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Master of Arts (Honours) Geography and Sustainable Development


MA/ BSc (Hons) Geography and Sustainable Development (Joint Honours): 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) Sustainable Development (Joint Honours): First Year
Code Module name Credits
SD1000 What is Sustainable Development? 20 AND
SD1004 Sustainable Development Goals: Challenges & Opportunities 20 AND
Remaining credits from Level 1000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year

Please balance your choices across the academic year.
MA/ BSc (Hons) Geography and Sustainable Development (Joint Honours): Second year
Code Module name Credits
^ GG2013 Geography: Exploring the discipline 1 20 AND
^ GG2014 Geography: Exploring the discipline 2 20 AND
View list 20 credits from Levels 1000 and 2000 options
AH1001 Art in Europe and Beyond to 1600 20
AH1003 Art in Europe and Beyond 1600-1800 20
AH2001 Modernity, Empire, and Revolution: Art from 1789-1900 20
AH2002 Art, Culture and Politics, from 1900 to Now 20
AN1003 Ancient Empires 20
AN1004 Cities and communities in the ancient Mediterranean 20
AN2004 Ancient Societies: Gender, ethnicity, and inequality in the ancient world 20
AN2005 Narratives of antiquity 20
AS1001 Astronomy and Astrophysics 1 20
AS1002 The Physical Universe 20
AS1101 Astrophysics (Direct Entry) 5
AS2001 Astronomy and Astrophysics 2 30
AS2101 Astrophysics 2 15
BL1101 Biology 1 20
BL1102 Biology 2 20
BL2300 Research Methods in Biology 15
BL2301 Cell Biology 15
BL2302 Molecular Biology 15
BL2303 Evolutionary Biology 15
BL2304 Invertebrate Zoology 15
BL2305 Cell Systems 15
BL2306 Biochemistry 15
BL2307 Ecology 15
BL2308 Vertebrate Zoology 15
BL2309 Applied Molecular Biology 15
BL2311 The Oceans 15
BL2312 Animal Behaviour 15
CH1202 Introductory Chemistry for Second Year Direct Entry Students 10
CH1301 The Impact of Chemistry 20
CH1401 Introductory Inorganic and Physical Chemistry 20
CH1402 Inorganic and Physical Chemistry 1 20
CH1601 Organic and Biological Chemistry 1 20
CH2501 Inorganic Chemistry 2 30
CH2601 Organic Chemistry 2 30
CH2603 Organic Chemistry 2 (French) 20
CH2701 Physical Chemistry 2 30
CL1004 Myth and Community in Ancient Greek Literature and Culture 20
CL1005 Images of Augustan Rome 20
CL2003 Early Greek Poetry and Philosophy 20
CL2004 Culture and Thought in the Late Roman Republic 20
CN1011 Beginners Chinese Language 1 20
CN1012 Chinese Language and Textual Practices 1 20
CN1021 Beginners Chinese Language 2 20
CN1022 Chinese Language and Textual Practices 2 20
CN2011 Intermediate Chinese Language 1 20
CN2012 Chinese Language and Textual Practices 3 20
CN2021 Intermediate Chinese Language 2 20
CN2022 Chinese Language and Textual Practices 4 20
CO1001 The Nineteenth-Century Novel 20
CO1002 Drama in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries 20
CO2001 Good and Evil 20
CO2002 Journeys 20
CS1002 Object-Oriented Programming 20
CS1003 Programming with Data 20
CS1006 Programming Projects 20
CS1007 Computer Systems Fundamentals 20
CS2001 Foundations of Computation 30
CS2002 Computer Systems 30
CS2003 The Internet and the Web: Concepts and Programming 30
CS2006 Advanced Programming Projects 30
CS2101 Foundations of Computation (Accelerated) 40
DI1001 God and the World: Introducing Theology 20
DI1003 The Art of Biblical Literature: Introducing the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament 20
DI1004 Hebrew 1: Introduction to Hebrew Language 20
DI1005 New Testament Greek 1 20
DI1006 Jesus and the Gospels 20
DI1009 Introduction to World Religions 20
DI1013 Science, Religion, and the Mind 20
DI1014 The Good Life: Christian Ethics and Human Flourishing 20
DI1201 From Adam to Apocalypse: The Bible and Western Culture 20
DI2002 Hebrew 2 20
DI2003 Christ, Paul, and the Origins of Christianity A (English Texts) 20
DI2006 Early and Medieval Christianity 20
DI2008 The Problem of Evil: Evolution, Tsunamis, and God 20
DI2009 Saints and Cyborgs: The Imagination in Theology and Science 20
DI2010 Philosophical Theology 20
DI2011 Religion Today 20
DI2013 Christ, Paul, and the Origins of Christianity B (Greek Texts) 20
DI2014 Reading the Women of the Old Testament B (Hebrew Texts) 20
DI2015 Reading the Women of the Old Testament A (English Texts) 20
DI2016 Christianity and Modernity in Global Perspective 20
DI2201 New Testament Greek 2 20
EC1001 Macroeconomics 20
EC1002 Microeconomics 20
EC1003 Mathematics for Economists 20
EC1004 Economics 20
EC1008 Finance 20
EC2001 Intermediate Microeconomics 20
EC2002 Intermediate Macroeconomics 20
EC2003 Quantitative Methods - Statistics 10
EC2203 Statistics for Economists 20
EN1003 Culture and Conflict: An Introduction to Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Literature 20
EN1004 Empires and Revolutions: Literature 1680-1830 20
EN2003 Medieval and Renaissance Texts 20
EN2004 Drama: Reading and Performance 20
ES1001 Understanding Planet Earth 20
ES1002 Earth's Resource Challenges 20
ES1006 Astrobiology: The Search for Life in the Universe 20
ES2001 Dynamic Earth: The Earth System 30
ES2002 Dynamic Earth: Magma, Minerals and Metamorphism 30
ES2003 Dynamic Earth: Earth Surface Processes 30
ES2004 Practical and Field Skills for Earth Sciences (Direct Entrants) 30
FM1001 Key Concepts in Film Studies 20
FM1002 Global Film History and Historiography 20
FM2002 Film Theory 20
FM2003 Screen Cultures today: media and methods 20
FR1001 French Language and Literature 1 20
FR1002 French Language and Literature 2 20
FR2201 Second Level French Language (1) 10
FR2202 Second Level French Language (2) 10
