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Master of Arts (Honours) International Relations and Latin


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MA (Hons) International Relations (Joint Honours): First Year
Code Module name Credits
IR1005 Concepts in Global Politics 20 AND
IR1006 Foreign Policy and Diplomacy in Global Politics 20 AND
Remaining credits from Level 1000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year

MA (Hons) Latin (Joint Honours): First year
Code Module name Credits
( View list 40 credits from Module List: LT1001 - LT1002 OR
LT1001 Elementary Latin 1 20
LT1002 Elementary Latin 2 20
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 40 credits from Module List: LT1003 - LT1004 ) AND
LT1003 World of Latin 1 20
LT1004 World of Latin 2 20
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 Level 1000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year


MA (Hons) International Relations (Joint Honours): Second Year
Code Module name Credits
^ IR2005 Theoretical Approaches to International Relations 20 AND
^ IR2006 Studying International Relations 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) Latin (Joint Honours): Second year
Code Module name Credits
( ^ View list 40 credits from Module List: LT2001 - LT2002 OR
LT2001 Latin Language and Literature 1 20
LT2002 Latin Language and Literature 2 20
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 40 credits from Module List: LT2003 - LT2004 AND
LT2003 Latin in Progress 1 20
LT2004 Latin in Progress 2 20
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

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 level and at least a further 120 credits at 3000 and/or 4000 levels.


