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Master of Arts (Honours) Latin and Modern History


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) Modern History (Joint Honours): First year
Code Module name Credits
MO1007 The Early Modern Western World (c. 1450 - c. 1770) 20 AND
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) 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 ^
MA (Hons) Modern History (Joint Honours): 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 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) 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.

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    MA (Hons) Modern History (Joint Honours): Third year
    Code Module name Credits
    View list 60 credits from Module List: ME3303, MO3001 - MO3795
    MO3005 The Early Reformation in Europe (1517 - 1555) 30
    MO3019 The Life of the Mind: Key Texts in European Thought (1512 - 1697) 30
    MO3025 Empire and Nation: The Development of Colonial British America 1607 - 1770 30
    MO3026 Art and Piety in Western Europe 1400 - 1750 30
    MO3027 Women and Men in Europe (1500 - 1800) 30
    MO3029 The Northern Renaissance 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
    MO3043 Early Modern Rome (1300 - 1667) 30
    MO3047 The Tudors: Power and Piety in Sixteenth-Century England 30
    MO3048 Witches and Witch-Hunting in Early Modern Europe 30
    MO3049 Political Thought From Machiavelli to Tocqueville 30
    MO3050 The Northern World (1523 - 1725) 30
    MO3051 Rethinking the English Reformations 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
    MO3058 Religious Diversity in the Reformation Era: Muslims, Jews, and Eastern Rite Christians 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
    MO3082 Women, Gender and Sexuality in the Early Modern Middle East 30
    MO3110 Slavery and Capitalism in the United States 30
    MO3162 Early Modern Scotland in the Age of British Unions (1603-1707) 30
    MO3166 Debating Britain: Anglo-Scottish Unionism 1521 - 1707 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
    MO3218 The American Revolution 30
    MO3220 The Enlightenment and the World 30
    MO3222 French Fancy and Cool Britannia? Franco-British Cultural Relations from Seven Years' War to French Revolution 30
    MO3224 Society and Culture in the Eighteenth Century Indian Ocean World 30
    MO3264 Microhistories of a Global Nation: Scotland, c.1707– c.1843 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
    MO3323 Splendid Isolation or Continental Commitment? Britain and Europe (1814 - 1914) 30
    MO3325 The Japanese Empire and its Aftermath 1873-1952 (Independent Study) 30
    MO3327 Travel Cultures in Europe in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Independent Study) 30
    MO3329 The Kaiser: Aspects of Emperor Wilhelm II (1859 - 1941) 30
    MO3331 The Victorians: Religion and Respectability 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
    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
    MO3354 Rethinking the World in East Asia 1850s - 1990s 30
    MO3355 Colonising Asia: An Economic Study of Colonialism in Asia and its Consequences 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
    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
    MO3381 French Algeria (1830-1962) 30
    MO3385 Modern Iran from 1834-1941: Enlightenment, Nationalism & Revolution 30
    MO3388 The Asian Economic Miracle: Industrialisation and Globalisation 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
    MO3404 Britain in the Era of the Great War 30
    MO3406 The Soviet Union 30
    MO3410 The Third Reich: History and Historiography 30
    MO3419 The French 'Civil Wars' of the Twentieth Century 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
    MO3427 Russian Imperialism in the 20th and 21st Centuries 30
    MO3461 Britain in the 1920s and 1930s: Aspects of Everyday Life 30
    MO3508 America and Vietnam 30
    MO3513 Heavenly Decade: The 1960s 30
    MO3514 The Life and Times of the Atom Bomb 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
    MO3561 Thatcherism, the 'New Right', and the Remaking of British Politics, c. 1940 - 1997 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
    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

    Not more than 90 Honours credits may be chosen from modules taught by any one member of staff.
    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.

