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Master of Arts (Honours) Scottish History


MA (Hons) Scottish History: First year
Code Module name Credits
( ME1006 The Kingdom of the Scots, c.900-1707 20 AND
( ME1003 The Fall of Rome and the Origins of Europe (400-1000) 20 OR
MO1007 The Early Modern Western World (c. 1450 - c. 1770) 20 OR
MO1008 Themes in Late Modern History (c. 1776 - 2001) 20 )) AND
Remaining credits from Level 1000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year

Over the first two years at least 40 credits must be gained in modules other than those in the ranges AN, HI, ME, MH, MO and DI2006.
MA (Hons) Scottish History: Second year
Code Module name Credits
^ MO2008 Scotland, Britain and Empire (c. 1700 - 2000) 20 AND
( ^ HI2001 History as a Discipline: Development and Key Concepts 20 OR
^ ME2003 Medieval Europe (11th - 15th c.) 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 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) Scottish History: Third year
Code Module name Credits
View list 120 credits from Modules: ME3140-3159, ME3301-3389, MO3060-3079, MO3160-3179,MO3260-3279,MO3360-3379,MO3460-3479,MO3560-3579,MO3760-3779, OR
ME3142 The Castle in Medieval Scotland (1100 - 1550) 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
MO3063 Pirates and Privateers in Early Modern Scottish History 30
MO3065 Crown and Nobility in early modern Scotland 30
MO3162 Early Modern Scotland in the age of British Unions (1603-1707) 30
MO3163 Scotland and the Wider World 30
MO3263 British Culture in the Eighteenth Century 30
MO3264 Microhistories of a Global Nation: Scotland, c.1707– c.1843 30
MO3365 Nationalism and Unionism in Modern Scotland 30
MO3366 Technology and Society since 1750 30
MO3367 A Graveyard of Empires? Afghanistan in the Twentieth Century 30
MO3461 Britain in the 1920s and 1930s: Aspects of everyday life 30
MO3053 The Power of Persuasion: Propaganda in Renaissance and Reformation Scotland 30
MO3390 The Late Ottoman Empire 1700–1922 30
MO3391 Documentary Film and History 30
MO3392 Scotland and the Pacific World, 1788–1914 30
ME3243 Orkneyinga saga: Text and Context in the Medieval North Atlantic 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 Modules: ME3140-3159, ME3301-3389, MO3060-3079, MO3160-3179,MO3260-3279,MO3360-3379,MO3460-3479,MO3560-3579,MO3760-3779, AND
ME3142 The Castle in Medieval Scotland (1100 - 1550) 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
MO3063 Pirates and Privateers in Early Modern Scottish History 30
MO3065 Crown and Nobility in early modern Scotland 30
MO3162 Early Modern Scotland in the age of British Unions (1603-1707) 30
MO3163 Scotland and the Wider World 30
MO3263 British Culture in the Eighteenth Century 30
MO3264 Microhistories of a Global Nation: Scotland, c.1707– c.1843 30
MO3365 Nationalism and Unionism in Modern Scotland 30
MO3366 Technology and Society since 1750 30
MO3367 A Graveyard of Empires? Afghanistan in the Twentieth Century 30
MO3461 Britain in the 1920s and 1930s: Aspects of everyday life 30
MO3053 The Power of Persuasion: Propaganda in Renaissance and Reformation Scotland 30
MO3390 The Late Ottoman Empire 1700–1922 30
MO3391 Documentary Film and History 30
MO3392 Scotland and the Pacific World, 1788–1914 30
ME3243 Orkneyinga saga: Text and Context in the Medieval North Atlantic 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: AN4100 - AN4133, ME3000 - ME3999, MO3000 - MO3999 )
AN4106 Persia and the Greeks 30
ME3019 Early English Society c.600-850 30
ME3020 The Chastising Church: Excommunication, Public Penance and Interdict in the High Middle Ages 30
ME3105 Archaeological Methods 30
ME3106 The History and Archaeology of Medieval Monasticism 30
ME3142 The Castle in Medieval Scotland (1100 - 1550) 30
ME3162 The Medieval Castle 30
ME3163 The Imperial City: Byzantine and Ottoman Constantinople 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