MA (Hons) International Relations (Joint Honours): Third Year
Code Module name Credits
View list Between 30 and 60 credits from Module List : IR3000 - IR3999 AND
IR3004 International Political Economy 30
IR3006 International Regimes and Organisations 30
IR3007 Democracy and Democratisation 30
IR3008 International Terrorism 30
IR3011 Ethics and World Politics 30
IR3012 Third World in International Development 30
IR3021 Case Studies in Conflict Analysis 30
IR3022 International Relations and International Law 30
IR3023 US Foreign Policy: The Dilemmas of Power 30
IR3025 International Security 30
IR3026 Trauma, Time and Memory in the Politics of Colonialism and Climate Emergency 30
IR3029 The Logic of Irregular Warfare 30
IR3030 Human Rights in Theory and Practice 30
IR3031 Globalisation and the War on Terrorism 30
IR3032 Globalisation and its Disjunctures 30
IR3033 Post-Conflict Transition in Sub-Saharan Africa 30
IR3036 Independent Study in International Relations - Norms in International Relations 30
IR3037 Independent Study in International Relations - Political Leadership 30
IR3038 Conflict Management, Settlement, and Resolution 30
IR3039 International Relations of the European Union 30
IR3041 International Political Theory 30
IR3042 Representations of Violent Conflict: Research Seminar 30
IR3043 Approaches to Counter-Terrorism 30
IR3044 Pathways of European State Formation 30
IR3045 Violence in Deeply-Divided Societies 30
IR3046 Foreign Policy of Modern China 30
IR3050 State, Power, Crime 30
IR3051 International Relations Theory: From Fear to Queer 30
IR3052 The Politics of Violence and Resistance in Latin America 30
IR3053 Peacebuilding and Post-Conflict Transition in Latin America 30
IR3054 Mapping the Boundaries of Emerging and Evolving Securities 30
IR3055 International Relations and the Internet 30
IR3056 Political Leadership: Theories and History 30
IR3057 Armaments and International Relations 30
IR3058 Armed Forces, Societies and Governments: An International Perspective on Civil-Military Relations 30
IR3060 Rebellion and Revolution 30
IR3062 The United Nations since 1945 30
IR3063 Organised Crime and Corruption 30
IR3064 Critical Terrorism Studies 30
IR3066 Emotional Encounters: Diplomacy, Power and Persuasion in World Politics 30
IR3067 The International Criminal Court in World Politics 30
IR3068 Christianity and World Politics 30
IR3070 Armed Conflict in Africa 30
IR3071 Dealing in Darkness? An Anatomy of Realist Thought in International Relations 30
IR3072 New and Emerging Security Threats in the Caucasus and Central Asia 30
IR3073 International Institutions and Global Challenges 30
IR3074 International Relations of Energy and the Environment 30
IR3075 Leader Personality and Foreign Policy 30
IR3077 The Motives and Enablers of Terrorist Violence 30
IR3078 Hot Economics, Cold Politics? International Relations of Northeast Asia 30
IR3079 Feminist Theories in Global Politics 30
IR3080 The Northern Ireland Conflict 30
IR3081 Colonialism and Non-Western Political Thought 30
IR3082 Contemporary Chinese Nationalism: Ideology, Statecraft, and Diplomacy 30
IR3083 Foreign Policy Analysis 30
IR3084 Cultivating Empire: Plantations, Liberation and Ecology in the (Post)colonial Caribbean 30
IR3085 Social Movements and Civil Resistance 30
IR3101 Russian Politics and Foreign Policy after Communism 30
IR3104 The International Relations of Post-Communist Central and Eastern Europe 30
IR3106 The International System 1870-1945 30
IR3111 Asian Security 30
IR3113 Gender and Generation 30
IR3114 Critical Research Skills 30
IR3204 Migration in Global Politics: Ethics, Politics, and Practice 30
IR3205 Intelligence and International Relations in the 20th Century and Beyond 30