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    MA (Hons) Modern History (Joint Honours): Fourth year
    Code Module name Credits
    View list 60 credits from Module List: MO4801 - MO4995 OR
    MO4805 The Scottish Enlightenment 60
    MO4807 Mary, Queen of Scots, France, England and Ireland 60
    MO4808 Class or Nation? Radical Politics in Twentieth Century Scotland 60
    MO4809 Law and Society in Scotland and its Empire, 1707-1914 60
    MO4810 Approaches to the American Century 60
    MO4850 Britain and Iran in the Modern Era 60
    MO4852 Experiencing the Past in the Middle East 60
    MO4853 Under a Bright Red Star: Iranian Marxism in the 20th Century 60
    MO4854 Equality, Institutions and the Development of the Modern State 60
    MO4855 Law and Society in Scotland and its Empire, 1707-1914 60
    MO4856 The Iranian Revolution and the Genesis of the Islamic Republic, 1977-1981 60
    MO4903 Blood, Glory, Judgement: Early Modern Catholicism 60
    MO4910 'The German Hercules' - Martin Luther and Germany, 1517 - 2000 60
    MO4912 French Absolutism: Richelieu to Louis XIV 60
    MO4914 The German Enlightenment in European Perspectives 60
    MO4932 Russians Making History (1755 - 2000) 60
    MO4936 Bismarck: Biography - Politics - Mythology 60
    MO4937 Charles Darwin and the Politics of Progress 60
    MO4938 Progress and Reform: The United States (1880 - 1930) 60
    MO4939 Civil War and Dictatorship in Spain, 1936 - 1959 60
    MO4940 Britain in the Era of the Great War 60
    MO4949 Modern India: From Empire to Republic (1917 - 1950) 60
    MO4951 Food for Midas: The Global History of Money 60
    MO4952 The Kennedy Years 60
    MO4959 British Cinema History (1920 - 1960) 60
    MO4962 France and Africa in the Twentieth-Century: Colonialism, Anti-Colonialism, Post-Colonialism 60
    MO4965 Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide in Twentieth-Century Europe 60
    MO4967 Elizabethan England: Politics, Religion, and Personalities (1558 - 1603) 60
    MO4968 Curiosity, Empire and Science in Eighteenth-Century Europe 60
    MO4970 Revolutions and Empires (1776 - 1848) 60
    MO4971 From City to Home: Spatial Histories of Modern East and Southeast Asia 60
    MO4972 Understanding Resistance and Protest in Modern India (c.19th - 21st centuries) 60
    MO4973 Twentieth-Century Germany: A Sense of Place 60
    MO4975 Print, Progress and Public Opinion. Towards a New History of Print Culture in Early Modern Europe 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: HI4794, HI4997 - HI4999 AND
    HI4794 Joint Dissertation (30cr) 30
    HI4997 Recording the Past 30
    HI4998 Honours Project in History 30
    HI4999 Honours Dissertation 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 Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List: ME3303, MO3001 - MO3795 AND
    MO3005 The Early Reformation in Europe (1517 - 1555) 30
    MO3019 The Life of the Mind: Key Texts in European Thought (1512 - 1697) 30
    MO3025 Empire and Nation: The Development of Colonial British America 1607 - 1770 30
    MO3026 Art and Piety in Western Europe 1400 - 1750 30
    MO3027 Women and Men in Europe (1500 - 1800) 30
    MO3029 The Northern Renaissance 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
    MO3043 Early Modern Rome (1300 - 1667) 30
    MO3047 The Tudors: Power and Piety in Sixteenth-Century England 30
    MO3048 Witches and Witch-Hunting in Early Modern Europe 30
    MO3049 Political Thought From Machiavelli to Tocqueville 30
    MO3050 The Northern World (1523 - 1725) 30
    MO3051 Rethinking the English Reformations 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
    MO3058 Religious Diversity in the Reformation Era: Muslims, Jews, and Eastern Rite Christians 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
    MO3082 Women, Gender and Sexuality in the Early Modern Middle East 30
    MO3110 Slavery and Capitalism in the United States 30
    MO3162 Early Modern Scotland in the Age of British Unions (1603-1707) 30
    MO3166 Debating Britain: Anglo-Scottish Unionism 1521 - 1707 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
    MO3218 The American Revolution 30
    MO3220 The Enlightenment and the World 30
    MO3222 French Fancy and Cool Britannia? Franco-British Cultural Relations from Seven Years' War to French Revolution 30
    MO3224 Society and Culture in the Eighteenth Century Indian Ocean World 30
    MO3264 Microhistories of a Global Nation: Scotland, c.1707– c.1843 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
    MO3323 Splendid Isolation or Continental Commitment? Britain and Europe (1814 - 1914) 30
    MO3325 The Japanese Empire and its Aftermath 1873-1952 (Independent Study) 30
    MO3327 Travel Cultures in Europe in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Independent Study) 30
    MO3329 The Kaiser: Aspects of Emperor Wilhelm II (1859 - 1941) 30
    MO3331 The Victorians: Religion and Respectability 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
    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
    MO3354 Rethinking the World in East Asia 1850s - 1990s 30
    MO3355 Colonising Asia: An Economic Study of Colonialism in Asia and its Consequences 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
    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
    MO3381 French Algeria (1830-1962) 30
    MO3385 Modern Iran from 1834-1941: Enlightenment, Nationalism & Revolution 30
    MO3388 The Asian Economic Miracle: Industrialisation and Globalisation 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
    MO3404 Britain in the Era of the Great War 30
    MO3406 The Soviet Union 30
    MO3410 The Third Reich: History and Historiography 30
    MO3419 The French 'Civil Wars' of the Twentieth Century 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
    MO3427 Russian Imperialism in the 20th and 21st Centuries 30
    MO3461 Britain in the 1920s and 1930s: Aspects of Everyday Life 30
    MO3508 America and Vietnam 30
    MO3513 Heavenly Decade: The 1960s 30
    MO3514 The Life and Times of the Atom Bomb 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
    MO3561 Thatcherism, the 'New Right', and the Remaking of British Politics, c. 1940 - 1997 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
    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, HI4101 and HI4996 )
    ID4002 Communication and Teaching in Arts and Humanities 15
    HI4101 Communication in History 15
    HI4996 Presenting the Past 30
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    - 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

    HI4999 requires permission from the Chair of the Degree Committee.
    With the permission of the Director of Teaching, 30 credits in Fourth Year may be replaced with ID4002 with HI4101.

    Not more than 90 Honours credits may be chosen from modules taught by any one member of staff.

    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 ).