MA Geography and History
Entry requirements
A level: CCC (There are no essential subjects for level 1 entry) IB: 28 points, including 5, 5, 4 at higher level There are no essential subjects for level 1 entry Higher / Advanced Higher, SQA (standard): BBBC (There are no essential subjects for level 1 entry).
About this course
MA (Hons) in History and Geography. Core topics include Statistics, Laboratory Techniques, Research Methods, Fieldwork, and Historical Research. Students can specialise in human geography, physical geography, or combine elements of both. The programme includes field trips and opportunities to work with partner organisations.
Modules
- Environment, City and Society
- Social and Environmental Challenges in an Unequal World
- Humanities in Practice
- Europe and the World, 1450-1800
- Empires, Nations, and Revolutions, 1800-2000
- Dynamic Human Worlds: Society, Culture, Economy
- Dynamic Physical Worlds: Earth, Water and Ice
- Career Planning Module Online
- Internship
- Documenting Dissent: Power, Protest, and Social Justice in the Twentieth Century
- Scotland and the Wider World
- American Culture and Society in Context
- Geographies of Health and Disability
- Geohazards
- Research Methods in Human Geography and Politics
- Field and Laboratory Skills in Physical Geography
- Advanced Field Research (Human Geography)
- Environmental Criminology
- Geographies of Power
- Cities: People, Places and Conflict
- Tourism, Transnationalism and Mobility
- Applying Theory to Research and Practice
- Data-driven Geography: Statistics in R
- Advanced Field Research (Physical Environments)
- Polar Environments
- The Scottish Diaspora, c.1700-1945
- Reading Seventeenth Century Scotland
- Making History Today: The Past in the Present
- The Invasion of America: The Native American Response to the European Colonisation of North America, 1492-1763
- Under Nazi Occupation: resistance and collaboration in Western Europe
- Slavery: History, Memory, Legacy
- Questions of Ulster, 1885 to the present
- America in the Sixties
- The Cold War and Africa
- Sustainable Water Resources Management
- Advanced Environmental Remote Sensing
- Biogeography (Advanced)
- Geography Dissertation
- Advanced Environmental Criminology
- Advanced Geographies of Health and Disability
- Advanced Geohazards
- Geographical Information Systems (Advanced)
- Geographies of Power (Advanced)
- Cities: People, Places and Conflict (Advanced)
- Advanced Tourism, Transnationalism and Mobility
- Polar Environments - Advanced
- History Dissertation
- Revolution in Ireland 1912-23
- Modern South Africa: Apartheid, African liberation and democracy
- The Russian Revolution
- Scotland: Restoration, Revolution and Union, 1660-1707
- The African American Freedom Struggle, 1890-1974
- Settling the Trans-Appalachian West, ca. 1774-1830
- Scottish Nationalism and the Idea of Britain
- Everyday Life in Early Modern Scotland
- Advanced Environmental Assessments