2021 Undergraduate Prospectus 2 Welcome to St Andrews 36 Faculty information Visit us 4 Degree structure 42 Academic subjects Experience St Andrews for yourself by 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 www.st-andrews.ac.uk/visiting 164 Your qualifications 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 • Single Honours degrees – one subject in the degree programme, your admission to St Andrews will be to a Faculty. There are four Faculties: final two years, e.g. BSc (Hons) Biology. • Joint Honours degrees – two subjects in the Faculty of Arts 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

• A number of Triple Honours are offered in both the Faculty of Arts and Faculty 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 Arts) Honours BSc (Bachelor of Science) Honours First year A B C First year A B C subjects: subjects: Second year Second year A B C or D A B Our degree structure is designed to give subjects: subjects: Single Joint Single Joint you as much flexibility in your choice Honours Honours Honours Honours Third year A B C A B Third year A B A B subjects: or or subjects: or Fourth year Fourth year of subjects as possible. In your first and A or B or C A B A or B A B subjects: subjects: 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 topics before finalising your degree Applied Mathematics Financial Economics Neuroscience 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 decide that you do not want to continue to study Many of our science Schools offer the opportunity to integrate a Masters-level programme into your one of your subjects, it is often possible to change degree programme. If you apply for an Integrated this subject for a new one after the first year. Your Adviser of Studies will discuss the choices and Masters your degree will last five years. Your fifth year will be a continuation of your Honours years, implications with you. studying your subject and interests in greater In first and second year, you will usually depth. be taught through lectures given by specialists in that subject. Depending on the subjects you www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects/study-options/ choose, you will also be taught through small- ug/flexible group tutorials, laboratory work and field work. All students are also expected to carry out further reading and research through independent study.

6 7 St Andrews offers you an award-winning Life in St Andrews student experience that is regularly voted as amongst the very best by students in the National Student Survey. Whether you have existing activities you want to continue or are exploring entirely new interests – there is never a dull moment in St Andrews.

In St Andrews you will find more than you would ever expect for a town of our size. The Students’ Association is home to over 160 different clubs and societies. Saints Sport has more than 50 different sports at all levels, and the University year is packed full of events and traditions.

The Students’ Association is the beating heart of These Sabbatical Officers work for you so no matter student life. Run by students, for students, there are what issue you may be facing, questions you want opportunities to get involved in whatever interests answered, or if you just want to have a chat, they you. Its main areas – representation, activities will always support you and make sure your and spaces – involve all our students and ensure that student experience is the best it can be. you can make the most of your time at university. Subcommittees Sabbatical Officers There are 11 subcommittees (or ‘super societies’) and There are six student-elected representatives all St Andrews students are automatically members. each year. They work full time in the Students’ Whether you want to take part in a charity hitch- Association and Athletic Union to support and hike across Europe with the Charities Campaign, enhance your student experience. They are: host your own radio show on STAR (St Andrews Radio), produce a play, musical, or comedy show Students’ Association President with the help of the Mermaids Performing Arts Director of Student Development and Activities Fund, develop your public speaking skills with the “Your university experience can extend far outside the Director of Education Union Debating Society, or volunteer on various Director of Wellbeing community projects with St Andrews Voluntary classroom – part of what makes St Andrews so great are the Director of Events and Services Athletic Union President Service (SVS), there is always so much for you to do outside of the classroom! hundreds of activities there are for you to get involved with.” www.yourunion.net/activities/subcommittees

Shaina Sullivan, Director of Student Development and Activities, Students’ Association

8 9 Societies The societies at the Students’ Association can be a big part of your time at St Andrews – covering almost every hobby, activity, or interest you may have. There are societies linked to academic subjects that allow you to develop skills, others that celebrate the huge range of cultures and countries our students come from, some that focus on a particular cause, charity or organisation, and others that are just for fun – like the societies for baking, Dr Who, bubble tea, and Students' Representative Council Harry Potter and Quidditch. You can find a list of all the current societies Students' Association www.yourunion.net/activities at: Wellbeing The town If you are not sure which The University and the Students’ Association For its size – the town measures barely three miles societies you want to be a part of, are proud to place an emphasis on wellbeing. end to end – there is a lot in St Andrews. The town there is the Freshers’ Fayre at the Association start of each semester where you can Throughout the year, the Students’ and University are inseparable, with buildings works hard to make itself a welcoming and fun from both sitting alongside one another. Walk meet all the societies and any fellow place to be. St Andrews is proud of the peer down the streets and you are as likely to come students who share your interests. It across a library or lecture theatre as the town is also really easy to start your own mentoring scheme Peer Support and the Got society. Consent workshops that the University and hall or a coffee shop, giving St Andrews a great Students’ Association run in partnership. community atmosphere. Volunteering The Director of Wellbeing sabbatical officer Being situated on the Fife coast also means there There are lots of opportunities to and Wellbeing student committee organise are unspoilt beaches, stunning countryside and volunteer at St Andrews. Whether student events, workshops and campaigns related clean, fresh air that allow you to sit and watch the your passions lie in sport, the to safety, mental health, fitness, and sexual world go by, surf, or go for a walk down the two environment, animal welfare, or just health. miles of crisp sand. Walk along to the end of the meeting new people, volunteering Evening language courses stone pier and you will be met by a view you will allows you to give back to the remember for the rest of your life. community whilst also learning new If you want to learn a new language or develop existing language skills, but cannot fit it into Getting to and from St Andrews skills and experience that will be Music in Rector’s Café valuable when you graduate. your main timetable, there is also the option to St Andrews has good transport links with the rest do extracurricular evening language classes. of the country. Whether you are looking for a day Volunteering takes many forms These courses offer a range of languages from out or going home to the other side of the world, and can be anything from setting up beginner to advanced levels. They are not events, community relations work, you have a range of options available to you. part of any degree programme and have a fee Dundee, our nearest city, is the perfect or hosting debating workshops. attached but are an excellent way of improving neighbour for St Andrews. It is a twenty-minute bus Getting involved can be as easy your language skills. Languages currently journey away, and has been transformed through as attending the Freshers’ Fayre and being taught and fee information can be found its waterfront redevelopment, with the V&A seeing what interests you. In the online at: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects/ Dundee (the V&A’s first museum outside London), a Spring, all students are eligible to be non-degree-courses/evening-language-courses thriving nightlife and lots of shopping. elected as a Students’ Association Edinburgh, about an hour away by train, is great Officer and work to provide as many Golf for a day trip with its history, architecture and resources to students as possible. St Andrews is famous for golf, and to this day is thriving cultural scene. It also boasts our nearest The time you spend volunteering home to the body that governs the game in most of international airport, with flights across the UK, is also recognised by the University the world – the R&A. If you are a keen golfer – or and is eligible to go on your Higher want to learn whilst you are here – then there will Europe and further afield. Leuchars, our nearest railway station, is about Education Achievement Report be plenty of opportunities to play on the seven courses in and around the town, and there are ten minutes from St Andrews (on the frequent bus (HEAR) when you graduate. service) and is on the main east coast line, meaning discounted green fees available to students living you can catch a train to London and be there in Raisin Monday in St Andrews. about six hours.

10 11 Traditions

As you might expect from a university that is over 600 years old, we have a large number of traditions relating to different societies, halls of residence and times of the year. They may seem odd at first, but combined they are highly memorable and form part of an experience you cannot get anywhere else. As May Dip with all things at university, you can choose what you want to get involved in.

Academic families The PH Most first-year students are adopted by third- or The initials PH are embedded in the pavement fourth-year students. Along with other adopted outside St Salvator’s Quadrangle on North Street. students, they become ‘academic families’. Families There is a memorial to Patrick Hamilton, a are often based within your hall, societies you are St Andrews student, who was burnt at the stake for part of or through sports teams. Although this is heresy during the Reformation in 1528. Today you not organised by the University, academic families have to avoid stepping on the initials or, legend act as an informal support network at the start of goes, you will fail your degree. The only way to your time in St Andrews and often develop into reverse the misfortune of accidentally stepping on friendships that last throughout university and the PH is to take part in the May Dip. beyond. Patrick Hamilton initials – PH Raisin Monday – foam fight Red gowns Raisin Weekend If you come on one of our Visiting Days, you Raisin Weekend is a two-day celebration that will see a lot of people in red gowns. These eye- happens part way through the first semester. catching gowns were introduced during the late During Raisin Sunday your ‘academic parents’ seventeenth century so that owners of the local will host parties and then on Raisin Monday they taverns could easily spot students, as they were will dress you up, give you a ‘raisin receipt’, and not allowed to drink. Today the gowns are purely take you to the famous shaving foam fight. Raisin ceremonial and are worn at formal occasions, Weekend is a fun way to welcome students to the University ceremonies, at Chapel services on a University, but you can be as involved, or not, as Sunday, on Pier Walks and to welcome visitors to you want. the University. The May Dip Each year just before dawn on 1 May students gather on East Sands. As the dawn breaks, they run into the North Sea in order to cleanse themselves of any ‘academic sins’ before they sit their exams.

Pier Walk 12 13 Sport

Whether you compete at national or international level, play socially or want to get fit, there are more than 50 sports clubs and sector-leading facilities available for you.

Whether it is reaching the pinnacle of your sporting High performance athletes career, staying fit and healthy throughout your The University encourages individual sporting studies, having fun playing the sport you love or excellence by supporting talented athletes who trying a sport for the very first time, Saints Sport are studying at St Andrews and competing at an provides opportunities to ensure that every student international level. Students competing for the makes the most of their time at St Andrews. University’s performance golf programme may Over half of the student body are involved with apply for the prestigious Arnold Palmer Scholarship sport in some way. Following recent investment in or an R&A bursary. the the University’s indoor facilities, you will benefit Hall sport from some of the best and most student accessible All of our halls of residence take part in a year-long sports facilities in the country. inter-hall sport competition. With 35 different events The Sports Centre now includes a 120-station offered and nearly 500 matches, hall sport is open to gym, a dedicated Strength and Conditioning suite all students and is a great way to meet new people for performance athletes, a technical climbing wall, and get active. all-weather pitches, top quality grass pitches, a four-court indoor tennis centre, and an eight-court Health and fitness indoor sports arena. Saints Fitness offers a full range of services to all Sports clubs students including fitness consultations, personal training, and Strength and Conditioning support. There are over 50 sports clubs at St Andrews, Our varied exercise class programme runs all-year- offering activities for all levels of ability or round and is tailored to suit all levels and abilities. aspiration, whether that is competitive or With over 40 classes per week including Yoga, recreational. Over 100 teams compete annually Pilates, Zumba, HIIT, Spin, and many more, our in British Universities & Colleges Sport (BUCS), instructors are here to help you get the most out of Scottish Student Sport (SSS), local and national your workout and improve your overall fitness. leagues and cup competitions, with many more students competing on an individual level. Most of Volunteering opportunities our clubs also offer recreational activities, giving There are many opportunities to volunteer students an amazing opportunity to regularly within sport during your time at St Andrews. The experience the beauty of the Scottish Highlands and University assists students seeking to gain coaching travel further afield. and officiating qualifications and many of our Performance sport activities are supported by student volunteers. Student coaches from our sports clubs run regular The University recognises a number of sports taster sessions in local schools, coach at after-school as part of the Performance Programme, each clubs and take sport-specific training sessions for benefiting from increased support and a dedicated local clubs. Our international volunteering projects sport-specific Director or Head Coach. This in Africa also offer students a wonderful opportunity support includes sport science interventions such to enhance their global awareness and develop their as Strength and Conditioning and performance analysis, increased funding and greater access to leadership, coaching and teaching skills. training facilities. www.st-andrews.ac.uk/sport

14 15 Music

Music at St Andrews is open to all, whether you want to take lessons, play in groups, practice or just come and listen.

There are opportunities for musicians across Facilities different genres, from orchestras and our Chapel The University is currently investing in a new, Choir, through to a cappella and musical theatre. purpose-built Music Centre, which will include a Academic classes recital room, practice rooms with pianos that will be accessible at all times, suites of studios for electronic The Music Centre offers a range of classes that music and recording, a library and rooms for group St Andrews Chamber Orchestra at Mount Stuart House (Isle of Bute) can be taken as part of your degree. If you already rehearsal. Practice rooms are also available in the sing or play an instrument to a high level, the Students’ Association and in many of the halls courses offer increasingly specialised studies of residence. Concerts and staged performances in performance, culminating in a public recital. regularly take place in the Younger Hall, the We also offer courses that can be taken without Byre Theatre, the Students’ Association and the any previous study that will develop your understanding of musical theory and history, or University’s two beautiful medieval chapels. introduce you to electronic music, Scottish music, Concerts music from cultures around the world or opera. St Andrews has an extraordinarily rich concert Lessons programme, which draws on the talents both of the student body and of visiting professional musicians Regardless of what degree you are studying, the from across the world. We are the only Scottish Music Centre offers you weekly lessons on almost any orchestral instrument or voice. Lessons can university and one of very few in the UK with a professional orchestra in residence, the Scottish be arranged at all levels, with highly experienced teachers who combine teaching with their Chamber Orchestra, who visit five times a year and whose members regularly coach and play in performing careers. Scholarships to cover the cost concerts alongside our students. We host annual The Other Guys at the Edinburgh Fringe Big BUStA (student-run big band) in Younger Hall of lessons are awarded on the basis of competitive festivals of new, vocal, and wind and brass music, as auditions at the start of each year. well as lunchtime and evening professional concerts. Groups www.st-andrews.ac.uk/music There are groups in St Andrews performing in Music societies just about every musical style and genre, whether If you are more interested in contemporary run by the Music Centre or one of the very active student societies. There are numerous musical music, musical theatre, a cappella or jazz, there are societies at the Students’ Association that opportunities for students, which in previous might be of interest. The Students’ Association years have included singing with St Salvator’s also offers opportunities to both perform and Chapel Choir on tours across the world, working enjoy music through a range of events from with professional soloists in orchestral concerts or small performances to open mic nights and appearing in fully staged operas. St Andrews also larger gigs. More information is available on the offers exceptional opportunities in musical theatre Students’ Association website. and a cappella singing. Whatever your musical www.yourunion.net interests, you will be able to make music with fellow students.

Byre Opera: Handel’s Xerxes 16 17 Location of halls of residence Accommodation across St Andrews Five minutes’ walk John Burnet Hall McIntosh Hall St Salvator’s Hall The University has over 3,500 beds across our ten Andrew Agnes Blackadder Melville Hall halls of residence. Our accommodation guarantee Hall means that you know you will have accommodation David Russell Apartments and St Regulus for your first year. You can find out more about our Fife Park University Hall and Hall Whitehorn Hall accommodation and the conditions of the guarantee online: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/study/accommodation

University Hall and the new Whitehorn Hall

18 19 Accommodation choices Our residences are located throughout the town and all are within walking distance of University buildings and the town centre. They range from beautiful stone buildings full of original period features, to stylish new apartments, with en-suite bathrooms, which are built to high environmental and sustainability standards. Most of the rooms in our historic Example of an individual study bedroom Agnes Blackadder Hall residences are shared. Individual and en-suite rooms are available in our more modern halls. Catered accommodation What is available? More than just a place to stay, All our halls are different, and you should look at • A range of catering packages from 14 to 19 meals our residences are a place to live. Example of a shared twin study bedroom a week. the options online to see which is best for you. Whether you are in one of our old All bedrooms include a bed, desk, chair and • A wide range of menu items, including historical buildings or one of our a range of storage for clothes and books. Laundry vegetarian and vegan options. contemporary residences you will facilities are available using prepaid cards. • Compact kitchens so you can make drinks and have a Wardennial Team (University snacks between meals. Hall fees also include wifi access throughout staff and postgraduates) on hand for • A central dining room in each catered hall to eat, the halls, Hall Committee subscriptions and bike advice and support and a committee storage. meet people and socialise in. to organise events. • Packed lunches and dinners, if you are not able How and when to apply The Wardennial Team take to get to a meal. Once you receive – and accept – your offer, you can responsibility for encouraging a • We have a commitment to ethically sourced, apply for accommodation. Please do not wait for sense of community and will also quality products, sourcing sustainable and your offer status to change, regardless of whether be the first point of contact if a seasonal produce wherever possible. your offer is conditional or unconditional. You can health crisis occurs, or if you have a apply for accommodation from 1 April in your year personal problem. Their roles involve Self-catered accommodation of entry. In order to be guaranteed accommodation mentoring, advising and providing • Total flexibility over what and when you eat. you must apply before 30 June. Full details of the support. • Shared kitchens with lockers for food storage. application process can be found online. Each residence also has a Senior • Kitchens equipped with cookers, microwaves, Student and Hall Committee who www.st-andrews.ac.uk/study/accommodation fridges, freezers and kettles. take on the responsibility of looking +44 (0)1334 462510 • Various cafés across the University when you do after the social life of the residence, Kitchen in David Russell Apartments not want to cook. organising BBQs, receptions and balls, and representing student opinion to the management. If you require accommodation in the inter-semester break in January, you should select an en-suite option as the catered standard residences close during this period. If you have a specialist, Halal or Kosher diet, you should select a self-catered option. The University also gives all possible assistance to those with disabilities or limiting long-term illnesses – please provide full information on your application of anything that is likely to impact on your accommodation needs.

Example of an individual study bedroom McIntosh Hall Common Room

20 21 Support and welfare

St Andrews takes the welfare of its students seriously, and there is support available to you.

The University offers a wide range of support to Wellbeing, counselling and mental health ensure that, on both an academic and personal There may be times when you want professional level, your experience as a student is successful and support to resolve difficulties you encounter. fulfilling. Student Services provides: The Student Services’ wellbeing, counselling and mental health service helps you access the • support for students with a disability or assistance you need to have a well-balanced life. long-term health condition. The service has obtained APPTS accreditation • student life and wellbeing advice. from the Royal College of Psychiatrists. • counselling and mental health support. www.st-andrews.ac.uk/study/support/student • immigration advice. • advice on money and finances. The University Chaplaincy provides friendly, • advice on academic issues. non-judgmental support to all students • pastoral care for students in University regardless of faith or philosophy of life. The residences. Chaplaincy offers worship in the University, and The ASC a team of Honorary Chaplains from different faiths and Humanism supports a number of The Advice and Support Centre (ASC) is the first student-led faith societies, as well as events for port of call for any student queries. Staff at the international students. Any student can receive ASC are happy to answer any question, provide pastoral care led by the Chaplain. student status letters and transcripts, as well as www.st-andrews.ac.uk/study/support/chaplaincy book appointments with one of Student Services’ specialist advisers for further support and advice. Wardennial services Health Each undergraduate hall of residence has a live-in Wardennial Team, consisting of a Warden and a There are two primary care medical practices team of Assistant Wardens. The team is responsible in St Andrews with many years of experience for building a strong and supportive community dealing with the student community. In addition, and hall identity and works with residents and the the Student Health Hub, staffed by University hall committee to organise events and activities. employees, is co-located with the medical The Warden and Assistant Wardens provide advice practices and helps students access health advice and support at night and on weekends, as well as quickly. A St Andrews Student Health App is also links to daytime support services. They are a first available to help students manage their health while they are in St Andrews. point of contact if a health crisis occurs, if a student www.st-andrews.ac.uk/study/support/healthcare is in distress, or is experiencing difficulties. Contact Disabilities More information about how the University will The University has students with a wide range support you can be found online or by contacting of disabilities and learning difficulties. The Student Services. University’s Disability Team includes advisers on disability and specific learning difficulties. They www.st-andrews.ac.uk/studentservices can be contacted at any stage of the application [email protected] process for information, advice or support by +44 (0)1334 462020 emailing [email protected]. Applicants are encouraged to make their needs known on their application form.

Students on West Sands 22 23 Study facilities

You will spend considerable time at university conducting your own research and reading. Our study facilities give you space to do this. In addition to the libraries, there are many dedicated rooms across halls of residence and Main Library academic buildings where you can find the study environment that suits you.

Libraries and study spaces You can look online to see what space is available More than just a building full of books, a library in the Main University Library, at: is a central pillar of university life. It is a place to www-library.st-andrews.ac.uk/occupancy_widget study and access information with staff on hand In addition to the Main Library, there is: to support you in your work. Library resources are available in the town centre and on the North • St Mary’s College Library (including the historic Haugh, where most science Schools and the School King James Library) is the oldest university of Medicine are located. Everyone studies in library reading room in Scotland. It is located different ways, which is why you can choose from in St Mary’s Quadrangle, with collections for a number of study environments, including cafés, Divinity and Medieval History. silent areas, group study rooms and some more North Haugh options: informal areas. You can access a vast array of digital resources • The J F Allen Library (Physics & Astronomy and online journals from any of these spaces, as building) holds books and journals for some Rector’s Café Studying in Physics & Astronomy well as across the University and beyond. You are science subjects. also entitled to borrow from the nearby libraries of • Dr Ettie Stewart Steele Reading Room (Purdie the universities of Dundee and Abertay. building) holds a selection of Chemistry books for reference. The Main Library: • The Library at the Gateway (this building also • is located in the centre of town. includes the School of Management), provides • provides access to over 1,000 study spaces in a 96 study spaces and a range of seating options. range of styles to suit how you study. www.st-andrews.ac.uk/library • is open 18 hours a day during the semester. Twitter: @StAndrewsUniLib • holds over one million volumes, a large e-book Facebook: @StAndrewsUniversityLibrary collection, thousands of print and electronic Instagram: @StAndrewsuniLib journals and academic databases. • provides expert support from members of our specialist Academic Liaison Librarian Team. • provides help and training on finding information. • has plenty of computers for you to use. • provides a Short Loan Collection of heavy demand books recommended by lecturers.

J F Allen Library King James Library 24 25 At St Andrews you will have access to a whole Your future range of support to enhance your future prospects. All students can benefit from our professional development programmes, careers and internship advice and support, and a lifelong connection with the University through our alumni network.

Employability employability and career planning skills you will As well as a challenging academic culture, need to succeed on whichever career path you studying at St Andrews will give you a range choose to take. of opportunities to enhance the skills you need • Careers advisers provide individual to be successful in your chosen field when you guidance and coaching, as well as group graduate. The opportunities for students to workshops on a range of topics. take responsibility through societies, events, • We host careers fairs and provide other volunteering and sport mean that St Andrews opportunities to meet top graduate graduates are not just academic high achievers but employers. also well-rounded and prepared for their careers. • There are extensive digital career Academic and professional development information resources on internships, All students are eligible to take part in the graduate job roles, specific sectors and Professional Skills Curriculum supported by industries, job vacancies, and postgraduate CEED (the Centre for Educational Enhancement study information both in the UK and and Development) and accessed through the abroad. Careers Centre, which offers a range of workshops • Unique opportunities are available and resources to develop the skills and attributes for St Andrews students through our that are valued by graduate employers. Topics own internships and work shadowing such as organisational skills, confidence and programmes, both in St Andrews and adaptability, networking, team-working and around the world. leadership are delivered via a blend of online • There is access to our alumni network, workshops, evening lectures and practical skills and support to help you expand your own sessions. This programme is endorsed by the network as well as networking events Institute of Leadership and Management and worldwide. is recognised on a student’s Higher Education • International Opportunity Managers work Achievement Report (HEAR) when they graduate. with employers and alumni overseas to CEED also offers a number of other support secure access to internships and graduate and development opportunities for our students, jobs, as well as keeping up-to-date with the including academic and IT skills. latest trends in graduate recruitment. Careers advice and opportunities • We provide advice for those looking to go on to further study. The Careers Centre is available to all students and of our graduates are in work or provides resources and support to enable you to www.st-andrews.ac.uk/careers 96% decide on the career direction you want to take, further study within six months of graduation gain relevant work experience and acquire the

26 27 Study abroad

Whether it is Biology in Australia, Psychology in Canada or International Relations in Hong Kong – Study Abroad programmes play an important role in the University’s commitment to a learning culture that is challenging, imaginative and flexible.

We are partnered with large and small institutions any other personal expenses. Additional costs across the globe, allowing our students to spend may include: visa charges, vaccinations, books, either a semester or an entire year abroad. Some supplies, and medical insurance. Please note that offer an intimate campus experience; others are accommodation is not often guaranteed at our located in the heart of a major metropolis, from partner universities. Beijing to Paris, Melbourne to Los Angeles. What St Andrews Abroad options unites all of our programmes is the quality of the academic provision, ensuring that participation in • St Andrews Abroad refers to a number of a St Andrews Study Abroad programme opens the University exchanges each of which is open to door to a new and valuable academic experience at students in several disciplines in Arts, Divinity Milford Sound, New Zealand University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA another institution. and Science. Study Abroad for credit is permitted on existing • For the academic year 2020-2021, there are 17 University-approved programmes only. All of our partner universities in Australia, New Zealand, programmes are carefully selected and monitored. Hong Kong, Singapore, Canada and the USA. The University has good relations with our partners Erasmus+ overseas and works closely with them to ensure We actively participate in the current Erasmus+ students enjoy a successful period abroad and a smooth return to St Andrews thereafter. programme, sending students to partner institutions across Europe through our Erasmus+ Key information Charter. We value our European and international partnerships, and the opportunities they provide • Some programmes are available for one semester, while others involve a full academic for student and staff mobility, and the exchange of knowledge, ideas and perspectives. year abroad (usually third year). The latest information on the UK’s • Opportunities are available in most degree participation in the Erasmus+ programme can programmes in Arts, Divinity and Science. be found on the Study Abroad section of the • Programmes are competitive and the main criterion is a strong academic record. University website and at: www.erasmusplus.org.uk • Most programmes involve payment of your Niagara Falls, Canada Marina Bay Sands, Singapore normal tuition fees to St Andrews and no Working abroad tuition fee liability at the host institution. Completing a work placement abroad is a good • Several Study Abroad programmes have opportunity to gain work experience in another “ Being able to take part in the multilateral exchange programme scholarships attached to help you with the costs. culture or language and to enhance valuable skill • In 2020-2021 the University has 58 subject- sets. As part of specific degree programmes in allowed me to experience life at two other universities and gave me specific Study Abroad programmes in 23 Biology, Chemistry and Modern Languages, you the option to study a huge range of modules which I would not have countries. may apply to undertake a work placement abroad had the opportunity to cover otherwise.” for credit. The costs involved in studying abroad vary Henry (South Lanarkshire, Scotland) www.st-andrews.ac.uk/study-abroad depending on location and programme. You will Studied at the National University of Singapore and Queen’s University Canada be responsible for your travel and living costs and

28 29 BA (International Honours)

The Bachelor of Arts (International Honours) is a collaboration between two internationally renowned universities, offering the opportunity to study at both the University of St Andrews and William & Mary in the USA.

Designed for those who want a truly international The BA (International Honours) programme education, this programme allows you to engage combines the best aspects of two academic “While there may be some trepidation in hopping with both the depth of study for which St Andrews traditions, offering you a range of opportunities is renowned and the breadth of the liberal arts both in your subject and in developing your skills around the world for university, the challenge tradition at William & Mary. The programme for the future. The curriculum in each of the lets you spend two years at both institutions and disciplines offers more breadth than a traditional of adapting to new academic systems and social graduate with a jointly awarded BA (International St Andrews degree as well as more specialisation Honours) degree. This programme has a different than is usual at William & Mary. cultures reap a series of rewards. Two homes are fee structure. The latest fee information is available Graduates from this programme have gone online. on to a diverse range of opportunities, including forged, leading us to make unforgettable memories Subjects AmeriCorps, US Department of State and further study at Georgetown University. There are six subject options on this programme: and lifelong friends from around the world.” Classical Studies (choose either Ancient History Entry requirements and Archaeology or Greek and Latin pathway), Admission to the BA (International Honours) is Economics, English, Film Studies, History highly competitive. The entry requirements for all Alyssa (California, USA) (including significant study of a second language) six subject areas are: or International Relations. Standard Minimum Structure SQA Highers: AAAAB SQA Highers: AABB You will apply to the institution where you intend GCE A-Levels: AAA GCE A-Levels: ABB to spend your first year and then move on to the IB: 38 (HL 6,6,6) IB: 36 (HL 6,5,5) other institution for your second year. Thereafter you can choose how you wish to allocate your third History and English applicants will require previous knowledge of their subject (Standard: A and fourth years of study. Dedicated academic advisers will assist you throughout the duration of at Higher or A-Level, HL6 at IB; Minimum: B at your degree. Higher or A-Level, HL5 at IB). History applicants will also require a strong competency in a language From the outset you will elect to specialise in other than English. one of six subject areas. In first and second year UK-based applicants should check whether they you have the opportunity to study from the broad are required to meet the Standard or Minimum curriculum offerings of the two institutions, as well entry requirements on the online indicator. as your chosen specialisation. www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects/entry/indicator In addition to your main subject you will, in consultation with your Adviser of Studies, compile All students based outside of the UK will require a ‘breadth portfolio’ comprised of courses satisfying the Standard entry requirements or equivalent the various objectives that underlie the William & qualifications. International Relations students will Mary General Education Requirements, including be required to also study Economics in first year. six under knowledge, nine under skills and three www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects/study-options/ug/ under values. degree-routes/william-mary-joint

William & Mary 30 31 International students

You can meet our staffall over the world. We visit schools, attend fairs and run events throughout the year. Find out who visits your country online: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/study/meet-us

Applying to St Andrews Pre-sessional courses International students can apply to St Andrews These courses prepare you for studying at through UCAS, Common Application or directly St Andrews, focusing on the academic language through our website. More information about the and skills you will need for your degree. You application process and entry requirements can will develop your ability to use English in be found on pages 162-167 and online. academic contexts, and key skills such as reading www.st-andrews.ac.uk/study/apply/ug critically and using sources appropriately. You will also learn about the academic, social and International Foundation Programmes cultural life here. If your English language level Our International Foundation Programmes does not satisfy the University’s requirements (IFPs) are designed to bridge the gap between high school and university for overseas students you may be asked to attend these programmes as a condition of your offer. whose school-leaving qualifications are not www.st-andrews.ac.uk/international-education/ recognised for direct entry into University of short-courses/pre-sessional St Andrews undergraduate degrees. These programmes enable you to develop the subject Academic Induction knowledge as well as the academic language This two-week course runs immediately before and skills needed to succeed at undergraduate the semester starts and offers international level. Additionally, they provide acculturation students an all-round introduction to studying and orientation for life in the UK, helping you at St Andrews. With an emphasis on academic to settle in and feel more confident in your new writing, appropriate use of sources and home. presentation skills, this course will help you The IFPs we deliver are the only foundation understand our academic expectations, as well as courses that offer direct progression onto giving you an introduction to life at St Andrews. undergraduate degrees at St Andrews. They are www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects/study-options/ also widely recognised by other top-ranking ug/induction British universities. Academic English Service IFPs start in September or January. Further We offer an Academic English Service for students information about these programmes and how whose first language is not English. Workshops to apply can be found online. www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects/study-options/ focus on specific groups or language levels, whilst foundation tutorials will help develop your independent learning skills and allow you to get feedback on structuring longer written assignments. www.st-andrews.ac.uk/international-education/aes

Pier Walk 32 33 St Andrews from St Salvator’s Chapel tower

34 35 Faculty of Arts “The Faculty of Arts is a collaborative community of scholars who collectively produce outstanding research and innovative teaching; we are clearly amongst the best in the world, as rankings consistently show. The intellectual life of our scholarly “The flexible degree structure, especially in the Subjects in the family – students and staff together – is Faculty of Arts: first two years, lets those unsure of their exact Ancient History, Arabic, Art History, Classical Studies, therefore wonderfully rich. Because of this, goal explore different options. The wide variety Comparative Literature, Divinity, Economics, your experience in the Faculty of Arts will of issues covered in class have kept me engaged English, Film Studies, French, Geography, intellectually throughout my time here.” German, Greek, Hebrew, help you to explore unexpected possibilities, to International Relations, Ida (Singapore and Norway) Italian, Latin, Linguistics, Management, Mathematics, develop your critical skills, and to live up to Medieval History, Modern History, Music, St Andrews has a centuries-long tradition of teaching in the arts, your potential.” and today we continue to teach arts, humanities and social science Persian, Philosophy, Psychology, Russian, subjects at the highest possible level. Studying in the Faculty of Arts Social Anthropology, Professor Frank Lorenz Müller will allow you to take the passion you have for a particular subject Spanish, Statistics, Dean of Arts & Divinity further and also to explore new areas of study that interest you. Sustainable Development. Through the teaching of leading academics and learning alongside Certain classes have pre-requisites. students from all over the globe, not only will you experience an More information can be found online: outstanding education but also different perspectives from classmates www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects with diverse backgrounds. Supported pathways MA (Master of Arts) Honours – four years The Gateway to Arts and FE-HE Pathway to Arts provide alternative BA (Bachelor of Arts) International Honours – four years entry routes to programmes in the Faculty of Arts. These are tailored programmes which allow eligible applicants from Scotland to explore subjects across the Faculty whilst receiving additional support before progressing to a named degree programme. www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects/study-options/pathways

36 37 Faculty of Faculty of Divinity Medicine “The Faculty of Divinity is a centre of excellence “When you study Medicine at St Andrews in research and teaching. Theology is consistently you get an outstanding grounding in the ranked first in the UK by students in the National sciences that support medicine and a Student Survey, and in the top twenty departments significant introduction to the clinical skills in the QS World University Rankings.” you will require throughout your career.”

