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Master of Arts (Honours) Sustainable Development


MA (Hons) Sustainable Development: First Year
Code Module name Credits
What is Sustainable Development? 20 AND
Sustainable Development Goals: Challenges & Opportunities 20 AND
80 credits from Level 1000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year

Sufficient credits from 2000-level modules in a partner subject with passes at the grade required to permit entry to Honours in that subject (exceptions to this may only be made with the permission of the relevant Director of Teaching).

MA (Hons) Sustainable Development: Second Year
Code Module name Credits
* Sustainable Development: Frameworks for Implementation 30 AND
* Sustainable Development: Tools for Action 30 AND
60 credits from Levels 1000 and 2000 options AND

Further requirements

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

Sufficient credits from 2000-level modules in a partner subject with passes at the grade required to permit entry to Honours in that subject (exceptions to this may only be made with the permission of the relevant Director of Teaching).

1. Partner subjects Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Divinity, English, Film Studies, Geography, History, International Relations, Management, Mathematics & Statistics, Modern Languages, Psychology, Social Anthropology.

2. Honours modules for which SD2001 and SD2002, and entry into Sustainable Development Honours Programme is sufficient qualification include:
Biology: BL3000*; BL3308*; BL3309*; BL3316; BL3318; BL3320; BL4249; BL4254; BL4255; BL4258; BL4260; BL4262; BL4266; BL4268; BL4270; BL4274; BL4275; BL4278; BL4280; BL4281; BL4282; BL4284; BL4285; BL4301; (* The corequisites for these modules may be waived for Sustainable Development students);
English: EN3202;
Film Studies: FM4110, FM4113 with permission of module coordinator;
Geography GG3100, GG3221, GG3224, GG3227, GG3229, GG3232, GG3234, GG3237, GG3238, GG3239, GG3240, GG3241, GG3262, GG3263, GG3264, GG3271, GG3272, GG3273, GG3274;
Interdisciplinary: ID4001; ID4002;
Management: MN4227, MN4238, MN4266;
Modern History: MO3334, MO3338.

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) Sustainable Development: Third Year
Code Module name Credits
Contesting sustainability 30 AND
Methodologies for Sustainable Development 30 AND
View list Between 30 and 60 credits from Module List: SD3100, SD3111, SD4110-SD4226 AND
Methodologies for Sustainable Development 30
SD3111 Home and Energy Geographies 30
Transitioning to sustainability: community, nature and governance 30
SD4111 Governance for Sustainability 30
SD4114 Society, Sustainable Consumption and Implementing Change 30
SD4115 The Nature of Political Ecology 30
SD4116 Building sustainable, inclusive and just cities 30
The Blue Economy and Maritime Security Intersections and Interdependence 30
Extractive Environments 30
Green Politics: theory and practice 30
Global Health Disparities 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: Sustainable Development Partner Modules
Field Course 10
Methods in Aquatic Biology 20
Ecosystems and Conservation 20
Co-evolution: living together 20
Biology of Marine Organisms 20
Statistical and Quantitative Skills for Biologists 10
Tropical Marine Biology 15
Fisheries Research 15
BL4255 Marine and Environmental Biotechnology 15
Foraging in Marine Mammals 15
BL4260 Biological Oceanography 15
Environmental Drivers of Marine Habitats 15
Conservation Research Methods 15
Science Communication of Biodiversity and Conservation 15
Plant-environment Interactions 15
Animal Communication and Cognition 15
Evolutionary Developmental Biology 15
BL4275 Evolution in Action 15
Biology of Dinosaurs and Other Extinct Vertebrates 15
Animal Communication and Cognition 15
Biology and Behaviour of Social Insects 15
Complex Systems in Animal Behaviour 15
Polar Ecology: Antarctica 15
Literature and Ecology 30
FM4110 Images and Impact: The Uses of Film 30
Ecocinema: The Nature of Film 30
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
European Population Trends 20
Ice and climate 20
Quaternary Palaeoecology 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
ID4001 Communication and Teaching in Science 15
ID4002 Communication and Teaching in Arts and Humanities 15
Corporate Social Responsibility, Accountability and Reporting 20
Sustainable Development and Management 20
Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs): Contexts, Contributions, and Challenges 20
MO3334 Nature and Society in Victorian Britain 30
Disease and the Environment (c. 1500 - 2000) 30
Anthropology, Indigenous Peoples and Resource Extraction 30
GG3238 Development: voice, power and identity in global times 20
Special Topic for Honours in Geography (Senior Honours) 10
Volcanic ash: dispersal, impacts and applications 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

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year

By the end of Year 4 students should have at least 120 credits in SD coded modules at 3000 and 4000 level, 90 of which must be at 4000 level.


MA (Hons) Sustainable Development: Fourth Year
Code Module name Credits
Dissertation in Sustainable Development 30 AND
View list Between 0 and 90 credits from Module List: SD3100, SD3111, SD4110-SD4226 AND
Methodologies for Sustainable Development 30
SD3111 Home and Energy Geographies 30
Transitioning to sustainability: community, nature and governance 30
SD4111 Governance for Sustainability 30
SD4114 Society, Sustainable Consumption and Implementing Change 30
SD4115 The Nature of Political Ecology 30
SD4116 Building sustainable, inclusive and just cities 30
The Blue Economy and Maritime Security Intersections and Interdependence 30
Extractive Environments 30
Green Politics: theory and practice 30
Global Health Disparities 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 90 credits from Module List: Sustainable Development Partner Modules
Field Course 10
Methods in Aquatic Biology 20
Ecosystems and Conservation 20
Co-evolution: living together 20
Biology of Marine Organisms 20
Statistical and Quantitative Skills for Biologists 10
Tropical Marine Biology 15
Fisheries Research 15
BL4255 Marine and Environmental Biotechnology 15
Foraging in Marine Mammals 15
BL4260 Biological Oceanography 15
Environmental Drivers of Marine Habitats 15
Conservation Research Methods 15
Science Communication of Biodiversity and Conservation 15
Plant-environment Interactions 15
Animal Communication and Cognition 15
Evolutionary Developmental Biology 15
BL4275 Evolution in Action 15
Biology of Dinosaurs and Other Extinct Vertebrates 15
Animal Communication and Cognition 15
Biology and Behaviour of Social Insects 15
Complex Systems in Animal Behaviour 15
Polar Ecology: Antarctica 15
Literature and Ecology 30
FM4110 Images and Impact: The Uses of Film 30
Ecocinema: The Nature of Film 30
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
European Population Trends 20
Ice and climate 20
Quaternary Palaeoecology 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
ID4001 Communication and Teaching in Science 15
ID4002 Communication and Teaching in Arts and Humanities 15
Corporate Social Responsibility, Accountability and Reporting 20
Sustainable Development and Management 20
Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs): Contexts, Contributions, and Challenges 20
MO3334 Nature and Society in Victorian Britain 30
Disease and the Environment (c. 1500 - 2000) 30
Anthropology, Indigenous Peoples and Resource Extraction 30
GG3238 Development: voice, power and identity in global times 20
Special Topic for Honours in Geography (Senior Honours) 10
Volcanic ash: dispersal, impacts and applications 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

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year

Further credits: 3000- or 4000-level modules in the partner subject (or honours modules in the list in the Programme Requirements) to a total of 120 for the Year.

By the end of Year 4 students should have at least 120 credits in SD coded modules at 3000 and 4000 level, 90 of which must be at 4000 level.


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 ).