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
GG1001 Welcome to the Anthropocene: Society, Population, Environment 20
GG1002 Worlds of Crisis and Hope 20
GG2013 Geography: Exploring the discipline 1 20
GG2014 Geography: Exploring the discipline 2 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
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
GM1001 First Level German A 1 20
GM1002 First Level German A 2 20
GM1003 First Level German B 1 20
GM1004 First Level German B 2 20
GM2003 Second Level Advanced German Language 1 10
GM2004 Second Level Advanced German Language 2 10
GM2007 Second Level Ex-Beginners German Language 1 10
GM2008 Second Level Ex-Beginners German Language 2 10
GM2011 The Age of Goethe 10
GM2012 Unification to the First World War 10
GM2013 Medieval German Language and Literature 10
GM2014 Weimar Republic: 1918-1933 10
ID1004 Great Ideas 2 20
ID1007 Ancient Origins, Modern Worlds 20
ID2003 Science Methods 10
ID2005 Scientific Thinking 15
ID2006 Introduction to Archaeology 20
ID2007 Enterprise and Creativity 20
IR1005 Concepts in Global Politics 20
IR1006 Foreign Policy and Diplomacy in Global Politics 20
IR2005 Theoretical Approaches to International Relations 20
IR2006 Studying International Relations 20
IT1001 Introduction to Italian Language 20
IT1002 Italian Language (Elementary) 20
IT1003 Italian Language Intermediate 1 10
IT1004 Italian Language Intermediate 2 10
IT1013 Italian Geographies 10
IT1014 Italian Histories 10
IT2001 Second Level Italian 20
IT2002 Second Level Italian (Advanced) 20
LT1001 Elementary Latin 1 20
LT1002 Elementary Latin 2 20
LT1003 World of Latin 1 20
LT1004 World of Latin 2 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
ME1003 The Fall of Rome and the Origins of Europe (400-1000) 20
ME1006 The Kingdom of the Scots, c.900-1707 20
ME2003 Medieval Europe (11th - 15th c.) 20
MN1001 Organisations and Society 20
MN1002 Organisations and Analysis 20
MN2001 Management and Society 20
MN2002 Management and Analysis 20
MH2002 Introduction to Middle Eastern History 20
MO1007 The Early Modern Western World (c. 1450 - c. 1770) 20
MO1008 Themes in Late Modern History (c. 1776 - 2001) 20
MO2008 Scotland, Britain and Empire (c. 1700 - 2000) 20
MT1001 Introductory Mathematics 20
MT1002 Mathematics 20
MT1003 Pure and Applied Mathematics 20
MT1007 Statistics in Practice 20
MT2501 Linear Mathematics 15
MT2502 Analysis 15
MT2503 Multivariate Calculus 15
MT2504 Combinatorics and Probability 15
MT2505 Abstract Algebra 15
MT2506 Vector Calculus 15
MT2507 Mathematical Modelling 15
MT2508 Statistical Inference 15
MU1003 Understanding Music 20
MU1004 Making Music 1 20
MU1005 Words and Music 20
MU1006 An Introduction to Ethnomusicology: why, and how, human beings are musical 20
MU2001 Making Music 2 20
MU2002 Scottish Music 20
MU2004 Electronic Music 20
MU2006 Music Leadership 20
PH1011 Physics 1A 20
PH1012 Physics 1B 20
PH1013 The Physics of Sustainable Energy 20
PH1501 Mathematics for Physicists 1A 20
PH1502 Physics Skills 1A 20
PH1503 Physics Skills 1B 20
PH2011 Physics 2A 30
PH2012 Physics 2B 30
PN1001 Fundamentals of Psychology 1 20
PN1002 Fundamentals of Psychology 2 20
PN2001 Advanced Principles of Psychology 1 30
PN2002 Advanced Principles of Psychology 2 30
PR1001 Persian for Beginners 1 20
PR1002 Persian for Beginners 2 20
PR2001 Intermediate Persian 1 20
PR2002 Intermediate Persian 2 20
PY1010 Mind and World 20
PY1011 Moral and Political Controversies 20
PY1012 Reasoning 20
PY1013 The Enlightenment 20
PY2010 Intermediate Logic 20
PY2011 Foundations of Western Philosophy 20
PY2012 Meaning and Knowing 20
PY2013 Moral and Aesthetic Value 20
RU1001 Elementary Russian Language 1 20
RU1002 Elementary Russian Language 2 20
RU1005 Advanced Elementary Russian Language and Literature 1 20
RU1006 Advanced Elementary Russian Language and Literature 2 20
RU2201 Intermediate Russian Language 1 20
RU2202 Intermediate Russian Language 2 20
RU2203 Advanced Intermediate Russian Language 1 20
RU2204 Advanced Intermediate Russian Language 2 20
RU2205 Intermediate Russian Literature and Culture 1 10
RU2206 Intermediate Russian Literature and Culture 2 10
SA1001 Anthropology in the World 20
SA1002 Ways of Thinking 20
SA2001 The Foundations of Social Anthropology 20
SA2002 Ethnographic Encounters 20
SD1000 What is Sustainable Development? 20
SD1004 Sustainable Development Goals: Challenges & Opportunities 20
SD2005 From Sustainable Development to Human Security 20
SD2006 Changing Natures 20
SD2100 Sustainable Scotland 20
SP1001 Spanish Language and Texts 1 20
SP1002 Spanish Language and Texts 2 20
SP1003 Spanish for Beginners 1 20
SP1004 Spanish for Beginners 2 20
SP2001 Spanish Language and Critical Approaches to Texts 1 20
SP2002 Spanish Language and Critical Approaches to Texts 2 20
SP2005 Spanish Language and Texts: ex-Beginners 20
SP2006 Spanish Language and Critical Approaches to Cinema 20
VP1210 Vertically Integrated Project 10
VP1215 Vertically Integrated Project 15
VP1220 Vertically Integrated Project 20
VP2110 Vertically Integrated Project 10
VP2115 Vertically Integrated Project 15
VP2120 Vertically Integrated Project 20
VP2210 Vertically Integrated Project 10
VP2215 Vertically Integrated Project 15
VP2220 Vertically Integrated Project 20
AR1001 Arabic for Beginners 1 20
AR1002 Arabic for Beginners 2 20
AR1801 Intensive Arabic 1 12
AR1802 Intensive Arabic 2 12
AR2001 Intermediate Arabic 1 20
AR2002 Intermediate Arabic 2 20
AR2004 Introduction to Classical Arab Culture 20
PN2202 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 the academic year
Choose a minimum of 80 Level 2000 credits

