Sustainable Development (MA)

Modules

In the first two years of your degree (known as sub-honours), you will take required modules in sustainable development alongside modules in at least one other subject. Typically, you will take one sustainable development module per semester for your first 3 semesters and two in your 4th semester. For Honours level (your third and fourth years), you choose from a range of Honours modules. Course information may change. Module information and course content, teaching and assessment may change each year and after you have accepted your offer to study at the University of St Andrews. We display the most up-to-date information possible, but this could be from a previous academic year. For the latest module information, see the module catalogue .

Students will take the following compulsory first-year modules: Sustainable Development: tackling global challenges : This module considers the contemporary challenges that we face at global and local scales. Sustainable Development Goals: Challenges & Opportunities : offers detailed investigation of a selection of core issues in sustainable development - and how these issues are addressed by key players. Students will take the following compulsory second-year modules: Securing sustainable solutions : This module critically explores how to secure sustainable solutions for all, whilst achieving human security and environmental integrity. Changing Natures : This module develops an appreciation of the diverse ways that natures are known, protected and changed. Sustainable Scotland : draws on Scotland’s unique landscapes, patterns of urbanisation, and the geography of population to examine interrelated issues of land use and social inequalities to the broader questions of sustainability here in Scotland. If you decide to take sustainable development in your third and fourth years, you choose from a wide variety of advanced options, modules previously offered include: Building sustainable, inclusive and just cities Extractive Environments Global Health Disparities Governance for Sustainability Green Politics: theory and practice Home and Energy Geographies The Blue Economy and Maritime Security Intersections and Interdependence The Nature of Political Ecology Transitioning to Sustainability: Community, Nature and Governance You have the opportunity to undertake extensive training in research through a residential field course where you will learn how to conduct research, explore research methods and gain quantitative and qualitative skills. In fourth year, students may complete a dissertation module that combines expertise from partner disciplines with an understanding of sustainable development in researching a topic of your choice.