ME3237 Legal Cultures in Late Antiquity 30
ME3238 Holy Lives in Late Antiquity 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
ME3243 Orkneyinga saga: Text and Context in the Medieval North Atlantic 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
ME3425 The Age of Revolt (1250 - 1450) 30
ME3427 Nature and the Occult in the Late Middle Ages 30
ME3428 Death and the Afterlife in Later Medieval Europe 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: Power and Authority in High Medieval England 30
ME3433 The Medieval Landscape and Environment 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
ME3810 Monastic Scotland: History and Archaeology 16
ME3905 The Medieval Foundations of Western Legal Traditions 30
ME3906 Normans, Natives and Norsemen: Scotland c.1050-1250 30
MO3005 The Early Reformation in Europe (1517 - 1555) 30
MO3027 Women and Men in Europe (1500 - 1800) 30
MO3029 The Northern Renaissance 30
MO3033 Europeans in Asia in the Early Modern Period 30
MO3038 War and the State in the Era of the Military Revolution (1550 - 1730) 30
MO3040 From Cradle To Grave: Living and Dying in Early Modern England (c.1500 - c.1800) 30
MO3041 Culture and Mentalities in Early Modern England (c. 1500 - 1800) 30
MO3043 Early Modern Rome (1300 - 1667) 30
MO3044 Topics in Renaissance Venice 30
MO3047 The Tudors: Power and Piety in Sixteenth-Century England 30
MO3048 Witches and Witch-hunting in Early Modern Europe 30
MO3051 Rethinking the English Reformations 30
MO3052 The Library, a Fragile History 30
MO3053 The Power of Persuasion: Propaganda in Renaissance and Reformation Scotland 30
MO3054 Walking Early Modern Europe 30
MO3055 The History of History in East Asia 30
MO3056 The Dutch Golden Age: Power, Culture and Society in the Seventeenth Century 30
MO3057 The Age of Atlantic Revolutions 30
MO3063 Pirates and Privateers in Early Modern Scottish History 30
MO3065 Crown and Nobility in early modern Scotland 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
MO3110 Slavery and Capitalism in the United States 30
MO3113 Stuart Rule and Revolution (1603 - 1689) 30
MO3162 Early Modern Scotland in the age of British Unions (1603-1707) 30
MO3163 Scotland and the Wider World 30
MO3214 The Decline and Fall of the French Old Regime (1715-1789) 30
MO3217 Travel Cultures in Europe in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 30
MO3220 The Enlightenment and the World 30
MO3223 Early colonial South Asia (c. 1700 - 1857) 30
MO3224 Society and Culture in the Eighteenth Century Indian Ocean World 30
MO3263 British Culture in the Eighteenth Century 30
MO3264 Microhistories of a Global Nation: Scotland, c.1707– c.1843 30
MO3280 Persia in the 18th Century, 1722-1834 (Age of the Warlords) 30
MO3301 Holocaust and Denial in Europe 30
MO3302 Imperial Russia 1815 - 1917 30
MO3314 History of Environmentalism: The Politics of Nature in the Western World (c. 1800 to Present) 30
MO3318 1848: Revolutionary Age 30
MO3319 Media and Politics in Britain, 1850-1939 30
MO3320 Imperialism and Nationalism: The British Empire in India 1857 - 1947 30
MO3321 Russia - Real and Imagined: Ideas, Identity, and Culture (1800 - 2000) 30
MO3328 Making Italians: Region, Nation and Empire in Italy from Unification to Fascism 30
MO3329 The Kaiser: Aspects of Emperor Wilhelm II (1859 - 1941) 30
MO3331 The Victorians: Religion and Respectability 30
MO3334 Nature and Society in Victorian Britain 30
MO3335 The Japanese Empire and its Aftermath (1873 - 1952) 30
MO3336 Mediterranean Colonialism: Colonisers and Colonised in France, Spain, Italy and North Africa 1890s - 1950s 30
MO3337 China's Revolutions (1850 - 1989) 30
MO3338 Disease and the Environment (c. 1500 - 2000) 30
MO3345 Print Culture in Britain (1750 - 1900) 30
MO3346 Politics, Culture and Society in the French Revolution (1789-1815) 30
MO3349 The American Metropolis 30
MO3350 The American Constitution: Past and Present 30
