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Master of Arts (Honours) Film Studies and Geography


MA (Hons) Film Studies (Joint Honours): First year
Code Module name Credits
FM1001 Key Concepts in Film Studies 20 AND
FM1002 Global Film History and Historiography 20 AND
Remaining credits from Level 1000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year
MA (Hons) Geography (Joint Honours): First year
Code Module name Credits
GG1001 Climate, Capital, Community: Fundamentals of Global Geography 20 AND
GG1002 Worlds of Crisis and Hope 20 AND
Remaining credits from Level 1000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year
MA (Hons) Film Studies (Joint Honours): Second year
Code Module name Credits
^ FM2002 Film Theory 20 AND
^ FM2003 Screen Cultures Today: Media and Methods 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

  • passes in modules marked ^
MA (Hons) Geography (Joint Honours): Second year
Code Module name Credits
^ GG2013 Geography (I): Space, Time and Changing Landscapes 20 AND
^ GG2014 Geography (II): Nature, Culture and Power 20 AND
^ SD2100 Sustainable Scotland 20

Further requirements

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

Automatic entry to Honours requires

  • passes 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) Film Studies (Joint Honours): Third year
Code Module name Credits
View list 60 credits from Module List: FM4100 - FM4899
FM4102 Cinema and Politics 30
FM4104 Film and History 30
FM4106 War and Cinema 30
FM4107 Cinema and Nation 30
FM4108 Cinema and Media in the Digital Age 30
FM4109 Film and the Archive 30
FM4113 Ecocinema: The Nature of Film 30
FM4114 Film Genres 30
FM4115 Sensory Cinema 30
FM4116 Stars 30
FM4119 Horror on Screen 30
FM4120 Silent Cinema 30
FM4121 Screen Comedy 30
FM4122 Watching the Detectives: Murder, Mystery and the Media 30
FM4123 Artists' Film and Video 30
FM4124 Race and Representation 30
FM4126 Creativity in Screen Cultures: Collaboration, Labour and Scholarship 30
FM4127 Animation 30
FM4128 Television Form and Culture 30
FM4129 Film Materiality 30
FM4130 Cinema and Neoliberalism 30
FM4131 Cinema and Travel 30
FM4132 Disability Film and Media 30
FM4133 Cinema Exhibition and Spectatorship 30
FM4134 Queer and Trans Cinema 30
FM4135 Film Collectives 30
FM4204 Asian Cinemas 30
FM4303 Documentary Cinema 30
FM4306 Feminist Film Studies 30
FM4308 Film Sound 30
FM4309 The Audiovisual Essay: Forms and Practice 30
FM4794 Joint Dissertation (30cr) 30
FM4796 Joint Project (30cr) 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 module catalogue entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

Choose between 120 to 160 credits in academic year

With the permission of the Director of Teaching of Film Studies and the relevant Head of School a student may substitute 30 Level-4000 Film Studies credits for another subject.
MA (Hons) Geography (Joint Honours): Third year
Code Module name Credits
View list Between 0 and 120 credits from Module List: GG3205 - GG4296
GG3205 Developing a Geography Research Proposal 10
GG3206 Quantitative Methods for Social Scientists 10
GG3207 Qualitative Methods for Human Geographers 10
GG3208 Survey Design 10
GG3209 Spatial Analysis with GIS 10
GG3210 Remote Sensing 10
GG3211 Research Design and Methods for Physical Geography 10
GG3212 Data Analysis for Physical Geography 10
GG3213 Physical Geography Fieldclass 20
GG3214 Human Geography Field Course 20
GG3215 Secondary and Archival Data 10
GG3280 Geopolitics 30
GG3281 Quaternary Environmental Change 30
GG3283 Migration and Mobilities 30
GG4243 Geographies of Race, Racialisation and Racism 30
GG4244 Decolonial Geographies 30
GG4245 Biogeography and the Earth System 30
GG4246 Geographies of Disability 30
GG4247 Geographies of Health in sub-Saharan Africa 30
GG4248 The Nature of Political Ecology 30
GG4249 Placing Peru: A Decolonial Development Geography 30
GG4250 Diversity, Inequality and Place 30
GG4251 Volcanic Ash: Dispersal, Impacts and Applications 30
GG4252 Ice and Climate 30
GG4253 Cultural Geographies of Climate Activism 30
GG4254 Health and Social Inequalities Across the Life Course 30
GG4255 Geographies of Urban Housing 30
GG4256 Coastal Processes 30
GG4257 Urban Analytics: A Toolkit for Sustainable Urban Development 30
GG4258 Water in the Environment 30
GG4259 Glaciology 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 module catalogue entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