IR3206 The Politics of Postcolonial Forests 30
IR3207 Wars of Decolonisation 30
IR3208 The Politics of the European Union 30
IR3209 State Terror - From the Middle Ages to the Present 30
IR3210 Technology and Strategy 30
IR3300 Conflict in the Middle East 30
IR3301 Politics and State Formation in the Middle East 30
IR3302 Democracy and Revolution in North Africa 30
IR3303 The Arab - Israeli Conflict 30
IR3304 The International, Modernity and Contemporary Gulf Politics 30
IR3305 Cyber Security and the Global Politics of the Internet 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 Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List: IR4100 - IR4999 (excluding IR4794 - IR4795), SD4225
IR4401 Communication in International Relations 15
IR4504 The Language of Politics 30
IR4514 Global Public Policy 30
IR4516 The International Relations of Sub-Saharan Africa 30
IR4519 Politics and Development in Southeast Asia 30
IR4522 Critical Approaches to International Security 30
IR4523 The Aftermath of the Wars: Liberal Dilemmas 30
IR4526 Extremism, Radicalisation and Terrorism 30
IR4530 Genocide 30
IR4532 The Cultural Politics of Human Rights 30
IR4536 Warmongers and Peacemakers: Religious Actors and Conflict 30
IR4540 The Changing Character of War 30
IR4542 Gender and Terrorism 30
IR4543 Activism and Resistance 30
IR4544 Wars and Peace in the Caucasus 30
IR4545 Indian Foreign Policy 30
IR4546 The Psychology of International Security 30
IR4548 Force and Statecraft 30
IR4550 Art and Conflict 30
IR4552 The Politics of the Environment 30
IR4553 Europe, America and the Transatlantic 30
IR4554 Global Aesthetics and Politics 30
IR4555 Music, Politics and International Relations 30
IR4560 Faith, Politics, and War: The Augustinian Tradition in IR 30
IR4561 Security as Ethics: Rethinking the Global Polity 30
IR4562 The Political Lives of Objects 30
IR4563 Rebels, Terrorists, Militias: The Comparative Analysis of Armed Groups 30
IR4564 Strategic Studies 30
IR4565 Contemporary Political Theory: From Revolution to Recognition 30
IR4566 Comparative Regionalism 30
IR4567 The International Criminal Court in World Politics 30
IR4568 International Relations of Energy and the Environment 30
IR4569 Geopolitics of Energy in the Caspian Region 30
IR4570 Everyday Life and Global Politics 30
IR4571 Conflict and Intervention in World Politics 30
IR4572 Economy of Anger: Marxism, Psychoanalysis and the Politics of Status 30
IR4573 Global Economic Governance: Visions and Realities 30
IR4574 Understanding Terrorism 30
IR4575 Queer IR, Queering Global Politics 30
IR4577 Order and Crisis in World Politics 30
IR4578 The Politics of Nature and Place 30
IR4579 Race, Caste and the Making of the Modern World 30
IR4580 The Global Politics of European Integration 30
IR4581 Debates in Terrorism and Political Violence 30
IR4582 Prison Violence & Resistance 30
IR4583 The International Relations of Outer Space 30
IR4584 Speculative Fiction and Global Politics 30
IR4585 Politics of Secession 30
IR4586 Political Violence and Popular Culture 30
IR4587 Hunting The Lone Wolf: The Rise of Isolated Assassins and Terrorists 30
IR4588 The Genealogy of Modern Counterinsurgency 30
IR4589 Intersectionality and Social Justice 30
IR4590 Critical Perspectives on the Climate Crisis 30
IR4591 Critical War Studies 30
IR4592 Decolonising Knowledge: Debates in the Social Sciences 30
IR4600 Ideologies and Social Movements in the Middle East 30
IR4601 Political Order and Violence in the Middle East 30
IR4604 Political Islam and International Relations 30
IR4606 Propaganda, Persuasion and Information War in the Middle East 30
IR4607 Britain and Iraq 1914-2004 30
SD4225 Green Politics: Theory and Practice 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