Professor Frank Lorenz Müller, Dean of Arts & Divinity Professor David Crossman, Dean of Medicine

MTheol (Master of Theology) Honours – four years BSc (Bachelor of Science) Honours – three years MA (Master of Arts) Honours – four years MB ChB (Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery) Graduate Entry – four years

“Studying in Divinity has enabled me to “The Faculty focuses on giving students plenty of understand and respect other people’s views, hands-on experience. As students we interact with real and has challenged my own views on God, patients early in our programme and gain important life and faith.” practical skills through activities like dissection classes.”

Joel (Somerset, England) Vivienne (Calgary, Canada)

A close-knit community with centuries of teaching Supported pathways Medicine at St Andrews is a three-year BSc (Honours) Gateway to Medicine and tradition, the Faculty of Divinity offers you The Gateway to Arts and FE-HE Pathway to Arts programme, after which you will progress to one of The Gateway to Medicine programme is taught the opportunity to explore biblical and theological provide alternative entry routes to programmes our partner medical schools at the universities of through the Faculty of Science. The purpose of studies as, or as part of, your degree programme. in the Faculty of Divinity. These are tailored Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Manchester, the programme is to promote the uptake of higher First and second year courses in Divinity: programmes which allow eligible applicants from or Barts and The London School of Medicine and education, specifically the study of Medicine, Scotland to explore subjects across the Faculty Dentistry to complete your Primary Medical among those groups that are traditionally Old Testament (with optional Hebrew), New whilst receiving additional support before Qualification and graduate as a doctor. underrepresented at university. Further Testament (with optional Greek), Theology progressing to a named degree programme. Our programme does not follow the same model information is on page 122 and online: (Systematic Theology and Philosophy of www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects/study-options/ as the rest of the University, rather it has a set www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects/medicine/ Religion), Church History – Practical Theology pathways structure in which all courses are compulsory and gateway-to-medicine (social and pastoral theology and ethics). unique to the Faculty of Medicine. You will enter Combinations depend on your degree choice. at the equivalent of second year, in order for your degree to be completed in three years. 38 39 Faculty of Science “Studying a science in St Andrews means you will be part of a Faculty at the forefront of teaching and research. Our science Schools are communities that bring together academics, researchers and students “The freedom to study other subjects as well Subjects in the from all over the globe to create an Faculty of Science: as your compulsory degree classes allowed Astronomy, Astrophysics, Biology, Chemistry, outstanding learning environment in me to discover where I wanted to specialise. Computer Science, Earth & Environmental Sciences, My internship in Switzerland gave me a real Economics, Geography, our unique location.” Geology, Management, insight into industrial research.” Mathematics, Neuroscience, Dr Jonathan Issberner and Dr Graham Kirby Philosophy, Physics, Acting Deans of Science Marcell (Budapest, Hungary) Psychology, Statistics, Sustainable Development. Certain classes have pre-requisites.

We are extremely proud of our science teaching at St Andrews More information can be found online: and consistently appear at the top of the National Student Survey www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects for student satisfaction. In all of the eight science Schools at BSc (Bachelor of Science) Honours – four years St Andrews you will experience research-led teaching and be MBiochem (Master in Biochemistry) Honours – five years taught by leaders in their respective fields. Small-group teaching MBiol (Master in Biology) Honours – five years is common, and you will be able to explore your chosen subject MChem (Master in Chemistry) Honours – five years in small groups and in state-of-the-art laboratories. The Faculty MGeol (Master in Geology) Honours – five years provides a variety of programmes leading to an Honours degree MMarBiol (Master in Marine Biology) Honours – five years in science. MMath (Master in Mathematics) Honours – five years Supported pathways MPhys (Master in Physics) Honours – five years MSci (Master in Science) Honours – five years The Gateway to Science, Gateway to Physics and Astronomy and FE-HE Pathway to Science provide alternative entry routes to programmes in the Faculty of Science. These are tailored programmes which allow eligible applicants from Scotland to explore subjects across the Faculty whilst receiving additional support before progressing to a named degree programme. www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects/study-options/pathways

40 41 Ancient History is a greatly diverse subject. You will utilise Ancient History (& Archaeology) a range of sources to study the political, social and cultural www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects/ancient-history history of the Mediterranean world, including topics such as [email protected] imperialism, slavery, religion and warfare.

See also School of Classics; Classical Studies; Classics, Greek and Latin; History • Wide range of specialist topics covering all periods of ancient history, from archaic Greece to late antiquity. Entry requirements • Specialist archaeology modules and skills training in third and These grades are the overall standards required to consider you fourth years. for entry. You can find out more • No prior experience required: you can start studying Ancient about Standard, Minimum and Gateway entry requirements on History here. page 167. • Option to learn Latin and Greek from scratch alongside your www.st-andrews.ac.uk/ Ancient History courses. subjects/entry • For Study Abroad information, see page 59. SQA Highers: • Standard entry grades AAAB • Minimum entry grades AABB What will I study? emperor, Augustus, in the first • Gateway entry grades BBBB century. Subjects studied may Ancient History GCE A-Levels: also include women and gender • Standard entry grades AAA Ancient History at St Andrews • Minimum entry grades ABB in antiquity, slavery, wealth is an exciting and wide-ranging International Baccalaureate: and poverty, and religion. You subject that covers not just the • Standard entry grades 36 will also develop core skills in (HL 6,6,5) ancient Greeks and Romans but the analysis of a wide range of • Minimum entry grades 36 also some of their neighbours, (HL 6,5,5) material, from written histories such as the Persians and to inscriptions and archaeology. Phoenicians. Key specialisms at St Andrews include ancient Second year religion, gender, historiography, You will study the Roman economics, warfare, empires, empire from Augustus to and cities and urban living. An Constantine, exploring its Ancient History degree will take politics, organisation, religion you on a fascinating journey to and economy. Then you will the heart of the complex and take a long view of human varied societies of the ancient settlement in the Mediterranean Mediterranean, which are both to the seventh century CE, deeply familiar and profoundly focusing on archaeological strange. evidence and interpretation to understand how the Greeks, Ancient History & Archaeology Romans and their neighbours School of Classics Taught alongside Ancient sustained their civilisations and “ I chose Ancient History History in the first two years, this interacted with each other and as St Andrews offers a course branches out in the third Available degree options Previous knowledge of subject required? No their environment. and fourth years with training broad range of classes in key archaeological skills and Third and fourth years taught around the a range of specialist modules (Honours) research interests of MA BA MA MA on the material culture of the Recent topics in ancient history the lecturers, so going ancient Mediterranean. have included Greece and the Persians, ancient religion, into the class you know Both programmes: Single Honours International Honours Joint Honours Triple Honours Roman slavery and empires in that it is a topic being Ancient History Classical Studies – Ancient Ancient History and one of Ancient History and two First year antiquity. actively researched and Ancient History & History and Archaeology 17 other subjects modern languages You will study the emergence Recent courses in archaeology contributed to by the Archaeology pathway of city-states in Greece in the have included the city of Rome,

eighth century BCE through Minoan Crete and Greek people teaching you.” See entry requirements and See Arts combinations, See Triple combinations, sculpture and pottery. other information, page 30 pages 172-173 pages 132-133 to the rise of the first Roman George (Texas, USA)

42 43 Whilst studying Arabic at St Andrews you will not only gain a Arabic high level of competence in language skills in Modern Arabic, www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects/arabic but you will also learn the language of the Arabic media and [email protected] literature.

See also Middle East Studies, Modern Languages • You can take Arabic with a wide range of other subjects. • You will be taught by a small but diverse team of academics and Entry requirements language tutors in each year. These grades are the overall standards required to consider you • You will be taught by scholars whose research and literary for entry. You can find out more translation work are internationally recognised. about Standard, Minimum and Gateway entry requirements on • You will gain a knowledge of both classical and contemporary page 167. Arab culture. www.st-andrews.ac.uk/ • Middle Eastern and African Studies at St Andrews was ranked subjects/entry first in the UK in the Complete University Guide 2020 and The Times SQA Highers: and The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2020. • Standard entry grades AAAB • Minimum entry grades AABB • Gateway entry grades BBBB What will I study? Second year GCE A-Levels: The topics covered include the Courses taught in this year • Standard entry grades AAB • Minimum entry grades ABB language of the Arabic media will enable you to read and International Baccalaureate: and classical and modern write Modern Standard Arabic • Standard entry grades 36 language and literature. You to intermediate level and to (HL 6,6,5) will be exposed to a wide range speak in standard Arabic with • Minimum entry grades 36 (HL 6,5,5) of texts and media, including a limited vocabulary. Oral work classical poetry, the Qur’an, and written class work will the Thousand and One Nights, be based on a series of texts modern short stories and films, relevant to contemporary issues news bulletins, videos and and culture. There are also two articles from the Arab media. optional courses, providing an You will acquire a high level introduction to classical Arab “ It is amazing to have of competence in language culture and an introduction to skills. You can progress to Joint Middle Eastern history, which are the opportunity to put Honours in Arabic and a wide relevant to any student of Arabic. your language skills to range of other subjects, including Third and fourth years use within a real-life Persian, Middle East Studies, (Honours) context and rewarding modern European languages, In addition to core language International Relations, English, to be able to read a piece courses, you can choose Modern or Medieval History, of literature or watch from a range of modern and Mathematics. classical topics. You can write a film and understand Hasan II Mosque in Casablanca, Morocco First year a dissertation on a topic of what is happening. It The Arabic courses will enable your choice with an individual makes all the hours of Available degree options Previous knowledge of subject required? No you to read, write and converse supervisor. studying worth it. You are in simple Modern Standard Study abroad Arabic. The Arabic alphabet, expected to show a lot of You can choose to study for a writing system and basic Arabic independence and self- MA MA BSc semester in an Arab country. grammar are covered. A selection Arabic students also participate discipline when it comes to of non-literary modern Arabic in the University-wide your studies although it is Joint Honours Triple Honours ‘With’ Honours texts will be used in class as St Andrews Abroad programme. the basis of language teaching, important to balance the Further information on page Arabic and one of 24 other subjects Arabic and two other modern languages Biology with Arabic classroom drills, tests and various aspects of your Arabic and one other modern language 129 and online at: written assignments and oral and another subject www.st-andrews.ac.uk/ academic and personal life.” class work. study-abroad See Arts combinations, pages 172-173 See Triple combinations, pages 132-133 Chloe-Kate (New York, USA)

44 45 You will study art from the medieval to the modern periods, Art History focusing on painting, sculpture and architecture in addition to www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects/art-history applied art, graphic arts and photography. You will learn to assess [email protected] images both critically and perceptively.

• Ranked first in the UK by the Guardian University Guide 2020, and first in Scotland and third in the UK by the Complete University Entry requirements Guide 2020. These grades are the overall standards required to consider you • We are one of the largest Art History departments in the UK and for entry. You can find out more have a wide range of expertise. about Standard, Minimum and Gateway entry requirements on • Most of our teaching is directly informed by the research activities page 167. of our staff, so it is continuously updated and always offered by www.st-andrews.ac.uk/ specialists. subjects/entry • Our School is friendly and collegial with a strong sense of SQA Highers: community. • Standard entry grades AAAB • Minimum entry grades AABB • Gateway entry grades BBBB What will I study? sculpture and architecture in GCE A-Levels: Art History provides a context in Southern and Northern Europe, • Standard entry grades AAA • Minimum entry grades ABB which you will gain intellectual as well as key points of contact International Baccalaureate: breadth and learn to become with the non-Western world, • Standard entry grades 36 verbally and visually articulate. from roughly 1300 to 1600. The (HL 6,6,5) You will learn to assess images, second is a survey of European • Minimum entry grades 36 (HL 6,5,5) artworks and architecture of art and architecture in the all kinds, both critically and seventeenth and eighteenth perceptively. We do not teach centuries. It covers the Baroque technical or practical art skills and Enlightenment eras, – although previous experience global networks of trade and in these, perhaps in the context exploration, and an introduction “ I love how versatile of a Higher or an A-Level, to early modern Islamic art. the degree is and how would certainly provide a useful Second year background. engaging the lectures are. You will take two courses. The We focus on the histories I really value the emphasis first is in the history and theory of the so-called ‘major arts’ of European art, architecture on independent research (painting, sculpture and and design from the French and the range of subjects architecture) but also encompass Revolution to Vienna 1900. This applied art, graphic arts to study. I like the open- focuses on the most significant and photography as well as minded attitude of the art-historical developments of contemporary media like the long nineteenth century. The School of Art History and installation and performance. second course covers art, culture the small class sizes – you A wide range of factors are St Salvator's Quadrangle and politics from 1900 to now. considered: the analysis of style, really receive individualised Here you will explore some of the content and meaning, politics, attention. St Andrews most compelling episodes and Available degree options Previous knowledge of subject required? No patronage and social significance, issues of international twentieth- strikes the perfect broad questions of theory and and twenty-first century art. balance between academic aesthetics. Third and fourth years rigour and university MA MA First year (Honours) life. The friendships you We offer two main areas for You can choose subjects from cultivate and the calibre study. The first comprises a wide range of options, Single Honours Joint Honours medieval and Renaissance art of the education you most of which correspond in Europe and beyond. This Art History Art History and one of 24 other subjects to the research interests of receive is outstanding.” provides you with a thematic individual members of staff. See Arts combinations, pages 172-173 survey covering painting, Lara (California, USA)

46 47 Art History

www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects/art-history [email protected]

In third year all Single Honours students take a In addition, many go on to careers in publishing, core course in the first semester (optional for Joint media, marketing, public relations, law, business, Honours students). This is designed to further your finance, retail, catering and hospitality. understanding of major art-historical issues. Graduates in Art History are popular with The following topics (among others) are employers because they have numerous highly currently taught, although applicants are advised significant transferable skills. At St Andrews that this list is subject to change in line with the students are trained to present in various media availability and teaching cycles of staff: art and (orally and visually, as well as through written architecture of the medieval period, Renaissance work), to meet deadlines, hone their editorial painting, Renaissance sculpture and architecture, skills, provide critical appraisals, and to work nineteenth-century art, history of photography, collaboratively with other students. Orientalism and art, Russian art, Islamic art, In recent years our graduates have secured African art, twentieth-century modernism, employment in a wide range of positions, including contemporary art. at the BBC, Sotheby’s, Christie’s, Legal and General, If you are thinking of a career in teaching, you National Museums Scotland, the British Library, can also take the Communication and Teaching in Arts Phaidon Press, Country Life magazine, Vertigo and Humanities course. Films, The Week magazine, Tiffany and Co., as well as numerous regional museums and galleries. Study abroad A good number of Art History graduates go Art History students may participate in the on to further study. This can be in the discipline University-wide St Andrews Abroad programme. You may also have the opportunity to participate itself, in associated fields, or other humanities. Those seeking careers in museums and galleries, in our School Abroad exchange programme. For particularly as curators or administrators, often information about study abroad options, please see: take relevant postgraduate degrees for these, www.st-andrews.ac.uk/study-abroad including the Museums and Gallery Studies Careers programme at St Andrews. A degree in Art History from St Andrews will provide you with an excellent foundation for a career in a wide range of fields, not least those associated with the arts. Graduates in Art History often work in museums and galleries, arts administration, the art trade, or teaching.

“ Art History allows you to view the world and its history through an aesthetic and social perspective. We cover a huge breadth of western art history, from the Renaissance to the present. The course is also quite broad including lectures on Islamic art and includes field trips to galleries in Edinburgh and Glasgow.”

Gemma (Hong Kong) St Mary's College

48 49 You will study life at all levels of organisation, from the Biology molecular biology of virus replication to the behaviour of www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects/biology animals in their natural habitats, and the functioning of [email protected] entire ecosystems.

• Flexible, modular degrees spanning a range of disciplines across the biological sciences. Entry requirements • Integrated Masters degrees in Biology, Biochemistry and Marine These grades are the overall standards required to consider you Biology. for entry. You can find out more • A strong focus on analytical, research and quantitative skills about Standard, Minimum and Gateway entry requirements on provides an extensive training in scientific methods. page 167. • Lectures are augmented by substantial practical experience (in the www.st-andrews.ac.uk/ laboratory and the field) and by regular small-group tutorials. subjects/entry • An independent research project provides key skills in SQA Highers: experimental design, data collection, analysis and presentation, • Standard entry grades AAAB and vital preparation for a career in research. • Minimum entry grades AABB Must include (Biology or • Small-group, research-led teaching allows in-depth discussion and Human Biology) and (Chemistry exploration of current science across a broad range of topics. or Mathematics or Physics). Biochemistry must include (Biology or Human Biology) and Chemistry. What will I study? Third and fourth years • Gateway entry grades BBBB (Honours) GCE A-Levels: Biology at St Andrews offers the • Standard entry grades AAB whole spectrum of the biological In your first Honours year, you • Minimum entry grades ABB sciences, from molecules will study advanced topics in Must include Biology and (Chemistry or Mathematics or Physics). and cells to organisms and your specialism, allowing you Biochemistry must include Biology environments. After a broad- to further enhance your subject and Chemistry. based introduction, you will take knowledge, practical skills and International Baccalaureate: ever more specialised courses, quantitative skills. • Standard entry grades 36 (HL 6,6,5) including HL6 in culminating in a research project. In your second Honours year, Biology and (Chemistry or You will graduate with a BSc you will study in small-group, Mathematics or Physics). (Honours) degree or with an research-led classes and will Biochemistry must include HL6 in Biology and Chemistry. Integrated Masters degree. carry out an individual research • Minimum entry grades 36 project. (HL 6,5,5) including HL6 in First year Biology and HL5 in (Chemistry You will study the whole breadth Integrated Masters or Mathematics or Physics). Biochemistry must include HL6 of biology, from molecules (five years) Biology and HL5 Chemistry. Third-year Biology students surveying biodiversity on a field trip in Wales and cells through to evolution, In your fourth year, you will ecology and organismal undertake a year-long research Direct entry to second year Yes biology. You will gain hands-on placement within industry or at SQA Highers/ Advanced Highers: Available degree options Previous knowledge of subject required? , Biology or Human Biology • Advanced Higher A in (Biology experience through participation a research institute, usually away or Human Biology) and B in in weekly laboratory- and field- from St Andrews. The following (Chemistry or Mathematics or based practical classes. year, you will return to study Physics), or vice-versa, plus Highers AAAB. Biochemistry MBiol BSc BSc BSc advanced classes in your chosen Second year must include Biology and specialism. Chemistry. You will begin specialising in GCE A-Levels: Single Honours Joint Honours ‘With’ Honours your areas of interest. You will Direct entry into second year • AAA including Biology and MBiochem MMarBiol have the opportunity to study It is possible for most Biology (Chemistry or Mathematics or Animal Behaviour Biology and one of 10 other Biology with Arabic cell biology, molecular biology, programmes to enter directly Physics). Biochemistry must include Biology and Chemistry. Biochemistry subjects Biology with French biochemistry, evolution, ecology into second year if you are Biology Psychology with Biology International Baccalaureate: and zoology. You will also Integrated Masters Cell Biology suitably qualified. • 38 including HL6 in Biology Ecology & Conservation Biology with French (With study research methods and and (Chemistry or Mathematics Biology (MBiol) Evolutionary Biology Integrated Year Abroad) or Physics). Biochemistry must attend laboratory- or field-based include HL6 in Biology and Biochemistry (MBiochem) Marine Biology practical classes. Chemistry. Marine Biology (MMarBiol) Molecular Biology See Science combinations, Zoology page 174

50 51 Biology You can access the world-renowned Scottish Study abroad Oceans Institute, which is housed in the new Biology students may participate in the multidisciplinary research and teaching centre University-wide St Andrews Abroad programme. www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects/biology located on the East Sands in St Andrews. For the You may also have the opportunity to participate [email protected] MMarBiol, see also Integrated Masters on page 51. in our School Abroad exchange programme. For information about study abroad options, please Molecular Biology see: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/study-abroad You will study core topics in molecular biology, Our degree programmes: of animals, plants and microbes, and on how such as nucleic acid structure and function, Careers cells interact as they form tissues and embryos. Animal Behaviour chromosome dynamics, gene structure and Graduates from the School of Biology have a wide In addition to a final year research project, you Firmly set in an evolutionary framework, this expression, molecular genetics, molecular range of skills sought by employers: laboratory are able to take research-led, small-group classes degree covers why behaviour evolves and how it virology, structural biology and bioinformatics. focused on, for example, advanced microscopy and field data collection, data handling and develops. You will examine the building blocks of There are advanced classes in protein structure presentation, problem solving, teamwork, and image analysis techniques. behaviour, such as its genetic and neural basis, and and function, gene expression and infection planning, and organisation and communication the role behaviour plays in ecosystem function. Ecology & Conservation and immunity. You will choose from a range of skills. Our graduates have secured employment You will learn about cutting-edge research in You will discover key principles to understanding small-group, research-led classes that currently as clinical scientists, consultant ecologists, a variety of topics including animal cognition, the diversity of environments (both terrestrial includes chromatin and genome stability, the marine mammal scientists, museum curators communication and culture. Your final year and aquatic), the processes of evolution and CRISPR system and molecular virology. Your final and school teachers. Beyond biology, our recent research project might involve collecting data on speciation, the interactions between plants and year project is typically conducted with one of graduates have gained employment in a wide animals at overseas field sites, on the shores or animals, and animal behaviour. You will also see the internationally-recognised research groups variety of business sectors such as marketing and in the fields of Fife, or in research laboratories in their application in biodiversity, sustainability working in the University’s Biomedical Sciences finance. Others have gone on to study for a wide St Andrews. and conservation issues. You will participate Research Complex. range of Masters and PhD programmes in the UK in a residential field course and develop your and overseas. Zoology Biochemistry (BSc or MBiochem) research skills with one of our leading researchers You will study recent advances in our understanding Embark on a wide-ranging exploration of the Additional compulsory costs in ecology and conservation. Your final year of the structure and function of macromolecules, project could focus, for example, on the impacts animal kingdom, encompassing the structure, Students need to cover the costs of a laboratory alongside cell biology and organismal biology, of disturbance on coral reefs or of wind turbines development, evolution, classification, behaviour coat and dissection kit. Some fourth-year developing an appreciation of the interdisciplinary on bird populations, and will provide crucial and distribution of all types of animal, both optional classes involve substantial additional nature of biochemistry. You will learn how training in experimental design, data collection living and extinct. Courses will enable you to costs. Students on the Ecology & Conservation biochemistry is providing solutions to global and analysis. understand animals from their genes to their degree will need to pay for residential field courses. challenges, such as the urgent need for novel cells, through their physiology and development, Those on Integrated Masters degrees may also Evolutionary Biology antibiotics or drugs to combat emerging diseases, to their behaviour and the roles they play in encounter additional living costs in their fourth and for crops with improved yields. You will This degree focuses on the theory of evolution via terrestrial and aquatic environments. You will year if they choose to take industry or research study protein structure and function, gene courses in evolutionary genetics and evolutionary undertake a research project that builds on any placements outside St Andrews. regulation, bioenergetics, infection and disease, ecology. The impact of evolution on animal and question concerning the animal kingdom: the There may also be additional costs for some of and pharmacology. For the MBiochem, see also plant interactions, terrestrial and aquatic ecology, breadth encompasses insects and birds avoiding our optional courses. Integrated Masters on page 51. biodiversity and conservation, and infection and being eaten, how animals recognise possible disease will be explored. You will develop your mates, and how animals gain information from Biology (BSc or MBiol) research skills on a residential field course and each other. If you have broad interests in biology and would subsequently work with one of our outstanding rather take a wide variety of topics throughout all ecologists or evolutionary biologists for your final years, these are the degrees for you. Many of our year research project. This might involve research applicants initially choose a Biology degree and on why animals typically produce an equal ratio of later decide on a more specialised degree. However, daughters and sons, the genetic basis of speciation, we are also keen to support broad-based biologists, or the evolution of development. who bridge whole-organism and molecular Marine Biology (BSc or MMarBiol) subjects. For the MBiol, see also Integrated Masters These degrees will teach you about the diversity “ A big motivation of mine for studying at St Andrews was the on page 51. of marine life from the deep sea to estuaries, and excellent research that is being carried out. As a biologist Cell Biology from tiny cells to large marine mammals. Topics with the aim of going into research, it was important to me You will concentrate on how molecular processes at an advanced level will cover marine molecular that the university had the facilities and people that would are organised within the cell and on how ecology, genomics and marine microbiology, and cells work together within an organism. This the ecology of marine mammals. The shores of drive me in that direction. I love how personal the teaching programme provides the basis for understanding the North Sea make St Andrews the ideal place to style is here – students are welcome to chat to the lecturers the physiology and development of animals and study marine wildlife in its natural habitat. and they are always happy to help.” plants, as well as many aspects of pathology. The You will have the opportunity to learn not programme focuses on the structure and function only in the laboratory, but also out in the field. Rebekka (Vienna, Austria)

52 53 Chemistry is an exciting central science in which you will receive a Chemistry thorough and fundamental training. You will be able to specialise www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects/chemistry in areas including medicinal chemistry, nanotechnology, materials, [email protected] catalysis, molecular biology and surface science.