Choose between 120 to 160 credits in academic year

Students must have at least 120 Geography honours credits in total by the end of their honours programme.
MA (Hons) Film Studies (Joint Honours): Fourth year
Code Module name Credits
View list 60 credits from Module List: FM4000 - FM4899
FM4099 Film Studies Dissertation 30
FM4102 Cinema and Politics 30
FM4104 Film and History 30
FM4106 War and Cinema 30
FM4107 Cinema and Nation 30
FM4108 Cinema and Media in the Digital Age 30
FM4109 Film and the Archive 30
FM4113 Ecocinema: The Nature of Film 30
FM4114 Film Genres 30
FM4115 Sensory Cinema 30
FM4116 Stars 30
FM4119 Horror on Screen 30
FM4120 Silent Cinema 30
FM4121 Screen Comedy 30
FM4122 Watching the Detectives: Murder, Mystery and the Media 30
FM4123 Artists' Film and Video 30
FM4124 Race and Representation 30
FM4126 Creativity in Screen Cultures: Collaboration, Labour and Scholarship 30
FM4127 Animation 30
FM4128 Television Form and Culture 30
FM4129 Film Materiality 30
FM4130 Cinema and Neoliberalism 30
FM4131 Cinema and Travel 30
FM4132 Disability Film and Media 30
FM4133 Cinema Exhibition and Spectatorship 30
FM4134 Queer and Trans Cinema 30
FM4135 Film Collectives 30
FM4204 Asian Cinemas 30
FM4303 Documentary Cinema 30
FM4306 Feminist Film Studies 30
FM4308 Film Sound 30
FM4309 The Audiovisual Essay: Forms and Practice 30
FM4794 Joint Dissertation (30cr) 30
FM4796 Joint Project (30cr) 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 module catalogue entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year

With the permission of the Director of Teaching of Film Studies and the relevant Head of School a student may substitute 30 Level-4000 Film Studies credits for another subject.
MA (Hons) Geography (Joint Honours): Fourth year
Code Module name Credits
View list Between 0 and 120 credits from Module List: GG3205 - GG4399
GG3205 Developing a Geography Research Proposal 10
GG3206 Quantitative Methods for Social Scientists 10
GG3207 Qualitative Methods for Human Geographers 10
GG3208 Survey Design 10
GG3209 Spatial Analysis with GIS 10
GG3210 Remote Sensing 10
GG3211 Research Design and Methods for Physical Geography 10
GG3212 Data Analysis for Physical Geography 10
GG3213 Physical Geography Fieldclass 20
GG3214 Human Geography Field Course 20
GG3215 Secondary and Archival Data 10
GG4243 Geographies of Race, Racialisation and Racism 30
GG4244 Decolonial Geographies 30
GG4245 Biogeography and the Earth System 30
GG4246 Geographies of Disability 30
GG4247 Geographies of Health in sub-Saharan Africa 30
GG4248 The Nature of Political Ecology 30
GG4249 Placing Peru: A Decolonial Development Geography 30
GG4250 Diversity, Inequality and Place 30
GG4251 Volcanic Ash: Dispersal, Impacts and Applications 30
GG4252 Ice and Climate 30
GG4253 Cultural Geographies of Climate Activism 30
GG4254 Health and Social Inequalities Across the Life Course 30
GG4255 Geographies of Urban Housing 30
GG4256 Coastal Processes 30
GG4257 Urban Analytics: A Toolkit for Sustainable Urban Development 30
GG4258 Water in the Environment 30
GG4259 Glaciology 30
GG4260 Social Infrastructure and Urban (Re)development 30
GG4302 Data Science in Society and Space 30
GG4303 Advanced Qualitative Analysis 30
GG4304 Advanced Analysis in Physical Geography 30
GG4305 Environmental Geography: Advanced Analysis across Human and Physical Geography 30
GG4328 Spatial Analysis for Social and Environmental Research 30
GG4399 Research Dissertation in Geography 30
GG3280 Geopolitics 30
GG3281 Quaternary Environmental Change 30
GG3283 Migration and Mobilities 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 module catalogue entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year

Students must have at least 120 Geography honours credits in total by the end of their honours programme.

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 58吃瓜 School in the Learning Agreement (see ).