Access to up to thirty 4000-level credits requires the permission of the Adviser of Studies.
MA (Hons) Latin (Joint Honours): Third year
Code Module name Credits
( View list Between 0 and 60 credits from Module List: LT4000 - LT4989 AND
LT4207 Roman Comedy 30
LT4211 Latin Letters 30
LT4213 Roman Satire 30
LT4215 Senecan Tragedy 30
LT4219 Roman Biography 30
LT4223 Constantinian Latin 30
LT4224 Theodosian Latin 30
LT4226 Africa in Latin Literature 30
LT4227 Horace and You 30
LT4228 Displacement and Empire in Latin Literature 30
LT4229 Writing Roman Civil War 30
LT4230 Augustan Elegy 30
LT4231 Ritual and Religion in Latin Literature 30
LT4232 Drama, Ancient and Early Modern 30
LT4233 Transformed Texts: Rewriting Roman Literature 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 Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List: AA4000 - AA4989, AN4000 - AN4989, CL4000 - CL4989 (exc CL4794-CL4795), GK4000 - GK4989, LT4000 - LT4989 ) OR
AA4003 The Archaeology of Ancient Rome 30
AA4004 The Archaeology of Identities in the First Millennium BCE Mediterranean World 30
AA4005 Sanctuaries and the Sacred in the Greek World 30
AA4006 Early Rome and its Neighbours 30
AA4008 The World of the Ancient Indian Ocean 30
AA4121 The Ancient City of Rome 30
AA4127 In the Footsteps of the Ancients: Exploring the Archaeology and Topography of Greece 30
AA4130 The Roman Army 30
AA4145 The Archaeology of Roman Britain 30
AA4146 The Colours of Ancient Art 30
AA4425 Networks and Islands: The Archaeology of the Cyclades 30
AA4426 From the Nile to the Niger: The Kingdoms of Ancient Africa 30
AN4110 The Culture of Roman Imperialism 30
AN4146 The Supremacy of Greece: Athens, Sparta and Thebes 479-366 BCE 30
AN4147 Government and Society under Diocletian 30
AN4152 Ancient Empires 30
AN4157 The Environmental History of the Ancient Mediterranean World 30
AN4158 Local Communities under Empire in Ancient Persia, 550-330 BCE 30
AN4159 Egypt at the Crossroads: Multiculturalism in Late Antiquity 30
AN4160 Transformations of the Family, from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages 30
AN4426 Roman Slavery 30
AN4428 Eight Scenes from the Life of Alexander 30
AN4430 Floods, Famines, Plagues and Volcanoes: Roman Adaptation to the Environment 30
AN4431 Poverty and Social Life in Late Antiquity 30
AN4432 Magic in the Greco-Roman World 30
AN4434 Experiencing the Gods in Ancient Greece 30
AN4436 Water History of the Ancient World 30
AN4437 The Hellenistic World 30
CL4419 Magic in the Greco-Roman World: Representations and Realities 30
CL4420 Fame, Tradition and Narrative: Homer's Iliad 30
CL4435 Greek Theatre 30
CL4437 Modern Classics: Classics in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 30
CL4449 After Virgil: The Aeneid and its Reception 30
CL4461 Roman Drama and its Reception 30
CL4463 Travels and Marvels in the Graeco-Roman World 30
CL4465 Gender and Sexuality in Greek Literature 30
CL4466 A People's History of Scottish Classics 30
CL4467 Classics for the Modern World: Interventions and Applications 30
CL4468 Classics and the Left 30
CL4469 Christianity and the Classics: Conflict, Competition, Conservation 30
CL4470 Approaching Women in Greek Tragedy 30
CL4471 Landscape and Environment in Ancient Greek and Roman Literature 30
CL4472 Visualising War and Peace in Antiquity 30
CL4473 Roman Literature and Queer Theory 30
CL4474 In Search of Greece 30
CL4500 Pleasure, Goodness and Happiness: Hellenistic Ethics 30
CL4503 Plato on Love, Virtue and the Symposium 30
CL4504 Justice, Politics and the Good Life: Plato's Republic and its Critics in the Ancient World 30
CL4601 Art of the Roman Empire 30
CL4603 Greek Painted Pottery 30
CL4605 Classical Bodies 30
CL4606 Classical Collections 30
CL4607 Greek Sculpture 30
GK4102 Greek Tragedy 30
GK4109 Greek Literature in the Roman Empire 30
GK4113 Greeks and Barbarians 30
GK4116 Greeks on Education 30
GK4117 Lies, History and Ideology 30
GK4118 Greeks and Romans: Greek Literature and Identity to the Age of Augustus 30
GK4124 The History of Ancient Greek from Homer to the New Testament 30
GK4126 Hellenistic Poetry 30
GK4127 'Satire', Sex and Society: Greek 'Old Comedy' 30
GK4128 The Rest of the Story: Greek Epic after Homer 30
GK4129 Picture This: Intermediality in Ancient Greek Literature and Culture 30
GK4130 The Greek Novels: Identity, Desire and Literary Transformation 30
GK4131 Diversity and Transformations: The Greek Language from the Hellenistic to the Early Modern Period 30
GK4132 Writing like a Hetaira? The (Re-)creation of Female Voices in the Second Sophistic 30
GK4200 Court, Classroom, and Canon: Allegories of Homer in Byzantium 30
GK4201 The Age of Experiment: The World of Hellenistic Prose 30
LT4207 Roman Comedy 30
LT4211 Latin Letters 30
LT4213 Roman Satire 30
LT4215 Senecan Tragedy 30
LT4219 Roman Biography 30
LT4223 Constantinian Latin 30
LT4224 Theodosian Latin 30
LT4226 Africa in Latin Literature 30
LT4227 Horace and You 30
LT4228 Displacement and Empire in Latin Literature 30
LT4229 Writing Roman Civil War 30
LT4230 Augustan Elegy 30
LT4231 Ritual and Religion in Latin Literature 30
LT4232 Drama, Ancient and Early Modern 30
LT4233 Transformed Texts: Rewriting Roman Literature 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
LT3019 Epic Latin: Skills, Theory, Methods 30 AND

