2021 Undergraduate Prospectus
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2021 Undergraduate Prospectus Visit us 2 Welcome to St Andrews 36 Faculty information Experience St Andrews for yourself by 4 Degree structure 42 Academic subjects coming to one of our Visiting Days. 6 Choosing your subjects Find out more about the town, University 132 Modern Languages triple and your subject(s) of choice. It is also a great 8 Life in St Andrews subject combinations opportunity to meet academics, Admissions 12 Traditions staff and some of our students. 162 Applying to St Andrews 14 Sport 164 Your qualifications www.st-andrews.ac.uk/visiting 16 Music 166 Academic entry explained 1 April 2020 30 September 2020 18 Accommodation 8 April 2020 7 October 2020 168 Fees, funding and scholarships 22 Support and welfare 15 April 2020 14 October 2020 28 October 2020 24 Study facilities 170 Where is St Andrews? 4 November 2020 26 Your future 172 Joint degree combinations 28 Study abroad 175 Subject index 30 BA (International Honours) 176 Map of St Andrews 32 International students TOP IN TOP IN SCOTLAND SCOTLAND 3RD IN 3RD IN THE UK THE UK Guardian The Complete University Guide 2020 University Guide 2020 View from West Sands Welcome and thank you for considering St Andrews as your university. The University of St Andrews offers you an outstanding opportunity in higher education, and membership of a university community that will be yours for life. The University stands for quality. We are world-leading, diverse, global, and entrepreneurial, and we put the student experience at the heart of all we do. St Andrews was ranked first in the annual National Student Survey 2019 for student academic experience, and this is the twelfth time since the survey started in 2005 that we have come out first or second. So if you come here you will be joining a university that looks after its students, takes them seriously, and gives them an unbeatable start, or continuation, in adult life. Our approach to learning and teaching is a mix of traditional and new. In every subject we make you familiar with the knowledge and theories that are essential to an understanding of the discipline while giving you a chance to develop practical uses for the knowledge you acquire. From this starting point we expect our students increasingly to design their own studies, by selecting options and undertaking research-based activities with support from academic staff. This prospectus and the University website are here to give you all the information you need to make an informed choice about your future. You will find that St Andrews has a strong sense of community, locally, nationally, and internationally, and that our activities are underpinned by a deep commitment to social responsibility. Similarly, the University is a mix of the dynamically modern and the evocatively medieval. We invest continually in our facilities and our student accommodation; but we pride ourselves on being Scotland’s oldest university, with a unique and much cherished set of traditions. The University’s Strategy for 2018-2023 (www.st-andrews.ac.uk/about/governance/ university-strategy) sets out how we will build on our successes. St Andrews is where you can fully become the person you want to be. We will challenge you but we will also support you. You will meet here people who will become your friends for the rest of your life; and you will study subjects that change the way you think about the world. I know that what you read in these pages and on our website will really help you to make the decision about your choice of university, and I hope that we will be able to welcome you as one of our students, and one of our future alumni. Professor Sally Mapstone FRSE Principal and Vice-Chancellor 2 3 Studying at St Andrews offers you the Degree opportunity to learn at one of the most extraordinary universities in the world. structure Most of our degree programmes are four years long and the flexible degree structure allows you to study multiple subjects. The four-year structure for most of our degree programmes allows you to study a broader range of subjects before settling on your choice of degree. You are able to study three subjects in first year and two or three in second year (depending on your Faculty). Third and fourth years are called Honours where you specialise in your chosen subject. Degree types Faculties There are several types of degree available: Although you will be applying for a specific degree programme, your admission to St Andrews • Single Honours degrees – one subject in the will be to a Faculty. There are four Faculties: final two years, e.g. BSc (Hons) Biology. Faculty of Arts • Joint Honours degrees – two subjects in the Faculty of Divinity final two years, typically 50% in each subject, Faculty of Medicine e.g. MA (Hons) Economics and English. Faculty of Science • ‘With’ degrees