• Friendly and close-knit School that is consistently highly ranked amongst UK Chemistry departments. Entry requirements • Flexible degree structure with an opportunity to specialise in These grades are the overall standards required to consider you Materials Chemistry or Medicinal Chemistry. for entry. You can find out more • Opportunity to gain research experience in both industrial and about Standard, Minimum and Gateway entry requirements on academic environments through an external placement and page 167. research project. www.st-andrews.ac.uk/ • Practical training in award-winning, state-of-the-art teaching subjects/entry laboratories. SQA Highers: • Standard entry grades AAAAB • Minimum entry grades AABB What will I study? compounds, fundamental Must include A in Chemistry and organic reaction mechanisms, (Biology or Human Biology or Chemistry at St Andrews Computing Science or Economics offers you a unique experience introductory bio-organic or Geography or Mathematics or blending education in state- chemistry and organic Physics). • Gateway entry grades BBBB of-the-art science facilities spectroscopy. GCE A-Levels: while enjoying the traditions Second year • Standard entry grades AAA of an ancient university. As • Minimum entry grades ABB You will continue to develop an undergraduate Chemistry Must include A in Chemistry. a deeper understanding of student you will have frequent International Baccalaureate: the branches of chemistry to • Standard entry grades 38 contact with world-class provide a strong foundation for (HL 6,6,6) including HL6 in academics, and we pride Chemistry and (Biology or specialisation in the following ourselves on the personal Computer Science or Economics years. or Geography or Mathematics or and flexible nature of our Inorganic Chemistry: Physics). School of Chemistry programmes. • Minimum entry grades 36 organometallics and transition- (HL 6,5,5) including HL6 in First year metal chemistry, atmospheric Chemistry and HL5 in (Biology or Available degree options Previous knowledge of subject required? Yes, Chemistry You will be introduced to key chemistry, solid-state chemistry Computer Science or Economics or Geography or Mathematics or concepts in inorganic, organic and main-group chemistry. Physics). and physical chemistry, Physical Chemistry: quantum Direct entry to second year MChem MChem BSc BSc developing core knowledge mechanics, thermodynamics, and important skills. Teaching electrochemistry, kinetics, SQA Highers/ Advanced Highers: • Advanced Higher A in Chemistry includes lectures, tutorials, spectroscopy and diffraction and and B in (Mathematics or Physics) workshops and laboratory-based mathematical tools for chemists. plus Highers AAAAB Integrated Masters Integrated Masters Single Honours Joint Honours or ‘With’ Single Honours ‘With’ practical classes. The diversity of Organic Chemistry: GCE A-Levels: • AAA including Chemistry and Chemistry Biology and Chemistry topics in the three branches carbon-carbon bond formation, (Mathematics or Physics). Chemistry Chemistry with French Chemistry with Medicinal Chemistry and Geology include: aromatic and heteroaromatic International Baccalaureate: Chemistry with External Chemistry with French and Chemistry Chemistry and Mathematics Inorganic Chemistry: atoms chemistry, biological chemistry Placement External Placement Chemical Sciences • 38 (HL 6,6,6) including HL6 in Chemistry and (Mathematics or Chemistry with Medicinal Chemistry with Mathematics Materials Chemistry Chemistry with French and the periodic table, structure and spectroscopic techniques for Physics). Chemistry Chemistry with French (With and bonding of molecules, organic chemists. Chemistry with Medicinal Integrated Year Abroad) inorganic solids and chemistry of Chemistry and External Third, fourth and fifth years the first row transition metals. Placement (Honours) Physical Chemistry: Materials Chemistry MSci A combination of core and thermodynamics and kinetics, Materials Chemistry with optional topics are taught, External Placement states of matter, introductory enabling specialisation in spectroscopy and properties of Integrated Masters different areas while maintaining Joint Honours solutions and solids. a broad-based coverage across Organic Chemistry: the the whole subject. Chemistry and Physics structure of simple organic

54 55 Chemistry

www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects/chemistry [email protected]

Topics may include quantum mechanics, energy Our degree programmes (available as either conversion and storage, carbohydrates and MChem or BSc unless stated otherwise): nucleic acids, ligand design, functional materials, Chemistry fragrance, food and colour chemistry and Chemistry at St Andrews interfaces with biology, heterocyclic and pericyclic chemistry. physics, mathematics, medicine and geology, MChem Integrated Masters (five years) making it a highly applicable subject to many with or without External Placement areas of study. You will develop a broad base of Advanced research-led specialisation delivers chemical knowledge and understanding reinforced topics that may include homogeneous and by extensive practical experience and familiarity heterogeneous catalysis, blockbuster solids, with modern laboratory, instrumental and asymmetric synthesis, natural product computational techniques. The MChem allows you biosynthesis, molecular recognition, to study at great depth with emphasis on research, nanostructured materials. In fourth year, graduating with a Masters degree. The course there is an opportunity to join a research and gives you the best possible training for a career development group within a leading industrial in the professional chemical sector or to carry out research laboratory (where you will earn a salary) postgraduate study upon graduation. or overseas academic institution (you will have to Chemistry with Medicinal Chemistry pay additional living costs). Alternatively, you may You start with a broad training in core chemistry, remain in St Andrews and undertake an advanced followed by specialisation in biological and research skills laboratory, scientific writing course medicinal topics. You will gain an understanding and a variety of compulsory and optional lecture of the process of creating new drugs. Areas include topics. In fifth year, you take a year-long project in understanding and measuring the interactions a research laboratory. The MChem provides great between drug molecules and biomolecules, Study abroad both in the chemical industry and other non- depth with a significant emphasis on research, and applying this understanding to the design of new For information about study abroad options, please physical science sectors. Many MChem graduates is ideal for those intending to enter the professional see: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/study-abroad continue on to PhD-level degrees both in the UK chemical sector or to carry out postgraduate study molecules that achieve desired effects, planning and overseas. upon graduation. efficient syntheses of complex molecules on Careers laboratory and industrial scales. St Andrews Chemistry graduates are in demand Accreditation BSc (four years) Materials Chemistry by both major and grassroots companies, with All our Single Honours Chemistry degree You are taught the fundamentals of this central St Andrews has one of the largest groupings of an employability rate of over 95%. Chemistry programmes are accredited by the Royal Society of science, from the composition and properties of degrees provide a range of highly desirable Chemistry. matter to using reactions to create new materials materials chemists in the UK. You begin with a broad training in core chemistry, followed by skills including problem solving, numeracy, data and molecules. Learn about the critical role of Scholarships specialisation in materials. The course will develop handling and teamwork: attributes that are highly chemistry in industries and new technologies, Purdie and Benjamin Franklin Scholarships are your chemical understanding of the origins of prized by employers. St Andrews Chemistry from pharmaceuticals to accessing drinkable water, available to Chemistry applicants. the diverse array of properties of materials, their graduates move into a wide range of employment efficient energy generation to sustainable food synthesis and their characterisation. production. Receive a comprehensive academic and practical training to equip you for a wide spectrum Chemical Sciences (BSc only) of careers, whether in science-based industries This will teach you the fundamentals of chemistry “ I think it is incredible to learn about the subject from leading or other fields such as teaching, management or and allow you to include a small component finance. of a non-chemistry subject at Honours level, experts in the field, and to have them help us along when we are such as communication and teaching in science, in laboratories and lectures. We are given the tools to undertake psychology, management, or economics. projects on our own at a very early stage in our academic careers so by the time we graduate we will be skilled to enter industrial laboratories and pursue postgraduate research with ease.”

Sarah (New York, USA)

56 57 The School of Classics is housed in Swallowgate, an attractive School of Classics building which is only a few metres away from the University www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects/classics Library and the main quadrangle. There are computing facilities in [email protected] the building, seminar rooms and a well-stocked class library.

See also Ancient History (& Archaeology); Classical Studies; Classics, Greek and Latin; History • Ranked first in the UK by the Guardian University Guide 2020. • Highly rated for teaching and research: ranked third among Entry requirements These grades are the overall UK Classics departments for overall satisfaction in the National standards required to consider you Student Survey 2019. for entry. You can find out more • One of the largest Classics departments in the UK, with a wide about Standard, Minimum and Gateway entry requirements on range of expertise. page 167. • Broad variety of courses, from Greek and Latin language and www.st-andrews.ac.uk/ literature, to ancient history, archaeology, art, philosophy and subjects/entry classics in the modern world. Ancient History – see page 43 • Research-led teaching: research by St Andrews staff feeds directly Classical Studies – see page 61 into our teaching, particularly in the third and fourth years, so our Classics – see page 63 Greek – see page 63 courses are constantly updated. Latin – see page 63 • Open to all: our degrees are designed to be open to beginners as well as to students who have studied the subjects at school. • A friendly School with a strong sense of community.

Triple Honours combinations Degrees in these subjects equip Many of the degrees offered graduates with a variety of by the School of Classics are interpretative, research and available as triple Honours communication skills and a combinations with subjects in considerable degree of autonomy the School of Modern Languages. that are valuable in a variety of These degrees typically include roles. two modern languages and a Classicists and ancient classical subject. historians can find themselves working in any career that does Study abroad not require a specialist scientific Classics students may School of Classics background. participate in the University- Recent graduates of the wide St Andrews Abroad “ I enjoyed how broad the School of Classics have gone Available degree options Previous knowledge of subject required? No programme. You may also into careers as diverse as law, degree structure was in have the opportunity to finance, journalism, publishing, the first two years. I participate in our School teaching, arts administration, Abroad exchange programme. was able to enhance my MA BA MA MA libraries, heritage management For information about study knowledge of the ancient and museums. abroad options, please see: There are many options for world with modules in www.st-andrews.ac.uk/ Single Honours International Honours Joint Honours Triple Honours further study, either in Classics Ancient History, Biblical study-abroad Ancient History Classical Studies – Ancient The following can be One of: or in related fields. Many of our Studies and Hebrew. The Classical Studies History and Archaeology combined with a range of Ancient History Careers graduates go on to take further St Andrews experience Classics pathway or Greek and other subjects Classical Studies A degree in Classics, Greek, degrees, including research Greek Latin pathway Greek Latin, Classical Studies or programmes. is truly unique, and I Latin Ancient History Latin Ancient History will equip cannot imagine anywhere Classical Studies and two modern languages Classics you with a sought-after mix else that balances such Greek of intellectual, theoretical and a strong community with Latin transferable skills that open up

a very wide range of potential top-tier academics so well." See entry requirements and See Arts combinations, See Triple combinations, career opportunities. other information, page 30 pages 172-173 pages 132-133 Joel (Herefordshire, England)

58 59 Classical Studies will enable you to explore beyond Greek and Classical Studies Roman literature, learning about cultural history, philosophy, www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects/classics religion and art. Topics include Athenian democracy, Greek tragedy, [email protected] ancient erotic fiction, Roman culture and Platonic dialogue.

See also Ancient History (& Archaeology); School of Classics; Classics, Greek and Latin; History • Breadth of coverage: explore the complexities of Greek and Roman culture from the earliest days of archaic Greece to the later Roman Entry requirements Empire. These grades are the overall standards required to consider you • Diversity of specialist topics: mix and match from literature, art, for entry. You can find out more archaeology, culture and society, and the reception of Greece and about Standard, Minimum and Rome in the modern world. Gateway entry requirements on page 167. • No prior experience required: you can start studying Classical www.st-andrews.ac.uk/ Studies here. subjects/entry • Option to learn Latin and Greek from scratch alongside your SQA Highers: Classical Studies courses. • Standard entry grades AAAB • For Study Abroad information, see page 59. • Minimum entry grades AABB • Gateway entry grades BBBB GCE A-Levels: What will I study? • Standard entry grades AAA Rome’s philosophers to find the • Minimum entry grades ABB Classical Studies is a broad and virtuous life amidst political International Baccalaureate: vibrant degree that allows you turmoil, you will explore in • Standard entry grades 36 to explore all aspects of the depth the Romans’ responses (HL 6,6,5) literature, art and culture of the • Minimum entry grades 36 to the chaotic final years of (HL 6,5,5) Greeks and Romans as well as the Republic. In the second their legacy to the modern world. semester, you will look back to All Greek and Roman texts are archaic Greece to explore the studied in English translation, ferment of innovation and the but there are opportunities to bold experiments of poets and learn Greek and Latin too, and philosophers in an age when a to supplement your studies with new form of society was taking Ancient History courses. shape. “What I find most valuable Third and fourth years First year about Classical Studies is In your first semester, you will (Honours) study Greek drama, epic, art, You will choose from a wide the variety of disciplines religion and philosophy to range of specialist courses to and ideas that I have the explore the ways the Greeks pursue your interests in depth. chance to explore: history, used myths of the heroic past Recent courses have included not to explore pressing issues in only central topics in Classical social studies, languages School of Classics their own society. In the second Studies such as Greek epic, and literature studies. semester, you will study the theatre and religion, Greek There is also plenty of Available degree options Previous knowledge of subject required? No poetry, art and literature of the and Roman art, and women in scope for creativity and Romans as they came to terms antiquity, but also more unusual with the violent end of their subjects like magic, animals independent thought in MA BA MA MA ancient Republic and the rise of in the ancient world, and the your work. The flexibility the first emperor, Augustus. reception of Greek and Roman of the St Andrews sub- culture from the Renaissance to Second year honours structure exposes Single Honours International Honours Joint Honours Triple Honours the present. You can supplement You will start by studying the art these courses with options you to so many new ideas and literature of the late Roman Classical Studies Classical Studies – curriculum Classical Studies and one of Classical Studies and two drawn from the Ancient History and ways of thinking and differs significantly from 18 other subjects modern languages republic. From the seething programme for a truly wide- MA degrees passions of Latin love poetry working that can enrich ranging exploration of the Greek to the slick rhetoric of Rome’s your own degree pathway.” See entry requirements and See Arts combinations, See Triple combinations, and Roman worlds. other information, page 30 pages 172-173 pages 132-133 politicians, and the efforts of Rachael (Lanarkshire, Scotland)

60 61 Classics, Greek and Latin at St Andrews are wide-ranging degrees that Classics, Greek and Latin explore concepts and issues which remain fundamental today. You will www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects/classics study ancient political, social and cultural life, as well as Greek and [email protected] Latin, literature, art, architecture, philosophy and religion.

See also Ancient History (& Archaeology); School of Classics; Classical Studies; History • In-depth linguistic and literary training from the very start. You will study the main genres, periods and authors of Greek and Latin Entry requirements literature – and many unusual ones too – with intensive linguistic These grades are the overall standards required to consider you training to help you read and interpret the texts with sensitivity. for entry. You can find out more • We offer separate degrees for Latin and Greek, and a combined about Standard, Minimum and Gateway entry requirements on Classics degree that includes both languages. page 167. • Wide range of specialised courses from epic to tragedy, philosophy www.st-andrews.ac.uk/ and modern reception. subjects/entry • Opportunity to start Latin and Greek here, with dedicated support SQA Highers: for beginners in each language. • Standard entry grades AAAB • For Study Abroad information, see page 59. including A in a foreign language. • Minimum entry grades AABB including B in a foreign language. What will I study? languages from scratch, you can • Gateway entry grades BBBB Latin and Greek are the gateways ease yourself in by taking one GCE A-Levels: to two literatures of enormous language in your first year and • Standard entry grades AAA richness and sophistication that starting the other in your second. including A in a foreign language. • Minimum entry grades ABB have profoundly shaped modern Second year including B in a foreign language. satire, history-writing, love You will continue to develop International Baccalaureate: poetry, politics and much else. • Standard entry grades 36 your skills of literary analysis To study them at university is not (HL 6,6,5) including HL6 in a by reading a wide range of texts, foreign language. just a linguistic challenge, but • Minimum entry grades 36 authors and genres. Whether a challenge to understand what (HL 6,5,5) including HL5 in a you are studying Greek, Latin or foreign language. the texts meant in their original both, you will work with texts context and what they might drawn from the whole range mean today. You can study Latin of ancient literature, such as or Greek separately as Single epic, drama and poetry, oratory, Honours degrees in their own historiography and philosophy, right, or combine them together and unusual genres such as the in the Classics degree. If you have ancient novel. Sanctuary of Zeus at Olympia, Greece never had the chance to study Latin or Greek before, you can Third and fourth years (Honours) Available degree options Previous knowledge of subject required? No start one or even both languages from scratch here. You will choose from a wide “ The lively debates and range of specialised courses to First year discussions both inside pursue your interests. Recent Your first two years will focus courses in Greek have included and outside of class pose MA BA MA MA on developing the linguistic and tragedy, theatre, rhetoric, and both a welcome academic interpretative skills you will education. Recent courses in Latin need for advanced literary study. challenge as well as Single Honours International Honours Joint Honours Triple Honours have included epic, letter-writing, Beginners will focus on intensive fostering a real sense of comedy and biography. We offer Classics Classical Studies – Greek and Classics and one of 11 other Greek and two modern language learning in their first many other courses besides these, community. I started Greek year, while those who have Latin pathway subjects languages including courses on the art of Latin and Greek as a Latin Greek and one of 13 other Latin and two modern studied Latin or Greek before (to translation itself. If you started subjects languages Higher, A-Level, IB or equivalent) beginner and am now Latin and one of 15 other one language in your second year, will refine their linguistic skills confidently studying both subjects you will take special courses in and learn new skills of literary your third year to complete your at Honours.” See entry requirements and See Arts combinations, See Triple combinations, and cultural analysis. If you are linguistic training. other information, page 30 pages 172-173 pages 132-133 taking Classics and starting both Pippa (Glasgow, Scotland)

62 63 You will explore a range of literatures from around the world, Comparative Literature giving you a broad perspective on different literary genres, www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects/comparative-literature periods, themes and movements as they have developed within [email protected] and beyond national and cultural boundaries.

See also Modern Languages • You will be taught by literary experts from across the School of Modern Languages (Arabic, French, German, Italian, Persian, Entry requirements Russian and Spanish) as well as from other Schools in the Faculty These grades are the overall standards required to consider you of Arts. for entry. You can find out more • You will make comparisons and connections across countries, time about Standard, Minimum and Gateway entry requirements on periods, subjects and genres. page 167. • You will have a choice of team-taught research-led topics such as www.st-andrews.ac.uk/ folk and fairy tales, cultural memory and literature, and crossing subjects/entry the Mediterranean. SQA Highers: • Comparative Literature can be studied without any knowledge of • Standard entry grades AAAB foreign languages as you will encounter a wide range of literature • Minimum entry grades AABB • Gateway entry grades BBBB from around the world in English translation. GCE A-Levels: • Standard entry grades AAB • Minimum entry grades ABB What will I study? of good and evil, and journeys. International Baccalaureate: Comparative Literature allows Each topic presents a case study • Standard entry grades 36 you to explore challenging and of texts drawn from a wide range (HL 6,6,5) of genres, periods and cultures. • Minimum entry grades 36 influential literature without (HL 6,5,5) boundaries of culture or This provides the basis for an language. You will encounter exploration of literary analysis texts of all genres and periods and the methods of reading from across the world and comparatively. consider the ideas, human Third and fourth years values and historical forces that (Honours) have helped to form the world’s You will choose from a range literatures. You will have the of research-led courses taught opportunity to read, to discuss, to by teams of specialists from present reasoned arguments, and “ With texts from a wide across the School of Modern to work on writing with precision Languages. Each course will range of countries and and clarity. bring together texts from several a variety of genres First year cultural contexts to facilitate (from novels to movies to You will study two topics to in-depth comparative analysis. paintings), Comparative introduce you to the study of Topics could include literature Comparative Literature. The and the Bible, cultural memory, Literature is perfectly Rector’s Café nineteenth-century novel of experiences of exile or the short suited to an increasingly adultery and political drama in story. globalised world. The focus Available degree options Previous knowledge of subject required? No the twentieth and twenty-first Study abroad on contemporary cultural centuries will be covered through Comparative Literature students a diverse range of texts in English discourses has proved may participate in the University- translation, organised into two to be very useful in my MA MA wide St Andrews Abroad case studies defined by genre, programme. You may also have joint degree with Modern period and theme. the opportunity to participate History, as well as helping Joint Honours Triple Honours Second year in our School Abroad exchange me secure internships in You will deepen your theoretical programme. For information museums and research Comparative Literature and one of 24 Comparative Literature and two modern and practical engagement with about study abroad options, please other subjects languages Comparative Literature as a see: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/ institutes.” discipline by studying the topics study-abroad See Arts combinations, pages 172-173 See Triple combinations, pages 132-133 Zoe (Bad Fischau, Austria)

64 65 You will learn about cutting-edge developments in Computer Computer Science Science and develop transferable skills. The School is highly www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects/computer-science rated for teaching and research with excellent staff and top- [email protected] class facilities.

• Excellent reputation for teaching and research. • Excellent student:staff ratio of 12:1. Entry requirements • State-of-the-art facilities for our students. These grades are the overall standards required to consider you • Almost all of our academic staff teach and tutor undergraduates for entry. You can find out more each year. about Standard, Minimum and Gateway entry requirements on • Our courses are challenging but very rewarding. page 167. www.st-andrews.ac.uk/ subjects/entry What will I study? You will learn to work in teams Our courses are designed to SQA Highers: on projects of significant size • Standard entry grades AAAAB ground you in both the theory and using state-of-the-art • Minimum entry grades AABB and practice of Computer software engineering methods. Must include A in Mathematics Science. You will learn to think Each programme contains both and pass in (Biology or Human Biology or Chemistry or Computing and solve problems logically, a year-long team project and Science or Geography or Physics or understand the fundamental a dissertation that allows you Psychology). • Gateway entry grades BBBB principles of how computing to work on a project under the systems work, and be exposed to GCE A-Levels: supervision of a member of staff. • Standard entry grades AAA significant new technologies as Throughout your studies • Minimum entry grades ABB well as teamwork. you will have 24-hour access to Must include A in Mathematics and pass in (Biology or Chemistry In the first two years, you our state-of-the-art laboratories or Computer Science or Further will learn the basic concepts and common areas that are the Mathematics or Geography or behind Computer Science and heart of the thriving community Geology or Physics or Psychology). several different programming that is Computer Science at International Baccalaureate: • Standard entry grades 38 languages. St Andrews. (HL 6,6,6) Alongside Computer Science • Minimum entry grades 36 First year (HL 6,5,5) in the first year of your studies, You will take two compulsory HL6 in Mathematics and SL5 in you will be required to study at (Biology or Chemistry or Computer courses. The first one is least one additional subject. In Science or Geography or Geology or an introduction to object- the second year, you can continue Physics or Psychology). oriented modelling and with this other subject or focus Direct entry to second year programming using Java. The entirely on Computer Science. second explores various aspects SQA Highers/ Advanced Highers: You will be able to build • Advanced Higher A in of data storage, processing and a degree programme around Mathematics and B in (Biology or analysis. Human Biology or Chemistry or your interests and study Computing Science or Geography In addition, you can study specialist areas such as artificial or Physics or Psychology) plus Undergraduate practical laboratory session an optional Computer Science Highers AAAAB intelligence, human-computer course each semester and will interaction, computer security, GCE A-Levels: take one or two courses from • AAA including Mathematics Available degree options Previous knowledge of subject required? Yes, Mathematics video games, data encoding, and (Biology or Chemistry or another subject. databases and operating systems. Computer Science or Further Our courses include weekly Mathematics or Geography These options in the final two tutorials which provide a small- or Geology or Physics or years allow you to explore Psychology). MSci BSc BSc group teaching environment that the intellectual frontiers of International Baccalaureate: helps deepen your engagement Computer Science by studying • 39 (HL 6,6,6) including HL6 in with the topics studied and Mathematics and SL5 in (Biology more advanced and cutting-edge Integrated Masters Single Honours Joint Honours prepares you for the practical or Chemistry or Computer topics. Science or Geography or Geology assignments and exams. Computer Science Computer Science Computer Science and one of 7 other or Physics or Psychology). subjects

See Science combinations, page 174

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www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects/computer-science [email protected]

Second year Integrated Masters (five years) You will be introduced to fundamental algorithms, The first three years of the programme are as already data structures and ideas about formal languages at described. In fourth year, you will choose options the heart of modern software. You will then develop from our Honours and Masters-level classes. In skills in programming in C, systems programming, fifth year, you will spend one semester of your final digital logic and low-level computer organisation. year dedicated to undertaking a major software In addition, you will take two more courses, engineering or research project under the guidance which can be chosen from Computer Science or of an individual supervisor. You will also be able to another subject. You will attend weekly tutorials for take a number of courses at Masters level, providing your Computer Science courses. advanced training in computer science. Topics may include: language and computation, software Third and fourth years (Honours) engineering practice, critical systems engineering, You will be introduced to Turing machines, non- software architecture, human computer interaction determinism and pushdown automata, followed principles and methods, data-intensive systems, by study of decidability, simulation and the machine learning, data ethics and privacy and Halting problem. The foundations of logic that are information visualisation. relevant to computer scientists will also be covered, with an emphasis on automatic reasoning and Direct entry into second year decidability, including propositional and predicate Well-qualified school leavers with prior calculus, various proof techniques and Gödel’s programming experience may be able to apply incompleteness theorem. You will apply software for entry directly into the second year of these engineering concepts and practices to a substantial programmes. software engineering project as part of a team. You will take an accelerated version of one of This project runs through both semesters in third the second-year courses, which includes necessary year and will prepare you for the workplace, where background material from our first-year courses. collaboration with others is essential. Study abroad In your final year of a BSc, you will undertake Computer Science students may participate in the a substantial software engineering project. You will design, specify and construct a medium- University-wide St Andrews Abroad programme. Computer Science students are only able to sized software system, or undertake a formal study abroad for the full academic year; semester development and proof of such a system, under the placements are not available. For information about guidance of a member of staff. study abroad options, please see: In addition to the compulsory courses, such as www.st-andrews.ac.uk/study-abroad computational complexity, you will choose from a wide variety of advanced options. Here is a sample Careers of Honours topics: artificial intelligence, component A degree in Computer Science will allow you to enter Interactive undergraduate teaching session technology, computer architecture, computer into technical, academic, financial or commercial graphics, computer security, concurrency and posts. Most companies and organisations are heavily multi-core architectures, constraint programming, invested in computer systems, and this has created “ The balance between practical applications and theory-based data communications and networks, data encoding, a demand for many different specialisations in learning is incredibly well constructed. During my first year, I was databases, distributed systems, human computer computer technology. Graduates from Computer able to take modules in astrophysics, mathematics and organic interaction, logic and software verification, Science go on to find careers as business analysts, operating systems, programming language design systems architects and analysts, software developers, chemistry alongside my compulsory degree modules. This allowed and implementation, video games and visual testers and verifiers, technical writers, IT trainers me to broaden my horizons and explore topics I had not previously analytics. and user advisers and project managers. considered before, develop a lot of new interests, as well as In addition, there is an option to ‘dip up’ by Many of our graduates undertake further study, considering the interconnectivity of subjects.” taking Masters-level classes. here or elsewhere. We offer a range of options

including MSc, EngD and PhD-level degrees. Zachariah (Singapore)

68 69 You will be introduced to the teachings of theological and biblical studies, Divinity considering the influence of scripture on Western civilisation and faith in www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects/divinity the contemporary world. Divinity is one of the oldest intellectual pursuits [email protected] and still relevant to understanding the modern world.

• We are consistently ranked top in Theology and Religious Studies in the UK in the National Student Survey. Entry requirements • Theology and Religious Studies at St Andrews were ranked second These grades are the overall standards required to consider you in the UK by the Guardian University Guide 2020. for entry. You can find out more • We are a dynamic community in which staff and students work about Standard, Minimum and Gateway entry requirements on together closely. page 167. • We offer a clearly structured, rigorous programme of study that www.st-andrews.ac.uk/ also allows specialisation, a wide range of choice and academic as subjects/entry well as career-linked support. SQA Highers: • We are housed in St Mary’s College, one of the most historic parts • Standard entry grades AAAB • Minimum entry grades AABB of the University and the home of Divinity since 1579. • Gateway entry grades BBBB • Our King James Library, founded in 1612, is a beautiful place, GCE A-Levels: providing Divinity students with quiet study areas and curated • Standard entry grades AAA research support. • Minimum entry grades ABB International Baccalaureate: • Standard entry grades 36 What will I study? Second year (HL 6,6,5) • Minimum entry grades 36 Our programmes introduce you You will continue with Theology (HL 6,5,5) to the teachings and practices of or Biblical Studies, or both. In the Christian faith in particular Theology, you study Christian and consider the profound thought and practice, as well as influence that the Jewish and the history of the church from its Christian scriptures have had beginning through the Middle on Western civilisation while Ages. addressing both the significance In Biblical Studies, you of faith today and the challenges will continue your study of it faces. both parts of the Bible and, if you want, of Hebrew and/or First year Greek. There is also a variety St Mary's College You will concentrate on Theology or on Biblical Studies, or both. of optional courses on offer, “ I love the fact that covering special topics related In Theology, you will take two Available degree options Previous knowledge of subject required? No to science, theology, philosophy students are given the main courses: one on key themes and religion and the arts. room to explore options in Christian theology, as they have developed in history and as Third and fourth years before concentrating on MTheol MA MA BD we might think about them now; (Honours) specific areas of studies. and one on theological ethics. You will be able to study a wide I have been exposed to In Biblical Studies, you will take range of advanced topics in topics that I did not know Single Honours Single Honours Joint Honours Bachelor of Divinity one course on the Old Testament Theology and Biblical Studies. (Hebrew Bible) and one on the Teaching will be in small would interest me so much. Theology Biblical Studies Biblical Studies and one of Divinity New Testament. You can also seminars and will be guided They provoke my interest, Theological Studies 15 other subjects Hebrew and one of 10 other If you are taking the BD begin to study Hebrew and/or by both the lecturer’s research satisfy my curiosity, and subjects (Bachelor of Divinity) degree, Greek. There are optional courses interests and your own. At this make me think. This New Testament and Modern you will enter directly into on offer each year, covering topics stage, students also take part in a History the second year. Please such as world religions, science- formative programme designed University is not just four Theological Studies and one note, though, that the engaged theology, the Bible in to prepare them for advanced years of your life, it is a of 15 other subjects BD is restricted to those who already have another western culture and theology's research and writing as well as life in four years!” See Arts combinations, undergraduate degree. influence on popular culture. career planning. pages 172-173 Lowell (Hong Kong)

70 71 Divinity

www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects/divinity [email protected]

Our degree programmes: covering the history of Christian theology from the early church to the modern world. You will Biblical Studies explore ways in which Christianity is being You will explore the profound influence that the expressed and lived out today in different areas Christian and Jewish scriptures have had on of the world, and learn about the distinctive western civilisation. You will focus on the Old challenges to, and unique resources found Testament and New Testament, but you will also within, faith in the context of our contemporary encounter a large number of other Jewish and world. Christian writings from these periods, such as the The MA course is particularly suited for those Dead Sea Scrolls. You may also have the chance to wanting a wider range of options across Arts study Aramaic. subjects, while still giving most of their attention This course is particularly suited for those to Divinity. wanting a wider range of options across Arts subjects, while still giving most of their attention Master of Theology to Divinity. Many students choose to take Biblical The focus is on topics directly related to Studies alongside subjects such as Ancient theological and biblical studies. You will study the History or Classical Studies in order to study history of Israel, the person of Jesus of Nazareth important texts within the wider context of the (in his historical and theological contexts), Paul’s ancient world, or with English in order to discover letters and the rapid growth of the early church, as how biblical ideas and themes have formed and well as contacts between Christianity and Greek St Salvator's Chapel informed literature and culture. and Roman philosophy. You will also examine Christian thought in Hebrew depth, including church history and Christian Our focus is on classical or biblical Hebrew, Careers the UK and abroad, religious studies teachers, ethics. You can specialise within Divinity by though you may also take advanced courses in A degree in Divinity gives you the opportunity for lay chaplains at schools, ordained ministers, studying subjects like world religions, Greek, post-biblical Hebrew, particularly by studying the journalists with the national and religious press. Hebrew, religion and anthropology, the Dead Sea significant intellectual and personal development, Dead Sea Scrolls. and you will acquire a wide range of transferable Other Divinity graduates have gone on to become: Scrolls, pastoral care, moral reasoning or pursue Modern language teaching methods are used skills. Those who have studied Theology or a trainee manager at a national bank, an art gallery interdisciplinary interests through the Faculties of to help beginners. For those with a background in Biblical Studies have learnt a fantastic range of assistant, a solicitor, a theatre director, a college Arts or Science. languages, Hebrew makes a fascinating language skills – textual, historical, analytical, creative, principal, business consultant, social worker, and to study as it belongs to the Semitic, as opposed to Divinity (BD) and interpersonal. They are in demand with even a wine taster. the Indo-European, family group. This is especially suited for those considering employers who need rigorous but flexible thinkers Graduates have also gone on to postgraduate ordination within a Christian denomination. with a broad knowledge base and an empathetic degrees in areas related to Divinity, such as New Testament You will have the option to specialise in the Old understanding of people and their religious and literature, philosophy, anthropology, and classics, Our focus is on New Testament language and Testament, theology, practical theology, church social contexts. at other top universities in the UK and across the literature, though you can also take additional history or a combination of these. Recent graduates from the School of Divinity world. classes in Old Testament (Hebrew Bible) and have, for example, become: graduate students in Christian history and theology. Study abroad Modern language teaching methods are used Divinity students may participate in the to help beginners. For those with an existing University-wide St Andrews Abroad programme. background in Greek, advanced language classes You may also have the opportunity to participate and textual classes in the original language are in our School Abroad exchange programme. For “I enjoy the close community in the School, not just between available. information about study abroad options, please students but also with staff who are really engaging and see: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/study-abroad Theological Studies helpful. As my classes are quite small, I can ask questions and Theological Studies provides an introduction to get advice, whether it be through an email or in person. Also, the rich theological traditions of Christianity, studying in the King James Library is a great reminder of how lucky I am to be able to study here.”