Automatic entry to Honours requires

  • passes in modules marked ^
MA (Hons) Sustainable Development (Joint Honours): Second Year
Code Module name Credits
^ SD2005 From Sustainable Development to Human Security 20 AND
^ SD2006 Changing Natures 20 AND
^ SD2100 Sustainable Scotland 20

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year
Choose a minimum of 80 Level 2000 credits

Please balance your choices across the academic year.

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/ BSc (Hons) Geography and Sustainable Development (Joint Honours): Third year
Code Module name Credits
View list Between 0 and 120 credits from Module List: GG3205 - GG4296
GG3205 Developing a Geography Research Proposal 10
GG3206 Quantitative Methods for Social Scientists 10
GG3207 Qualitative Methods for Human Geographers 10
GG3208 Survey Design 10
GG3209 Spatial Analysis with GIS 10
GG3210 Remote Sensing 10
GG3211 Research Design and Methods for Physical Geography 10
GG3212 Data Analysis for Physical Geography 10
GG3213 Physical Geography Fieldclass 20
GG3214 Human Geography Field Course 20
GG3215 Secondary and Archival Data 10
GG3280 Geopolitics 30
GG3281 Quaternary Environmental Change 30
GG3283 Migration and Mobilities 30
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
GG4258 Water in the Environment 30
GG4259 Glaciology 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

