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Master of Arts (Honours) Geography with Social Anthropology


MA (Hons) Geography 'with' Degrees: First year
Code Module name Credits
GG1001 Climate, Capital, Community: Fundamentals of Global Geography 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) 'with' Social Anthropology Degrees: 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 take SA1001 in addition to SA1002.
MA (Hons) Geography 'with' Degrees: Second year
Code Module name Credits
* GG2013 Geography (I): Space, Time and Changing Landscapes 20 AND
* GG2014 Geography (II): Nature, Culture and Power 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

  • pass in modules marked *
MA (Hons) 'with' Social Anthropology Degrees: 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 ^

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) Geography 'with' Degrees: Third year
Code Module name Credits
GG3205 Developing a Geography Research Proposal 10 AND
View list At least 30 credits from Module List: GG3206 - GG3215 AND
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
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 60 credits from Module List: GG3100, GG3221-GG3301
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 between 120 to 160 credits in academic year

Students must take at least 80 credits from Module List GG3100-GG3289 across Years 3 and 4.
MA (Hons) 'with' Social Anthropology Degrees: Third year
Code Module name Credits
View list 30 credits from Module List: SA3000 - SA3499
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
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
SA3073 Anthropology of Work 30
SA3074 Anthropology of Learning and Cognition 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
MA (Hons) Geography 'with' Degrees: Fourth year
Code Module name Credits
GG4399 Research Dissertation in Geography 30 AND
View list Between 0 and 60 credits from Module List GG3280-GG4299
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
GG4260 Social Infrastructure and Urban (Re)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

Students must take at least 80 credits from Module List GG3100-GG3289 across Years 3 and 4.
Students must take a total of 180 credits in Geography modules across Years 3 and 4.
MA (Hons) 'with' Social Anthropology Degrees: Fourth year
Code Module name Credits
View list 30 credits from Module List: SA4000 - SA4089, SA4400 - SA4899 (except SA4794 - SA4797)
SA4007 Intersectionalities: Gender, Sexuality, Race, and Migration 30
SA4040 Perception, Imagination and Communication 30
SA4058 Visual Anthropology 30
SA4060 Anthropology and Religion 30
SA4061 Anthropology of Epidemics 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
SA4070 Crip Anthropology: Disability and Difference 30
SA4855 Literary Anthropology 30
SA4864 Melanesian Anthropology 30
SA4867 Anthropology of Politics and Governance 30
SA4868 Anthropology of Latin America: Contemporary Issues 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

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 ).