Zac (Coleraine, Northern Ireland)

72 73 Earth and environmental sciences span topics from current climate Earth & Environmental Sciences change to the formation of the planets. You will gain a fundamental www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects/earth-environmental-sciences understanding of the natural processes that shape our planet and create [email protected] its resources.

• Discover how Earth and other planets have developed and evolved through time by studying the processes that build continents, Entry requirements These grades are the overall control climate, influence life, govern the composition of the standards required to consider you oceans and atmosphere, and form critical natural resources. for entry. You can find out more • Gain valuable first-hand experience in obtaining and evaluating about Standard, Minimum and Gateway entry requirements on your own data, with our programmes characterised by extensive page 167. field training across Scotland and Europe. www.st-andrews.ac.uk/ subjects/entry • Engage with exciting current research by academic staff ranging from the processes of planetary formation to the evolution of life SQA Highers: and environments over deep time, through to climate change, • Standard entry grades AAAB • Minimum entry grades AABB natural resources and environmental sustainability. At least B in two of (Biology • Develop advanced transferable skills; training includes fieldwork , or Human Biology, Chemistry, numerical modelling, scientific problem solving and written and Geography, Mathematics, Physics). • Gateway entry grades BBBB oral presentation. GCE A-Levels: • Become part of a tight-knit community of students and staff, • Standard entry grades AAB ensured by small class sizes and frequent field trips. • Minimum entry grades ABB • Be taught by world-leading researchers and passionate educators. At least B in two of Biology, Chemistry, Geography, Geology, • Use some of the UK’s most advanced analytical facilities as part of Mathematics, Physics. your undergraduate dissertation. International Baccalaureate: • Enjoy the graduate employability in mineral resources, energy, and • Standard entry grades 36 environmental consultancy that a St Andrews degree will provide. (HL 6,6,5) including HL6 in two of Biology, Chemistry, Geography, Mathematics, Physics. • Minimum entry grades 36 What will I study? All of our undergraduate degree (HL 6,5,5) including HL5 in two of You will study fundamental topics pathways share classes in the Biology, Chemistry, Geography, Mathematics, Physics. from current environmental first two years. These provide a change to the evolution of the broad foundation in Earth and Direct entry to second year planets, integrating geology, environmental sciences, from GCE A-Levels: physical geography, chemistry, which you can find your specific • AAA including A in Geology physics and biology to understand interests and strengths before and (Biology or Chemistry or Geography or Mathematics or the world around us. St Andrews specialising in your Honours Physics). is an ideal place to study Earth years. It is possible to change International Baccalaureate: and environmental sciences with programmes, depending on • 38 including HL6 in three of the intersection of land and sea performance, up to the start of Biology, Chemistry, Geography, Physics. that surrounds us. Scotland’s third year. Second year BSc students learning how to map in Spain landscapes are archives of a First year geological history that spans more You will study the fundamental Available degree options Previous knowledge of subject required? No than three billion years, from processes that have formed rocks that formed at the base of and shaped our planet and its continental crust to mountains environment. You will gain the shaped by ancient orogenies and MGeol BSc BSc skills to identify rocks and younger glaciations, including minerals and begin to gain world-famous, iconic geological first-hand experience of both Integrated Masters Single Honours Joint Honours localities. Most of our students environmental and geological have not studied the subject at Earth Sciences Environmental Earth Sciences Geology and one of Biology or fieldwork. You will also take school and choose our degrees Geology Chemistry courses in other subjects from from a strong science background across the University. alongside a love of the outdoors.

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www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects/earth-environmental-sciences [email protected]

Second year including the mechanics of plate tectonics, the You will build a deeper understanding of formation of planets and the dawn of life. Applied planetary materials (rocks, minerals, ores) and the industrial training will provide you with the skills natural processes that shape Earth’s surface and and knowledge required by the energy and mineral interior, from ocean-atmosphere composition and industries, and research projects will allow you to dynamical processes to plate tectonics. You will undertake independent field research, underpinned BSc students demonstrating the movement on the Glencoul Thrust in Scotland investigate pivotal episodes in the Earth’s history by rock and mineral analysis. and discover how our planet and life evolved. MGeol Earth Sciences – Study abroad prospects are consistently among the best in the Further development of field skills comes from Integrated Masters (five years) Earth and Environmental Sciences students may UK. There are multiple career options for Earth and independent and small-group fieldwork in Spain This degree provides comprehensive training participate in the University-wide St Andrews Environmental Sciences graduates, both specifically and across the UK. in the Earth Sciences, spanning topics from the Abroad programme. For information about study in the energy, natural resources, and environmental Third and fourth years (BSc and MGeol) formation of the solid Earth to environmental abroad options, please see: sectors, as well as in wider science and policy areas. You will learn state-of-the-art geological and change. The extra year allows you to engage deeply www.st-andrews.ac.uk/study-abroad Our degrees provide advanced training in a environmental science techniques. Further details with fundamental questions in Earth Sciences and wide range of transferable skills, including scientific to engage in either an internship with industry or a International opportunities on specific degree programmes are listed below. problem solving, written communication and oral placement within a research group. There are opportunities to undertake international Direct entry into second year presentation. The high quality of our field training With employment and PhD opportunities placements in industry or research (MGeol), and Direct entry into second year is possible for is particularly highly valued by employers. increasingly requiring Masters-level qualifications, international fieldwork (all Honours programmes). Our graduates have become environmental appropriately qualified students. this programme is designed to allow candidates Recent locations have included Greenland, scientists, exploration geologists, geophysicists, Our degree programmes: to supplement their deep understanding of Earth Namibia, the US, and sites across Europe. geologists, hydrogeologists, consultants, and and environmental science processes with a proven BSc Environmental Earth Sciences Field training geological, environmental and geotechnical track record of workplace and research-based This degree integrates study of the oceans, Field training is an essential part of Earth and engineers. experience. atmosphere, biosphere and geosphere in order Environmental Sciences degrees. At St Andrews Recent employers of our graduates include the The broad and flexible structure of the degree to understand the processes and impacts of travel and accommodation costs are covered on British Geological Survey, Scottish Environmental introduces you to topics across the Earth and environmental change and landscape evolution. compulsory taught field trips run by the School. Protection Agency, BP, Shell, British Antarctic environmental sciences and provides ample room It incorporates insights from across chemistry, Survey, Norsk Hydro, Fugro Geotechnics Ltd, for the development of specific interests. Many Careers physics and biology to understand Earth’s surface RSA Geotechnics, Gemfields, Scottish Natural students take the opportunity to go on a major The School is proactive about developing career environment both past and present. Teaching is Heritage, Hinkley Point C nuclear power station, fieldwork expedition as part of this programme. opportunities, and career activities are provided strongly integrated with our leading research JBA Consulting, JP Morgan, Accenture, and BHP for all students from first year onwards. We embed programmes, and you can take advantage of Accreditation Billiton. Many of our graduates undertake further assessment styles that imitate real workplace laboratory-based research projects to answer The BSc Geology and MGeol Earth Sciences degrees study, both at MSc and PhD level. Recent PhD scenarios and many modules in Honours years are questions ranging from the dawn of atmospheric are accredited by The Geological Society. As well as destinations include MIT, CalTech, ETH Zurich, supported by visits to and by industry partners. oxygen, to the stability of major ice sheets, and providing added assurance to prospective students Stanford, Boulder, Open University, Penn State, As a result, our graduates are well prepared the impact of volcanoes on climate. Applied that teaching is of the highest quality and has been Western, Durham, Cambridge and Oxford. for industry and our graduate employment training focuses on the environmental impact of approved by an independent body, holding an mining and use of Earth’s natural resources and accredited degree reduces the amount of experience includes hands-on experience with state-of-the-art required for applications for Chartered Geologist techniques in the field and laboratory. This degree and Chartered Scientist. will appeal to candidates who are interested in the The BSc Environmental Earth Sciences degree “ I chose St Andrews because of the multitude of fieldwork physical aspects of geography. is accredited by The Institution of Environmental opportunities within and outside of Scotland. The staff are Sciences. This accreditation provides a mark of BSc Geology incredibly dedicated to their students and the result is a lively quality and specifically indicates an institution This degree emphasises the origin and chemistry and positive atmosphere. I had absolutely no need to worry about is active in supporting student career paths. of rocks and minerals, geological mapping, and Students are also entitled to apply for free Student making friends – there are so many University events, societies and the processes and events that have shaped the Membership of IES. sporting activities to get involved in.” rock record. Research-led teaching will introduce you to cutting-edge geological science questions, Charlotte (Franschhoek, South Africa)

76 77 Economics is a social science concerning the production, distribution Economics & Finance and consumption of goods and services, whilst finance is the study of www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects/economics managing available funds. The courses provide structured explorations [email protected] of key concepts, analysis and techniques.

• The School will provide you with an exciting and intellectually stimulating curriculum. We offer a flexible degree programme Entry requirements which allows lots of choice regarding the topics you study in third These grades are the overall standards required to consider you and fourth years. for entry. You can find out more • You will be taught by a friendly, dynamic and cosmopolitan about Standard, Minimum and Gateway entry requirements on academic team, with a diverse range of research interests. page 167. • We offer excellent research-led teaching, ranking first in the UK by www.st-andrews.ac.uk/ the Guardian University Guide 2020 and third in The Times and The subjects/entry Sunday Times Good University Guide 2020. SQA Highers: • Our programmes will develop your communication and • Standard entry grades AAAAB • Minimum entry grades AABB quantitative transferable skills, important for a range of • Gateway entry grades BBBB employment and for further study. GCE A-Levels: • You will receive expert one-to-one advice from academics when • Standard entry grades AAA making your course choices. In third and fourth years, you will • Minimum entry grades ABB also be allocated a personal tutor, who will guide and support you International Baccalaureate: in your studies. • Standard entry grades 38 (HL 6,6,6) • Minimum entry grades 36 (HL 6,5,5) What will I study? Second year Your first-year studies will More advanced study of provide knowledge of the consumers, firms and markets discipline, as well as introductory (microeconomics) and of models quantitative techniques. Your in modern macroeconomics is “ I was attracted to School of Economics & Finance second year will build upon undertaken. Further quantitative and develop what you learned methods provide you with the combination of Available degree options Previous knowledge of subject required? No in first year. Your third and training in the statistical quantitative and fourth years will equip you techniques needed for economic qualitative elements in the with a fuller understanding of analysis and in how to structure subject – microeconomics economic relationships and with and make sense of economic, has a strong mathematical BSc MABSc MA MA further techniques necessary financial and social data. for their analysis. In addition foundation, while Third and fourth years to any compulsory subjects, in (Honours) macroeconomics and Single Honours Joint Honours BSc ‘With’ Honours third and fourth year you select There is a wide range of topics economic history involve from a range of optional topics. Economics Economics and one of 8 other subjects Economics with one of 4 other subjects on offer every year, for example: essay assignments. I Financial Economics Financial Economics and Mathematics These provide an analytical understanding of key aspects of econometrics, corporate finance, appreciated the flexibility See Arts combinations, pages 172-173 decision and game theory, See Cross-Faculty subjects, page 5 See Science combinations, page 174 incentives, behaviour and policy economic growth, portfolio in sub-honours as I formation. management. There is also an studied Economics Joint Honours MA First year extensive selection of topics, and Psychology for my You will be introduced to the which may differ each year, Economics and one of 22 other subjects first two years and principles of microeconomics for example: inequality and BA Financial Economics and Mathematics and macroeconomics, as well as redistribution, behavioural additionally took modules See Arts combinations, pages 172-173 simple mathematical techniques. economics, experimental in Management and International Honours The courses provide a basic economics, health and education, Comparative Literature in insight into the use of quantitative development economics, economic Economics my first year.” methods, and an understanding history, political economy, See entry requirements and other of contemporary issues and the European macroeconomics, Valeria (St Petersburg, Russia) information, page 30 economic system. economics of migration. Pictured opposite

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Our degree programmes: Study abroad Economics and Finance students may Economics (BSc or MA) Economics may be studied up to Honours in both participate in the University-wide St Andrews Abroad programme. You may also have the the Faculty of Science (as a BSc) and the Faculty of opportunity to participate in our School Abroad Arts (as an MA). Whether you study for a BSc or exchange programme. For information about an MA depends on what entry qualifications you study abroad options, please see: have and which other subjects you wish to take. www.st-andrews.ac.uk/study-abroad The programmes you follow for BSc and MA are exactly the same within the Economics element Careers of your degree. There are no subject-specific Graduates with a degree in Economics have some admission requirements for entry to the first year highly sought-after skills and pursue careers in Economics courses. a wide variety of fields. These include banking, government, accountancy, insurance, consultancy, Financial Economics You may apply for either a degree in Economics charitable or not-for-profit organisations and academia. or Financial Economics. The subjects you take A degree in Economics will greatly enhance during your first two years of study are not your analytic and decision-making abilities. influenced by this choice. In your third and fourth years of study, the curriculum for the Financial You will significantly improve your quantitative abilities and greatly enhance other transferable Economics degree is broadly similar to that for skills highly valued by employers. the Economics degree. The main difference is that Recent graduates have gone into a variety you will be required to study a number of specific of careers including: economic consulting, finance subjects, for example, corporate finance, management consulting, accountancy, business asset pricing and portfolio management, as part of intelligence analysis, broadcasting and journalism, your studies. risk management, research analysis, financial services analysis and stockbroking. According to The Telegraph, St Andrews’ Economics graduates have the third highest average salaries in the UK five years after graduation. Many of our graduates go on to further study in economics or an economics-related field, at top universities throughout the UK, Europe and the US.

“The academics and the support they give to students are so important – there is a great culture of aiding students’ wellbeing in the School. I also liked being able to pick my modules in the first two years, which confirmed that I had made the right decision with this degree, while also giving me a wider skill set to use after graduation.”

Eleanor (Lincoln, England) St Andrews town centre

80 81 You can study English, Scottish and American literature, as well as English courses in prose, verse, drama and film. You will also consider the www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects/english ideas, human values and history behind this broad variety of texts. [email protected]

• The School of English is ranked second in the UK in The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2020. Entry requirements These grades are the overall • We offer a generous range of options covering all periods of standards required to consider you literary writing in English from Anglo-Saxon times to the for entry. You can find out more present. about Standard, Minimum and Gateway entry requirements on • Staff include winners of the Queen’s Gold Medal, the Forward page 167. Prize, the Whitbread Prize, the T S Eliot Prize, the Jerwood www.st-andrews.ac.uk/ Fiction Prize, the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year Award, the subjects/entry Somerset Maugham Award, and two Fellows of the British SQA Highers: Academy. • Standard entry grades AAAAB • Varied programme of visiting speakers, giving students the including A in English. • Minimum entry grades AABB chance to discuss literature and criticism with leading modern including A in English. writers, and to hear contemporary writers discuss set texts on • Gateway entry grades BBBB undergraduate courses. GCE A-Levels: • Research-led teaching throughout the curriculum, which means • Standard entry grades AAA • Minimum entry grades ABB from your first day you will be taught by leading experts. Must include A in English Language or English Literature. International Baccalaureate: What will I study? First year • Standard entry grades 38 St Andrews has a long and A third of your time will be (HL 6,6,6) illustrious history of teaching taken up by English classes. • Minimum entry grades 36 (HL 6,5,5) literature in English. The School In these you will focus on Must include HL6 in English. combines expertise in research nineteenth- and twentieth- with a dedication to teaching in a century literature and literature caring and friendly environment. from 1680 to 1830. You will Special research strengths include explore texts in prose and verse, medieval language and literature, ranging from Wuthering Heights the Renaissance, the Romantic and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde to and modern periods, Scottish contemporary Scottish writing. literature, creative writing, and Emphasis is on practical “ I chose to study English women’s writing. criticism, close reading and here partly due to the Studying English develops the importance of literary and excellent reputation of the techniques that enable you to historical contexts. You will School and partly for the read with close attention and also cover, among other works, School of English to consider the ideas, human Gulliver’s Travels, Frankenstein, opportunity to study both values and historical forces Wordsworth and Coleridge’s well-known and obscure Available degree options Previous knowledge of subject required? Yes, English that have helped to form our Lyrical Ballads, and look at travel, pieces of literature. The literature. You will have the colonialism, the Gothic and the small-group tutorials are opportunity to read, to discuss Romantic. invaluable in sounding out MA BA MA MA and to reflect with clarity on The rest of your time will a wide variety of texts and be spent studying at least two ideas for essays, learning develop analytical, descriptive other subjects, and there is a how better to build an and evaluative skills. You will wide range from which you can Single Honours International Honours Joint Honours Triple Honours argument, and gaining learn to communicate more choose. These will normally be confidence in literary English English English and one of 28 other English and two modern fluently, lucidly, economically from the Faculty of Arts or a subjects languages and persuasively. These skills are Cross-Faculty subject, marked analysis.” both intrinsically enriching and in red and blue, respectively, in See entry requirements and See Arts combinations, See Triple combinations, eminently transferable. this prospectus. Calum (South Lanarkshire, Scotland) other information, page 30 pages 172-173 pages 132-133 Pictured opposite

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Second year Study abroad You will focus on literature from the medieval Students on English programmes may participate and Renaissance periods, and on drama and in the University-wide St Andrews Abroad performance. You will be introduced to the earliest programme. You may also have the opportunity literature in English and the language in which it is to participate in our School Abroad exchange composed. The medieval element draws on editions programme. For information about study abroad prepared by scholars in the School of English, options, please see: designed to make early texts readily accessible. The www.st-andrews.ac.uk/study-abroad Renaissance element ranges across various authors Careers and genres, which may include Donne’s Songs and A degree in English from St Andrews will open Sonnets and Milton’s Paradise Lost. The course on doors to a large and varied number of possible drama concentrates on the special characteristics of careers – from teaching to writing, journalism, drama as an art form that crosses the boundaries editing and performing and from public policy to of written text and public performance. A wide range of plays is covered, from the Renaissance finance. A degree in English from St Andrews to the present, including figures like William demonstrates to employers that you are a good Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde and Gregory Burke. writer, with the ability to craft and edit prose in Third and fourth years (Honours) English, that you are able to absorb and process There is an exciting range of around 45 different information, that you are good at conducting courses from which to choose, and options may research, that you are good at verbal and written include Chaucer, Scottish Literature, Jane Austen, communication, and that you have high level T S Eliot, creative writing, Shakespeare and film, analytic skills. These are skills that are invaluable Beowulf and a wide variety of other topics and in most jobs. approaches to the study of literature written in Recent graduates have taken up internships English. Single Honours students normally take with the United Nations, become writers and eight courses in the two Honours years, including editors for Oxford University Press, Penguin Books, at least one on medieval literature, one on early Harper Collins, The Times, Country Life magazine, modern literature and one other on eighteenth- and The Field magazine. Others work for charitable century, Romantic or nineteenth-century literature. organisations like Save the Children and in Joint Honours students normally take four courses public policy (Scottish Executive, British Council) in English (including one on pre-twentieth- or in arts administration (the Barbican Centre, century literature), and four in another subject. Sotheby’s), or the financial sector – working for The dissertation, which is compulsory for Single companies like KPMG and Santander. Honours students and optional for Joint Honours Postgraduate study is a popular choice for students, allows you to write an extended essay on many of our graduates. A large range of Masters a literary topic of your own choice. and PhD programmes are available in English Several courses involve creative coursework literature and creative writing at St Andrews. These which – as well as the traditional essay – may include period-specific Masters programmes (such “ The most important thing about English for me is the ability to involve literary journal keeping, writing a short as Romantic/Victorian Studies, or Modern and think outside of the box and consider texts in new lights. Learning play in its entirety or even the opportunity to try a Contemporary Literature and Culture) or thematic bit of medieval forgery. We aim to provide a range programmes (such as Women, Writing and Gender everything from Anglo-Saxon poetry in its original language to of topics and approaches that allow you to follow or Postcolonial and World Literatures). We also contemporary theatre offers such a wealth of information about your own interests, whether towards specialising have specialist MLitt and MFA programmes the development of literature. All of my tutors are incredibly in particular authors or periods, or towards wide- in Creative Writing and Playwriting and supportive of approaching texts in an unconventional manner to ranging exploration in a variety of areas. Screenwriting. create new and interesting analyses.”

Callum (Derbyshire, England)

84 85 You will examine the forms and histories of film in all their artistic, Film Studies documentary and non-theatrical variants, from silent cinema to www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects/film-studies virtual reality, and will cover a range of topics including stardom, [email protected] activism, as well as numerous genres and film cultures.

• Outstanding staff: as leading figures in the ever-expanding fields of film and media studies, members of the Department have Entry requirements published award-winning material on a range of topics, from These grades are the overall standards required to consider you global film archives to the latest digital effects. for entry. You can find out more • Cutting edge facilities: with specially fitted seminar and about Standard, Minimum and Gateway entry requirements on screening rooms as well as consistently small class sizes, you can page 167. explore 3D cinema, virtual reality, and a collection of over 9,000 www.st-andrews.ac.uk/ audio-visual works. subjects/entry • Vibrant film culture: from student-led filmmaking marathons SQA Highers: and screening series to visits from world-renowned filmmakers • Standard entry grades AAAB • Minimum entry grades AABB and collaborations with international film festivals, you will • Gateway entry grades BBBB have numerous opportunities to contribute to a community of GCE A-Levels: cinephiles and film artists. • Standard entry grades AAB • Minimum entry grades ABB International Baccalaureate: What will I study? the research expertise of the • Standard entry grades 36 Film Studies is a dynamic and Department and allow you to (HL 6,6,5) growing discipline, drawing develop your own interests • Minimum entry grades 36 (HL 6,5,5) in students with a variety of within the discipline. interests. You will examine The Honours programme critically the history of moving examines a diverse range of film images across time and cultures, theories and practices covering looking at a diverse range of genres, film sound, global topics from sexuality in film cinemas, documentary, and to activist documentary, from various histories of the moving propaganda to digital media. image. You work closely with Film Studies uses a variety of the teaching staff, and develop critical, theoretical and historical excellent intellectual, writing and approaches to examine one of research skills that are useful in a wide variety of professions. the most significant cultural and artistic forms of the twentieth First year and twenty-first centuries. The two first-year courses During the first two years, you introduce you to key will take four Film Studies approaches to the study of Smokescreen, winner of the St Andrews 60 Hour Film Blitz courses (one per semester). These film (such as the cycle of film provide the theoretical, cultural production, distribution and “ Film Studies has and methodological frameworks exhibition and the analysis of Available degree options Previous knowledge of subject required? No introduced me to the you will need for the more genre, narrative and stars) and specialised and challenging to global film history, from importance of film and Honours courses. early cinema to wide ranging the impact it has had MA BA MA In third and fourth year, you movements in the art, culture upon the world; it allows can take either Single Honours and technology of film. you to explore historical or Joint Honours in Film Studies, Cinema provides a rich Single Honours International Honours Joint Honours taking courses (typically two resource for analysing the social, changes and cultural per semester for Single Honours, cultural, and ideological cross- differences from around Film Studies Film Studies Film Studies and one of 22 other subjects or one per semester for Joint currents of a particular historical the globe.” See entry requirements and other Honours) across the next two moment, and the films we study information, page 30 See Arts combinations, pages 172-173 years. These courses reflect bring these into bold relief. Kirsty (Glasgow, Scotland)

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www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects/film-studies [email protected]

Second year general education, promote independence of The two second-year courses explore theories and thought and encourage intellectual initiative cultures of film and other screen media from 1900 backed by a strong knowledge of cinema’s to the present day, focusing on different methods histories and forms. for understanding and analysing the moving Film Studies graduates are well placed to image. Based on screenings of select cinematic compete in today’s job market, having gained an texts, you will explore questions of identity and extensive range of skills from written and oral representation, and relationships between film, communications to archival research and visual art and industry. analysis. Recent graduates in Film Studies have gone Third and fourth years (Honours) on to a number of exciting careers, including film Honours courses explore particular topics, such archive director, production editor in publishing, as documentary, sensory cinema, digital media, media researcher, programmes negotiator for a artists’ film and video, and genres ranging from television company, and director’s assistant at horror to comedy. Each week you will participate Warner Brothers. in seminar discussions of advanced work in the The Department offers a taught MLitt in field. The Honours programme introduces a Film Studies. The programme is a great way diverse range of film and media theories focusing to complete a Masters degree with the further on gender, national and transnational cinemas, option of undertaking PhD study in film and aesthetics and history. media studies. All MLitt students in Film Study abroad Studies take part in a core course co-taught by Film Studies students may participate in the several Department members, where you will University-wide St Andrews Abroad programme. cover the salient theoretical, analytical and For information about study abroad options, historiographical approaches to cinema up close please see: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/study-abroad with renowned specialists in their respective Careers fields. In addition, you take a topic course designed to probe new directions in film studies. The Film Studies degree resonates with the The programme culminates in a dissertation demands of today’s job market, where film and supervised by a staff member in the student’s media literacy are of direct relevance to a variety chosen area of expertise. MLitt students in our of careers, from journalism and teaching to Department also benefit from contact with a large professions in the creative industries. postgraduate cohort (in 2019-2020 there are 20 A degree in Film Studies from St Andrews PhD students stemming from five continents). will provide an excellent foundation for a wide Postgraduate activities include regular research range of careers as well as for those directly presentations by leading scholars, a prominent Film screening in the Buchanan lecture theatre connected with cinema (such as film distribution student-run academic journal (Frames) and and production, arts administration, cinema a yearly postgraduate conference, as well as management, film festivals, advertising workshops, film screenings, activities and and public relations, journalism and media, retreats. “The depth in which I am encouraged to think about and publishing and education). The main purpose discuss film has improved my overall skills of critical thinking. of the programme is to provide a high quality The lecturers present us with texts and ideas outside of our usual frame of reference and encourage us to formulate our own point of view, even in contentious areas of debate. The work is hard but if you are studying something you are passionate about, it is more than worth it.”

Milo (Inverness, Scotland)

88 89 French courses enable you to develop a high level of competency French in language skills. Alongside language, you will also study www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects/french French and Francophone literature, culture, civilisation, history [email protected] and politics, allowing you to develop strong cultural awareness.

See also Modern Languages • Our specialist staff offer a unique range of innovative courses from the Middle Ages to the present. Entry requirements • The subject can be studied with a wide range of other languages. These grades are the overall standards required to consider you • French can be studied with popular non-language subjects such for entry. You can find out more as International Relations. about Standard, Minimum and Gateway entry requirements on page 167. www.st-andrews.ac.uk/ What will I study? Third and fourth years subjects/entry (Honours) First year At Honours, language SQA Highers: The language courses, taught • Standard entry grades AAAB in a combination of French courses are offered with an including A in French. emphasis on communication • Minimum entry grades AABB and English, are designed to skills, critical reviews, blog including A in French. consolidate and develop skills • Gateway entry grades BBBB writing and translation. Oral acquired in secondary school and GCE A-Levels: classes involve debates, group • Standard entry grades AAB to increase fluency in the target presentations and bilateral including A in French. language. A wide range of texts • Minimum entry grade ABB interpretation. A wide range of – encompassing prose, drama, including A in French. courses in language, literature, International Baccalaureate: poetry and film – are studied intellectual history, politics each semester; these are read as • Standard entry grades 36 and society is also available. (HL 6,6,5) including HL6 in a means of enhancing language Courses may include: translation French. learning and introducing you • Minimum entry grades 36 methodology, creative writing, (HL 6,5,5) including HL6 in to wider issues of French and politics and propaganda in the French. Francophone history and cultural Middle Ages, libertinage and identity. Teaching includes three libertine literature, modern hours of language per week French thought and francophone (including one oral class with a African literature. native speaker), plus literature There are also dissertation lectures and seminars. options, allowing you to work on Second year extended personal research with The degree programme is taught a specialist tutor to advise Arc de Triomphe, Paris primarily in French. It comprises you. “ There is a real sense of core language and culture Study abroad camaraderie within the Available degree options Previous knowledge of subject required? elements and a choice of literature You can choose to study abroad French Department and All the degrees are available With Integrated Year Abroad Yes, French and civilisation courses. These as part of your degree. French always so much to get feature key events, ideas and students may also participate in texts spanning from the Middle involved with. I also had Ages to the present day which the University-wide St Andrews an amazing year abroad MA MA MA BSc MChem Abroad programme. Further have shaped the French-speaking information on page 129 and in France, working and world. Teaching includes two online at: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/ living with French people Single Honours Joint Honours Triple Honours ‘With’ Honours language hours per week study-abroad (including one oral class with and engaging with the French French and one of 26 other French and two other Biology with French (BSc) a native speaker), plus lectures culture. The five years subjects modern languages Chemistry with French and seminars in literature and French and one other (BSc or MChem) have been ‘fantastiques’!" modern language and Chemistry with French and civilisation. The course aims to another subject External Placement prepare you for the year abroad Katharine (Surrey, England) (MChem) and help you to make an informed The photograph opposite shows See Arts combinations, See Triple combinations, choice of courses at Honours level. Katharine (right) during her year pages 172-173 pages 132-133 in France.

90 91 Geography here offers rich insights into the social and natural Geography worlds and into the fascinating interplay between them; you www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects/geography will cover a wide range of topics from cultures, societies and [email protected] economies to physical landscapes and environmental processes.