Students must have at least 120 Geography honours credits in total by the end of their honours programme.
MA (Hons) Sustainable Development (Joint Honours): Third Year
Code Module name Credits
View list Between 0 and 120 credits from Module list: SD3100 - SD4296
SD3101 Developing a Sustainable Development Research Proposal 10
SD3102 Sustainable Development Field Course 20
SD3103 Kenya Field Course for Sustainable Development 20
SD3111 Home and Energy Geographies 30
SD3223 Navigating the Complexity of Coupled Social and Ecological Systems 20
SD4110 Transitioning to sustainability: community, nature and governance 30
SD4111 Governance for Sustainability 30
SD4116 Building sustainable, inclusive and just cities 30
SD4117 The Blue Economy and Maritime Security Intersections and Interdependence 30
SD4118 Extractive Environments 30
SD4119 Nature4Climate: Hybridized green blue infrastructures in the Global South 30
SD4120 Valuing Environments 30
SD4124 Sustainable Catchment Management 30
SD4125 Biocultural diversity: understanding ecosystem change in the Anthropocene 30
SD4126 Sustainable Populations 30
SD4127 Environment and health 30
SD4128 Coordinating a Humanitarian Disaster Response 30
SD4129 Digital inequalities and sustainable development: Trends, patterns, and implications 30
SD4130 Communication and Visualization for Sustainable Development 30
SD4131 Critical Dimensions of Environmental Management 30
SD4132 Extreme events and society in a changing climate 30
SD4133 Migration and Sustainable Development: Displacement, policy and lived realities 30
SD4225 Green Politics: theory and practice 30
SD4226 Global Health Disparities 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

Please balance your choices across the academic year.

Students must have at least 120 SD honours credits in total by the end of their honours programme
MA/ BSc (Hons) Geography and Sustainable Development (Joint Honours): Fourth year
Code Module name Credits
View list Between 0 and 120 credits from Module List: GG3205 - GG4399
GG3205 Developing a Geography Research Proposal 10
GG3206 Quantitative Methods for Social Scientists 10
GG3207 Qualitative Methods for Human Geographers 10
GG3208 Survey Design 10
GG3209 Spatial Analysis with GIS 10
GG3210 Remote Sensing 10
GG3211 Research Design and Methods for Physical Geography 10
GG3212 Data Analysis for Physical Geography 10
GG3213 Physical Geography Fieldclass 20
GG3214 Human Geography Field Course 20
GG3215 Secondary and Archival Data 10
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
GG4258 Water in the Environment 30
GG4259 Glaciology 30
GG4302 Advanced Quantitative Analysis 30
GG4303 Advanced Qualitative Analysis 30
GG4304 Advanced analysis in Physical Geography 30
GG4305 Environmental Geography: advanced analysis across human and physical geography 30
GG4328 Advanced Topics in Geographic Information Science (GISci) 30
GG4399 Research Dissertation in Geography 30
GG3280 Geopolitics 30
GG3281 Quaternary Environmental Change 30
GG3283 Migration and Mobilities 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 have at least 120 Geography honours credits in total by the end of their honours programme.
MA (Hons) Sustainable Development (Joint Honours): Fourth Year
Code Module name Credits
View list 60 credits from Module List: SD3100 - SD4297
SD3101 Developing a Sustainable Development Research Proposal 10
SD3102 Sustainable Development Field Course 20
SD3103 Kenya Field Course for Sustainable Development 20
SD3111 Home and Energy Geographies 30
SD4110 Transitioning to sustainability: community, nature and governance 30
SD4111 Governance for Sustainability 30
SD4116 Building sustainable, inclusive and just cities 30
SD4117 The Blue Economy and Maritime Security Intersections and Interdependence 30
SD4118 Extractive Environments 30
SD4119 Nature4Climate: Hybridized green blue infrastructures in the Global South 30
SD4120 Valuing Environments 30
SD4124 Sustainable Catchment Management 30
SD4125 Biocultural diversity: understanding ecosystem change in the Anthropocene 30
SD4126 Sustainable Populations 30
SD4127 Environment and health 30
SD4128 Coordinating a Humanitarian Disaster Response 30
SD4129 Digital inequalities and sustainable development: Trends, patterns, and implications 30
SD4130 Communication and Visualization for Sustainable Development 30
SD4131 Critical Dimensions of Environmental Management 30
SD4132 Extreme events and society in a changing climate 30
SD4133 Migration and Sustainable Development: Displacement, policy and lived realities 30
SD4225 Green Politics: theory and practice 30
SD4226 Global Health Disparities 30
SD4297 Dissertation in Sustainable Development 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

Please balance your choices across the academic year. Students must have at least 120 Sustainable Development honours credits in total by the end of their honours programme

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 ).