MO3351 Doing and Practicing Transnational and Global History in the Late Modern World 30
MO3352 Migrant South Asia (c. 17th-20th centuries) 30
MO3353 The Rise of the Nation State in Central Europe (1810 - 1923) 30
MO3354 Rethinking the World in East Asia 1850s - 1990s 30
MO3356 Making Economic History Count: Economic Analysis from a Historical Perspective 30
MO3357 From Radicalism to Labour: Popular Politics in Scotland, 1707-1914 30
MO3358 Marxism and History in Britain, 1880-1990 30
MO3359 The United States in the Cold War and the Cold War in the United States 30
MO3365 Nationalism and Unionism in Modern Scotland 30
MO3366 Technology and Society since 1750 30
MO3367 A Graveyard of Empires? Afghanistan in the Twentieth Century 30
MO3385 Modern Iran from 1834-1941: Enlightenment, Nationalism & Revolution 30
MO3388 The Asian Economic Miracle: Industrialization and Globalization 30
MO3389 Gender and Sexuality in South Asia (1800s-2000s) 30
MO3390 The Late Ottoman Empire 1700–1922 30
MO3391 Documentary Film and History 30
MO3392 Scotland and the Pacific World, 1788–1914 30
MO3406 The Soviet Union 30
MO3410 The Third Reich: History and Historiography 30
MO3422 The United States in Depression and War (1929 - 1945) 30
MO3423 Dictatorship in Practice: Everyday Life in Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, Franco's Spain and the Stalinist Soviet Union 30
MO3424 De-colonising Asia (c. 1914 - 1975) 30
MO3425 Stalinism, Nazism and Central Europe (1912 - 1941) 30
MO3426 War and the French Empire, 1940-1945 30
MO3461 Britain in the 1920s and 1930s: Aspects of everyday life 30
MO3502 War and Welfare: Britain 1939 - 1951 30
MO3516 Popular Culture, Nation and Society: Leisure in Britain 1880 - 1960 30
MO3520 History, Memory and Identity in Postwar Western Europe (1945 - 2005) 30
MO3523 Postcolonial Europe: empire and its legacies in Western Europe since 1945 30
MO3524 Popular Music, Culture and Society: The United States and Britain, 1955-1980 30
MO3525 Global Intellectual History: Theories and Methodologies 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
MO3914 Restoration, Revolution, Union and Rebellion: Scotland 1660-c.1760 30
MO3957 From the People's War to 'New' Labour: British Politics after the Second World War 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

Choices should be made from different module ranges.

With the permission of the Chair of the Degree Committee a student may:
a) Substitute 30 credits in Third or Fourth Year for 3000-level or 4000-level credits in another school.
b) Take 60 credits from the range AN4103-AN4133,ME3000-ME399,MO3000-MO3999.
MA (Hons) Scottish History: Fourth year
Code Module name Credits
View list 30 credits from Module List: HI4997, HI4998, HI4999 AND
HI4999 Honours Dissertation in History 30
HI4997 Recording the Past 30
HI4998 Honours Project in History 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: ME4750-ME4789, MO4801 - MO4849 AND
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
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
MO4806 Britain and the Thirty Years' War (1618 - 1648) 60
MO4807 Mary, Queen of Scots, France, England and Ireland 60
MO4808 Class or Nation? Radical Politics in Twentieth Century Scotland 60
MO4810 Approaches to the American Century 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 Modules: ME3140-3159, ME3301-3389, MO3060-3079, MO3160-3179,MO3260-3279,MO3360-3379,MO3460-3479,MO3560-3579,MO3760-3779, OR
ME3142 The Castle in Medieval Scotland (1100 - 1550) 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
MO3063 Pirates and Privateers in Early Modern Scottish History 30
MO3065 Crown and Nobility in early modern Scotland 30
MO3162 Early Modern Scotland in the age of British Unions (1603-1707) 30
MO3163 Scotland and the Wider World 30
MO3263 British Culture in the Eighteenth Century 30