See also Sustainable Development • Ranked first in the UK in The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2020 and first in the Guardian University Guide 2020. Entry requirements These grades are the overall • Great flexibility in the choice of subjects spanning the full range standards required to consider you of geography, all taught by leading experts, plus the breadth for entry. You can find out more and flexibility of the Scottish university system which opens up about Standard, Minimum and Gateway entry requirements on numerous fascinating course combinations. page 167. • Fieldwork opportunities within Scotland in all four years, plus an www.st-andrews.ac.uk/ overseas residential field trip in third year to, for example, Iceland subjects/entry or Ireland. SQA Highers: • Externally acclaimed training in a range of valuable transferable • Standard entry grades AAAB skills, including quantitative and qualitative analytical methods, • Minimum entry grades AABB • Gateway entry grades BBBB teamwork and presentation skills, and training in critical GCE A-Levels: thinking. • Standard entry grades AAA • Study in a stunning location and in a friendly School, finishing • Minimum entry grades ABB as a highly literate and numerate graduate with excellent International Baccalaureate: employment prospects. • Standard entry grades 38 (HL 6,6,6) • Minimum entry grades 36 (HL 6,5,5) What will I study? degree. The curriculum in the You can take Geography in first two years is a balanced either the Faculty of Arts (MA) mix of physical, human and or the Faculty of Science (BSc). environmental geography, and While Geography itself is taught is followed in third and fourth as a single, integrated subject, year by the opportunity to the MA/BSc choice gives you the specialise in what you are most option of combining Geography interested in. We have particular with subjects from the Faculties strengths in: climate change, of Arts or Science during your glacial studies, population and “ The town is full of first two years. Within our health, migration and mobility, character and I felt flexible structures, all aspects of studying past and present welcomed on my first geography are available to you environments, development in all four years, allowing you to and Geographic Information visit to St Andrews. Field training in Iceland explore your evolving interests. Systems (GIS). Geography encourages You will be taught in many First year you to think differently Available degree options Previous knowledge of subject required? No different styles and settings. You will gain a broad grounding about people and places. Small-group teaching begins in geography, and explore Studying Geography in first year, and average class the relevance of integrated sizes progressively diminish at this university is a geographical thinking for through the degree; in fourth BSc MA BSc MA BSc MA understanding both human challenging yet rewarding year, some courses offer one-to- and natural environments. experience. The class one supervision. Geography can The complex interrelationships Single Honours Joint Honours Joint Honours ‘With’ Honours also be combined with a wide environment is intimate between people and planet range of other subjects as a joint and friendly and there Geography Geography and one of 6 Geography and one of 21 Geography with 3 other are a key focus. Topics include degree. other subjects other subjects subjects the idea of the Anthropocene, is a close-knit and open The programmes you 5 other subjects with climate change, capitalism and support system in the Geography follow for the BSc or MA are development, migration and exactly the same within the School.” population, and GIS. See Cross-Faculty subjects, See Science combinations, See Arts combinations, See Arts and Science Geography element of your page 5 page 174 pages 172-173 combinations, pages 172-174 Stephanie (Hong Kong)

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www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects/geography [email protected]

Second year Careers Building on first year and preparing you for Reflecting the broad nature of Geography, graduates Honours-level study, second year combines leave here with a diverse and unique set of highly conceptual and applied approaches to a transferable skills, putting them in a very strong range of geographic issues, including: glacial position in the jobs market. processes, cultural and political geography, Career paths include government, environment, environmental management, population studies sustainability, tourism and leisure, planning and biogeography, and also the nature of and development, business and finance, security geography as an academic discipline. analysis, as well as research. Employers seek out Geography graduates Third and fourth years (Honours) because of their rare combination of quantitative The Honours years allow you to specialise and qualitative skills, their ability to integrate in your particular interests by choosing and analyse diverse data, their understanding of from our unusually wide range of specialist human/environment interactions, their competence courses, all taught by experts in their field. in GIS and spatial analysis, and their ability to You will also be trained in high-level research think critically and creatively about the big social skills, including quantitative, qualitative and and environmental challenges facing us. fieldwork methods, equipping you to carry out Our graduates have gone on to excel in a wide your own research dissertation guided by one- to-one supervision. range of careers, reflecting the breadth of the subject. Geographers often end up in surprising Accreditation places. Both the BSc and MA in Geography are accredited Significant numbers of our graduates progress to by the Royal Geographical Society. postgraduate study, both at Masters and PhD level. Study abroad Additional information Geography students may participate in the The School covers the full cost of all obligatory field University-wide St Andrews Abroad programme. trips and offers a range of scholarships and awards You may also have the opportunity to participate to support your studies. in our School Abroad exchange programme. For information about study abroad options, please see: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/study-abroad

“ I like the independence of study which is encouraged here. Over time I have grown in confidence as a result of guidance from my lecturers and tutors, although they also take a step back when necessary. At the University you meet a wonderfully diverse group of people in all walks of life, from halls to clubs to the weird and wonderful traditions.” Irvine Building Fionnghuala (Perth, Scotland)

94 95 Alongside developing your language skills to a high level, German German at St Andrews allows you to pursue your own www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects/german specific interests. You have a broad choice of courses including [email protected] medieval studies, literature and film.

See also Modern Languages • The St Andrews German programme is broad, covering German Studies from the Middle Ages to the present day. You can take Entry requirements specialist courses in diverse areas, from translation, to medieval These grades are the overall standards required to consider you culture, to East German cinema. for entry. You can find out more • You can combine German with one or two languages, Comparative about Standard, Minimum and Gateway entry requirements on Literature, or with subjects as diverse as English, Psychology, page 167. Management or International Relations. www.st-andrews.ac.uk/ • You can start as a beginner, or with National 5 or GCSE subjects/entry qualifications, as well as with Highers, A-Levels or IB. SQA Highers: • Standard entry grades AAAB • Minimum entry grades AABB What will I study? the age of unification and Weimar • Gateway entry grades BBBB You will develop proficiency in the Germany. At the end of the GCE A-Levels: • Standard entry grades AAB German language that brings you first two years you will have • Minimum entry grades ABB to near-native competency. The encountered texts in German from International Baccalaureate: course combines communicative its origins as a language to the • Standard entry grades 36 and intercultural approaches with present day and should be ready (HL 6,6,5) translation, grammar and textual to go and work or study abroad. • Minimum entry grades 36 (HL 6,5,5) study. Third and fourth years You will study the literary, (Honours) cultural and intellectual history All students take the same core of the German speaking lands in courses in German language, depth. The German Department including advanced oral, writing covers a range of specialisms, from and communication skills. You medieval studies to gender studies, have scope to construct the rest from nineteenth-century literature of your programme by choosing to environmental thought. from a wide variety of courses. First year These reflect the individual Intensive foundation courses for research interests of staff beginners and advanced language members and allow you to work “Studying German here is Brandenburg Gate, Berlin and literature courses for those at the frontiers of the subject. a wonderful experience – with previous qualifications in Recent topics include the Nazi there is always an exciting Available degree options Previous knowledge of subject required? No German are offered. The advanced past in German cultural memory, aspect of the language, All the degrees are available With Integrated Year Abroad course combines language and Shakespeare in Germany, literature, developing speaking Medieval Things, Berlin – history, or culture to and listening, reading and writing modernity and the metropolis, explore. The constant skills. The literature and culture German environmental thought. support of staff, coupled MA MA MA MA programme surveys German Study abroad literature, culture and history with the opportunity to You can choose to study from 1945 to the present day. study with students from Single Honours Joint Honours Triple Honours ‘With’ Honours abroad as part of your degree. Second year German students may also all over the world in small German German and one of 24 other German and two other Economics with German The language course builds on the participate in the University- classes, creates a very subjects modern languages wide St Andrews Abroad German and one other skills acquired in first year and welcoming atmosphere modern language and prepares you for studying abroad. programme. Further information both in and outside the another subject Classes cover German literature, on page 129 and online at: culture and history in the Middle www.st-andrews.ac.uk/ classroom.”

See Arts combinations, See Triple combinations, Ages, the late eighteenth century, study-abroad pages 172-173 pages 132-133 Zoë (Glasgow, Scotland)

96 97 You will experience a broad range of expertise in many historic History eras, from Scotland to Byzantium, the Americas, the Middle East www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects/history and South Asia. Thematic interests include religious history, urban [email protected] history, transnationalism, historiography and nationalism.

See also Ancient History (& Archaeology), Medieval History, Middle East Studies, Modern History, Scottish History • You will be taught by staff with internationally-recognised expertise in a broad variety of historical fields. Entry requirements • You can take a Single Honours History degree, which allows you to These grades are the overall standards required to consider you range widely over historical time and space, or a specialised degree for entry. You can find out more in Modern, Medieval or Scottish History within the School of about Standard, Minimum and Gateway entry requirements on History. Ancient History is available within the School of Classics. page 167. • The School of History was ranked fourth in the UK by the Guardian www.st-andrews.ac.uk/ University Guide 2020 and the Complete University Guide 2020 for subjects/entry overall student satisfaction and quality of its research. SQA Highers: • Small tutorial groups and classes mean that students receive • Standard entry grades AAAAB individual attention and detailed feedback on coursework from including A in History. • Minimum entry grades AABB their tutors. including B in History. • Gateway entry grades BBBB GCE A-Levels: The Single Honours History Study abroad • Standard entry grades AAA degree provides the widest History students may including A in History. • Minimum entry grades ABB range of subject choices. Across participate in the University- including B in History. wide St Andrews Abroad your first and second years you International Baccalaureate: take at least two courses in each programme. You may also • Standard entry grades 38 of two of the following historical have the opportunity to (HL 6,6,6) including HL6 in History. periods: Ancient (pre-500 CE), participate in our School • Minimum entry grades 36 Medieval (500 to 1500) and Abroad exchange programme. (HL 6,5,5) including HL5 in Modern (post-1500). For information about study History. At Honours level, you need abroad options, please see: to cover two different historical www.st-andrews.ac.uk/ periods and may choose from the study-abroad full range of courses in Ancient, Careers Medieval, Middle Eastern, Modern and Scottish History. History graduates find employment in academia, “ This is a small and What will I study? museums and archives, or as welcoming community. First- and second-year courses history teachers. Using the You can take a wide are designed to provide broad analytical and communication range of courses and introductions to various key skills acquired through the topics and are taught via study of history, many also combine History classes St Katharine's Lodge lectures and weekly small-group proceed to careers in law, with modules from other tutorials. publishing, armed forces, service Schools and Departments Third-year Honours options Available degree options Previous knowledge of subject required? Yes, History industries, the financial sector, in your first two years. allow you to develop detailed the arts and the media. knowledge of particular The School also offers a There is also the ability themes, events, socio-political course which gives students the to combine studying MA BA developments and geographical opportunity to gain invaluable here with exchange areas. Classes usually comprise first-hand experience of teaching programmes in Europe or 10 to 15 students. As an in local schools. Single Honours International Honours alternative to an extended The School of History beyond, which provides a fantastic undergraduate History History essay or dissertation, final year offers a range of taught and students may devise a multi- research-based Masters degree e xperience.” See entry requirements and other media project on an historical programmes and opportunities information, page 30 theme of their choice. for PhD students. Alfie (Somerset, England)

98 99 You will engage with sophisticated modes of thought and expression History – Medieval History across medieval Europe and the Middle East and can select from www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects/history courses on a variety of historical issues and geographical locations to [email protected] suit your interests.

See also Ancient History (& Archaeology), History • St Andrews has one of the largest concentrations of internationally recognised medieval specialists in the world. Entry requirements • You will have a very wide range of subject choices in Medieval These grades are the overall standards required to consider you History, ranging from Ireland to Armenia, and from the fourth to for entry. You can find out more the fifteenth century. about Standard, Minimum and Gateway entry requirements on • An unparalleled interdisciplinary research environment means page 167. that you will be taught by many staff who are leaders in their field. www.st-andrews.ac.uk/ subjects/entry • Studying Medieval History offers you the opportunity to explore medieval Europe and the Middle East through the thinking SQA Highers: and expression of the time, as well as grappling with complex • Standard entry grades AAAAB historical issues. including A in History. • Minimum entry grades AABB • The town of St Andrews is rich in medieval heritage, making it an including B in History. apt and inspiring choice of location for your studies. • Gateway entry grades BBBB • For Study Abroad information, see page 99. GCE A-Levels: • Standard entry grades AAA including A in History. Medieval History & through the fourteenth centuries, • Minimum entry grades ABB including B in History. Archaeology and an introduction to the Middle International Baccalaureate: After taking the third-year core East, as well as a grounding in the • Standard entry grades 38 course in the principles and major themes and development of (HL 6,6,6) including HL6 in techniques in archaeology, you history as a scholarly discipline History. • Minimum entry grades 36 select topics in archaeology and and the study of historiography. (HL 6,5,5) including HL5 in in the history of the medieval The critical examination of relevant History. period of your choice. You have primary sources and study skills the chance to attend the Summer are built into the programme. School at the British School of Third and fourth years Rome. (Honours) Medieval History Third year semester-long options “ You will be taught by Medieval History at St Andrews offer specialist study in more than fantastic, truly engaging covers a geographical range from 15 different areas. people. Medieval history Iceland to Central Asia. We have Examples of recent topics particular strengths in political, include: early Irish society from is all about interpreting legal and religious history, in the the seventh to the ninth centuries, scanty, challenging sources, history of Scotland, and in that of the eastern Roman Empire during so it is a surprisingly Department of Medieval History Byzantium and the Middle East. the reign of the Emperor Justinian, creative discipline. The First year civil conflicts during the later diverse research interests fifteenth century, and women and Available degree options Previous knowledge of subject required? Yes, History You will explore politics and gender in later medieval Europe. of the staff, from early society in the early medieval In fourth year, you take one period (c.500 to c.1100) across medieval linguistics to more Honours option and a year- Britain, Europe and the Near East the history of emotions, long Special Subject, and write a MA MA MA and also examine developments in dissertation. Examples of Special mean you are always the British Isles between 1100 and Subject topics include: a study exploring the adventurous 1500. Single Honours Joint Honours ‘With’ Honours of the reign of Charlemagne, outer limits of traditional Second year the British Isles during the Wars Medieval History Medieval History and one of 23 other Medieval History with Persian history.” Topics will include an analytical of the Bruces and the lives and Medieval History & Archaeology subjects survey of the history of continental religious careers of Saints Francis, William (West Sussex, England) See Arts combinations, pages 172-173 medieval Europe from the eleventh Clare and Dominic. Pictured opposite

100 101 You will analyse global historical events over the past 500 years History – Modern History from a present-day context. You can pursue a variety of different www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects/history approaches including political, military, religious, scientific, social [email protected] and economic history.

See also History • As a Modern History student at St Andrews, you will benefit from the expertise of renowned historians who are actively engaged in Entry requirements research and publication. These grades are the overall standards required to consider you • You will choose from a range of optional classes covering a very for entry. You can find out more broad chronological, geographical and thematic range. about Standard, Minimum and Gateway entry requirements on • The modern era comprises the period from around 1450 to the page 167. twenty-first century, and classes are offered on the histories of www.st-andrews.ac.uk/ many nations and regions, including Britain, Europe, the Middle subjects/entry East, South Asia, East Asia and parts of Africa and the Americas. SQA Highers: • You will have the opportunity to pursue many different • Standard entry grades AAAAB approaches in your study of Modern History. Intellectual, political, including A in History. • Minimum entry grades AABB cultural, military, religious, gender, social and economic history including B in History. are among the options on offer. • Gateway entry grades BBBB • For Study Abroad information, see page 99. GCE A-Levels: • Standard entry grades AAA including A in History. What will I study? Third and fourth years • Minimum entry grades ABB including B in History. The Modern History degree (Honours) International Baccalaureate: will teach you to analyse In third year, you will usually • Standard entry grades 38 historical events, cultures and study two classes per semester, (HL 6,6,6) including HL6 in societies from a contemporary chosen from a wide range of History. • Minimum entry grades 36 perspective. available options spanning the (HL 6,5,5) including HL5 in early modern and late modern History. First year periods. Examples of recent You will study the early modern topics include: the Reformation western world from around 1450 in Europe, women and men in to the late eighteenth century. early modern Europe, China’s You will also explore themes in revolutions in the nineteenth and late modern history, covering the twentieth centuries and French period from 1776 until the turn Algeria from the 1830s until 1962. of the twenty-first century. Both In fourth year, you take one courses explore various topics, more Honours option and a year- including the development of “ The unique part about long intensive Special Subject. modern states, war and empire, Recent examples of these include: History at St Andrews is alongside various key aspects of Students in the King James Library the political and religious history that in many cases you are cultural, social, economic and of Elizabethan England, the political history. surrounded by the history history of British cinema from Available degree options Previous knowledge of subject required? Yes, History you are studying. When we Second year the 1920s to 1960, ideas of place Topics you will study include a and space in twentieth-century learned about the Scottish survey of Scotland, Britain and Germany, and the development of Reformation it was easier MA MA MA Empire from the early modern the city in East and Southeast Asia to understand when many period to the present. You will from the mid-nineteenth to mid- of the principal locations also gain a grounding in the twentieth centuries. Single Honours Joint Honours ‘With’ Honours major themes and developments You may also write a were literally right outside of history as a scholarly discipline dissertation on a topic of your the door of the lecture Modern History Modern History and one of 26 other Modern History with Persian and the study of historiography choice, or complete an Honours subjects theatre.” and of different methodological Project, which is assessed via an See Arts combinations, pages 172-173 approaches to topics in history. 8,000-word essay and presentation. Philip (New Jersey, USA)

102 103 This programme is an ideal introduction to understanding Scotland’s History – Scottish History unique history and place in the world. You will be exposed to issues www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects/history of nation building, loss of sovereignty and the tensions between core [email protected] and periphery.

See also History • Our Scottish historians have been at the forefront of recent, major reinterpretations of Scotland’s past. In studying Scottish History Entry requirements here, you will work with this group of widely-published experts. These grades are the overall standards required to consider you • As a setting of fundamental importance in Scottish history, for entry. You can find out more St Andrews is a unique and enriching location for your studies. about Standard, Minimum and Gateway entry requirements on • You will be able to study the history of Scotland from the making page 167. of kingdom and country in the early Middle Ages to the debates www.st-andrews.ac.uk/ subjects/entry around Unionism and Nationalism in the late twentieth century. • You can explore key periods including the Wars of Independence, SQA Highers: the Reformation and the Enlightenment and themes like kingship, • Standard entry grades AAAAB identity and religious change. including A in History. • Minimum entry grades AABB • Although previous study of History is required, it is not necessary including B in History. to have prior knowledge of Scottish History in order to take the • Gateway entry grades BBBB classes on offer. GCE A-Levels: • For Study Abroad information, see page 99. • Standard entry grades AAA including A in History. • Minimum entry grades ABB including B in History. What will I study? history as a scholarly discipline International Baccalaureate: In the first two years you will and in the study of historiography. • Standard entry grades 38 study the history of Scotland in The critical examination of (HL 6,6,6) including HL6 in courses which place the country relevant primary sources and History. • Minimum entry grades 36 and its people in a European study skills are built into the (HL 6,5,5) including HL5 in and global context. The Honours programme. History. programme offers a wide breadth Third and fourth years of periods and approaches for the (Honours) study of Scottish history. You can take courses on a wide Your courses are chosen from range of periods and approaches. those offered in the School of They have included Scotland and History and will encourage you to Ireland during the Dark Ages, place Scotland’s history within a the importance of the castle in wider context. medieval Scotland and women “ Being taught by some of First year in Scottish society from the the leading historians in You will study Scotland and the nineteenth century to 1970. In third year you will normally study the field has enriched my St Andrews Cathedral English Empire between 1070-1500 by examining the development of two optional courses per semester. enjoyment of a subject Scotland as a kingdom and nation As a Single Honours Scottish that I already found Available degree options Previous knowledge of subject required? Yes, History in the Middle Ages. You will also History student, in fourth year fascinating. The level take two further history courses you will take one further optional in the first two years. course and a year-long Special of support provided for students is very high. Second year Subject – those offered in previous MA MA years include: the British Isles You will explore the issues of There is always someone during the wars of the Bruces British nationalism, imperialism, to contact when a and culture and society during and devolution in Scotland from Single Honours Joint Honours the Scottish Enlightenment. You problem occurs, whether 1500-2000. You will also have will also write a dissertation on a academic or of a personal Scottish History Scottish History and one of 11 other the opportunity to develop a topic of your choice. subjects grounding in the major themes nature.” of history, in the development of See Arts combinations, pages 172-173 Katrina (Fife, Scotland)

104 105 International Relations as a discipline enables you to explore foreign International Relations policy, international institutions, political theory, political economy, www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects/international-relations political science and diplomatic history in order to provide theoretical [email protected] perspectives to explain conflict and cooperation in the wider world.

• Our School is the only one of its kind in Scotland, and St Andrews is one of the few universities in the UK that offers a Single Honours Entry requirements These grades are the overall degree specifically concerning International Relations. standards required to consider you • International Relations at St Andrews was ranked first in the UK by for entry. You can find out more the Guardian University Guide 2020 and for the five previous years. about Standard, Minimum and Gateway entry requirements on • We were rated third in the UK in The Times and The Sunday Times page 167. Good University Guide 2020. www.st-andrews.ac.uk/ • You will study in a School that has a long-established international subjects/entry reputation for its high-quality teaching and research, consistently SQA Highers: achieving high rankings in University league tables. • Standard entry grades AAAAB • You will interact with many world-renowned scholars researching • Minimum entry grades AABB • Gateway entry grades BBBB on the topics that they teach, whose wide-ranging expertise covers GCE A-Levels: all regions and today’s most pressing global issues. • Standard entry grades AAA • You will be part of a diverse, dynamic and high achieving • Minimum entry grades ABB international student body that is enthusiastically and actively International Baccalaureate: • Standard entry grades 38 engaged in the discussion of contemporary world affairs. (HL 6,6,6) • You will benefit from the intellectual intimacy of small-class • Minimum entry grades 36 teaching, enjoying unrivalled access to expert knowledge, cutting- (HL 6,5,5) edge research and talks by leading visiting scholars.

What will I study? appraisal skills and analytical Single Honours International abilities, as well as your Relations is an outstanding capacity to explain, defend degree that gives you the and construct arguments both opportunity to learn directly oral and written. Through from renowned experts the mastery of these, you will specialising in a range of hone your skills in writing, subject areas and geographical communication, critical regions. Our research-led understanding and applied teaching will underpin your knowledge. learning, while our use of The School’s expertise School of International Relations critical approaches will relates to all regions of the urge you to question your world and encapsulates the “I chose St Andrews Available degree options Previous knowledge of subject required? No assumptions about the world full spectrum of contemporary due to its approach to around you. – and historical – events, International Relations You will benefit from the issues, and challenges with School’s delivery of exciting, which the study and practice as an interdisciplinary MABA MA MA relevant and critical courses, of international relations is subject. I have found which are complemented by concerned. Our commitment it exciting to be in such small class sizes, creating to research-led teaching Single Honours International Honours Joint Honours or ‘With’ Triple Honours a vibrant, focused and self- underpins these strengths, a debate-driven School motivating learning environment where our world-leading and taking classes that International Relations International Relations International Relations and International Relations and one of 27 other subjects two modern languages for your studies. specialists bring their challenge every idea, International Relations with As a result of your pioneering research directly even things I thought to Persian independent guided reading into our classrooms. and research, the topics you be fact.” See entry requirements and See Arts combinations, See Triple combinations, take will develop your critical other information, page 30 pages 172-173 pages 132-133 Jack (Surrey, England)

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First year Careers You will receive an introduction to international International Relations graduates are dynamic, relations, through which you will discover the globally aware, and self-motivated. basic theoretical approaches and concerns used in International Relations graduates: the study of the subject. From that basis you will go on to analyse • transfer their critical reading, writing and foreign policy and international security by communication skills, as well as advanced studying how countries make foreign policy and analytical abilities, to a variety of professional the importance of national security. and internationally-orientated environments.

• possess invaluable reasoning and questioning Second year skills attained via the completion of a highly You will examine the more advanced theories competitive degree. underpinning the study of international relations. • have proven time management abilities, You will then also explore the major issues and and have completed diverse, focused, and challenges that confront those within the world of challenging projects. international politics. • go on to a very diverse range of careers. These Honours (third and fourth) years include: the United Nations, the Red Cross, We provide specialist knowledge in various areas the International Atomic Energy Agency, the or single country studies (spanning Africa, Asia, UNHCR, UNESCO, the Carter Center, Stratfor, the Middle East, the EU, Latin America and the the BBC, The Scotsman newspaper, armed forces, USA) and a variety of sub-disciplines (for instance, civil services, JP Morgan, Shell, KPMG, Cisco, peacekeeping and peace-building, terrorism and Nomura, Deloitte and PwC. Many also pursue political violence, global civil society, international postgraduate and doctoral qualifications. law, international organisations, globalization and • often go on to further study. The School offers human rights). Other topics allow you to investigate a range of one-year MLitt programmes (in the interdisciplinary contributions of psychology, International Political Theory; International history and gender, whilst our innovative teaching Security Studies; Middle East, Caucasus and includes the study of the international relations of Central Asian Security Studies; Strategic music, refugees, energy security, the environment, Studies; and Terrorism and Political Violence), as the internet and aesthetics. well as advanced MPhil and PhD programmes. Study abroad International Relations students may participate in the University-wide St Andrews Abroad programme. You may also have the opportunity to participate in our School Abroad exchange programme. For information about Walking through St Salvator's Quadrangle study abroad options, please see: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/study-abroad “ I chose to study International Relations because I find it genuinely fascinating. Moreover, international relations will always remain important because politics is ever-changing and keeps moving forward. The topics covered, especially as you specialise, are very interesting and are all taught by experts in the field.”

Michaela (Kuching, Malaysia)

108 109 As a student of Italian, you will develop your language skills Italian to a high standard and will have the opportunity to engage www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects/italian in a number of specialist topics including language, literature, [email protected] history, politics and film.

See also Modern Languages • Rated first in the UK in the National Student Survey 2019 with 100% for student satisfaction. Entry requirements • The Italian Department is the largest in Scotland. Language These grades are the overall standards required to consider you teaching at all levels takes place in relatively small groups, and the for entry. You can find out more structure of the programmes ensures that you will receive a solid about Standard, Minimum and Gateway entry requirements on grounding in both the language and the culture of Italy. page 167. • We have specialist expertise in teaching Italian to complete www.st-andrews.ac.uk/ beginners, and many of our students enter at this level. subjects/entry • Members of the Italian Department have high international SQA Highers: research profiles, and have very diverse areas of expertise, ranging • Standard entry grades AAAB • Minimum entry grades AABB from early literature to contemporary film. • Gateway entry grades BBBB • Our innovative and distinctive teaching approach includes mixed GCE A-Levels: skills and integrated classes and regular structured contact with • Standard entry grades AAB native speakers. • Minimum entry grades ABB International Baccalaureate: What will I study? of Italian grammar, syntax • Standard entry grades 36 (HL 6,6,5) Italian at St Andrews provides a and lexical knowledge, and • Minimum entry grades 36 solid grounding in both language of contemporary Italy. You (HL 6,5,5) and culture, and equips you will also study representative with fundamental critical and periods, works and authors, communicative skills relevant to such as Dante, Machiavelli, and careers in all professional areas. Primo Levi. We are a very vibrant and lively Third and fourth years Department, and key areas of staff (Honours) expertise include Dante, the Italian Through extensive use of Renaissance, translation studies, contemporary materials, you modernism and twentieth-century will enhance your linguistic as poetry, transnational, migration well as your analytical skills, and border writings, Italian film, and examine important issues gender and postcolonial studies. in contemporary Italian culture First year and society. You will also be Depending on your background introduced to professional Florence in Italian, you will either be areas of language training, like introduced to, or consolidate your translation and interpreting. “ I chose to study Italian, knowledge of, the fundamental You will be able to study in Available degree options Previous knowledge of subject required? No areas of Italian grammar, focusing depth an extremely wide variety French and Spanish. All the degrees are available With Integrated Year Abroad on your skills in listening, of periods and aspects of Italian The option to do a speaking, reading and writing. culture and literature. triple degree programme You will also be introduced Study abroad means I can further my MA MA MA to elements of Italian culture You can choose to study abroad as and literature from a range language skills and learn part of your degree. Italian of periods and genres and more. I really enjoy the Single Honours Joint Honours Triple Honours students may also participate in have the opportunity to work the University-wide St Andrews small classes and that we independently. Italian Italian and one of 25 other subjects Italian and two other modern languages Abroad programme. Further have cultural lessons built Italian and one other modern language and another subject Second year information on page 129 and into the degree.” You will consolidate and online at: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/ See Arts combinations, pages 172-173 See Triple combinations, pages 132-133 expand your understanding study-abroad Daniella (Moray, Scotland)

110 111 Management is a distinct social science. Your studies will Management focus on how organisations operate and how value is created www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects/management in multiple organisational forms. You will develop a thorough [email protected] understanding of how businesses and management function.