involve the study of two www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects/study-options/ subjects in the final two years on a Major- faculties Minor basis, with one ‘Major’ subject, and one ‘Minor’ subject, e.g. BSc (Hons) Biology with Although most subjects fit into a single Faculty, Arabic. there are a number of Cross-Faculty subjects which are offered in both the Faculty of Arts and Faculty • A number of Triple Honours programmes of Science. The content is the same within the are available within the School of Modern subject, regardless of Faculty. Most Cross-Faculty Languages, e.g. MA (Hons) Modern Languages subjects offer BSc and MA degree programmes. (studying three languages). Further details can Please see page 7 where the Cross-Faculty subjects be found on page 129. are shown in blue. If you are unsure which degree • Integrated Masters degrees are available in you should apply for, please contact Admissions. most science subjects. These programmes are Medicine students study here for three years usually five years in length, adding a Masters (ScotGEM for four years) and follow a set programme on as a fifth year without having programme. For further details, see page 120. to reapply, e.g. MSci Computer Science. 4 5 Choosing your subjects MA (Master of ArMAts) (Master Honours of Arts) Honours BSc (Bachelor ofBSc Science) (Bachelor Honours of Science) Honours First year FAirst yBear C A B C First year FAirst yBear C A B C subjects: subjects: subjects: subjects: Second year Second year Second year Second year A B C or AD B C or D A B A B Our degree structure is designed to give subjects: subjects: subjects: subjects: Single Single Joint Joint Single JointSingle Joint Honours HonoursHonours Honours Honours HonoursHonours Honours you as much flexibility in your choice Third year Third year Third year Third year subjects: subjecA orts:B or CA or AB orB C A B subjects: subjecA orts:B AA orB B A B Fourth year Fourth year Fourth year Fourth year of subjects as possible. In your first and or or or or or or subjects: subjecA ts:B CA AB B C A B subjects: subjecA ts:B AA B B A B second years you will study a number of Ancient History Economics Middle East Studies Ancient History & English Modern History subjects, so that you can explore multiple Archaeology Evolutionary Biology Modern Languages Animal Behaviour Film Studies Molecular Biology Applied Mathematics Financial Economics Neuroscience topics before finalising your degree Arabic French New Testament Art History Geography Persian programme. Astrophysics Geology Philosophy Biblical Studies German Physics Biochemistry Greek Psychology First and second years (sub-honours) Third and fourth years (Honours) Biology Hebrew Pure Mathematics For a four- or five-year degree programme At the end of second year you will make the final Cell Biology History Russian your first two years are called sub-honours. In choice of which Honours programme you will Chemical Sciences International Relations Scottish History first year, all students (except those studying study. The options available to you will be based Chemistry Italian Social Anthropology Medicine) will study three subjects. These are on the subjects you have studied throughout first Classical Studies Latin Spanish made up from the subject(s) you were admitted and second year; these may be different to the Classics Management Statistics to study plus one or two more, depending on programme you were originally admitted to. Comparative Literature Marine Biology Sustainable whether you applied for a Single or Joint Honours In the final two years you will be able to Computer Science Materials Chemistry Development programme. specialise and gain an in-depth knowledge of your Divinity Mathematics Theological Studies In second year, those in the Faculties of Arts or chosen subject(s). Earth Sciences Medieval History Theology Divinity will study three subjects; most students During Honours your class sizes will be Environmental Earth Medieval History & Theoretical Physics in the Faculty of Science will study two. considerably smaller than in the early part of your Sciences Archaeology Zoology You will choose your additional subjects degree. You will still be taught through a variety of Ecology & Conservation Medicine (listed opposite) shortly before arriving at methods, but there will be considerable emphasis St Andrews and confirm these choices when you on independent study. You will undertake a Arts Science Cross-Faculty Medicine Divinity meet with your Adviser of Studies once you are dissertation or project in your final year. here. Fifth year (Integrated Masters programmes) If your plans and passions change or you Many of our science Schools offer the opportunity decide that you do not want to continue to study to integrate a Masters-level programme into your one of your subjects, it is often possible to change degree programme.