MO3264 Microhistories of a Global Nation: Scotland, c.1707– c.1843 30
MO3365 Nationalism and Unionism in Modern Scotland 30
MO3366 Technology and Society since 1750 30
MO3367 A Graveyard of Empires? Afghanistan in the Twentieth Century 30
MO3461 Britain in the 1920s and 1930s: Aspects of everyday life 30
MO3053 The Power of Persuasion: Propaganda in Renaissance and Reformation Scotland 30
MO3390 The Late Ottoman Empire 1700–1922 30
MO3391 Documentary Film and History 30
MO3392 Scotland and the Pacific World, 1788–1914 30
ME3243 Orkneyinga saga: Text and Context in the Medieval North Atlantic 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: AN4100 - AN4133, ME3000 - ME3999, MO3000 - MO3999 )
AN4106 Persia and the Greeks 30
ME3019 Early English Society c.600-850 30
ME3020 The Chastising Church: Excommunication, Public Penance and Interdict in the High Middle Ages 30
ME3105 Archaeological Methods 30
ME3106 The History and Archaeology of Medieval Monasticism 30
ME3142 The Castle in Medieval Scotland (1100 - 1550) 30
ME3162 The Medieval Castle 30
ME3163 The Imperial City: Byzantine and Ottoman Constantinople 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
ME3237 Legal Cultures in Late Antiquity 30
ME3238 Holy Lives in Late Antiquity 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
ME3243 Orkneyinga saga: Text and Context in the Medieval North Atlantic 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
ME3425 The Age of Revolt (1250 - 1450) 30
ME3427 Nature and the Occult in the Late Middle Ages 30
ME3428 Death and the Afterlife in Later Medieval Europe 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: Power and Authority in High Medieval England 30
ME3433 The Medieval Landscape and Environment 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
ME3810 Monastic Scotland: History and Archaeology 16
ME3905 The Medieval Foundations of Western Legal Traditions 30
ME3906 Normans, Natives and Norsemen: Scotland c.1050-1250 30
MO3005 The Early Reformation in Europe (1517 - 1555) 30
MO3027 Women and Men in Europe (1500 - 1800) 30
MO3029 The Northern Renaissance 30
MO3033 Europeans in Asia in the Early Modern Period 30
MO3038 War and the State in the Era of the Military Revolution (1550 - 1730) 30
MO3040 From Cradle To Grave: Living and Dying in Early Modern England (c.1500 - c.1800) 30
MO3041 Culture and Mentalities in Early Modern England (c. 1500 - 1800) 30
MO3043 Early Modern Rome (1300 - 1667) 30
MO3044 Topics in Renaissance Venice 30
MO3047 The Tudors: Power and Piety in Sixteenth-Century England 30
MO3048 Witches and Witch-hunting in Early Modern Europe 30
MO3051 Rethinking the English Reformations 30
MO3052 The Library, a Fragile History 30
MO3053 The Power of Persuasion: Propaganda in Renaissance and Reformation Scotland 30
MO3054 Walking Early Modern Europe 30
MO3055 The History of History in East Asia 30
MO3056 The Dutch Golden Age: Power, Culture and Society in the Seventeenth Century 30
MO3057 The Age of Atlantic Revolutions 30
MO3063 Pirates and Privateers in Early Modern Scottish History 30
MO3065 Crown and Nobility in early modern Scotland 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
MO3110 Slavery and Capitalism in the United States 30
MO3113 Stuart Rule and Revolution (1603 - 1689) 30
MO3162 Early Modern Scotland in the age of British Unions (1603-1707) 30
MO3163 Scotland and the Wider World 30
MO3214 The Decline and Fall of the French Old Regime (1715-1789) 30
MO3217 Travel Cultures in Europe in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 30
MO3220 The Enlightenment and the World 30
MO3223 Early colonial South Asia (c. 1700 - 1857) 30
MO3224 Society and Culture in the Eighteenth Century Indian Ocean World 30
MO3263 British Culture in the Eighteenth Century 30
MO3264 Microhistories of a Global Nation: Scotland, c.1707– c.1843 30
MO3280 Persia in the 18th Century, 1722-1834 (Age of the Warlords) 30