• Strong multidisciplinary approach to Management. • Develop critical thinking, self-reliance, research and employability Entry requirements skills. These grades are the overall standards required to consider you • Large portfolio of degrees offered (MA, BSc, Single Honours, Joint for entry. You can find out more Honours or Triple Honours). about Standard, Minimum and • Possibility to study abroad in the third year. Gateway entry requirements on page 167. • International scholars and students from all over the world. www.st-andrews.ac.uk/ subjects/entry

What will I study? environment – understanding SQA Highers: A degree in Management will the business environment, • Standard entry grades AAAAB • Minimum entry grades AABB introduce you to a variety of people and organisations, and • Gateway entry grades BBBB organisations in all sectors and economic principles. GCE A-Levels: will teach you to understand You will examine some of • Standard entry grades AAA techniques which draw from the main analytical approaches • Minimum entry grades ABB the subject including marketing, and techniques required by International Baccalaureate: • Standard entry grades 38 organisational behaviour, managers and will be provided (HL 6,6,6) managing in diverse and with an introduction to financial • Minimum entry grades 36 challenging situations, and accounting concepts and (HL 6,5,5) analysing financial data. From techniques. your studies, you will acquire Second year interpersonal skills in problem You will take two compulsory solving, critical thinking courses, one in each semester. and self-reliance, and will These explore the core functions be empowered to interrogate of managers, including evidence, challenge existing marketing, organisational logic, and question established behaviour, managing in diverse ways of doing things. and challenging situations and You will learn from a the analysis of financial data. team of international scholars “It is inspiring to hear First you examine the whose teaching and research from highly-accomplished conceptual frameworks and are centred on the concept of techniques of marketing and and highly-published responsible enterprise, which organisational behaviour. Then academics. The size of the entails an ethical approach to The Gateway, School of Management you examine some of the managing organisations and School of Management alternative perspectives on their social and environmental gives studying here a management and the changing Available degree options Previous knowledge of subject required? No impacts. policy and business environment personal feel: you get First year for organisations and engage the chance to connect You will take two compulsory with accounting from a broader with your lecturers BScMA BSc MA MA courses, one in each semester. sociological perspective. who really care about Taken together, these explain In addition, you may choose why we have organisations, how to take an innovative course on your development and Single Honours Joint Honours Joint Honours Triple Honours they operate in society and what enterprise and creativity, which continue to remember information is required of them helps you develop creative Management Management and one of 4 Management and one of 18 Management and two you throughout your time by the external environment. entrepreneurship skills and take other subjects other subjects modern languages here.” You will be introduced to a proactive role in managing See Cross-Faculty subjects, See Science combinations, See Arts combinations, See Triple combinations, three key aspects of management your learning. Frazer (Scottish Borders, Scotland) page 5 page 174 pages 172-173 pages 132-133 in the external and internal Pictured opposite

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Third and fourth years (Honours) Our degree programmes in Management If you decide to take Management in your third You will receive advanced training in quantitative and fourth years, you will take two compulsory and qualitative techniques that are relevant to the courses: analysis of managerial problems. Presentation The first one provides an integrative skills, group working, and self-reliance provide understanding of organisation in society, drawing vocational relevance and preparation for life from key contemporary theoretical perspectives to beyond graduation. analyse different ideological and practical aspects Our degrees in Management develop an of organising. understanding of core organisational issues as The other provides a learning experience in well as developing key transferable skills. They which Management students can understand and are designed to equip students with the skills respond to current and likely future challenges that and knowledge to critically assess and challenge will face them in the near and intermediate future established practices of management, promoting as managers and citizens. the use of creative and innovative approaches In addition, you will take optional courses to managing complex organisational problems. chosen from a wide range which reflects the An emphasis is placed on responsible enterprise, expertise of staff in the School. Here is a sample which enables students to become both socially and of Honours topics which have been covered in environmentally aware, and encourages them to be previous years: self-reliant, critical and creative thinkers. The MA course is particularly suited for those • Advertising and marketing communication wanting a range of options across arts subjects • Behavioural decision making but who want to give most of their attention to • Corporate finance and control Management. For those interested in studying • Corporate social responsibility, accountability Management alongside science subjects, the BSc and reporting may be of interest instead of the MA. • Dynamic strategic management • Entrepreneurship and small business Study abroad development Management students may participate in the • Financial markets and investments • International business University-wide St Andrews Abroad programme. You may also have the opportunity to participate • International marketing in our School Abroad exchange programme. For • Human resource management information about study abroad options, please see: • Knowledge work: practice and context www.st-andrews.ac.uk/study-abroad • Leadership development Outside the Gateway • Non-governmental organisations (NGOs): Careers contexts, contributions and challenges Our students have found employment in the fields • Philanthropy and philanthropreneurs: the of general management, marketing, accountancy “ I like how the lecturers allow us space to develop our own business of doing good and the financial services industry. These roles have • Sociology of finance been undertaken in a wide variety of organisations learning and study styles within the context of our core • Sustainable development and management. in the public and private sector. courses. It really taught me how to take the initiative, While a degree in Management provides an communicate with staff and enhance my academic writing. excellent basis for a career in management, it can also be used as a springboard into a wide variety of St Andrews is full of passionate and friendly students and other careers. provides a melting pot of international perspectives in both Each year some students undertake further academic and everyday life.” study at Masters and PhD level in the UK and beyond. Lauren (Georgia, USA)

114 115 Your primary focus studying Mathematics will be understanding Mathematics & Statistics patterns and structure and developing the tools with which to www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects/mathematics analyse them. You will be able to describe and categorise processes [email protected] involved in physical or biological phenomena.

• Stimulating environment, teaching by world-class researchers. • Wide variety of courses offered. Entry requirements These grades are the overall • Outstanding tutorial support, especially in first and second year. standards required to consider you • Ranked third in all the major UK league tables: the Guardian for entry. You can find out more about University Guide 2020, The Times and The Sunday Times Good Standard, Minimum and Gateway entry requirements on page 167. University Guide 2020, the Complete University Guide 2020. www.st-andrews.ac.uk/ subjects/entry

What will I study? to mathematics, another covers a SQA Highers: wide variety of topics in pure and • Standard entry grades AAAAB St Andrews has first-class • Minimum entry grades AABB researchers in the three main applied mathematics, another Must include A in Mathematics. areas of the mathematical course concentrates on statistics, GCE A-Levels: sciences: Pure, Applied and and one is on problem-solving • Standard entry grades A*A*A techniques. • Minimum entry grades A*AB Statistics. Our courses reflect this Must include A* in Mathematics. diversity of interests and provide Second year International Baccalaureate: the focus for specialisation and We offer eight courses across • Standard entry grades 38 project work. (HL 6,6,6) the whole range of mathematics • Minimum entry grades 36 Understanding patterns and and statistics, of which you will (HL 6,5,5) structure, and developing the take between four and eight, Must include HL6 in Mathematics. tools with which to analyse depending on your intended Direct entry to second year them, is the primary focus of degree. These are designed to all mathematics. Whether the SQA Highers/Advanced Highers: introduce you to the study of • Advanced Highers AA including patterns relate to physical or more advanced mathematics, Mathematics, plus Highers School of Mathematics & Statistics biological phenomena or to the AAAAB opening up access to the diverse structure of mathematics itself, GCE A-Levels: range of courses that we offer at the primary aim is to describe, • A*A*A including A* in Available degree options Previous knowledge of subject required? Yes, Mathematics higher levels. Mathematics and A in Further categorise and understand the Mathematics. processes involved. Much of Third and fourth years International Baccalaureate: your time here will be concerned (Honours) • 39 (HL 6,6,6) including HL6 in MMath BScMA BSc MA BSc MA with developing the analytical You have the option either to Mathematics. techniques and skills necessary to continue with a broad spread MMath Fast Track explore some of these fascinating of pure mathematics, applied SQA Highers/Advanced Highers: Integrated Masters Single Honours Joint Honours BSc ‘With’ Honours BSc areas of research. mathematics and statistics or • Advanced Highers BB including

to concentrate on just one or Mathematics, plus Highers Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics and one Mathematics with First year AAAAB two of these areas. Examples Applied Mathematics Statistics of 8 other subjects Geography You will take between one GCE A-Levels: Pure Mathematics Statistics and one of 6 of recent courses include: • A*A*A including A* in and three first-year courses Statistics See Cross-Faculty subjects, other subjects graph theory, fractal geometry, Mathematics. in mathematics. There is one page 5 ‘With’ Honours MA dynamical systems, solar theory, International Baccalaureate: See Science combinations, compulsory mathematics financial mathematics and • 39 (HL 6,6,6) including HL6 in page 174 Mathematics with course, which will extend and Mathematics. Bayesian inference. Russian enhance your skills in algebraic Mathematics with In your final year, you will be MPhys MChem Joint Honours MA Spanish manipulation and in differential required to investigate a topic and integral calculus, develop “ The School provides plenty of of your choice in some depth, Mathematics and one your geometric insight and opportunities for you to get submit a written dissertation and Joint Integrated Masters of 21 other subjects your understanding of limiting give a presentation, all under the involved with maths beyond Statistics and one of 3 processes, and introduce you to Mathematics and Theoretical other subjects supervision of a staff member lectures and tutorials.” complex numbers and matrices. Physics (MPhys) who is a leading expert in the Chemistry with Mathematics See Arts combinations, We offer four further courses, one area of your project. Tom (Dijon, France) (MChem) pages 172-173 of which provides an introduction Pictured opposite

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Integrated Masters (five years) are many practical applications for statistics, You combine undergraduate and Masters- including fields such as science, medicine, level study into a single five-year programme, government, business and education. graduating with a Masters degree. Study abroad In addition to the third- and fourth-year courses Mathematics and Statistics students (except Fast described on the previous page, we teach around Track) may participate in the University-wide twenty more advanced courses, each of which is St Andrews Abroad programme. For information delivered by a research-active specialist in the field. about study abroad options, please see: Direct entry into second year / Fast Track www.st-andrews.ac.uk/study-abroad Students with excellent Advanced Higher, A-Level Careers or International Baccalaureate qualifications can Demand for mathematically trained graduates enter directly into the second year of study. vastly outstrips the supply, hence career Second-year entry students bypass the first- prospects are excellent in a variety of fields. year courses entirely. You may also have the Recruiters seek numerate graduates who are opportunity to study abroad, after either one- or literate, think logically, write and present well, two-years’ study at St Andrews. and can work with relevant technology – our Students who wish to complete an MMath in degrees develop all of these skills. four years but do not qualify for direct entry to A Mathematics or Statistics degree is second year may be able to do so on the Fast Track recognised as a substantial achievement in a programme. Students on the Fast Track programme demanding discipline. cannot study abroad. Over 50% of our graduates gain employment Our degree programmes: with merchant banks, insurance companies, computer consultancies, the civil service, Mathematics industry, and financial services organisations (for This degree allows you to study the full range of example, Goldman Sachs, KPMG, PwC and many modules we offer in Pure Mathematics, Applied more). Mathematics, and Statistics, as described in Many graduates go onto further study for ‘What will I study?’ on the previous page. an MSc and PhD, both of which are available at St Andrews, and some go into teaching. Applied Mathematics You will focus on real-world applications of Scholarships mathematics and learn how to apply your We offer a small number of scholarships of up to mathematical skills to solve problems in fields as £1,000 to first year students, based on financial diverse as biology, astrophysics and finance. need. Pure Mathematics Accreditation Social space, School of Mathematics & Statistics You will acquire the analytical techniques, clear Our degree programmes in Mathematics, Pure logical thinking and deductive reasoning necessary Mathematics and Applied Mathematics are to explore and understand mathematical problems. accredited by the Institute of Mathematics and its There are also many connections between pure Applications. “ The academics are great, and it is reassuring to know that mathematics and computer science, and you will Our degree programmes in Statistics are they are there to help you with whatever you need. It is have the opportunity to learn about these, if you accredited by the Royal Statistical Society in important to me that the maths that I do has the ability to be wish. recognition of the “breadth, depth, quality and useful to the public and affect society for the better, therefore foundation” of these programmes as well as their Statistics statistical content. my interest is being piqued by the mathematics of medicine and You will specialise in the branch of mathematics mathematical modelling.” that focuses on collecting, analysing and presenting large quantities of data. There Jemisha (London, England)

118 119 The BSc (Hons) in Medicine provides you with thorough knowledge Medicine of the foundations of medical science whilst helping you develop www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects/medicine extensive decision-making skills and an ethical understanding. The [email protected] course also provides early, relevant clinical experience.

• The School of Medicine offers an undergraduate course: the BSc (Hons) Medicine degree. Students on this degree graduate after Entry requirements These grades are the overall three years and move on to one of the University’s partner medical standards required to consider you schools to complete a further three years of training and graduate for entry. You can find out more with a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MB ChB/MBBS). about Standard, Minimum and Gateway entry requirements on • We provide a learning environment which integrates professional page 167. training with a sound knowledge of the scientific basis of medicine. www.st-andrews.ac.uk/ • You gain an appropriate early clinical experience to emphasise the subjects/medicine/ medicine-bsc-a100 clinical relevance of the medical sciences, including placements from your first year onwards. SQA Highers: • State-of-the-art facilities include anatomy facilities for full body • Standard entry grades AAAAB • Minimum entry grades AAABB dissection, clinical skills suites and integrated technology support • Gateway to Medicine entry for your learning. grades BBBB Must include Chemistry and (Biology • The School of Medicine also offers a bespoke route for eligible or Human Biology or Mathematics Canadian students, providing mentoring and teaching towards or Physics), plus National 5 grade B practising medicine in Canada. in (Biology or Human Biology and Mathematics and English) if not passed at Highers. Why St Andrews? training and this will include GCE A-Levels: • Standard entry grades AAA The BSc (Hons) in Medicine an attachment to the University • Minimum entry grades AAB provides you with a thorough of Alberta. Students on this Must include Chemistry and (Biology knowledge of the foundations programme are not eligible to or Mathematics or Physics), plus GCSE (5) in (Biology, Mathematics of medical science, whilst enter NHS Foundation Training and English) if not passed at AS or developing skills required by in the UK. A100 and A990 A-Levels. ‘Tomorrow’s Doctors’. students are taught together on International Baccalaureate: Depending on where you the same course at St Andrews. • Standard entry grades 38 (HL 6,6,6 plus SL 6,6,6) intend to undertake your final You will receive integrated • Minimum entry grades 36 three years towards an MB ChB/ teaching within a strong clinical (HL 6,6,5 plus SL 6,6,5) MBBS degree, the A100 degree context, designed to encourage Must include HL in Chemistry and (Biology or Mathematics or Physics), programme offers three different you to apply your understanding plus SL in (Biology, Mathematics and application routes (Scotland, of medical sciences to clinical English) if not passed at HL. England and No Preference) for problems. From the start you Home and RUK students. If you will be encouraged to develop Musculoskeletal laboratory, School of Medicine are ‘overseas’ for fee purposes, the professional attitudes, “Full-body dissection is you will progress to the ethical understanding and immensely useful for No Available degree options Previous knowledge of subject required? University of Manchester. decision-making skills required learning anatomy. There The School also offers an A990 of a doctor. Professionalism route for Canadians wishing to and patient safety are key is a lot of interactive return to Canada for residency components of the entire course. learning and the staff are BSc MB ChB placement. The programme is Teaching occurs in purpose- always more than happy to only for Canadians (or those with built facilities, including an Canadian residency rights) who anatomy dissection suite and answer any questions. The Single Honours ScotGEM Programme are ‘overseas’ for fee purposes. simulated environments for communication skills course

Medicine This graduate entry You will graduate from clinical and communication has definitely bolstered my – leading to MB ChB/MBBS programme is only open to St Andrews with a BSc (Hons) skills teaching. You will confidence and skills when at a partner medical school those classified as Home and Medicine before progressing experience clinical placements talking with patients.” RUK for fee status purposes to the University of Edinburgh and meet patients within the to complete your medical See pages 124-125 NHS from first year. Nathan (Sandys, Bermuda)

120 121 Medicine

www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects/medicine [email protected]

First year • Canadian students on the A990 route are not You will study the interrelationships between the eligible to enter Foundation Year Training in pre-clinical sciences. You will receive an overview the UK but receive specific mentoring and of the structure and functions of the body systems training in preparation for applying to the both microscopically and macroscopically and be Canadian Resident Matching Service (CaRMS), introduced to key themes across all years (e.g. ethics, including an attachment in Alberta during the public health, health psychology). You will study final three years. the musculoskeletal system in depth, via lectures, Accreditation practical laboratories and dissection room sessions. The BSc (Hons) Medicine is externally accredited You will be taught clinical and communication by the General Medical Council to the same skills and attend a community-based placement. standards as a primary medical qualification. Second year Accordingly, progression is subject to both You will study the normal function and dysfunction academic results and fitness to practise. of specific physiological systems (cardiovascular, Additional entry routes: respiratory, gastrointestinal, renal and reproductive systems). This will build on knowledge from your Gateway to Medicine first year, whilst developing the key themes further. The University offers this one-year programme You will learn clinical skills related to each system taught in the Faculty of Science. Applicants who and attend more frequent placements. are ‘overseas’ for fee purposes are not eligible to apply. For more information about the Gateway Third year to Medicine, please see: You will study the normal function and dysfunction www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects/medicine/ of complex integrative physiological systems gateway-to-medicine (central nervous and endocrine systems). You will undertake a significant research project in the International Foundation Programme for form of a dissertation. You will also consolidate Medicine your clinical training prior to moving to a partner This is a one-year preparatory programme medical school. Your clinical placements will focus for medicine combining science study with on the secondary care environment. advanced English for academic purposes and communication skills. Only applicants who are Careers ‘overseas’ for fee purposes can apply. For more Students with a BSc (Hons) Medicine continue to a information about the International Foundation partner medical school to complete their MB ChB or Programme for Medicine, please see: MBBS. Award of this second degree allows you to www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects/ifp/ apply for postgraduate medical training relevant to medicine-september your route: Consulting room, School of Medicine

• As an A100 student you are eligible for provisional registration with the General Medical Council (GMC) upon graduation from “ It is important to me that medicine challenges me to think the partner medical school. You will be eligible about what I am learning. I like that we get exposure to a to apply to enter Foundation Year (FY) Training hospital setting early on in the course as well as learning the within the UK, which you apply for during different clinical skills that are involved. The University staff your final year at your partner medical school. Following FY training, there are a wide range are amazing people - they are kind, helpful, friendly, and they of career opportunities for doctors with over care about you.”

60 different specialities available in the UK. Xu Xuan (Penang, Malaysia) Advice on careers in the NHS will be available throughout the course.

122 123 Medicine – ScotGEM

medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk/graduate-entry-medicine [email protected]

• ScotGEM is the only medicine programme of its kind in Scotland. This four-year programme is tailored to meet the contemporary and future needs of the NHS in Scotland, with a focus on clinical generalism and rural practice. • Scottish Graduate Entry Medicine (ScotGEM) is a joint programme run by the universities of St Andrews and Dundee, in collaboration with the University of Highlands and Islands and four NHS Boards in Scotland (Fife, Tayside, Highland and Dumfries & Galloway). First and second years will be led by the University of St Andrews, third and fourth years will be led by the University of Dundee. • The curriculum employs exciting educational innovations. First- and second-year students learn via case-based learning with clinical placements. Third-year students undertake a year-long ‘longitudinal integrated clerkship’ based in a GP practice in a remote and rural area in Scotland. Fourth year provides students with an increase in hospital experience, in readiness for working as a Foundation doctor.

What will I study? Third and fourth years (Honours) ScotGEM is an intensive undergraduate In third year, you will join a General Practice in programme, designed specifically for graduate rural Scotland and follow patients through their learners. You will study foundation sciences, illness journey over the course of a year, gathering become skilled in clinical interactions and be experience in primary and secondary care. This given the opportunity to apply your knowledge approach has been shown to develop more patient- and skills in clinical environments. In addition centred doctors and with improved decision- to the core of the programme, ScotGEM aims to making skills. equip you with the skills to become Agents of In fourth year, you will have increased exposure Change in the communities that you will serve. to the hospital environment in preparation for work The Agents of Change curriculum focuses on as a Foundation doctor. You will complete two, five themes: informatics, quality improvement, month-long, Foundation apprenticeships as well prescribing and therapeutics, public health and as other hospital-based clinical attachments. You community engagement. will also arrange an eight-week period of clinical practice (elective) which can take place anywhere First year in the world and will be focused on your own Clinical skills This year is based in St Andrews and NHS interests. Fife. You will use clinical cases provided by clinicians to trigger your learning in specific MB ChB (Bachelor of Medicine, Careers Entry requirements areas of medicine. A focus on foundational Bachelor of Surgery) ScotGEM is designed for those interested in a career in general Degree: 2.1 Honours degree in either medical sciences will subsequently underpin ScotGEM graduates will receive an MB ChB, medicine, including General Practice, with a focus on rural Scotland; Arts or Science. more challenging cases and a bespoke Clinical which is a primary medical qualification (PMQ). however, the course will prepare students for any branch of medicine. SQA Highers / GCE Advanced (A2) Interactions Course. You will be able to apply As is usual with new programmes of medical As a ScotGEM graduate you will be eligible for provisional registration Level: Chemistry at grade B. your knowledge and skills in weekly clinical education, ScotGEM is subject to approval by the with the GMC and to apply to enter Foundation Year training within SQA National 5 / GCSE: Mathematics placements with our partners in NHS Fife. General Medical Council (GMC). The process of the UK. You will need to apply during the final year of the programme. National 5 grade B / Standard Grade accreditation comprises eight stages, of which Advice on careers in the NHS will be available throughout the course. at Credit 2 / Intermediate 2 at grade Second year ScotGEM has reached the penultimate stage. Stage B / GCSE at grade B. This year follows a similar format to first year, 8 is expected to be completed prior to graduation Aptitude Test: GAMSAT (in either but with the introduction of more complex of the first cohort of students in September 2022. the year of application or the cases and more clinical experience in secondary previous year). ScotGEM is intended to be awarded jointly by care environments. You will spend extended “ If you are interested in a programme that really the universities of St Andrews and Dundee; any placements, of 12-24 weeks, learning with our emphasises the clinical aspects of medicine, seeing patients joint degree is subject to agreement and statutory NHS partners in Fife, Inverness and Dumfries. approval, which is not guaranteed. The universities from the start and providing holistic care, then I would of St Andrews and Dundee will notify you if the thoroughly recommend ScotGEM.” degree cannot be established as intended. Alistair (Scottish Borders, Scotland)

124 125 Your studies will cover the history, politics, cultures and languages Middle East Studies of the Middle East, from pre-Islamic Iran and the rise of Islam and www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects/middle-east-studies the Arab conquests through the Abbasid, Byzantine, Seljuk, Mongol, [email protected] Ottoman and Safavid Empires to the twentieth-century Middle East.

See also Arabic, History, Persian • The opportunity to study the history of the Middle East at undergraduate level is a distinctive aspect of the History Entry requirements programme at St Andrews. You will be equipped with the These grades are the overall standards required to consider you knowledge and skills to enable you to understand this culturally for entry. You can find out more diverse and strategically important region of the world. about Standard, Minimum and Gateway entry requirements on • Middle East Studies at St Andrews is ranked top in the UK in page 167. The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2020. www.st-andrews.ac.uk/ • Middle East Studies is available as a Joint Honours degree in subjects/entry combination with one of many disciplines. SQA Highers: • There is no need to have prior knowledge of Middle Eastern • Standard entry grades AAAAB History in order to engage with the subject, however you need to including A in History. • Minimum entry grades AABB have studied History. including B in History. • You may specialise in the medieval or modern periods and choose • Gateway entry grades BBBB from a wide range of Middle Eastern topics covering a variety of GCE A-Levels: eras and cultures. • Standard entry grades AAA including A in History. • For Study Abroad information, see pages 45 and 99. • Minimum entry grades ABB including B in History. International Baccalaureate: What will I study? Middle East, the development • Standard entry grades 38 You will gain a wide range of Constantinople from late (HL 6,6,6) including HL6 in of disciplinary skills that are Roman to Ottoman times, History. • Minimum entry grades 36 of great use in studying and the Crusades from Muslim (HL 6,5,5) including HL5 in understanding this culturally perspectives, the shaping of History. diverse and strategically the Iranian world by Turkic important region of the world. dynasties from the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries, and First year the development of modern You will normally take one Iran since 1834. first-year History class (in In fourth year, you will take either Medieval or Modern a year-long Specialist Subject. History). “ I chose Middle East Examples include: Armenia Second year in the early medieval period, Studies because I love You will take two History politics, society and culture learning about the classes, one of which will be from medieval Anatolia and history and causes that the compulsory introduction to the Fourth Crusade to the Tiles from the Rum Seljuk palace of Kubadabad, held in the Karatay Museum, Konya, Turkey affect current events Middle Eastern History class. definitive establishment of the Ottoman empire, interactions there today — it also Third and fourth years Available degree options Previous knowledge of subject required? Yes, History between the Latin west and pairs well with my other (Honours) the powers and cultures of the You will choose from a variety focus (International Near East and beyond during of options covering a wide Relations). Since so many the thirteenth century, the MA MA chronological and thematic Mongol world empire and the international students are spread. Examples of recent relationship between Britain drawn to St Andrews, the topics include: the collapse and Iran in the modern period. Joint Honours Triple Honours of the established political diversity of perspective order in the seventh century is valuable to any class Middle East Studies and one of 16 other Middle East Studies-Arabic-Persian subjects discussion.”

See Arts combinations, pages 172-173 Anna (Philadelphia, USA)

126 127 You will not only develop a high level of proficiency in the Modern Languages language you choose to study, you will also be able to pursue

www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects your own specific interests, including culture, history, film, [email protected] literature and politics.

See also Arabic, Comparative Literature, French, German, Italian, Persian, Russian, Spanish • The School of Modern Languages was ranked second in the UK by the Guardian University Guide 2020. Entry requirements These grades are the overall • Our programme structures are amongst the most flexible in standards required to consider you the UK. for entry. You can find out more • Our staff are leading researchers with expertise in an extremely about Standard, Minimum and Gateway entry requirements on wide range of areas and subjects, spanning from the medieval page 167. period to the present day. www.st-andrews.ac.uk/ subjects/entry • We offer a friendly learning environment with skilled and dedicated tutors at all levels, many of whom are native speakers. SQA Highers: • Our Multi-Media Centre houses a high-tech digital language • Standard entry grades AAAB • Minimum entry grades AABB laboratory. • Gateway entry grades BBBB • You can start as a complete beginner in Arabic, German, Italian, GCE A-Levels: Persian, Russian and Spanish. • Standard entry grades AAB • If you study more than one language, you will be able to visit the • Minimum entry grades ABB countries where all the languages you are studying are spoken International Baccalaureate: as part of your degree. • Standard entry grades 36 (HL 6,6,5) • We have a very active and dynamic student community, and a • Minimum entry grades 36 number of popular and vibrant language societies. (HL 6,5,5)

• The School also runs a well-integrated programme in French has slightly different Comparative Literature, taught by experts in the language and requirements from those above culture of the texts studied. and must always include A (B for Gateway) or HL6 in French.

What will I study? Study abroad Please refer to the pages of We have successful individual languages for further partnerships with a number details of the key distinctive of distinguished international Rector's Café specialisms characterising each institutions which you may “ Modern Languages is of our Departments. See also the also be able to visit as part of an outward-looking and Available degree options Previous knowledge of subject required? your degree as an exchange Subject index on page 175. globally focused School. Almost all the degrees are available With Integrated Year Abroad Only for French student. We are generally Triple Honours combinations The courses are extremely You can combine in one degree very flexible in trying to tailor study abroad to your needs flexible, and one of the programme the study of two and circumstances, to ensure MA MA MA languages with a third non- most attractive features that your experience abroad language subject or the study of was the ability to pick up is positive, enriching and three languages. You can also Single Honours Joint Honours Triple Honours fulfilling. a second language from make the most of our flexible Modern Languages students beginners’ level. The small French The following can be combined All the subjects in the School can be system to integrate in your may also participate in the German with a range of other subjects combined with each other, and many triple subject degree a period of size of each language Italian with a third subject outside the School study abroad, in one or all of the University-wide St Andrews Department means that Russian Arabic Abroad programme. For countries where the languages Spanish Comparative Literature information about study abroad I have also had the you study are spoken. All the French options, please see: chance to get to know German languages taught in our School www.st-andrews.ac.uk/ Italian can be combined in a triple the staff, and my student study-abroad Persian subject degree, and you will be cohort, creating a real Russian Spanish able to decide at the end of your multilingual community.” second year in which area or See Arts combinations, pages 172-173 See Triple combinations, pages 132-133 subject you want to specialise. Iain (Lanarkshire, Scotland)

128 129 Modern Languages

www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects “ My time abroad was an excellent way [email protected] of immersing myself in a different European culture and an even better With Integrated Year Abroad (WIYA) Careers opportunity to travel to some beautiful You may spend your third year working in Modern Languages graduates have an extremely cities in France. There were also a country where the relevant language is good record of employment after graduating, not spoken. The WIYA option is open to students only in all sectors that require advanced language significant academic benefits, most in French, German, Italian and Spanish. With skills but also in professional environments that notably my greatly improved language your Department’s advice and approval, you demand good communication and analytical skills. skills.” may apply for the British Council Assistantship Language graduates are generally very scheme or organise an alternative work independent and self-sufficient employees, with Laura (Renfrewshire, Scotland) placement. You will receive a salary, paid locally, initiative, developed problem solving, research and be supported directly by your employer. and analytical skills, and a very positive attitude to During your stay you will also work towards challenge. Employers value our graduates because an academic project to be submitted before they demonstrate excellent communication, “I spent my year abroad working as an completing your year abroad. Placements are interpersonal and intercultural skills. Many of our English Language Assistant at a primary awarded through an application and selection graduates: process and are not guaranteed. If you cannot school in the small town of Haldensleben • specialise in translation and interpreting secure an approved placement, you will be in Germany. I primarily assisted in English services, in language teaching or other sector- moved to a four-year programme. classes, as well as establishing bilingual Russian students may also participate in the specific careers. • join international institutions and enterprises, maths classes and running an evening WIYA programme, but students would spend working in international development the full year studying rather than working in language programme for teachers. I would departments, human resources, administration, Russia. thoroughly recommend working abroad, as media and communication jobs. my language skills improved immensely, and I Multi-Media Centre (MMC) • start a career in the banking and financial sector. The MMC digital language laboratory has • join the civil service, particularly in positions forged many long-lasting relationships with been playing an increasingly important within the Foreign Office. people across Europe.” part in the School’s language teaching, with • continue to study at postgraduate level. Computer Assisted Language Learning Jack (West Midlands, England) (CALL) software to support your learning and All our language Departments offer Masters and research degrees. Our graduates often consider progress. You can take a virtual tour of our more specialised postgraduate courses in MMC at: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modlangs/ translation and interpreting. multi-mediacentre “For my year abroad, I worked as a British Council language assistant in secondary schools in the French overseas department of Reunion Island. During the school holidays, I got to visit Mauritius and Madagascar, climbed mountains, watched volcanoes erupt “The teaching staff are what make studying modern languages and swam in waterfalls. I loved working with at St Andrews special. They are all passionate and enthusiastic the children, and it gave me a whole new about their subject, which motivates you to do your best. Having perspective on learning and languages. the Multi-Media Centre (MMC), a computer laboratory that A year abroad isn’t quite as easy as gives you access to audio-visual materials in the language you it may seem, but it is really worth it. are learning, helps to improve your listening skills and makes the Challenge yourself, and you’ll be surprised learning experience more enjoyable.” at what you’re capable of.”

Hajar (Scottish Borders, Scotland) Ellen (Hertfordshire, England)

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Triple subject combinations Ancient History Ancient Arabic Studies Classical Literature Comparative English French – also available WIYA German – also available WIYA Greek Relations International WIYA available also – Italian Latin Management Middle East Studies Persian Russian – also available WIYA Spanish – also available WIYA History Ancient Arabic Studies Classical Literature Comparative English French – also available WIYA German – also available WIYA Greek Relations International WIYA available also – Italian Latin Management Middle East Studies Persian Russian – also available WIYA Spanish – also available WIYA Arabic and: Italian and: Comparative Literature 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 Arabic French – also available WIYA 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 Comparative Literature German – also available WIYA 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 G 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 French – also available WIYA Italian – also available WIYA 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 G 3 3 3 German – also available WIYA Persian 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 Persian Russian – also available WIYA 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 Russian – also available WIYA Spanish – also available WIYA 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 Spanish – also available WIYA

Comparative Literature and: Persian and: Arabic 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 Arabic French – also available WIYA 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 French – also available WIYA German – also available WIYA 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 G 3 3 German – also available WIYA Italian – also available WIYA 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 Italian – also available WIYA Russian – also available WIYA 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 Russian – also available WIYA Spanish – also available WIYA 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 Spanish – also available WIYA

French and: Russian and: Arabic 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 Arabic Comparative Literature 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 Comparative Literature German – also available WIYA 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 G 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 French – also available WIYA Italian – also available WIYA 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 German – also available WIYA Persian 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 Italian – also available WIYA Russian – also available WIYA 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 Persian Spanish – also available WIYA 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 Spanish – also available WIYA

German and: Spanish and: Arabic 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 G 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 Arabic Comparative Literature 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 Comparative Literature French – also available WIYA 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 G 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 French – also available WIYA Italian – also available WIYA 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 G 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 G 3 3 German – also available WIYA Persian 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 G 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 Italian – also available WIYA Russian – also available WIYA 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 Persian Spanish – also available WIYA 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 G 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 Russian – also available WIYA

WIYA = Also available With Integrated Year Abroad 3 = Triple G = Only available to non-beginners in German WIYA = Also available With Integrated Year Abroad 3 = Triple G = Only available to non-beginners in German

132 133 Neuroscience is the science of the nervous system. You will Neuroscience study how the mind and brain work to facilitate our behaviour, www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects/neuroscience covering topics such as memory formation, cognitive [email protected] processing and the activity of nerve cells.