Further requirements

Choose between 120 to 160 credits in academic year

MA Latin (Joint Honours) Third and Fourth Year Programme Requirements:

  • 30 credits - LT3019
  • 60 credits - LT4000-LT4989, (LT4998, LT4999 or CL4794 - in Fourth Year only).
  • Further credits: AA4000 - AA4989, AN4000 - AN4989, CL4000 - CL4989, GK4000 - GK4989, LT4000 - LT4989, (ID4002 and CL4990 - in Fourth Year only).
  • Only one of LT4998, LT4999 and CL4794 can be taken.

    In total, 240 credits must be achieved at 3000 and 4000 level, including at least 90 credits and 4000 level.


  • MA (Hons) International Relations (Joint Honours): Fourth Year
    Code Module name Credits
    View list Between 30 and 60 credits from Module List: IR4000 - IR4999, ID4002, SD4225 AND
    IR4024 Breaking Bad: Leadership Over Time in International Relations 30
    IR4099 Honours Dissertation in International Relations 60
    IR4401 Communication in International Relations 15
    IR4504 The Language of Politics 30
    IR4514 Global Public Policy 30
    IR4516 The International Relations of Sub-Saharan Africa 30
    IR4519 Politics and Development in Southeast Asia 30
    IR4522 Critical Approaches to International Security 30
    IR4523 The Aftermath of the Wars: Liberal Dilemmas 30
    IR4526 Extremism, Radicalisation and Terrorism 30
    IR4530 Genocide 30
    IR4532 The Cultural Politics of Human Rights 30
    IR4536 Warmongers and Peacemakers: Religious Actors and Conflict 30
    IR4540 The Changing Character of War 30
    IR4542 Gender and Terrorism 30
    IR4543 Activism and Resistance 30
    IR4544 Wars and Peace in the Caucasus 30
    IR4545 Indian Foreign Policy 30
    IR4546 The Psychology of International Security 30
    IR4548 Force and Statecraft 30
    IR4550 Art and Conflict 30
    IR4552 The Politics of the Environment 30
    IR4553 Europe, America and the Transatlantic 30
    IR4554 Global Aesthetics and Politics 30
    IR4555 Music, Politics and International Relations 30
    IR4560 Faith, Politics, and War: The Augustinian Tradition in IR 30
    IR4561 Security as Ethics: Rethinking the Global Polity 30
    IR4562 The Political Lives of Objects 30
    IR4563 Rebels, Terrorists, Militias: The Comparative Analysis of Armed Groups 30
    IR4564 Strategic Studies 30
    IR4565 Contemporary Political Theory: From Revolution to Recognition 30
    IR4566 Comparative Regionalism 30
    IR4567 The International Criminal Court in World Politics 30
    IR4568 International Relations of Energy and the Environment 30
    IR4569 Geopolitics of Energy in the Caspian Region 30
    IR4570 Everyday Life and Global Politics 30
    IR4571 Conflict and Intervention in World Politics 30
    IR4572 Economy of Anger: Marxism, Psychoanalysis and the Politics of Status 30
    IR4573 Global Economic Governance: Visions and Realities 30
    IR4574 Understanding Terrorism 30
    IR4575 Queer IR, Queering Global Politics 30
    IR4577 Order and Crisis in World Politics 30
    IR4578 The Politics of Nature and Place 30
    IR4579 Race, Caste and the Making of the Modern World 30
    IR4580 The Global Politics of European Integration 30
    IR4581 Debates in Terrorism and Political Violence 30
    IR4582 Prison Violence & Resistance 30
    IR4583 The International Relations of Outer Space 30
    IR4584 Speculative Fiction and Global Politics 30
    IR4585 Politics of Secession 30
    IR4586 Political Violence and Popular Culture 30
    IR4587 Hunting The Lone Wolf: The Rise of Isolated Assassins and Terrorists 30
    IR4588 The Genealogy of Modern Counterinsurgency 30
    IR4589 Intersectionality and Social Justice 30
    IR4590 Critical Perspectives on the Climate Crisis 30
    IR4591 Critical War Studies 30
    IR4592 Decolonising Knowledge: Debates in the Social Sciences 30
    IR4600 Ideologies and Social Movements in the Middle East 30
    IR4601 Political Order and Violence in the Middle East 30
    IR4604 Political Islam and International Relations 30
    IR4606 Propaganda, Persuasion and Information War in the Middle East 30
    IR4607 Britain and Iraq 1914-2004 30
    IR4795 Joint Dissertation (60cr) 60
    ID4002 Communication and Teaching in Arts and Humanities 15
    SD4225 Green Politics: Theory and Practice 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 Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List : IR3000 - IR3999
    IR3004 International Political Economy 30
