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Master of Arts (Honours) Psychology with Geography


MA (Hons) 'with' Geography Degrees: 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) Psychology with Geography (Psychology element): First year
Code Module name Credits
Psychology 1 20 AND
Psychology 2 20 AND
Remaining credits from Level 1000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year


MA (Hons) 'with' Geography Degrees: Second year
Code Module name Credits
* Geographies of Global Change 30 AND
* (Re)constructing environments, people and places 30 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

  • pass and have an average grade 11 or better in modules marked *
MA (Hons) Psychology with Geography (Psychology element): Second year
Code Module name Credits
^ Psychology 1 30 AND
^ Psychology 2 30 AND

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 ^

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) 'with' Geography Degrees: Third year
Code Module name Credits
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 select 60 credits from 3 modules in range GG3221-GG3289 across Year 3 and 4.
MA (Hons) Psychology with Geography (Psychology element): Third year
Code Module name Credits
View list 40 credits from Module List: PS3021, PS3022, PS4040 AND
Research Design and Analysis 1 15
Research Design and Analysis 2 15
Psychology Review 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
View list Between 0 and 40 credits from Module List: PS3031 - PS3034 AND
Conceptual Issues and Theoretical Perspectives 10
Assessment in Clinical Psychology 10
Developmental Psychology 10
Social Psychology 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
( Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience 10 OR
Evolutionary and Comparative Psychology 10 ) AND
( Perception 10 OR
Cognition 10 )

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year

Third Year:

40 credits: PS3021 and PS3022 and PS4040
60 credits: PS3031-PS3034,(PS3035 or PS3036), (PS3037 or PS3038), although 20 of these credits may be taken in Fourth Year.

MA (Hons) 'with' Geography Degrees: Fourth year
Code Module name Credits
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 select 60 credits from 3 modules in range GG3221-GG3289 across Year 3 and 4.
MA (Hons) Psychology with Geography (Psychology element): Fourth year
Code Module name Credits
View list 20 credits from Module List: PS3031 - PS3034, (PS3035 or PS3036 or PN3313), (PS3037 or PS3038) AND
Conceptual Issues and Theoretical Perspectives 10
Assessment in Clinical Psychology 10
Developmental Psychology 10
Social Psychology 10
Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience 10
Evolutionary and Comparative Psychology 10
Neuroscience 20
Perception 10
Cognition 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
(( View list 30 credits from Module List: PS4050, PS4796, PN4299, PS4299, PS4797 AND
Psychology Project (30) 30
Joint Project (30cr) 30
Neuroscience Research Project 60
Psychology Project (60) 60
Joint Project (60cr) 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 entry for each individual module above
View list 30 credits from Module List: PS4060 - PS4199 ) OR
Review Essay 15
PS4065 Vision: from Neurons to Awareness 15
Group Behaviour 15
Behavioural Neuroscience 15
Cognitive Psychology and the Emotional Disorders 15
Sex Differences and Gender Development 15
Psychology of Music 15
Psychology of Art: Aesthetics and individual differences in visual function 15
Evolution and Development of Social and Technical Intelligence 15
Origins and Evolution of Mind Reading (Theory of Mind) 15
Neural Basis of Episodic Memory 15
Face Perception and Human Attraction 15
Computer-aided Research 15
The Psychology of Dementia 15
Communicating Psychology and Neuroscience 15
Psychopathology 15
Mechanisms of Behaviour: Integrating Psychological and Neuroscience Perspectives 15
Research Methods in Cognitive Neuroscience 15
The Psychology of Terrorism 15
PS4101 Selves and Identities 15
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
View list 60 credits from Module List: PN4299, PS4299, PS4797 ) AND
Psychology Project (60) 60
Neuroscience Research Project 60
Joint Project (60cr) 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 entry for each individual module above
View list Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List: PS3000-PS4199, PN3300 - PN4235
PS3007 Perception, Cognition and Action 15
PS3008 Brain and Behaviour 1 15
PS3009 Brain and Behaviour 2 15
PS3010 Social, Evolutionary and Developmental Psychology 1 15
PS3011 Social, Evolutionary and Developmental Psychology 2 15
PS3012 Conceptual Issues and Individual Differences in Psychology 15
Research Design and Analysis 1 15
Research Design and Analysis 2 15
Conceptual Issues and Theoretical Perspectives 10
Assessment in Clinical Psychology 10
Developmental Psychology 10
Social Psychology 10
Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience 10
Evolutionary and Comparative Psychology 10
Perception 10
Cognition 10
PS3901 Neuropsychology 30
Theoretical Perspectives in Psychology 30
PS3990 Social and Evolutionary Psychology 15
PS3993 Social and Evolutionary Psychology (97) 15
PS3994 Perceptual Processes (1998) 15
Psychology Review 10
Psychology Project (30) 30
Review Essay 15
PS4065 Vision: from Neurons to Awareness 15
Group Behaviour 15
Behavioural Neuroscience 15
Cognitive Psychology and the Emotional Disorders 15
Sex Differences and Gender Development 15
Psychology of Music 15
Psychology of Art: Aesthetics and individual differences in visual function 15
Evolution and Development of Social and Technical Intelligence 15
Origins and Evolution of Mind Reading (Theory of Mind) 15
Neural Basis of Episodic Memory 15
Face Perception and Human Attraction 15
Computer-aided Research 15
The Psychology of Dementia 15
Communicating Psychology and Neuroscience 15
Psychopathology 15
Mechanisms of Behaviour: Integrating Psychological and Neuroscience Perspectives 15
Research Methods in Cognitive Neuroscience 15
The Psychology of Terrorism 15
PS4101 Selves and Identities 15
Pharmacology 20
Neuroscience 20
PN3321 Advanced Critical Analysis Reading Party 10
Neurodegeneration and Aging 15
Neuromodulation 15
Synaptic Transmission 15
Motoneurons: From Physiology to Pathology 15
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



If less than 60 credits were taken from (PS3031 - PS3034, PS3035 - PS3038) further credits must be selected in Year 4 reach 60 credits from these modules across Third and Fourth Year.

A total of between 160 and 180 credits must be obtained from PS3000-PS4199 across Third and Fourth Years.

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 91¹û¶³ÊÓƵ School in the Learning Agreement (see ).