See also Biology, Psychology • This programme is taught jointly by the School of Psychology & Neuroscience and the School of Biology. Entry requirements These grades are the overall • Our research-led teaching is given by specialists in their fields. standards required to consider you • Small-class teaching in Senior Honours courses allows more for entry. You can find out more student-lecturer interactions. about Standard, Minimum and Gateway entry requirements on • Students have opportunities to conduct year-long research projects page 167. and develop their own specialities. www.st-andrews.ac.uk/ subjects/entry

What will I study? Third and fourth years SQA Highers: • Standard entry grades AAAB If you decide to study (Honours) • Minimum entry grades AABB Neuroscience at St Andrews, you In the third year, you start At least a B in two of (Biology or Human Biology, Chemistry, should have acquired a sufficient to learn about neuroscience, Mathematics, Physics). science background at school. pharmacology and other • Gateway entry grades BBBB This can be subjects in biology, topics like behavioural GCE A-Levels: chemistry, mathematics or neuroscience, perception and • Standard entry grades AAB • Minimum entry grades ABB physics. You will learn both the cognition, membranes and cell At least a B in two of Biology, biological processes of animal communication, gene regulation Chemistry, Mathematics, Physics. behaviour and higher brain and expression, protein structure International Baccalaureate: functions like perception and and function, research design • Standard entry grades 36 (HL 6,6,5) cognition. Our main specialisms and analysis. • Minimum entry grades 36 include animal motor control, In fourth year, you have (HL 6,5,5) neural degeneration, neural the options to develop your At least an HL5 in two of Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics, Physics. development, animal behaviour, own speciality by choosing learning and memory. specific courses, for example: neurodegeneration and ageing, First year neural basis of episodic memory, You will study some neuromodulation, psychology of introductory courses on both dementia, origins and evolution biology and psychology with of mind reading. regular laboratories and Most of the courses have statistical methods. You will laboratories incorporated in also have the freedom to take them. You will also carry out a up to two courses of your own “ I have been able to take year-long research project in one choice. of the neuroscience laboratories a breadth of classes, Second year under the supervision of a in other Schools too, You will learn some further specialist and will be required to allowing me to learn a Neuroscience students examining the earthworm nervous system psychology and some more write a dissertation. wide range of different specialised biology topics like Study abroad t biochemistry, molecular and skills. The class size Available degree options Previous knowledge of subject required? No – not Neuroscience Neuroscience students may cellular biology, evolutionary is small, so we are specifically, but you should have a science background biology, zoology and ecology. participate in the University-wide St Andrews Abroad programme. personally guided through BSc For information about study the course while also abroad options, please see: being challenged to think www.st-andrews.ac.uk/ independently.” Single Honours study-abroad Matthew (County Down, Neuroscience Northern Ireland)

134 135 Persian is a creative and flexible language. Your studies Persian will emphasise modern language, literature, drama, visual www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects/persian culture and cinema, but you will also have the opportunity to [email protected] familiarise yourself with classical literary and historical texts.

See also Middle East Studies, Modern Languages • St Andrews is one of only five universities in the UK to offer degrees in Persian and the most versatile in the study of Persianate Entry requirements societies and Iranian studies. These grades are the overall standards required to consider you • St Andrews has the largest range of Persian degrees in Scotland for entry. You can find out more and is the only university in Scotland in which you can study about Standard, Minimum and Gateway entry requirements on Persian alongside two other subjects. page 167. • You can begin the study of Persian language with no prior www.st-andrews.ac.uk/ knowledge and choose how far you wish to continue. subjects/entry • You will have access to Persian, Iranian and Middle Eastern related SQA Highers: events organised by various research groups across the University • Standard entry grades AAAB as well as by two student-run societies. • Minimum entry grades AABB • Gateway entry grades BBBB • An annual prize is awarded to the best student of each year group. GCE A-Levels: • Standard entry grades AAB What will I study? sophisticated texts and • Minimum entry grades ABB You will study the language, translate them into English. International Baccalaureate: literature and culture of the You will also consolidate your • Standard entry grades 36 (HL 6,6,5) Persian-speaking world. The understanding of Persian • Minimum entry grades 36 topics include classical and grammar and learn how to use (HL 6,5,5) modern Persian language it in reading, listening, speaking and literature, and modern and writing. You will be exposed drama, song, media and film. to some sample texts of modern The building of a high level of Persian literature. competence in language skills is Third and fourth years a priority at all levels, and you (Honours) will be expected to write using You continue to study both the correct spelling, grammar and spoken and the written language. punctuation in both Persian You also take courses in modern and English. You may also take and classical Persian literature as complementary subjects in well as modern drama, cinema classical, Medieval or Modern and song traditions in the Persian History, Art History, Middle East speaking world. All classes Studies, International Relations, are taught in small groups Social Anthropology and modern Tombs of Achaemenid kings, Naqsh-e Rustam, Persepolis with an emphasis on student languages, including Arabic. “ I picked up Persian in participation. In the fourth year, the first semester and First year you also have the option of doing Available degree options Previous knowledge of subject required? No You will learn the skills of independent guided research to it has turned out to be reception (reading and listening) write a short (one semester) or a an exciting, engaging and production (speaking and long (two semesters) dissertation. and thorough course. writing) in Persian. You will MA MA MA Study abroad There is a fair amount become familiar with the spoken Persian students may and written forms of Persian, of work to get you to a participate in the University- Joint Honours Triple Honours ‘With’ Honours developing your abilities to high standard relatively wide St Andrews Abroad express yourself orally and in Persian and one of 22 other subjects Persian and two other modern Geography with Persian programme. Further information quickly, but the staff writing, and to read basic texts. languages International Relations with Persian on page 129 and online at: are very supportive and Persian and one other modern language Medieval History with Persian Second year www.st-andrews.ac.uk/ and another subject Modern History with Persian invested in their students.” You will develop skills that study-abroad See Arts combinations, pages 172-173 See Triple combinations, pages 132-133 See Arts combinations, pages 172-173 enable you to read more James (West Lothian, Scotland)

136 137 Philosophy – a highly interdisciplinary subject – is concerned Philosophy with trying to make sense of ourselves and the world we live www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects/philosophy in through rational argument. [email protected]

• A Philosophy degree from St Andrews is held in high regard throughout the academic world. Entry requirements These grades are the overall • Philosophy at St Andrews was ranked third in the UK by both the standards required to consider you Guardian University Guide 2020 and The Times and The Sunday Times for entry. You can find out more Good University Guide 2020. about Standard, Minimum and Gateway entry requirements on • Philosophy can be pursued as a Single Honours degree, but it also page 167. combines naturally with many other subjects, such as Classics, www.st-andrews.ac.uk/ History, International Relations, Psychology, and Theology. You subjects/entry can also combine it with a science or Mathematics. SQA Highers: • Philosophy staff at St Andrews work in a broad spectrum of • Standard entry grades AAAB disciplines, from logic and metaphysics to moral and political • Minimum entry grades AABB • Gateway entry grades BBBB philosophy and beyond. As a result, we offer a wider variety GCE A-Levels: of study areas than you might find elsewhere, within a flexible • Standard entry grades AAB modular system. • Minimum entry grades ABB • Significant numbers of our Philosophy graduates secure places International Baccalaureate: on graduate programmes at St Andrews, or at other leading • Standard entry grades 36 (HL 6,6,5) universities in the UK and the United States. • Minimum entry grades 36 (HL 6,5,5)

What will I study? in which you discuss your ideas, The Philosophy degree pathway problems and questions with is extremely flexible with your tutor and fellow students. several options and only one There are also examples classes, compulsory course in the first to support the learning of logic. year. This allows you to explore At Honours level, courses are the areas of philosophy you find delivered workshop-style, with appealing, while receiving a good an emphasis on presentation and grounding in the discipline and discussion, to further develop “ I appreciate and value its methodology. your skills of critical reading and On entering Honours, you analysis. the combination of can tailor your degree to your Assessment in first and second lectures, small tutorials interests thanks to the variety of year is normally equal measures and workshops. If we options that are available each coursework and written have any questions, we year. Overall, the makeup of examinations, but at Honours your Philosophy degree is largely the majority of assessment is are actively encouraged Department of Philosophy determined by you – though you coursework only and often to stop by our lecturer’s will of course be guided by your incorporates alternative methods office to discuss these advisers. (presentations, research projects, Available degree options Previous knowledge of subject required? No further. I have cherished Our staff are at the forefront blogs) alongside the more of research in their varied traditional essay writing. every single moment of fields, and their expertise and Throughout your degree, learning and interacting MA MA BSc enthusiasm are conveyed at all teaching and assessment with the vibrant levels of teaching. methods will enable you to international community Teaching and learning is develop a range of skills, from Single Honours Joint Honours Joint Honours around me and hanging carried out via a variety of precise and effective reading to clear and critical thinking and out with my friends.” Philosophy Philosophy and one of 29 other subjects Philosophy and one of 5 other subjects methods. At first and second year, it involves both formal cogent articulation of complex Sophia (Hong Kong) See Cross-Faculty subjects, page 5 See Arts combinations, pages 172-173 See Science combinations, page 174 lectures and informal tutorials, problems and arguments. Pictured opposite

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www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects/philosophy [email protected]

At St Andrews, we familiarise you with views applied ethics, ethical and political theory, put forward by the principal figures of the metaethics, aesthetics, the philosophies of film, philosophical tradition and provide you with literature, creativity, law, economics, religion, the means to rationally evaluate these views. We feminist philosophy, and texts in the history of encourage you to develop your own informed philosophy such as Scottish philosophy, Kant, views on these issues and teach you how to or twentieth-century philosophy. There is also independently assess your own arguments. the option to combine a mini-dissertation with a Learning philosophy is therefore as much about practical, vocational course that will involve you acquiring skills of criticism and analysis, clear visiting a local school to communicate your subject thinking and principled debate, as it is about to pupils. learning a specific subject matter. Study abroad First year Philosophy students may participate in the You will study some of the great texts in University-wide St Andrews Abroad programme. philosophy, from the beginnings of Greek antiquity You may also have the opportunity to participate right up until the present day. Philosophical in our School Abroad exchange programme. For questions can be abstract and theoretical, for information about study abroad options, please example, how to define knowledge or how to relate see: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/study-abroad the mind and the body, or practical, for example, Careers what kinds of obligations we have to others, and Training in the sort of precise and effective reading, how we ought to live. There are specific topics and clear thinking and writing, required for all you have to cover if you want to continue with philosophical study, makes a good preparation for Philosophy, but there are several options to choose many careers. The critical thinking developed by from, even at the introductory level, covering the study of philosophy is highly valued by many metaphysics, philosophy of mind, moral and employers. political philosophy, reasoning, and the history of Recent Philosophy graduates have entered philosophy. careers in: non-profit organisations (campaign Second year coordinator for Oxfam, graduate trainee at There is further opportunity to study the Charityworks), banking, management consultancy, history of philosophy and to learn more about retail area management, local government and logic. Epistemology (the study of knowledge), government organisations (including the NHS), the philosophy of language, aesthetics, and television production, publishing, and teaching. metaethics are also introduced. You will be able Some graduates have also decided to pursue to explore more deeply some of the questions academic careers, either in philosophy or in other you were introduced to in first year. You will be fields. St Salvator's Quadrangle able to choose between options and will attend Many Philosophy graduates go on to study in lectures and small-group tutorials while reading other areas, for example, law conversion courses, independently. and teacher training. “Being able to study contemporary issues in philosophy and not Third and fourth years (Honours) A significant number have gone on to pursue academic careers by enrolling in Masters, and then just classical problems is important to me. I have written You will take at least one course with a focus on Doctoral, programmes around the world. reading core texts in a wide range of philosophical essays on topics such as global poverty, slavery, climate change, topics. You will also choose from a wide variety of the philosophy of race, and intergenerational justice. The topics in epistemology, metaphysics, formal logic, teaching style is geared towards encouraging us to learn how the philosophies of logic, mind and language, to think for ourselves, making us better philosophers.”

Papa (Woolwich, London)

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You will gain a solid grounding in core physics, which you Physics & Astronomy will use in exploring practical, theoretical and computational www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects/physics aspects of the subject. There are choices of entry and exit [email protected] points, and significant choice within the programme.

• The nature of the School allows significant interaction amongst students and staff. Entry requirements The Times These grades are the overall • Physics at St Andrews was rated top in the UK by standards required to consider you and The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2020, the Guardian for entry. You can find out more University Guide 2020 and the Complete University Guide 2020. about Standard, Minimum and Gateway entry requirements on • Entrants with good Advanced Highers/A-Levels/IB may enter page 167. directly into second year and attain an Honours BSc in three years, www.st-andrews.ac.uk/ or an Integrated Masters in four. subjects/entry • The research project work of some of our final year students has SQA Highers: achieved international recognition. • Standard entry grades AAAA • Teaching is underpinned by the School’s research in astrophysics, • Minimum entry grades AAAB • Gateway entry grades ABBB laser physics and optoelectronics, biophotonics, quantum optics, including A in Mathematics and magnetism and superconductivity, millimetre-wave techniques, B in Physics, or vice-versa. Standard and Minimum entry grades and semiconductor structures. must include A in Mathematics and A in Physics.

What will I study? can often be studied. Students GCE A-Levels: • Standard entry grades AAA You will gain an excellent on the Gateway to Physics and • Minimum entry grades AAB education in physics, with the Astronomy will cover the same Standard and Minimum entry grades must include A in Mathematics and opportunity to specialise in physics and mathematics topics A in Physics. astrophysics, theoretical physics, as other first year students, plus International Baccalaureate: or experimental physics. You specialised skills work. • Standard entry grades 38 can become part of a stimulating (HL 6,6,6) including HL6 in Second year Mathematics and Physics. academic community. The final Topics may include quantum • Minimum entry grades 36 year project, which is usually (HL 6,5,5) including HL5 in physics, special relativity, undertaken within one of our Mathematics and Physics. dynamics, electricity and research groups, is a highlight magnetism. You will also study Direct entry to second year of our degrees. Recent projects linear algebra and multivariate SQA Highers/Advanced Highers: have involved modelling the • Advanced Higher A in calculus in the School of interaction of photons with Mathematics and A in Physics Mathematics & Statistics. plus Highers AAAA qubits, mapping the surface of Intending astrophysicists also GCE A-Levels: Pluto and optimising MRI for take an astrophysics course; this • AAA including Mathematics and diagnosis of cardiac disease. Physics. is also an option for intending First year International Baccalaureate: physicists. • 38 (HL 6,6,6) including HL6 in You will develop knowledge Mathematics and Physics. X-ray crystallography experiment in the fourth-year laboratory Third and fourth years and important skills through (Honours) studies in topics such as You take some or all of the Available degree options Previous knowledge of subject required? Yes, Physics and Mathematics classical mechanics, quantum courses in quantum mechanics, phenomena, waves and optics nuclear and particle physics, and the properties of matter. electromagnetism, computational Teaching includes lectures, physics and condensed matter “Physics is a collaborative BScMPhys BSc MPhys MSci tutorials and problem-solving physics, and take additional subject and full of workshops. You will also study courses in appropriate specialist relevant mathematics courses. students who are Single Honours Integrated Masters Joint Honours Joint Integrated Masters areas. Depending on the degree, Intending astrophysicists also enthusiastic and hard topics might include extragalactic Astrophysics Astrophysics Physics and one of Theoretical Physics and take an astrophysics course; this astronomy, electronics, lasers, working.” Physics Physics Mathematics or Mathematics (MPhys) is also an option for intending Theoretical Physics Philosophy Physics and Chemistry (MSci) physicists. Additional topics special relativity and fluids. Danica (Swansea, Wales)

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www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects/physics [email protected]

Integrated Masters (fifth year) Theoretical Physics In your fifth year, you choose more advanced Your mix of courses can be similar to that of courses, often working towards the boundaries of physicists, but in the Honours years the laboratory new science that is being reported in the literature. courses are normally replaced by advanced maths

and theory courses. Direct entry into second year Appropriately qualified students may, if they Study abroad wish, enter directly into second year of the Single Physics and astronomy students may participate in Staff-student discussion The Observatory Honours degrees in the School, and the Joint the University-wide St Andrews Abroad programme. degrees with Mathematics. You may also have the opportunity to participate in our School Abroad exchange programme. For Gateway/International Gateway information about study abroad options, please see: Applicants who have experienced some form of www.st-andrews.ac.uk/study-abroad disadvantage during their education, as defined by our contextual admissions policy, may be eligible Careers to apply to our Gateway programme. The Gateway Graduates from the School enjoy a range of career programme provides a supported first year and options, many of whom get to use their physics successful completion will allow you to progress knowledge and skills every day – for example, into second year of one of our named degree in research and development. Others use the programmes. more general problem solving, programming and The International Gateway programme is mathematical skills developed in our courses in suitable for applicants from outside the UK who careers in finance and management. have not had the opportunity to study as much Many of our graduates go on to PhD research or physics and mathematics as UK-based students. specialist graduate courses such as medical physics or nuclear fusion energy. Our degree programmes: Accreditation Astrophysics All of the School’s degree programmes are accredited You will apply core physics knowledge and skills by the UK Institute of Physics. The School holds a Second year lecture Group study area to the study of the Universe. The University Juno Champion and Athena SWAN Silver award, Observatory contains the largest operational optical in recognition of our commitment to an equitable telescope in the UK. working culture in which all students and staff can Physics achieve their full potential. You study core physics courses, including Scholarships laboratory courses, and can choose courses with a The University offers a number of scholarships, theoretical and applied focus. including some designated for those entering the Gateway programmes in this School.

“I wanted to study at a university with excellent teaching and lots of contact with actual research in the field. I could not have made a better choice! Studying Physics is undeniably hard work, however the supportive atmosphere in the School, the excitement about the subject and the great people who I do it with are worth it.”

Research in quantum materials Third year lasers laboratory Veronika (Kroměříž, Czech Republic)

144 145 Modern psychology focuses on the understanding of perception, Psychology cognition, motivation and behaviour at several different levels. The www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects/psychology subject areas will range from the study of the brain to complex social [email protected] interactions of humans and animals.

See also Neuroscience • Emphasis on research-led teaching from leading researchers in the field at every level of the degree culminating in an opportunity to Entry requirements conduct your own research project in well-equipped laboratories. These grades are the overall standards required to consider you • Access to strong interdisciplinary research networks such as the for entry. You can find out more Institute for Behavioural and Neural Sciences (IBANS) and the about Standard, Minimum and Gateway entry requirements on Centre for Social Learning and Cognitive Evolution (SoLaCE). page 167. • The opportunity to specialise in areas of interest in the final year www.st-andrews.ac.uk/ and to be taught in small specialist seminars. subjects/entry • Psychology at St Andrews was ranked second in the UK by the SQA Highers: Guardian University Guide 2020. • Standard entry grades AAAB • Minimum entry grades AABB • Gateway entry grades BBBB What will I study? Third and fourth years GCE A-Levels: • Standard entry grades AAB Psychology can be taken by (Honours) • Minimum entry grades ABB those who have specialised at In third year, lectures and International Baccalaureate: school in science or arts subjects practical classes cover advanced • Standard entry grades 36 and hence is offered both as a material in core areas of (HL 6,6,5) • Minimum entry grades 36 BSc in the Faculty of Science and psychology (clinical, cognitive, (HL 6,5,5) an MA in the Faculty of Arts. developmental, evolutionary The Psychology components and comparative, perceptual of your degree are the same and social psychology). You regardless of whether you take will also conduct a supervised a BSc or MA in Psychology. literature review on a topic Psychology staff are specialists of your choice. In addition, in the fields of cellular and advanced methodology classes behavioural neuroscience as will introduce you to how we well as cognitive, comparative, can generate new psychological developmental, evolutionary, knowledge. perceptual and social psychology. In fourth year, you choose from a wide range of specialist First year topics. Previous topics have Taught by leading researchers, included the psychology you will have four lectures and School of Psychology & Neuroscience of dementia, psychology of “ I had never studied a two-hour practical per week terrorism, psychopathology, covering the main areas of psychology before, but psychology of visual art, Available degree options Previous knowledge of subject required? No psychology. You will also learn the School was excellent cognitive psychology and how to conduct psychological emotional disorders, and the at introducing me to experiments and analyse your psychology of music. and keeping me a part BSc data. MA BSc MA BSc MA Single Honours of this new subject. Second year You can take a Single Honours Dynamic lecturers make You will have four lectures degree without a further subject Single Honours Joint Honours Joint Honours ‘With’ Honours and a three-hour practical in topics interesting and in third and fourth year. Details psychological methods per engaging. Psychology is a Psychology Psychology and one of 5 Psychology and one of 17 Psychology with Biology are outlined in the “What will week as well as small-group other subjects other subjects (BSc) I study?” section. This degree sociable and comfortable Psychology with Geography tutorials. These courses build focuses in depth on all major community which I am (MA) an in-depth understanding of aspects of psychology. psychology. glad to be a part of.” See Cross-Faculty subjects, See Science combinations, See Arts combinations, page 5 page 174 pages 172-173 Jack (Glasgow, Scotland)

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www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects/psychology [email protected]

Single Honours with BPS accreditation Careers All Single Honours Psychology degrees are Psychology gives insight into human behaviour accredited by the British Psychology Society for and hence can be applied in many professional Graduate Basis for Chartered Membership, a fields. With further training, careers as a pre-requisite for further professional training in professional psychologist include becoming a psychology (for example, clinical or educational clinical, educational, industrial, sports or forensic psychology). psychologist. Other frequent career paths include human resources, marketing and management. Joint Honours with BPS accreditation Our training results in highly competent Some joint degrees with Psychology are recognised individuals who possess key transferable skills by the British Psychological Society and they confer needed in today’s and tomorrow’s workplace Graduate Basis for Chartered Membership. You are including: allowed to spread classes covering the advanced core psychology areas over the third and fourth • scientific approach to problem solving and year. In addition, you must study the advanced information acquisition with current IT methodology and undertake a literature review technologies. in your third year and undertake a psychology • critical skills in assessment and review of research project in fourth year. information. • written and oral presentation skills. Joint Honours without BPS accreditation • group discussion and participation. You can also take Psychology as part of a non-BPS • ethical values in science and society. accredited degree. Apart from taking a selection of core psychology classes, you are free to select Recent graduates have secured positions in, for further courses of interest in psychology from third example, the health service, civil service, armed and fourth year. forces, banking and human resources. A Psychology degree provides entry to a range Study abroad of postgraduate degrees including MSc, MPhil, Psychology participates in the University-wide PhD and, to become a professional psychologist St Andrews Abroad programme. For information about study abroad options, please see: in the UK, a doctorate in clinical or educational psychology. www.st-andrews.ac.uk/study-abroad

“The degree flexibility was an important aspect to me as I like being a bit of a Renaissance woman. My favourite aspect of the Psychology programme is the very real-world application.”

Divya (Singapore and India) St Mary's Quadrangle

148 149 Russian courses at St Andrews combine modern communicative Russian methods with sound grammatical accuracy and high levels of www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects/russian oral aptitude. You can also choose from courses dedicated to [email protected] literature, film, history and contemporary Russian society.

See also Modern Languages • You will gain an excellent knowledge of the Russian language and be able to use it in a variety of different social and Entry requirements professional contexts. These grades are the overall standards required to consider you • You will study Russian literature and culture in the original for entry. You can find out more language, not in translation, and be taught by experts publishing about Standard, Minimum and Gateway entry requirements on research in a wide range of subject areas. page 167. • You will have the option of studying in Russia for one semester www.st-andrews.ac.uk/ or a full year. subjects/entry • There are separate streams for beginners and non-beginners in SQA Highers: first and second year. • Standard entry grades AAAB • Minimum entry grades AABB • Gateway entry grades BBBB What will I study? Second year GCE A-Levels: You will gain an excellent You will continue to extend • Standard entry grades AAB • Minimum entry grades ABB knowledge of the Russian your knowledge of the Russian International Baccalaureate: language for use in both language with classes on • Standard entry grades 36 written and spoken contexts. grammar, translation and oral (HL 6,6,5) You also get to study Russian communication. Classes are also • Minimum entry grades 36 (HL 6,5,5) literature, media and culture designed to prepare students for from the eighteenth century study abroad. You will have the to the present day, all in the opportunity to study Russian original language. There are literature and film in their plenty of opportunities to original language. practice your Russian outside Third and fourth years the classroom with native (Honours) speakers. You will continue to study the “ I have always had a First year language with classes devoted to deep interest in Russian In the beginners’ stream, you both the spoken and the written will focus primarily on gaining language. You will also take history and culture. a sound knowledge of Russian courses in Russian literature I applied as a Single St Basil's Cathedral, Moscow vocabulary and grammar so as and culture, taught by staff Honours History student to be able to communicate in a with research expertise in these but picked up Russian and Available degree options Previous knowledge of subject required? No variety of real-life situations. areas. All classes are taught in In the non-beginners’ small groups with an emphasis have never looked back! All the degrees are available With Integrated Year Abroad stream, classes aim to on student participation. The Russian Department consolidate and expand the Study abroad is small, so it has a knowledge of Russian gained You can choose to study friendly and relaxed feel. MA MA MA MA at school. Classes are devoted abroad as part of your degree. to grammar, translation and We can speak to tutors Russian students may also oral skills. You also study about anything and they Single Honours Joint Honours Triple Honours ‘With’ Honours classic works of Russian participate in the University- wide St Andrews Abroad are always happy to help. literature in the original Russian Russian and one of 22 other Russian and two other Economics with Russian programme. Further information Having the opportunity to subjects modern languages Russian with Geography language. on page 129 and online at: Russian and one other Mathematics with Russian study in Russia for a year modern language and www.st-andrews.ac.uk/ was the best experience another subject study-abroad of my life.” See Arts combinations, See Triple combinations, pages 172-173 pages 132-133 Thomas (Aberdeenshire, Scotland)

150 151 Social Anthropology asks the fundamental question ‘what is Social Anthropology it to be human?’. In order to answer this, you will examine the www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects/social-anthropology diverse ways in which humans establish and live social lives in the [email protected] contemporary world.

• A beautiful place that is also highly cosmopolitan: students come to study Social Anthropology from many cultures and Entry requirements from all over the globe. These grades are the overall standards required to consider you • Staff expertise covers all regions of the world in depth and in for entry. You can find out more breadth. about Standard, Minimum and Gateway entry requirements on • Anthrosoc, our student-run society, has an active events page 167. calendar. www.st-andrews.ac.uk/ • Many of our students enter postgraduate study at many subjects/entry prestigious universities worldwide or go on to work for major SQA Highers: international organisations. • Standard entry grades AAAB • Minimum entry grades AABB • Gateway entry grades BBBB What will I study? First year GCE A-Levels: Social Anthropology at • Standard entry grades AAB The first year will ground you • Minimum entry grades ABB St Andrews teaches you to in the anthropological approach International Baccalaureate: take a comparative and global toward ethnographic comparison • Standard entry grades 36 view of human individuality, and analysis showing you (HL 6,6,5) society and culture and to look the increasing relevance of • Minimum entry grades 36 (HL 6,5,5) at the world from other people’s anthropology in understanding perspectives. the contemporary world. You The Department has will learn through case studies strongly established research from across the globe including on Latin America and the in-depth ethnographies from Caribbean, the Pacific, Africa, the lives of Pygmies in Africa, Europe and Asia. We have Gitanos in Spain, Quechua championed innovative speakers in the Andes as well as ethnographic and theoretical research from Britain, Northern “Studying Social scholarship with regard to Europe and elsewhere. Anthropology has the relationship between Second year been a challenging and anthropology and history, You will gain a comprehensive rewarding experience. philosophy and cosmopolitan foundation in the history studies. The Department is full of of social anthropological We are committed to skilled, friendly staff with theory and an introduction facilitating and recognising Department of Social Anthropology to ethnography as a research expertise in a wide range student excellence. Alongside method and practice. of subjects and regions. our passion for the highest Available degree options Previous knowledge of subject required? No quality of research-led teaching In the first semester we The support I have explore the changing theories we award a number of prizes received has helped me to that have informed social annually to students in anthropology from the mid- discover what I’m truly each year of their degree for MA MA MA nineteenth century up to the passionate about and the their outstanding academic present from ‘totemism’ to performances. Our staff have confidence to pursue it. I ‘cosmopol it ics’. know that my time here Single Honours Joint Honours ‘With’ Honours received three University In the second semester you Teaching Awards and staff will learn to construct your own will have fully prepared Social Anthropology Social Anthropology and one of 28 Social Anthropology with Geography have been shortlisted for these ethnographic project, choose me for a successful and other subjects Economics with Social Anthropology awards in every one of the last Geography with Social Anthropology three years. your own field site and write up exciting career ahead.” your analysis. See Arts combinations, pages 172-173 Catherine (California, USA)

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www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects/social-anthropology [email protected]

Honours (third and fourth) years Careers You will choose a portfolio of specialist courses A degree in Social Anthropology is important combining regional and theoretical focuses. You for any career where knowledge of other cultures may take specialist courses on West Africa, Papua is vital, such as in overseas development or in New Guinea or the Andes, for example. Theoretical community relations work. courses at this level explore themes such as the Graduates with a degree in Social Anthropology relations between perception and imagination in have proceeded to a wide range of careers, our knowledge of society, the anthropology of including the diplomatic service, social work, climate change, sex and gender or contemporary law and business, work for Non-Governmental forms of religious experience and politics. You will Organisations (NGOs), in teaching and in also have the opportunity for practice-based study; journalism. you may learn to curate a museum display, decode The insight of an anthropologist is valued indigenous artefacts or create your own field site as in any occupation that requires a sensitivity an ethnographic participant-observer. to different ways of life and thought, or which If you intend to do ethnographic research for demands the manipulation of theoretical ideas in your dissertation you will take a methods course regard to the context of complicated human needs. that will orient your project aims. Issues of ethics A full understanding of ‘the human element’ in and risk are also explored. technological processes is increasingly in demand. Study abroad Some of our recent graduate careers include: BBC documentary producer, Google associate Social Anthropology students may participate account strategist, director of future leaders at in the University-wide St Andrews Abroad programme. You may also have the opportunity Entrepreneurial Scotland, legislative aide at the US House of Representatives. to participate in our School Abroad exchange programme. For information about study abroad Social Anthropology offers specialist Masters and PhD courses. Specialisms include Amerindian options, please see: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/study-abroad Studies, Art and Perception and Pacific Studies. Many students go on to study at prestigious universities elsewhere around the world.