    IR3006 International Regimes and Organisations 30
    IR3007 Democracy and Democratisation 30
    IR3008 International Terrorism 30
    IR3011 Ethics and World Politics 30
    IR3012 Third World in International Development 30
    IR3021 Case Studies in Conflict Analysis 30
    IR3022 International Relations and International Law 30
    IR3023 US Foreign Policy: The Dilemmas of Power 30
    IR3025 International Security 30
    IR3026 Trauma, Time and Memory in the Politics of Colonialism and Climate Emergency 30
    IR3029 The Logic of Irregular Warfare 30
    IR3030 Human Rights in Theory and Practice 30
    IR3031 Globalisation and the War on Terrorism 30
    IR3032 Globalisation and its Disjunctures 30
    IR3033 Post-Conflict Transition in Sub-Saharan Africa 30
    IR3036 Independent Study in International Relations - Norms in International Relations 30
    IR3037 Independent Study in International Relations - Political Leadership 30
    IR3038 Conflict Management, Settlement, and Resolution 30
    IR3039 International Relations of the European Union 30
    IR3041 International Political Theory 30
    IR3042 Representations of Violent Conflict: Research Seminar 30
    IR3043 Approaches to Counter-Terrorism 30
    IR3044 Pathways of European State Formation 30
    IR3045 Violence in Deeply-Divided Societies 30
    IR3046 Foreign Policy of Modern China 30
    IR3050 State, Power, Crime 30
    IR3051 International Relations Theory: From Fear to Queer 30
    IR3052 The Politics of Violence and Resistance in Latin America 30
    IR3053 Peacebuilding and Post-Conflict Transition in Latin America 30
    IR3054 Mapping the Boundaries of Emerging and Evolving Securities 30
    IR3055 International Relations and the Internet 30
    IR3056 Political Leadership: Theories and History 30
    IR3057 Armaments and International Relations 30
    IR3058 Armed Forces, Societies and Governments: An International Perspective on Civil-Military Relations 30
    IR3060 Rebellion and Revolution 30
    IR3062 The United Nations since 1945 30
    IR3063 Organised Crime and Corruption 30
    IR3064 Critical Terrorism Studies 30
    IR3066 Emotional Encounters: Diplomacy, Power and Persuasion in World Politics 30
    IR3067 The International Criminal Court in World Politics 30
    IR3068 Christianity and World Politics 30
    IR3070 Armed Conflict in Africa 30
    IR3071 Dealing in Darkness? An Anatomy of Realist Thought in International Relations 30
    IR3072 New and Emerging Security Threats in the Caucasus and Central Asia 30
    IR3073 International Institutions and Global Challenges 30
    IR3074 International Relations of Energy and the Environment 30
    IR3075 Leader Personality and Foreign Policy 30
    IR3077 The Motives and Enablers of Terrorist Violence 30
    IR3078 Hot Economics, Cold Politics? International Relations of Northeast Asia 30
    IR3079 Feminist Theories in Global Politics 30
    IR3080 The Northern Ireland Conflict 30
    IR3081 Colonialism and Non-Western Political Thought 30
    IR3082 Contemporary Chinese Nationalism: Ideology, Statecraft, and Diplomacy 30
    IR3083 Foreign Policy Analysis 30
    IR3084 Cultivating Empire: Plantations, Liberation and Ecology in the (Post)colonial Caribbean 30
    IR3085 Social Movements and Civil Resistance 30
    IR3101 Russian Politics and Foreign Policy after Communism 30
    IR3104 The International Relations of Post-Communist Central and Eastern Europe 30
    IR3106 The International System 1870-1945 30
    IR3111 Asian Security 30
    IR3113 Gender and Generation 30
    IR3114 Critical Research Skills 30
    IR3204 Migration in Global Politics: Ethics, Politics, and Practice 30
    IR3205 Intelligence and International Relations in the 20th Century and Beyond 30
    IR3206 The Politics of Postcolonial Forests 30
    IR3207 Wars of Decolonisation 30
    IR3208 The Politics of the European Union 30
    IR3209 State Terror - From the Middle Ages to the Present 30
    IR3210 Technology and Strategy 30
    IR3300 Conflict in the Middle East 30
    IR3301 Politics and State Formation in the Middle East 30
    IR3302 Democracy and Revolution in North Africa 30
    IR3303 The Arab - Israeli Conflict 30
    IR3304 The International, Modernity and Contemporary Gulf Politics 30
    IR3305 Cyber Security and the Global Politics of the Internet 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

