Teaching and assessment for Geography and History MA (Hons)

You will learn about key dimensions of the concept of an unequal world in human and environmental systems. This will cover topics like:

• development
• vulnerability
• underlying causes
• global inequalities
• pressures on environmental resources
• links to environmental hazard

Revolutions is a key concept in modern political and intellectual history. But why do we refer to particular political event as 'revolutions'? How does the label 'revolution' affect how political ideologists and historians have interpreted the significance, the causes and consequences of highly complex and turbulent events in modern history.

This module studies the exchange of goods, people, and ideas that tied together Europe, Africa, and the Americas.

It explores the origins of globalization and provides a comparative understanding of the development of European empires in Africa and the Americas.

This module explores key concepts and theories developed by physical geography in order to interpret and understand landforms, water, and landscape evolution.

This module will provide work experience alongside university study to further enhance employability and help you plan for your future.

It will suit students who can bring a professional attitude to their internship and are keen to take practical steps towards developing transferable skills for their future.

Covering the period 1603-c.1939, this module explores Scotland's interactions with the outside world.

Organised around cross-cutting themes like emigration, empire, trade, warfare, religion, and identity, the module's primary aim is to understand how Scotland fitted into the broader British, European, imperial, and global contexts.

This module explores important issues in contemporary America by examining its historical and cultural background. It also places the United States within a broader global context by making specific comparisons with the history of South Africa. This module focuses particularly on issues such as race, gender, violence, and colonialism.

You will learn the basis of research design. You will also cover the key research methods used by both human geographers and other social scientists.

You will work through a mixture of lectures, tutorial, and other online activities. The main emphasis is a group-based project over the semester.

This module introduces students to the importance of research within physical geography and environmental science. 

We adopt a very practical and hands-on approach geared to problem-solving through a series of structured mini-projects, which each contain essential elements of the research process. 

In this module you will gain theory and practical knowledge. You will also gain experience in formulating and undertaking a field-based research project.

The world is changing rapidly. Information on location helps us assess, manage, plan, and communicate such changes. Geographical Information Systems (GIS) are powerful systems for handling, analysing, and visualising location-based information.

In this module you will gain experience with leading GIS software applied to a range of problems.

You will engage in study of the dynamic field of political geography. You will learn to make connections between global, national, and local scales

You will explore tourism at a local, national, and international level. You will do this while examining the concept of mobility and how this has changed over time.

You will learn about many concepts related to tourism and travel. These include cultural heritage, eco-tourism, and Scottish tourism.

This module will help you prepare your dissertation in either geography or environmental science.

You will learn about the broad conceptual and methodological frames behind geography and environmental science.

You will learn how these inform their study and practice

Through this module, you will develop your confidence in working with data. You will gain the knowledge needed to decode information.

You will cover a range of statistical techniques. These will allow you to understand patterns and present insights from the data we are working with.

This module provides the opportunity to undertake fieldwork in a new environment and to develop skills in field research.

You will design, undertake, and write-up a piece of research.

You will acquire the skills and confidence needed for your 4th year research dissertation.

A hands-on, interactive module about analysing and interpreting historical evidence, using sources from seventeenth-century Scotland, both in print and as digitised images of original manuscripts. It's about learning how to be a historian by thinking directly about how historians approach the challenges of interpretation presented by original sources.

This module will cover how History is studied and applied in current times. It explores the nature of History as a subject, as well as current trends and themes in historical studies.

The module will also give you a greater awareness of different approaches to communicating and consuming historical information.

Understanding indigenous peoples' responses to European colonisation helps us to understand some of the most powerful forces that shaped the modern world. This module examines how Native Americans responded to European colonisation. It examines the transformation of Native society through forces such as trade, disease, warfare, and missionary activity.

This module explores the historical and contemporary significance of Atlantic slavery. You will gain an understanding of historical debates over slavery, how it is (mis)remembered, as well as current moves to repair its economic, social and cultural legacies.

The module covers key historic developments across the African continent during the twentieth century. You will analyse enormous global changes from non-Western perspectives, including decolonisation, liberation movements, Cold War conflicts, state formation, and post-colonial governance through a range of case-studies.

Your dissertation is an opportunity to put into practice what you have learned in your degree. You will do this through an independent research project on a subject of your choosing.

You will be guided by a staff supervisor. You will also have some additional lectures on methods and writing.

The module explores and critiques the main theoretical and methodological approaches to studying the geographies of health and disability. It covers contemporary issues of inequalities in health, relationships between environments and places and health, disability access and exclusion, healthcare and support, public health, and mental health and wellbeing.

You will learn to use GIS to handle, analyse, and communicate location-based information. You gain experience with leading GIS software and datasets applied to a range of problems.

This module is taught in parallel with GE32012 Geographical Information Systems.

You will engage in the study of the dynamic field of political geography. This will allow you to make connections between global, national, and local scales.

You will explore tourism at a local, national, and international level. At the same time, you will examine the concept of mobility and how this has changed over time.

You will learn about many concepts related to tourism and travel. These will include cultural heritage, eco-tourism, and Scottish tourism.

Your history research dissertation represents the culmination of your undergraduate studies. It is your chance to do historical research using primary sources and saying something new about the past.

While studying the major political events in the revolutionary decade, we will also learn how history is constructed in response to contemporary events. Ending in 1923, is the so-called Irish revolution emerging in the literature in the 1970s was partly a response to the post-1968 ‘Troubles’ in Northern Ireland.

This module covers the history of Russia from the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 to the formation of the Soviet Union in 1922.

The question of power is explored – how it is lost, contested, and regained, and what happens to society and culture in such circumstances.

This module explores the political development of Scotland in its final phase as an independent kingdom, from the Restoration of Charles II in 1660 to the passage of the Treaty of Union in 1707.

It covers the dynamics of Scottish politics and Scotland's place within the British conglomerate monarchy.

This course considers the origins and development of the African American Freedom Struggle and seeks to impart an appreciation of the many complexities and contradictions within this history. Students will study civil rights leaders, their organisations and legal strategies, and alternative approaches to the “American dilemma” of discrimination and racism.

What does the history of Scottish nationalism tell us about the 'idea of Britain'? Who are the Scots and who are the British? What historical events led the people of Scotland in 2014 - for the first time in their history - to cast their vote on the 1707 Union?