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Master of Arts (Honours) Geography and Italian


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) Italian (Joint Honours): First Year
Code Module name Credits
(( Introduction to Italian Language 20 AND
Italian Language (Elementary) 20 ) OR
( Italian Language Intermediate 1 10 AND
Italian Language Intermediate 2 10 AND
View list 20 credits from Module List: IT1013, IT1014 )) AND
Italian Geographies 10
Italian Histories 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
Remaining credits from Level 1000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in 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) Italian (Joint Honours): Second Year
Code Module name Credits
Second Level Italian 20 AND
Second Level Italian (Advanced) 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

  • An average grade of 11 in all Italian modules taken

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 - GG3301
GG3100 Quaternary Science: Principles and Practice 20
Single Honours Research Design and Methodology Training (60) 60
Joint Honours Research Design and Methodology Training (30) 30
Research Design and Methodology Training (50) 50
Research Design and Methodology Training (40) 40
GG3221 Geographies of Identity and Power 20
GG3224 HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa 20
Colonial and Postcolonial Geographies 20
Environmental Management in Scotland 20
Migration and Transnationalism 20
GG3237 Political and Cultural Geographies of the Border 20
Development: voice, power and identity in global times 20
GG3240 Ice and climate 20
GG3241 Quaternary Palaeoecology 20
Geographies of the Life Course 20
GG3262 Climate and Weather Systems 20
Glaciers and Glaciation 20
GG3264 Oceans and Climate 20
GG3271 Coastal Processes 20
Biogeography and the Earth System 20
Scrutinising Segregation: Geographies of Diversity and Inequality 20
GG3274 Socio-Ecological Systems 20
GG3275 Geomorphology: Landscapes, Landforms and Earth Surface Processes 20
Special Topic for Joint or Major Honours in Geography (Junior 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, GG4220 - GG4229, ID4001 or ID4002 across third and fourth year.
MA (Hons) Italian (Joint Honours): Third Year
Code Module name Credits
Italian Language 1 15 AND
Italian Language 2 15 AND
View list Between 0 and 60 credits from Module List: IT3003 - IT3099, IT4006 - IT4089, ML3201
Fourteenth Century Literature 15
The Language and Literature of Renaissance Italy 15
IT3019 Contemporary Italian Narrative and Poetry 15
IT3022 Nineteenth-Century Literature 15
IT3035 Italian Detective Fiction 15
IT3036 Venice 15
IT3037 Contemporary Italian Woman Writers 15
IT3038 Primo Levi 15
IT3039 Emigrant Nation 15
IT4010 Early Italian Lyric Poetry 15
Dante Alighieri 15
IT4013 Modern Italy through Cinema 15
IT4014 Female Literary Representations in the Italian Renaissance 15
IT4015 Literary Transvestism in Italian Literature 15
IT4016 Twentieth-Century Italian Canonical and Anti-Canonical Poetry 15
IT4022 Fascist Italy 15
IT4023 Authority and subversion in Renaissance Italy 15
Authority and Subversion in Renaissance Italy 15
IT4025 Foreign Bodies: Migration and Contemporary Italian Culture 15
IT4026 Fascism and Film 15
IT4027 Migration and Transculturality in New Italian Narratives 15
The Twentieth-century Italian Novel 15
IT4029 Black Italians 15
Italian Cinema and Society, 1945-1975 15
Leaving the Factory: Labour and its Others in Modern and Contemporary Italy 15
Travellers and Tourists in Italian Culture 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

Students whose degree has a non Modern Language component should ensure that between 120 credits are taken in Italian over Third and Fourth Year.
Students taking two Modern Languages should take between 90 and 150 credits in Italian over Third and Fourth 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-GG3299, GG3302, GG4301, GG4222 - GG4229
GG3100 Quaternary Science: Principles and Practice 20
Single Honours Research Design and Methodology Training (60) 60
Joint Honours Research Design and Methodology Training (30) 30
Research Design and Methodology Training (50) 50
Research Design and Methodology Training (40) 40
GG3221 Geographies of Identity and Power 20
GG3224 HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa 20
Colonial and Postcolonial Geographies 20
Environmental Management in Scotland 20
Migration and Transnationalism 20
GG3237 Political and Cultural Geographies of the Border 20
Development: voice, power and identity in global times 20
GG3240 Ice and climate 20
GG3241 Quaternary Palaeoecology 20
Geographies of the Life Course 20
GG3262 Climate and Weather Systems 20
Glaciers and Glaciation 20
GG3264 Oceans and Climate 20
GG3271 Coastal Processes 20
Biogeography and the Earth System 20
Scrutinising Segregation: Geographies of Diversity and Inequality 20
GG3274 Socio-Ecological Systems 20
GG3275 Geomorphology: Landscapes, Landforms and Earth Surface Processes 20
Advanced Qualitative Analysis 20
Advanced Quantitative Analysis 20
Advanced Topics in Physical Sciences 20
Advanced Topics in Geographic Information Science (GISci) 20
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, GG4220 - GG4229, ID4001 or ID4002 across third and fourth year.
MA (Hons) Italian (Joint Honours): Fourth Year
Code Module name Credits
Communication Skills 1 15 AND
Communication Skills 2 15 AND
View list Between 0 and 60 credits from Module List: IT3003 - IT3099, IT4005 - IT4089, IT4098, IT4099, ML3201, ML4794, ID4002
Fourteenth Century Literature 15
The Language and Literature of Renaissance Italy 15
IT3019 Contemporary Italian Narrative and Poetry 15
IT3022 Nineteenth-Century Literature 15
IT3035 Italian Detective Fiction 15
IT3036 Venice 15
IT3037 Contemporary Italian Woman Writers 15
IT3038 Primo Levi 15
IT3039 Emigrant Nation 15
IT4010 Early Italian Lyric Poetry 15
Dante Alighieri 15
IT4013 Modern Italy through Cinema 15
IT4014 Female Literary Representations in the Italian Renaissance 15
IT4015 Literary Transvestism in Italian Literature 15
IT4016 Twentieth-Century Italian Canonical and Anti-Canonical Poetry 15
IT4022 Fascist Italy 15
IT4023 Authority and subversion in Renaissance Italy 15
Authority and Subversion in Renaissance Italy 15
IT4025 Foreign Bodies: Migration and Contemporary Italian Culture 15
IT4026 Fascism and Film 15
IT4027 Migration and Transculturality in New Italian Narratives 15
The Twentieth-century Italian Novel 15
IT4029 Black Italians 15
Italian Cinema and Society, 1945-1975 15
Leaving the Factory: Labour and its Others in Modern and Contemporary Italy 15
Travellers and Tourists in Italian Culture 15
IT4098 Dissertation on an Italian Topic 15
Long Dissertation on an Italian Topic 30
Joint Dissertation (30cr) 30
ID4002 Communication and Teaching in Arts and Humanities 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

Students whose degree has a non Modern Language component should ensure that between 120 credits are taken in Italian over Third and Fourth Year.
Students taking two Modern Languages should take between 90 and 150 credits in Italian over Third and Fourth 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 91¹û¶³ÊÓƵ School in the Learning Agreement (see ).