    Access to up to thirty 3000-level credits requires the permission of the Adviser of Studies.
    MA (Hons) Latin (Joint Honours): Fourth year
    Code Module name Credits
    ( View list Between 0 and 90 credits from Module List: LT4000 - LT4989, (LT4998, LT4999 or CL4794) AND
    LT4207 Roman Comedy 30
    LT4211 Latin Letters 30
    LT4213 Roman Satire 30
    LT4215 Senecan Tragedy 30
    LT4219 Roman Biography 30
    LT4223 Constantinian Latin 30
    LT4224 Theodosian Latin 30
    LT4226 Africa in Latin Literature 30
    LT4227 Horace and You 30
    LT4228 Displacement and Empire in Latin Literature 30
    LT4229 Writing Roman Civil War 30
    LT4230 Augustan Elegy 30
    LT4231 Ritual and Religion in Latin Literature 30
    LT4232 Drama, Ancient and Early Modern 30
    LT4233 Transformed Texts: Rewriting Roman Literature 30
    LT4999 Latin Dissertation 30
    CL4794 Joint Dissertation (30cr) 30
    LT4998 Dissertation in Latin for Study Abroad Programmes 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 Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List: (ID4002+CL4990),AA4000-AA4989,AN4000-AN4989,CL4000-CL4989(exc CL4794-4795),GK4000-GK4989,LT4000-LT4989 )
    ID4002 Communication and Teaching in Arts and Humanities 15
    CL4990 Teaching and Learning in Classics and Ancient History 15
    AA4003 The Archaeology of Ancient Rome 30
    AA4004 The Archaeology of Identities in the First Millennium BCE Mediterranean World 30
    AA4005 Sanctuaries and the Sacred in the Greek World 30
    AA4006 Early Rome and its Neighbours 30
    AA4008 The World of the Ancient Indian Ocean 30
    AA4121 The Ancient City of Rome 30
    AA4127 In the Footsteps of the Ancients: Exploring the Archaeology and Topography of Greece 30
    AA4130 The Roman Army 30
    AA4145 The Archaeology of Roman Britain 30
    AA4146 The Colours of Ancient Art 30
    AA4425 Networks and Islands: The Archaeology of the Cyclades 30
    AA4426 From the Nile to the Niger: The Kingdoms of Ancient Africa 30
    AN4110 The Culture of Roman Imperialism 30
    AN4146 The Supremacy of Greece: Athens, Sparta and Thebes 479-366 BCE 30
    AN4147 Government and Society under Diocletian 30
    AN4152 Ancient Empires 30
    AN4157 The Environmental History of the Ancient Mediterranean World 30
    AN4158 Local Communities under Empire in Ancient Persia, 550-330 BCE 30
    AN4159 Egypt at the Crossroads: Multiculturalism in Late Antiquity 30
    AN4160 Transformations of the Family, from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages 30
    AN4426 Roman Slavery 30
    AN4428 Eight Scenes from the Life of Alexander 30
    AN4430 Floods, Famines, Plagues and Volcanoes: Roman Adaptation to the Environment 30
    AN4431 Poverty and Social Life in Late Antiquity 30
    AN4432 Magic in the Greco-Roman World 30
    AN4434 Experiencing the Gods in Ancient Greece 30
    AN4436 Water History of the Ancient World 30
    AN4437 The Hellenistic World 30
    CL4419 Magic in the Greco-Roman World: Representations and Realities 30
    CL4420 Fame, Tradition and Narrative: Homer's Iliad 30
    CL4435 Greek Theatre 30
    CL4437 Modern Classics: Classics in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 30
    CL4449 After Virgil: The Aeneid and its Reception 30
