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Master of Arts (Honours) Geography and Scottish History


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) Scottish History (Joint Honours): First year
Code Module name Credits
Scotland and the English Empire 1070 - 1500 20 AND
( The Fall of Rome and the Origins of Europe (400-1000) 20 OR
The Early Modern Western World (c. 1450 - c. 1770) 20 OR
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
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) Scottish History (Joint Honours): Second year
Code Module name Credits
* Scotland, Britain and Empire (c. 1500 - 2000) 20 AND
( * History as a Discipline: Development and Key Concepts 20 OR
* Medieval Europe (11th - 15th c.) 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 or above at first sitting must be attained in certain requisite 2000 level modules marked * Qualified Entry to Honours requires; a grade of 4.0 or above in each of the requisite modules marked * and passing the Honours Entry examinations for the modules marked * in which a student did not previously achieve a grade of 11.0 or above, such that the conditions for automatic entry to Honours Entry are met when the best grade now achieved in each module marked * is considered. An Honours Entry examination can only be taken in the same academic year as the first completed enrolment in the relevant requisite module.

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) Scottish History (Joint Honours): Third year
Code Module name Credits
View list 60 credits from Modules: ME3140-3159, ME3301-3389, MO3060-3079, MO3160-3179,MO3260-3279,MO3360-3379,MO3460-3479,MO3560-3579,MO3760-3779,
ME3142 The Castle in Medieval Scotland (1100 - 1550) 30
Age of Conquest: Edward I - Scotland and Wales (1239 - 1307) 30
ME3308 Adomnan and his World: Scotland and Ireland in the Dark Ages 30
ME3309 Medieval 91果冻视频 30
Early Irish Society (c. 600-800) 30
Times of trouble: civil conflicts in the later fifteenth century 30
Home and Away: Scandinavians in the First Millennium 30
Pirates and Privateers in Early Modern Scottish History 30
Crown and Nobility in early modern Scotland 30
MO3162 Early Modern Scotland in the age of British Unions (1603-1707) 30
MO3163 Scotland and the Wider World 30
MO3165 North Britons: Patriotism and Identity in Scotland 1680 - 1830 30
MO3166 Debating Britain: Anglo-Scottish Unionism 1521 - 1707 30
British Culture in the Eighteenth Century 30
MO3362 Highland Clearances: Reality and Myth 30
MO3363 Crime, Protest and Policing in Scotland (1780-1914) 30
MO3364 Hidden from History: Women in Scotland 30
Nationalism and Unionism in Modern Scotland 30
MO3461 Britain in the 1920s and 1930s: Aspects of everyday life 30
MO3561 Thatcherism, the 'new right', and the remaking of British politics, c. 1940 - 1997 30
The Power of Persuasion: Propaganda in Renaissance and Reformation Scotland 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

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year

Choices should be made from different module ranges.

Not more than 90 Honours credits may be chosen from modules taught by any one member of staff.
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) Scottish History (Joint Honours): Fourth year
Code Module name Credits
View list 60 credits from Module List: ME4750-ME4789, MO4801 - MO4849 OR
Conflict and Cohabitation: Northern Britain c. 550 - 750 60
The Wars of the Bruces: Kings, Nobles and Commumities in the British Isles (1306 - 1346) 60
ME4756 Historia Brittonum: Inventing the Past in Ninth-Century Wales 60
MO4805 The Scottish Enlightenment 60
Britain and the Thirty Years' War (1618 - 1648) 60
Mary, Queen of Scots, France, England and Ireland 60
Class or Nation? Radical Politics in Twentieth Century Scotland 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: HI4794, HI4997 - HI4999 AND
Joint Dissertation (30cr) 30
Recording the Past 30
Honours Project in History 30
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 entry for each individual module above
View list Between 0 and 30 credits from Modules: ME3140-3159, ME3301-3389, MO3060-3079, MO3160-3179,MO3260-3279,MO3360-3379,MO3460-3479,MO3560-3579,MO3760-3779, AND
ME3142 The Castle in Medieval Scotland (1100 - 1550) 30
Age of Conquest: Edward I - Scotland and Wales (1239 - 1307) 30
ME3308 Adomnan and his World: Scotland and Ireland in the Dark Ages 30
ME3309 Medieval 91果冻视频 30
Early Irish Society (c. 600-800) 30
Times of trouble: civil conflicts in the later fifteenth century 30
Home and Away: Scandinavians in the First Millennium 30
Pirates and Privateers in Early Modern Scottish History 30
Crown and Nobility in early modern Scotland 30
MO3162 Early Modern Scotland in the age of British Unions (1603-1707) 30
MO3163 Scotland and the Wider World 30
MO3165 North Britons: Patriotism and Identity in Scotland 1680 - 1830 30
MO3166 Debating Britain: Anglo-Scottish Unionism 1521 - 1707 30
British Culture in the Eighteenth Century 30
MO3362 Highland Clearances: Reality and Myth 30
MO3363 Crime, Protest and Policing in Scotland (1780-1914) 30
MO3364 Hidden from History: Women in Scotland 30
Nationalism and Unionism in Modern Scotland 30
MO3461 Britain in the 1920s and 1930s: Aspects of everyday life 30
MO3561 Thatcherism, the 'new right', and the remaking of British politics, c. 1940 - 1997 30
The Power of Persuasion: Propaganda in Renaissance and Reformation Scotland 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
View list Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List: ID4002, HI4101 and HI4996 )
ID4002 Communication and Teaching in Arts and Humanities 15
Communication in History 15
Presenting the Past 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

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year

Students must select 60 credits History credits.
With the permission of the Director of Teaching 30 credits in Fourth Year may be replaced by ID4002 and HI4101.
HI4999 requires the permission of the Chair of the Degree Committee.

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 ).