FR4149 Aspects of Gender in Seventeenth-Century Theatre 15
FR4150 Creative Writing in French 15
FR4160 From One War to Another: French Politics, Culture and Society 1914 - 1945 (2) 15
FR4161 Antillean Identities 15
FR4164 De Gaulle and Since: Topics in the Politics,Culture and Society of the Fifth Republic (2) 15
FR4176 Recent Women's Writing in French: Theory and Practice 15
FR4180 Modern French Thought 15
FR4181 Contemporary French Crime Fiction 15
FR4182 Goods and Ads: Consumerism in Modern France 15
FR4183 African Francophone Fiction 15
FR4184 Francophone Screen Cultures: Shaping French Identities 15
FR4196 French Creative Writing Short Dissertation 15
FR4197 French Creative Writing Long Dissertation 30
FR4198 Dissertation on a French Topic 15
FR4199 Long Dissertation on a French Topic 30
ID4002 Communication and Teaching in Arts and Humanities 15
ML4794 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

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year

For Joint Honours degrees where both subjects are in the School of Modern Languages, the minimum requirement in each subject is 90 credits and the maximum allowed in one subject is 150 credits.

For Joint Honours degrees involving another School the normal requirement is 120 credits in each subject.
MA (Hons) Psychology (Joint Honours with Year Abroad): Fourth year
Code Module name Credits
( View list Between 0 and 40 credits from Module List: PS3031 - PS3034 AND
PS3031 Conceptual Issues and Theoretical Perspectives 10
PS3032 Assessment in Clinical Psychology 10
PS3033 Developmental Psychology 10
PS3034 Social Psychology 10
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above
( PS3035 Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience 10 OR
PS3036 Evolutionary and Comparative Psychology 10 ) AND
( PS3037 Perception 10 OR
PS3038 Cognition 10 )) AND
View list Credits from Module List: PS3000 - PS3800, PS4000 - PS4195
PS3021 Research Design and Analysis 1 15
PS3023 Psychological Statistics and Research Methods 3A 15
PS3024 Psychological Statistics and Research Methods 3B 15
PS3025 Psychological Statistics and Methodology 1 20
PS3031 Conceptual Issues and Theoretical Perspectives 10
PS3032 Assessment in Clinical Psychology 10
PS3033 Developmental Psychology 10
PS3034 Social Psychology 10
PS3035 Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience 10
PS3036 Evolutionary and Comparative Psychology 10
PS3037 Perception 10
PS3038 Cognition 10
PS4026 Psychological Statistics and Methodology 2 20
PS4040 Psychology Review 10
PS4050 Psychology Project (30cr) 30
PS4055 Psychology Team Enterprise Project (30cr) 30
PS4056 Psychology Team Enterprise Project (60cr) 60
PS4060 The Impact of Science 15
PS4065 Vision in a complex world 15
PS4069 Collective Behaviour 15
PS4071 Behavioural Neuroscience 15
PS4074 Cognitive Psychology and the Emotional Disorders 15
PS4083 Psychology of Music 15
PS4084 Psychology of Visual Art 15
PS4085 Topics in Social Cognition: Developmental and Comparative Perspectives 15
PS4086 Theory of Mind in development, evolution and autism 15
PS4089 Memory mechanisms and Alzheimer's disease 15
PS4091 Computer-aided Research 15
PS4093 The Psychosocial Impact of Dementia 15
PS4094 Communicating Psychology and Neuroscience 15
PS4096 Mechanisms of Behaviour: Integrating Psychological and Neuroscience Perspectives 15
PS4097 Research Methods in Cognitive Neuroscience 15
PS4101 Selves and Identities 15
PS4102 The Psychology of Social Change 15
PS4103 The subjective experience of cognition 15
PS4104 Aggressive Behaviour 15
PS4105 Clinical Neuropsychology 15
PS4106 Data Science for Psychology & Neuroscience 15
PS4107 Evolution of Human Behaviour and Culture 15
PS4108 Animal Models in Psychology and Neuroscience 15
PS4109 The Origins of Causal Thinking 15
PS4110 The Narratives that Shape Psychology and Neuroscience 15
PS4111 Special Topics in Psychology and Neuroscience 15
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

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

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year

All Joint Psychology students must take a total of 60 credits from: PS3031-PS3034, (one of PS3035 or PS3036) and (one of PS3037 or PS3038) across 3rd and 4th Year.

Students must take at least 60 credits in their 4th Year to make at least 120 credits in Psychology modules across the Honours years.

For BPS Accreditation, students must take a project module in their 4th Year from the following list: PS4050, PS4055, PS4796.

At least 60 credits must be taken in Fourth year to make at least 120 credits from Psychology modules across Honours years.

British Psychological Society (BPS) accreditation

For recognition by the British Psychological Society, at least 130 credits must be taken across 3rd Year and 4th Year, including passes in the following modules: (PS3021 or PS3023 or PS3025), (PS3022 or PS3024 or PS4026), PS3031, PS3032, PS3033, PS3034, (PS3035 or PS3036 or PN3313), (PS3037 or PS3038) and (PS4050 or PS4055 or PS4056 or PS4299 or PS4796 or PS4797). In order to be eligible for accreditation, students must gain at least a Lower Second Class Honours degree. This recognition is required for those who wish to gain employment as professional psychologists.

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 ).