MO3301 Holocaust and Denial in Europe 30
MO3302 Imperial Russia 1815 - 1917 30
MO3314 History of Environmentalism: The Politics of Nature in the Western World (c. 1800 to Present) 30
MO3318 1848: Revolutionary Age 30
MO3319 Media and Politics in Britain, 1850-1939 30
MO3320 Imperialism and Nationalism: The British Empire in India 1857 - 1947 30
MO3321 Russia - Real and Imagined: Ideas, Identity, and Culture (1800 - 2000) 30
MO3328 Making Italians: Region, Nation and Empire in Italy from Unification to Fascism 30
MO3329 The Kaiser: Aspects of Emperor Wilhelm II (1859 - 1941) 30
MO3331 The Victorians: Religion and Respectability 30
MO3334 Nature and Society in Victorian Britain 30
MO3335 The Japanese Empire and its Aftermath (1873 - 1952) 30
MO3336 Mediterranean Colonialism: Colonisers and Colonised in France, Spain, Italy and North Africa 1890s - 1950s 30
MO3337 China's Revolutions (1850 - 1989) 30
MO3338 Disease and the Environment (c. 1500 - 2000) 30
MO3345 Print Culture in Britain (1750 - 1900) 30
MO3346 Politics, Culture and Society in the French Revolution (1789-1815) 30
MO3349 The American Metropolis 30
MO3350 The American Constitution: Past and Present 30
MO3351 Doing and Practicing Transnational and Global History in the Late Modern World 30
MO3352 Migrant South Asia (c. 17th-20th centuries) 30
MO3353 The Rise of the Nation State in Central Europe (1810 - 1923) 30
MO3354 Rethinking the World in East Asia 1850s - 1990s 30
MO3356 Making Economic History Count: Economic Analysis from a Historical Perspective 30
MO3357 From Radicalism to Labour: Popular Politics in Scotland, 1707-1914 30
MO3358 Marxism and History in Britain, 1880-1990 30
MO3359 The United States in the Cold War and the Cold War in the United States 30
MO3365 Nationalism and Unionism in Modern Scotland 30
MO3366 Technology and Society since 1750 30
MO3367 A Graveyard of Empires? Afghanistan in the Twentieth Century 30
MO3385 Modern Iran from 1834-1941: Enlightenment, Nationalism & Revolution 30
MO3388 The Asian Economic Miracle: Industrialization and Globalization 30
MO3389 Gender and Sexuality in South Asia (1800s-2000s) 30
MO3390 The Late Ottoman Empire 1700–1922 30
MO3391 Documentary Film and History 30
MO3392 Scotland and the Pacific World, 1788–1914 30
MO3406 The Soviet Union 30
MO3410 The Third Reich: History and Historiography 30
MO3422 The United States in Depression and War (1929 - 1945) 30
MO3423 Dictatorship in Practice: Everyday Life in Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, Franco's Spain and the Stalinist Soviet Union 30
MO3424 De-colonising Asia (c. 1914 - 1975) 30
MO3425 Stalinism, Nazism and Central Europe (1912 - 1941) 30
MO3426 War and the French Empire, 1940-1945 30
MO3461 Britain in the 1920s and 1930s: Aspects of everyday life 30
MO3502 War and Welfare: Britain 1939 - 1951 30
MO3516 Popular Culture, Nation and Society: Leisure in Britain 1880 - 1960 30
MO3520 History, Memory and Identity in Postwar Western Europe (1945 - 2005) 30
MO3523 Postcolonial Europe: empire and its legacies in Western Europe since 1945 30
MO3524 Popular Music, Culture and Society: The United States and Britain, 1955-1980 30
MO3525 Global Intellectual History: Theories and Methodologies 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
MO3914 Restoration, Revolution, Union and Rebellion: Scotland 1660-c.1760 30
MO3957 From the People's War to 'New' Labour: British Politics after the Second World War 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

With the permission of the Chair of the Degree Committee a student may:
a) Take HI4999
b) Take credits from the module range AN4103-AN4133, ME3000-ME3999 and MO3000-MO3999 (assuming that the student has not taken more than 30 credits from these modules in Third Year).
c) Substitute 30 credits in Third or Fourth Year for 3000-level or 4000-level credits in another school.

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 ).