“I chose Social Anthropology as a part of my degree as it is the study of what it is to be human. What makes the anthropological study at St Andrews special is the staff. It is a fantastic experience to study with them. Their research (to list a few) includes literary, linguistic, and feminist anthropologies.”

Dani (Kolobrzeg, Poland) St Salvator's Quadrangle

154 155 By studying Spanish at St Andrews, you will gain a high level Spanish of proficiency in the language. You can also study Spanish in www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects/spanish a variety of contexts including journalism, history, commerce, [email protected] linguistics, literature and cinema.

See also Modern Languages • We offer a broad range of course options that reflect and explore the rich cultural heritage of Spain and Latin America. Entry requirements • Courses include the literature from the Golden Age to the present These grades are the overall standards required to consider you day, history, linguistics, film and translation. for entry. You can find out more about Standard, Minimum and Gateway entry requirements on What will I study? Third and fourth years page 167. www.st-andrews.ac.uk/ At St Andrews, the primary (Honours) subjects/entry objective is to gain knowledge You will take some core and use of the language while courses in Spanish language, SQA Highers: • Standard entry grades AAAB exploring the great continuities including advanced oral, • Minimum entry grades AABB and shifts within Spanish and writing and communication • Gateway entry grades BBBB Spanish-American culture, from skills. You will also choose GCE A-Levels: • Standard entry grades AAB its early beginnings to today. The from a variety of advanced • Minimum entry grades ABB Department of Spanish provides topics which incorporate International Baccalaureate: a lively and communicative literary, historical and cultural • Standard entry grades 36 approach to learning Spanish studies into language learning. (HL 6,6,5) • Minimum entry grades 36 along with a formal learning Recent topics have included: (HL 6,5,5) structure and small-group post-1975 writing in Spain, teaching. autobiographical writing in twentieth-century Spain, the First and second years Argentine and Chilean avant- You will take courses which garde (1920s-1930s), literary complement your level of translation, Spanish-American Spanish. You will develop a literature, linguistic study of deeper understanding and the Spanish language, Mexico control of Spanish and will be “ Becoming fluent in in the nineteenth century, offered a broad view of Spanish action heroes and anti-heroes Spanish has always been and Latin American literature, in early modern Spain and a dream of mine – my civilisation and culture. We offer literary and non-literary intensive foundation courses family speaks Spanish, representations of the Spanish Spanish tutorial discussion for beginners or students with and I am now able to nation. an SQA National 5 or GCSE in hold a conversation! Available degree options Previous knowledge of subject required? No Spanish, and also offer advanced Study abroad St Andrews offered a language and literature courses You can choose to study All the degrees are available With Integrated Year Abroad for those with higher entry abroad as part of your degree. pathway not only towards qualifications such as an SQA Spanish students may also speaking the language, MA MA MA MA Higher or GCE A-Level Spanish. participate in the University- but also an introduction All students have the option wide St Andrews Abroad to a whole world of of studying Spanish language programme. Further information and critical approaches to on page 129 and online at: literature previously Single Honours Joint Honours Triple Honours ‘With’ Honours cinema, which is particularly www.st-andrews.ac.uk/ inaccessible to me. It has Spanish Spanish and one of 27 other Spanish and two other Economics with Spanish recommended if you plan to go study-abroad been challenging but my subjects modern languages Geography with Spanish on to Honours in Spanish. Spanish and one other Mathematics with Spanish lecturers and tutors are modern language and Spanish with Geography wonderfully supportive and another subject make it well worth it!” See Arts combinations, See Triple combinations, pages 172-173 pages 132-133 Caelan (Texas, USA)

156 157 Sustainable Development addresses the most pressing environmental Sustainable Development and developmental challenges of the twenty-first century. Topics you www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects/sustainable-development will cover include human health, food production and distribution, [email protected] the climate emergency and environmental governance.

See also Geography • The School of Geography & Sustainable Development is ranked first in the UK in The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Entry requirements Guide 2020 and also in the Guardian University Guide 2020. These grades are the overall standards required to consider you • St Andrews was one of the first universities in the world to teach for entry. You can find out more Sustainable Development at undergraduate level and offers a about Standard, Minimum and Gateway entry requirements on globally rare opportunity to study this important subject. page 167. • Our programmes have a strong international reputation, www.st-andrews.ac.uk/ attracting students from around the world. subjects/entry • This unique interdisciplinary subject includes expert SQA Highers: contributions from other subjects within the University, including • Standard entry grades AAAB Geography, Biology, Management, Social Anthropology and • Minimum entry grades AABB • Gateway entry grades BBBB Economics. GCE A-Levels: • Within the structure of these programmes there is great flexibility • Standard entry grades AAA and choice, allowing you to explore a wide range of subjects. • Minimum entry grades ABB • St Andrews is committed to sustainability, aiming to be the UK’s International Baccalaureate: • Standard entry grades 36 first carbon neutral university. (HL 6,6,5) • Our programmes offer scope for practical involvement with local, • Minimum entry grades 36 national and international sustainability initiatives. (HL 6,5,5)

What will I study? Development element of your At St Andrews, you can take degree. The curriculum in Sustainable Development the first two years introduces either as an MA in the Faculty the concept of sustainable of Arts or a BSc in the Faculty development and the debates of Science. This gives you the surrounding it and is followed option of combining Sustainable in third and fourth years by Development with subjects from the opportunity to specialise “ My favourite aspect is the either Faculty, not only during in aspects that interest you interdisciplinary nature of your first two years but also most. Key specialisms include Sustainable Development – during your Honours years as environmental and development we receive expert teaching well. Our flexible structures economics, conservation science, give you access to many aspects and environmental management from across the University. of Sustainable Development in and policy. It is empowering to know all four years, allowing you to First year that I am learning tools explore your evolving interests. You are introduced to the You will be taught in many and concepts necessary key ideas underpinning Available degree options Previous knowledge of subject required? No to address the big issues different styles and settings, sustainable development and both in the classroom and out in critically examine some of the of our time. In addition, the field. Small-group teaching key social and environmental I really enjoy the tutorial BScMA BSc MA begins in first year, and average transformations that are needed class sizes progressively diminish discussions that deepen for a transition to sustainability. through the degree. We also offer the learning and critical The UN’s Sustainable a range of joint degrees with Single Honours Joint Honours Joint Honours Development Goals provide thinking process and allow Sustainable Development. a key framework. We adopt me to debate issues with Sustainable Development Sustainable Development and Sustainable Development and The topics you follow for interdisciplinary approaches and 4 other subjects 11 other subjects the BSc or MA are exactly the fellow students.” foster innovative thinking. same within the Sustainable See Cross-Faculty subjects, page 5 See Science combinations, page 174 See Arts combinations, pages 172-173 Léa (Cape Town, South Africa)

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www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects/sustainable-development [email protected]

Second year Careers You begin this year by discussing conceptual Taking Sustainable Development at St Andrews frameworks and approaches which can promote allows you to study in a stunning location and a sustainable development (conservation science, welcoming School, becoming highly literate and market regulation) and the strengths of various numerate, and then to graduate from a prestigious solutions (for example, technological, personal, university with excellent employment prospects. community). You will then focus on ‘tools for Reflecting the broad, varied and applied nature action’, the challenge of turning sustainable of the Sustainable Development programme, our development from theory into practice. graduates have a diverse and unique mix of highly transferable skills. Richly varied career paths Third and fourth years (Honours) include conservation, environmental management, These years comprise a mix of core and optional government, NGOs, impact assessment, strategic courses. In addition to options available within the planning and development, the energy sector, School (for example, energy politics, environmental economics), the unique structure of the Sustainable business and finance, and consultancy, as well as Development programme also gives you access scientific research. Given sustainable development’s high global to courses in several other Schools across the profile, our graduates are in demand because of University. You will be trained in high-level their keen interest in the nature and future of the research skills, equipping you to carry out your planet, and their skills in thinking critically and own research project guided by one-on-one creatively about today’s key challenges. They have supervision. a rare combination of quantitative and qualitative Study abroad skills, an ability to integrate and analyse diverse Sustainable Development students may data, and a deep understanding of human- participate in the University-wide St Andrews environment interactions. Abroad programme. For information about Our graduates have gone on to excel in a wide study abroad options, please see: range of careers, reflecting the breadth of the subject. www.st-andrews.ac.uk/study-abroad Significant numbers of our graduates progress to postgraduate study, both at Masters and PhD level, including our own suite of Sustainable Development Masters programmes.

“ As Sustainable Development is considered both an arts and a science subject, I have been able to choose from a wide variety of modules. I have taken ones in biology and anthropology, which have helped me see sustainability ideas and issues in a new light. St Andrews’ location and environment provides a unique microcosm for practical sustainability projects to take place.” St Mary's Quadrangle Benjamin (Taipei City, Taiwan)

160 161 What we look for in an application Transferring from another university If you wish to transfer from another university, • Academic qualifications (gained or predicted). your application will be considered on an Applying to • The context in which qualifications have been, or individual basis. However, you should be aware will be, achieved. that offers to transfer are only made in a very • Personal statement: this is a very important part small number of cases. For UK and EU students, of your application. You should focus on your applications to transfer must be made through chosen subject and why you wish to study it. UCAS and are subject to the UCAS deadline of • Academic reference. St Andrews 15 January. For international applications the • Where appropriate, performance at interview, deadline is 30 June. You should highlight your relevant work or other experience. intention to transfer clearly and address your Care experienced and young carer applicants reasons for wishing to move from your current UK and EU students We offer additional support if you are care institution in your personal statement. If you are a UK or EU student, you must apply through UCAS. You can choose up to five degree experienced or have caring responsibilities. Please Alternative routes to university programmes at institutions across the UK. www.st-andrews.ac.uk/study/apply indicate if you are care experienced or a young carer Not everyone will take the same path when it on your application. This important information is All UK-based applicants should check whether they are likely to need to achieve Standard or comes to higher education. This is why we offer used in our contextual admissions process. More Minimum entry requirements using our Qualification Indicator (see Academic Entry Explained, flexible entry routes and study options to ensure information about how care experienced and young page 166). www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects/entry/indicator that there are opportunities to study with us if carers are defined and full details on how we will you have the potential, regardless of your age or Application deadlines: support you can be found online. circumstance. 15 October – Medicine www.st-andrews.ac.uk/study/apply/ Our Gateway programmes (Arts, Science, 15 January – All other subjects care-experienced Medicine, and Physics and Astronomy) are for www.st-andrews.ac.uk/study/apply/young-carers International students school leavers from Scotland who may have Direct entry into second year experienced some form of disadvantage during If you are applying with an ‘overseas’ fee status (this is most international students) there are It is possible to apply for entry directly into the their schooling resulting in them not achieving three ways you can apply. You can only use one application method. second year of some science degree programmes. the required grades to enter directly into their Application deadlines: A BSc Honours degree can then be obtained in chosen degree programme. Students on these • UCAS – 30 June three years and an Integrated Masters in four programmes will receive additional support • Direct Application – 30 June years rather than five. and guidance, with the intention of them • Common Application – 1 May You should bear in mind that direct entry into transferring to a named degree programme. second year may reduce the degree flexibility www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects/study-options/ The deadline for all Medicine applicants is 15 October. which is normally found within the Scottish four- pathways/gateway year Honours degree. Students entering directly The FE-HE Pathway to Arts and FE-HE www.st-andrews.ac.uk/study/apply into second year will also be taking Honours entry Pathway to Science provide a supported exams in the first exam diet after they arrive. We entry route for applicants studying alternative strongly advise applicants considering direct entry qualifications at further education colleges across General entry requirements Academic decision-making into second year to contact the academic School to Scotland. These programmes aim to provide discuss this option. flexibility and additional support during the first In addition to the subject-specific entry Academic decision-making and criteria setting If you are studying for an HNC or HND, you two years of study, with a view to progressing requirements, all applicants must meet the are at the heart of the selection processes. may also wish to contact the Admissions team to into a named Honours programme. General entry requirements. These can be at SQA Applications are assessed by Admissions Officers enquire whether you meet entry requirements for www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects/study-options/ National 5, GCSE, or equivalent qualifications. within Admissions, guided by designated direct entry into second year. pathways/fe-he-pathways staff in each academic School. All applications SQA qualifications: SQA National 5 (B) in There are opportunities for part-time study received before the relevant deadline will be Deferred applications English and SQA National 5 (B) in one of Biology, both during the day and in the evenings. These given equal consideration. We only interview for The University’s preference is for applicants to Chemistry, Computing Science, Geography, study routes are designed to fit around other Medicine, Gateway and Pathway programmes, apply in the academic cycle immediately prior to Lifeskills Mathematics (A), Mathematics, Physics, commitments you may have. All applicants BA (International Honours), part-time study and the start date they wish to commence their studies. or Psychology. considering part-time study should contact the International Foundation Programmes. Applications for deferred entry will be considered Admissions team to discuss the available options GCSE qualifications: GCSE (5) in English on an individual basis. You should check the most ([email protected]). Language or English Literature, and GCSE (5) in recent information regarding deferrals before www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects/study-options/ one of Biology, Chemistry, Computing Science, making an application. Contact Admissions for part-time Geography, Mathematics, Physics, or Psychology. advice.

162 163 Your qualifications

We welcome applications from students from all over the world and accept a broad range of qualifications. Full details on the qualifications we accept can be found online. www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects/entry

SQA Highers International Baccalaureate For the majority of Scottish domiciled applicants, The successful award of the International Highers are the main basis of admission into first Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma is the basis for year. Applicants who need to achieve our Standard admission. Programmes requiring Mathematics entry requirements will receive offers based on their will accept either Mathematics: Analysis and Highers achieved in a single sitting. Applicants Approaches, or Mathematics: Applications and required to meet the Minimum entry requirements Interpretation at Higher Level. may achieve their grades over multiple sittings. All English language requirements subjects at Highers are acceptable for entry to the Unless you have been educated in a country that University of St Andrews. The relevance of subjects is on the UKVI’s list of majority English-speaking to the degree programmes may be taken into countries, you will need to provide evidence of account when considering applications. your English language proficiency. We accept SQA Advanced Highers a number of English language qualifications Advanced Highers are not normally required including IELTS (Academic), CAE, CPE and the for first year entry. They are required for direct Pearson Test of English (Academic). If you enrol entry into second year where that is an option. For on one of our pre-degree courses (such as a pre- Medicine requirements, see page 121. sessional or Foundation programme), and you GCE A-Levels and AS-Levels require a student visa, the only acceptable evidence of English language proficiency is an IELTS For applicants needing to meet our Standard entry (Academic) test for UKVI purposes. requirements, we would expect three full GCE www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects/entry/ A-Levels taken in a single sitting. Those needing to language-requirements/undergraduate meet our Minimum requirements may achieve their results over multiple sittings. Admissions Policy Although the following subjects are beneficial to www.st-andrews.ac.uk/study/policy the learning experience, they will not be included as part of any offer that is made: • Citizenship Studies Questions? • Critical Thinking • General Studies Before you apply: • Global Perspectives and Research (GPR) [email protected] Advanced Subsidiary Level (AS-Level) +44 (0)1334 462150 qualifications submitted will be considered as part of the whole application. Students not presenting After you apply: AS-Level qualifications will not be disadvantaged, [email protected] as all applications are assessed according to the Admissions Policy to ensure consistency, fairness Market Street and contextual consideration.

164 165 Q: How do I know what grades I will need for the course to which I am applying? Academic entry explained A: In this prospectus we list the entry requirements for each of our degree programmes on pages 42-159.

The University of St Andrews offers a variety of An example of entry requirements: in order to ensure our doors Entry requirements Make sure you check the detailed requirements for your flexible entry options These grades are the overall degree programme, which apply to everyone. standards required to consider you for entry. You can find out more remain open to all students, regardless of background about Standard, Minimum and Standard entry grades: Gateway entry requirements on page 167. Unless you are a widening access student, you will need or personal circumstances. www.st-andrews.ac.uk/ these grades to be considered. subjects/entry Minimum entry grades: Q: Am I a widening access student? SQA Highers: Although entry to the University of St Andrews • Standard entry grades AAAB If you are a widening access student, you will need these is competitive, we recognise a range of different A: We consider you to be a widening access student • Minimum entry grades AABB grades to be considered. • Gateway entry grades BBBB qualifications and consider all aspects of your if you: application, including context, your personal GCE A-Levels: Gateway entry grades: • live in an area underrepresented at the University • Standard entry grades AAA statement and reference. Grades alone will not of St Andrews indicated by postcode, or • Minimum entry grades ABB If you are a widening access student, you may also be guarantee you admission. • attend a school or college with low levels of International Baccalaureate: eligible for a Gateway Programme. You will need these The University of St Andrews also offers progression to the University of St Andrews, or • Standard entry grades 36 grades to be considered. www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects/ alternative entry routes for applicants who come (HL 6,6,5) • attend one of the following widening access • Minimum entry grades 36 study-options/pathways/gateway from areas where we receive limited applications programmes: (HL 6,5,5) and who are unable to obtain the required grades, – Sutton Trust Summer School or for those who are returning to education after an – LEAPS extended period of time. – Focus West Q: What do I need to apply for the degree – Lift Off programme I want to study? – Aspire North Q: Can I apply without the stated entry We accept lots of different qualifications; you can A: You will need qualifications, a personal – Reach qualifications? find out more about all the qualifications we accept statement and a reference. For some specific degree – Fife First Chances Programme A: In order to widen access to our degree online. www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects/entry programmes, you may also need to: – Scottish Wider Access Programme (SWAP) programmes we accept various other qualifications • are care experienced, or • come to an interview, for Medicine, Gateway in place of the ones stated on the subject pages • have caring responsibilities. and Pathway programmes, BA (International of this prospectus. Some of the qualifications we Please note that this page and the entry Honours), part-time study and International You can find out if we will consider you to be a accept include: qualifications indicator only relate to Foundation Programmes. widening access student on our online indicator: • Access programmes, such as the Scottish undergraduate degree programmes that do • sit an admissions test, the UCAT, for www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects/entry/indicator Wider Access Programme (SWAP) not require a previous undergraduate degree. Medicine. Q: If I am a widening access student will I • Access Diploma to HE receive a guaranteed offer? • Open University credits You also need to apply on time: [email protected] • HNCs and HNDs • 15 October – deadline for applications for A: Through our guaranteed offer scheme we will +44 (0)1334 462150 • Foundation Apprenticeship. Medicine make an offer to all applicants who declare a care • 15 January – deadline for all other UK and experienced background or reside in the 20% most EU applicants deprived areas of Scotland as indicated by the • 30 June – deadline for all other international postcode (SIMD20) and also attend a school which applicants. has 30% or lower progression to higher education; provided that the desire to study the subject is Q: What qualifications and grades do I need? demonstrable, the minimum asking rates within all A: The qualifications and grades you need vary specified required subjects are met and if relevant by degree programme and may also depend on there is success in external testing or interview. whether you are a widening access student. No other applicant will receive such a guaranteed offer. You can find out if you will be eligible for the guaranteed offer scheme on our online indicator: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects/entry/indicator

166 167 Fees, funding and scholarships

Fees and scholarships vary every year. The most up-to-date information can always be found online.

Tuition fees for 2021 entry will be published International students in September 2020. www.st-andrews.ac.uk/ Students who are classed as ‘overseas’ for tuition study/fees-and-funding/undergraduate fee purposes are usually self-funded. However, Students living in Scotland there may be funding available from your government, independent sponsors, or from other If you are a Scottish domiciled, full-time, first award paying bodies. Tuition fees are fixed at the degree student you should be eligible for your point of entry for the duration of the programme. tuition fees to be paid by the Scottish Government. www.st-andrews.ac.uk/study/fees-and-funding/ These fees will be paid through the Student Awards undergraduate/world Agency for Scotland (SAAS). Details on how and when to apply are available from: www.saas.gov.uk Scholarships Students living in England, Northern Ireland Our scholarships and bursaries are designed and Wales to help you reach your full academic potential, without having to worry about how you will pay You may be eligible to have the full cost of your for tuition and living expenses. tuition fees covered by a tuition fee loan, provided We are committed to supporting our students you are taking your first degree and are a full-time and rewarding academic excellence. student. St Andrews offers a variety of scholarships. In • England: www.gov.uk/student-finance previous years these have included bursaries to • Northern Ireland: www.studentfinanceni.co.uk reduce the cost of accommodation, international • Wales: www.studentfinancewales.co.uk scholarships towards tuition fees, and funding Students living in the Channel Islands and for Home and RUK students to help supplement Isle of Man government sources and alleviate the financial burden of basic living costs. The island authorities all offer a range of tuition fee The scholarships available to you may depend and maintenance loans or grants. Details on how on the course you will be studying, where you and when to apply are available online: currently live, your current household income and • Guernsey: www.education.gg/studentfinance your academic achievements. • Jersey (search for ‘higher education funding’): Information about the scholarships available www.gov.je to you, how to apply and other forms of • Isle of Man: www.gov.im/categories/ financial support offered by the University or education-training-and-careers/student-grants external bodies can be found online: Students living elsewhere in the EU www.st-andrews.ac.uk/study/fees-and-funding/ undergraduate/scholarships Further details on tuition fee arrangements for +44 (0)1334 462365 EU students will be published on our tuition fee [email protected] pages as information becomes available. www.st-andrews.ac.uk/study/fees-and-funding/ undergraduate/eu

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DUDUNDEENDEE ST ANDREWS St Andrews sits on the east coast of Scotland in Fife, about an hour north EEDINBURGHDINBURGH of Edinburgh. GGLASGOWLASGOW The town has a population of just over 20,000 – almost half of which BBELFASTELFAST 1 2 are students or University staff – creating a unique sense of community. HHOUROUR HHOURSOURS With over 130 countries and territories represented in our student body, the 6 1 DDUBLINUBLIN town is welcoming, diverse and has a highly global outlook, which benefits HHOURSOURS HHOUROUR MMANCHESTERANCHESTER everyone who studies here. 1 HHOUROUR 2 HHOURSOURS Where do our 7,400 undergraduate students come from? CCARDIFFARDIFF BBERLINERLIN AAMSTERDAMMSTERDAM

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Edinburgh, Glasgow and the rest of Scotland are all accessible by public transport. Leuchars, our closest train station, is about ten minutes from St Andrews and is part of the main east coast railway line, offering easy access to the rest of the UK. Our closest international airport is Edinburgh. From here you can fly to destinations across the UK and Europe, as well as direct flights to the USA, Canada and hubs in the Middle East.

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170 171 Joint degree combinations Faculty of Arts combinations

MA Honours

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New Testament Testament New Persian Philosophy* Psychology* Russian – also available WIYA Scottish History Social Anthropology Spanish – also available WIYA Statistics Development* Sustainable Theological Studies Ancient History Ancient Ancient History Archaeology & Arabic* Art History Biblical Studies Studies Classical Classics Literature Comparative Economics* Financial / Economics* English Studies Film French* – also available WIYA Geography* German – also available WIYA Greek Hebrew Relations International WIYA available also – Italian Latin Management* Mathematics* Medieval History Middle East Studies Modern History Ancient History S 3 J J J J J J / 3 J / 3 J J J / 3 J J J J / 3 J J J / 3 Ancient History Ancient History & Archaeology S J Ancient History & Archaeology Arabic* 3 J 3 J J / 3 J J / 3 J J / 3 J J / 3 J J / 3 J / 3 J / 3 J / 3 J J J / 3 J J / 3 J J / 3 J J / 3 J Arabic* Art History J J S J J J J J J J J J J J J J J J J J J J J J J Art History Biblical Studies J J S J J J J J J J G J J J J J J Biblical Studies Classical Studies 3 J J S J J J J / 3 J J 3 J J J J J J / 3 J 3 J J J Classical Studies Classics J S J J J J J J J J J J Classics Comparative Literature J J / 3 J J J J J J J / 3 J J / 3 J J J J / 3 J J J J J J J / 3 J J / 3 Comparative Literature Economics* / Financial Economics* J J J S J J J J / W J J J J-F J J J J J J J / W J / W J / W J J Economics* / Financial Economics* English J / 3 J J J J J J S J J / 3 J / 3 J J J J / 3 J J J J J J J / 3 J J J / 3 J J J / 3 J English Film Studies J J J J J J J J S J J J J J J J J J J J J J J Film Studies French* – also available WIYA J / 3 J / 3 J J J / 3 J J / 3 J / 3 J S J J / 3 J / 3 J J / 3 J / 3 J / 3 J / 3 J J J / 3 J J J / 3 J J / 3 J French* – also available WIYA Geography* J J J J J J S J J J J J J J J / W J J / W W J J / W J / W J J Geography* German – also available WIYA J / 3 J / 3 J J J / 3 J/ W J / 3 J J / 3 S 3 J / 3 J / 3 J G/ 3 G J J J J J / 3 J J J / 3 J J / 3 J J German – also available WIYA Greek J J J J J J J / 3 3 S J 3 J J / 3 J J J / 3 Greek Hebrew J J J J J J J J J J Hebrew International Relations J J / 3 J J J J J J J J / 3 J J / 3 S J / 3 J J J J J J / 3/W J J J / 3 J J J / 3 J J International Relations Italian – also available WIYA J / 3 J / 3 J J J / 3 J J / 3 J J / 3 J J / 3 3 J / 3 S J / 3 J / 3 J J J J / 3 J J J / 3 J J J / 3 J Italian – also available WIYA Latin J J / 3 J J J J / 3 J / 3 S J J J J / 3 J J / 3 J J / 3 Latin Management* J / 3 J J J J J J / 3 J J G/ 3 G J J / 3 S J J J / 3 J J J / 3 J Management* Mathematics* J J J J J J-F J J J J J J S J J J J J / W J J / W J Mathematics* Medieval History J J J J J J J J J J J J J J J S J J / W J J J J J J Medieval History Middle East Studies J / 3 J J J J J J J J J J J J / 3 J J J Middle East Studies Modern History J J J J J J J J J J J J J J J J J J S J J / W J J J J J J Modern History New Testament J New Testament Persian J / 3 J / 3 J / 3 J J J J / 3 J / 3 J / W J / 3 J / 3 J / 3/W J / 3 J / 3 J / 3 J / W J / 3 J / W J J / 3 J J / 3 Persian Philosophy* J J J J J J J J J J J J J J J J J J J J J J S J J J J J J J Philosophy* Psychology* J J J J J J / W J J J J J J J J S J J J Psychology* Russian – also available WIYA J / 3 J 3 J / 3 J / W J / 3 J J / 3 W J / 3 J / 3 J / 3 J / 3 J / W J J J J / 3 J S J J J / 3 J J Russian – also available WIYA Scottish History J J J J J J J J J S J J Scottish History Social Anthropology J J J J J J J J / W J J J J / W J J J J J J J J J J J J J S J J J Social Anthropology Spanish – also available WIYA J / 3 J / 3 J J J / 3 J / W J / 3 J J / 3 J / W J / 3 J / 3 J / 3 J / 3 J / 3 J / 3 J / W J J J J / 3 J J / 3 J J S J J Spanish – also available WIYA Statistics* J J J S Statistics* Sustainable Development* J J J J J J J J J J J S Sustainable Development* Theological Studies J J J J J J J J J J J J J J J S Theological Studies

WIYA = Also available With Integrated Year Abroad WIYA = Also available With Integrated Year Abroad S = Single 3 = Triple J = Joint W = With J-F = Joint with both Economics and Financial Economics S = Single 3 = Triple J = Joint W = With G = Only available to non-beginners in German G = Only available to non-beginners in German * = Further combinations are available in the Faculty of Science, see page 174 * = Further combinations are available in the Faculty of Science, see page 174 172 173 Joint degree combinations Subject index (2021 entry)

Faculty of Science combinations Arts Science Cross-Faculty Medicine Divinity

page page page BSc Honours Ancient History 42 Economics 78 Middle East Studies 126 Ancient History & English 82 Modern History 102 Archaeology 42 Evolutionary Biology 50 Modern Languages 128 Animal Behaviour 50 Film Studies 86 Molecular Biology 50 Applied Mathematics 116 Financial Economics 78 Neuroscience 134 / Financial Economics* Financial / Arabic 44 French 90 New Testament 70 Art History 46 Geography 92 Persian 136 Astrophysics 142 Geology 74 Philosophy 138

Arabic* Biology Chemistry Science Computer Economics* French* – also WIYA Geography* Geology Management* Mathematics* Philosophy* Physics Psychology* Statistics* Development* Sustainable Biblical Studies 70 German 96 Physics 142 Arabic* W Biochemistry 50 Greek 62 Psychology 146 Biology W S J J J W J J J J J / W J J Biology 50 Hebrew 70 Pure Mathematics 116 Chemistry J S W J J Cell Biology 50 History 98 Russian 150 Computer Science J S J J J J J J Chemical Sciences 54 International Relations 106 Scottish History 104 Economics* / Financial Economics* J J S J J J J J J Chemistry 54 Italian 110 Social Anthropology 152 French* – also WIYA W W Classical Studies 60 Latin 62 Spanish 156 Geography* J J S J J / W J J Classics 62 Management 112 Statistics 116 Geology J J S Comparative Literature 64 Marine Biology 50 Sustainable Management* J J J S J Computer Science 66 Materials Chemistry 54 Development 158 Mathematics* J J J J-F J / W S J J J S Divinity 70 Mathematics 116 Theological Studies 70 Philosophy* J J J J J Earth Sciences 74 Medieval History 100 Theology 70 Physics J J S Environmental Earth Medieval History & Theoretical Physics 142 Psychology* J / W J J J S J Sciences 74 Archaeology 100 Zoology 50 Statistics* J J J J S J J S Ecology & Conservation 50 Medicine 120 Sustainable Development* J J J J S

S = Single J = Joint W = With (for BSc ‘with’ languages, the science will be the major subject) J-F = Joint with both Economics and Financial Economics * = Further combinations are available in the Faculty of Arts, see pages 172-173 WIYA = Also available With Integrated Year Abroad Acknowledgements

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