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Master of Arts (Honours) Geography with Social Anthropology


MA (Hons) Geography 'with' 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) 'with' Social Anthropology Degrees: First year
Code Module name Credits
Ways of Thinking 20 AND
Remaining credits from Level 1000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year

It is recommended to take SA1001 in addition to SA1002.

MA (Hons) Geography 'with' 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) 'with' Social Anthropology Degrees: Second year
Code Module name Credits
* The Foundations of Social Anthropology 20 AND
* Ethnographic Encounters 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

  • pass at grade 11 or better in the 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 'with' Degrees: Third year
Code Module name Credits
Developing a Geography Research Proposal 10 AND
View list At least 30 credits from Module List: GG3206 - GG3214 AND
Quantitative Methods for Social Scientists 10
Qualitative Methods for Human Geographers 10
Survey Design 10
GG3209 Spatial Analysis with GIS 10
Remote Sensing 10
Research Design and Methods for Physical Geography 10
Data Analysis for Physical Geography 10
Physical Geography Fieldclass 20
Human Geography Field Course 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 entry for each individual module above
View list At least 40 credits from Module List: GG3100 - GG3302
GG3100 Quaternary Science: Principles and Practice 20
Geographies of Identity and Power 20
HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa 20
Colonial and Postcolonial Geographies 20
GG3229 Environmental Management in Scotland 20
GG3234 Migration and Transnationalism 20
Political and Cultural Geographies of the Border 20
GG3238 Development: voice, power and identity in global times 20
European Population Trends 20
Ice and climate 20
Quaternary Palaeoecology 20
GG3242 Geographies of the Life Course 20
Climate and Weather Systems 20
GG3263 Glaciers and Glaciation 20
GG3264 Oceans and Climate 20
Coastal Processes 20
GG3272 Biogeography and the Earth System 20
GG3273 Scrutinising Segregation: Geographies of Diversity and Inequality 20
GG3274 Socio-Ecological Systems 20
GG3275 Geomorphology: Landscapes, Landforms and Earth Surface Processes 20
Volcanic ash: dispersal, impacts and applications 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 at least 80 credits from Module List GG3100-GG3289 across Years 3 and 4.
MA (Hons) 'with' Social Anthropology Degrees: Third year
Code Module name Credits
View list 30 credits from Module List: SA3000 - SA3499
SA3030 Critical Thinkers and Formative Texts 30
SA3031 Anthropological Study of Language and Culture 30
SA3032 Regional Ethnography 1 30
SA3033 Anthropology of the Cold War 30
SA3049 Perception, Imagination and Communication 30
SA3053 Individuality, Community and Morality 30
SA3055 Anthropology and History 30
SA3057 Sex and Gender 30
SA3059 Colonial and Post-Colonial Representations 30
SA3060 Contemporary Issues in Social Anthropology 30
Reading Ethnography 30
Anthropology, Indigenous Peoples and Resource Extraction 30
SA3064 The Anthropology of Migration 30
SA3065 Anthropology of Economic Life 30
Sorcery and Conspiracy: The Anthropology of Alternate Realities 30
SA3067 Colonial and Postcolonial Medicine 30
SA3068 Anthropology of Global Capitalism 30
The Anthropology of Borders, Boundaries and Frontiers 30
Anthropology of Planetary Health 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


MA (Hons) Geography 'with' Degrees: Fourth year
Code Module name Credits
Single Honours Research Dissertation in Geography 50 AND
View list At least 20 credits from Module List: GG4222 - GG4228 AND
Advanced Qualitative Analysis 20
Advanced Quantitative Analysis 20
Advanced Topics in Physical Sciences 20
Advanced Topics in Geographic Information Science (GISci) 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 entry for each individual module above
View list Between 0 and 50 credits from Module List: GG3100 - GG3302
GG3100 Quaternary Science: Principles and Practice 20
Geographies of Identity and Power 20
HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa 20
Colonial and Postcolonial Geographies 20
GG3229 Environmental Management in Scotland 20
GG3234 Migration and Transnationalism 20
Political and Cultural Geographies of the Border 20
GG3238 Development: voice, power and identity in global times 20
European Population Trends 20
Ice and climate 20
Quaternary Palaeoecology 20
GG3242 Geographies of the Life Course 20
Climate and Weather Systems 20
GG3263 Glaciers and Glaciation 20
GG3264 Oceans and Climate 20
Coastal Processes 20
GG3272 Biogeography and the Earth System 20
GG3273 Scrutinising Segregation: Geographies of Diversity and Inequality 20
GG3274 Socio-Ecological Systems 20
GG3275 Geomorphology: Landscapes, Landforms and Earth Surface Processes 20
Volcanic ash: dispersal, impacts and applications 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 at least 80 credits from Module List GG3100-GG3289 across Years 3 and 4.
Students must take a total of 180 credits in Geography modules across Years 3 and 4.

MA (Hons) 'with' Social Anthropology Degrees: Fourth year
Code Module name Credits
View list 30 credits from Module List: SA4000 - SA4089, SA4400 - SA4899 (except SA4794 - SA4797)
SA4005 The West Indies and the Black Atlantic 30
Visual Anthropology 30
SA4059 Living with Material Culture 30
SA4060 Anthropology of Religion and Politics 30
SA4061 Contagion: Anthropology and Global Health 30
SA4062 Anthropology of Justice 30
Anthropology of Catastrophe 30
SA4064 Anthropology of Energy 30
SA4065 The Anthropology of Art 30
SA4850 Andes 30
Anthropology, Literature and Writing 30
SA4857 West Africa 30
SA4862 Imagining the World: The Anthropology of Consciousness 30
Youth in Africa 30
SA4864 Melanesian Anthropology 30
SA4866 Anthropology and Eurasia 30
Anthropology of Politics and Governance 30
Anthropology of Latin America: Contemporary issues 30
Crisis and Rupture: Theories of social change in the contemporary world 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


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 ).