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Master of Arts (Honours) Social Anthropology and Sustainable Development


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) 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 (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 ^
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 (Hons) Social Anthropology (Joint Honours): Third year
Code Module name Credits
View list 30 credits from Module List: SA3000 - SA3999 (excluding SA3901 - SA3903) AND
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
SA3053 Individuality, Community and Morality 30
SA3055 Anthropology and History 30
SA3057 Sex and Gender 30
SA3059 Colonial and Post-Colonial Representations 30
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
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
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)
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
SA3053 Individuality, Community and Morality 30
SA3055 Anthropology and History 30
SA3057 Sex and Gender 30
SA3059 Colonial and Post-Colonial Representations 30
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
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
SA3506 Methods in Social Anthropology 30
SA4005 The West Indies and the Black Atlantic 30
SA4007 Intersectionalities: Gender, Sexuality, Race, and Migration 30
SA4040 Perception, Imagination and Communication 30
SA4058 Visual Anthropology 30
SA4059 Living with Material Culture 30
SA4060 Anthropology and Religion 30
SA4061 Anthropology of Epidemics 30
SA4062 Anthropology of Justice 30
SA4063 Anthropology of Catastrophe 30
SA4064 Anthropology of Energy 30
SA4065 The Anthropology of Art 30
SA4067 Communicating Anthropology 30
SA4068 Rubbish Anthropology 30
SA4069 Technologies of Power and Resistance 30
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) 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 (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
SA4007 Intersectionalities: Gender, Sexuality, Race, and Migration 30
SA4040 Perception, Imagination and Communication 30
SA4058 Visual Anthropology 30
SA4059 Living with Material Culture 30
SA4060 Anthropology and Religion 30
SA4061 Anthropology of Epidemics 30
SA4062 Anthropology of Justice 30
SA4063 Anthropology of Catastrophe 30
SA4064 Anthropology of Energy 30
SA4065 The Anthropology of Art 30
SA4067 Communicating Anthropology 30
SA4068 Rubbish Anthropology 30
SA4069 Technologies of Power and Resistance 30
SA4098 Library-based Dissertation 30
SA4099 Primary Research-based Dissertation 30
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.
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 ).