    CL4461 Roman Drama and its Reception 30
    CL4463 Travels and Marvels in the Graeco-Roman World 30
    CL4465 Gender and Sexuality in Greek Literature 30
    CL4466 A People's History of Scottish Classics 30
    CL4467 Classics for the Modern World: Interventions and Applications 30
    CL4468 Classics and the Left 30
    CL4469 Christianity and the Classics: Conflict, Competition, Conservation 30
    CL4470 Approaching Women in Greek Tragedy 30
    CL4471 Landscape and Environment in Ancient Greek and Roman Literature 30
    CL4472 Visualising War and Peace in Antiquity 30
    CL4473 Roman Literature and Queer Theory 30
    CL4474 In Search of Greece 30
    CL4500 Pleasure, Goodness and Happiness: Hellenistic Ethics 30
    CL4503 Plato on Love, Virtue and the Symposium 30
    CL4504 Justice, Politics and the Good Life: Plato's Republic and its Critics in the Ancient World 30
    CL4601 Art of the Roman Empire 30
    CL4603 Greek Painted Pottery 30
    CL4605 Classical Bodies 30
    CL4606 Classical Collections 30
    CL4607 Greek Sculpture 30
    GK4102 Greek Tragedy 30
    GK4109 Greek Literature in the Roman Empire 30
    GK4113 Greeks and Barbarians 30
    GK4116 Greeks on Education 30
    GK4117 Lies, History and Ideology 30
    GK4118 Greeks and Romans: Greek Literature and Identity to the Age of Augustus 30
    GK4124 The History of Ancient Greek from Homer to the New Testament 30
    GK4126 Hellenistic Poetry 30
    GK4127 'Satire', Sex and Society: Greek 'Old Comedy' 30
    GK4128 The Rest of the Story: Greek Epic after Homer 30
    GK4129 Picture This: Intermediality in Ancient Greek Literature and Culture 30
    GK4130 The Greek Novels: Identity, Desire and Literary Transformation 30
    GK4131 Diversity and Transformations: The Greek Language from the Hellenistic to the Early Modern Period 30
    GK4132 Writing like a Hetaira? The (Re-)creation of Female Voices in the Second Sophistic 30
    GK4200 Court, Classroom, and Canon: Allegories of Homer in Byzantium 30
    GK4201 The Age of Experiment: The World of Hellenistic Prose 30
    LT4207 Roman Comedy 30
    LT4211 Latin Letters 30
    LT4213 Roman Satire 30
    LT4215 Senecan Tragedy 30
    LT4219 Roman Biography 30
    LT4223 Constantinian Latin 30
    LT4224 Theodosian Latin 30
    LT4226 Africa in Latin Literature 30
    LT4227 Horace and You 30
    LT4228 Displacement and Empire in Latin Literature 30
    LT4229 Writing Roman Civil War 30
    LT4230 Augustan Elegy 30
    LT4231 Ritual and Religion in Latin Literature 30
    LT4232 Drama, Ancient and Early Modern 30
    LT4233 Transformed Texts: Rewriting Roman Literature 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

    MA Latin (Joint Honours) Third and Fourth Year Programme Requirements:

  • 30 credits - LT3019
  • 60 credits - LT4000-LT4989, (LT4998, LT4999 or CL4794 - in Fourth Year only).
  • Further credits: AA4000 - AA4989, AN4000 - AN4989, CL4000 - CL4989, GK4000 - GK4989, LT4000 - LT4989, (ID4002 and CL4990 - in Fourth Year only).
  • Only one of LT4998, LT4999 and CL4794 can be taken.

    In total, 240 credits must be achieved at 3000 and 4000 level, including at least 90 credits and 4000 level.


  • 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 ).