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Master of Arts (Honours) Geography and Sustainable Development


MA (Hons) Geography (Joint Honours): First year
Code Module name Credits
Welcome to the Anthropocene: Society, Population, Environment 20 AND
A World in Crisis? 20 AND
Remaining credits from Level 1000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year
MA (Hons) Sustainable Development (Joint Honours): First Year
Code Module name Credits
What is Sustainable Development? 20 AND
Sustainable Development Goals: Challenges & Opportunities 20 AND
Remaining credits from Level 1000 options
Please balance your choices across the academic year.
MA (Hons) Geography (Joint Honours): Second year
Code Module name Credits
* Geographies of Global Change 30 AND
* (Re)constructing environments, people and places 30

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year
Choose a minimum of 80 Level 2000 credits

Automatic entry to Honours requires

  • pass and have an average grade 11 or better in modules marked *
MA (Hons) Sustainable Development (Joint Honours): Second Year
Code Module name Credits
~ Sustainable Development: Frameworks for Implementation 30 AND
~ Sustainable Development: Tools for Action 30 AND
Remaining credits from Levels 1000 and 2000 options
Please balance your choices across the academic year.

Automatic entry to Honours requires

  • pass and have an average grade 11 or better 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.

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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 (Joint Honours): Third year
Code Module name Credits
Joint Honours Research Design and Methodology Training (30) 30 AND
View list Between 0 and 60 credits from Module List: GG3100, GG3321 - GG3302
Reconstructing Past Environments 20
Geographies of Identity and Power 20
HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa 20
GG3225 Managing Modern Cities: Strategies for Competitiveness, Sustainability and Social Justice 20
GG3226 Population Studies: Europe before 1914 20
GG3227 Colonial and Postcolonial Geographies 20
GG3229 Environmental Management in Scotland 20
GG3231 The Economic Geography of Homes and Neighbourhoods 20
GG3232 Housing, Community and Social-Spatial Justice 20
GG3233 Transport and Sustainability 20
GG3234 Migration and Transnationalism 20
GG3236 The Geography of Entrepreneurship and Self-employment 20
Political and Cultural Geographies of the Border 20
GG3238 Development: voice, power and identity in global times 20
Ice and climate 20
Quaternary Palaeoecology 20
GG3260 Periglacial Geomorphology 20
GG3261 Quaternary Geomorphology of Scotland 20
GG3262 Climate and Weather Systems 20
GG3263 Glaciers and Glaciation 20
GG3264 Oceans and Climate 20
GG3265 The Science of Climate Change 20
GG3266 Rivers and Floodplains 20
GG3267 Ecosystem Ecology 20
GG3268 Reconstructing Global Climate since the Romans 20
GG3269 Geochronology: Dating the Quaternary and Beyond 20
GG3270 Understanding and Interpreting Environmental Models 20
Coastal Processes 20
GG3272 Biogeography and the Earth System 20
GG3273 Scrutinising Segregation: Geographies of Diversity and Inequality 20
Socio-Ecological Systems 20
Special Topic for Joint or Major Honours in Geography (Junior Honours) 10
Special Topic for Honours in Geography (Senior Honours) 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 entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year

Students must take between 90 and 150 credits from modules GG3110 - GG3289, GG3302, GG4297, GG4301, SG4220 - SG4229, ID4001 or ID4002 across third and fourth year.
MA (Hons) Sustainable Development (Joint Honours): Third Year
Code Module name Credits
Methodologies for Sustainable Development 30 AND
View list At least 30 credits from Module List: SD3110 - SD3111, SD4110 - SD4113
Environmental Economics 30
SD3111 Home & Energy Geographies 30
Transitioning to sustainability: community, nature and governance 30
SD4111 Governance for Sustainability 30
Global Energy Politics 30
SD4113 Environment and Development Economics 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 entry for each individual module above
30 credits are normally taken from SD3110 or SD3111 but these credits can be taken from SD4110 鈥� SD4113 with the permission of the advisor of studies.

Please balance your choices across the academic year.
MA (Hons) Geography (Joint Honours): Fourth year
Code Module name Credits
Joint Honours Research Dissertation in Geography 30 AND
View list At least 20 credits from Module List: GG3100, GG3220 - GG3302, SG3220 - SG3295, SG4221 - SG4229, EG3020 - EG4020, ES4031
Reconstructing Past Environments 20
Geographies of Identity and Power 20
HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa 20
GG3225 Managing Modern Cities: Strategies for Competitiveness, Sustainability and Social Justice 20
GG3226 Population Studies: Europe before 1914 20
GG3227 Colonial and Postcolonial Geographies 20
GG3229 Environmental Management in Scotland 20
GG3231 The Economic Geography of Homes and Neighbourhoods 20
GG3232 Housing, Community and Social-Spatial Justice 20
GG3233 Transport and Sustainability 20
GG3234 Migration and Transnationalism 20
GG3236 The Geography of Entrepreneurship and Self-employment 20
Political and Cultural Geographies of the Border 20
GG3238 Development: voice, power and identity in global times 20
Ice and climate 20
Quaternary Palaeoecology 20
GG3260 Periglacial Geomorphology 20
GG3261 Quaternary Geomorphology of Scotland 20
GG3262 Climate and Weather Systems 20
GG3263 Glaciers and Glaciation 20
GG3264 Oceans and Climate 20
GG3265 The Science of Climate Change 20
GG3266 Rivers and Floodplains 20
GG3267 Ecosystem Ecology 20
GG3268 Reconstructing Global Climate since the Romans 20
GG3269 Geochronology: Dating the Quaternary and Beyond 20
GG3270 Understanding and Interpreting Environmental Models 20
Coastal Processes 20
GG3272 Biogeography and the Earth System 20
GG3273 Scrutinising Segregation: Geographies of Diversity and Inequality 20
Socio-Ecological Systems 20
Special Topic for Joint or Major Honours in Geography (Junior Honours) 10
Special Topic for Honours in Geography (Senior Honours) 10
SG3235 Science, Society and Natural Resource Management 20
SG3272 Socio-ecological systems 20
SG3273 Remote Sensing for Environmental and Social Research 20
SG3274 Landscape Ecology and Sustainable Science 20
Review Essay 20
Advanced Qualitative Analysis 20
Advanced Quantitative Analysis 20
Advanced Topics in Physical Sciences 20
Advanced Topics in Geographic Information Science (GISci) 20
Global Climate Change 15
Special Topic for Physical Geography 5
Special Environmental Topic for Physical Geography 5
EG4020 Geochronology 15
Analytical Sciences 5
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 entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year

Students must take between 90 and 150 credits from modules GG3110 - GG3289, GG3302, GG4297, GG4301, SG4220 - SG4229, ID4001 or ID4002 across third and fourth year.
MA (Hons) Sustainable Development (Joint Honours): Fourth Year
Code Module name Credits
View list 60 credits from Module List: SD4110 - SD4297, SD3110 - SD3111
Transitioning to sustainability: community, nature and governance 30
SD4111 Governance for Sustainability 30
Global Energy Politics 30
SD4113 Environment and Development Economics 30
SD4121 Sustainability in Practice 10
Dissertation in Sustainable Development 30
Environmental Economics 30
SD3111 Home & Energy Geographies 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 entry for each individual module above
30 credits from SD4110 - SD4927 but these credits can be replaced with SD3110 or SD3111 with the permission of the advisor of studies.

Please balance your choices across the 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 91果冻视频 School in the Learning Agreement (see ).