Mediaeval Studies Programme Director: Dr Alex Woolf (saimsmail@st-andrews.ac.uk) Aim of Programme: This innovative degree is an introduction to the growing field of Mediaeval Studies. It will equip students with knowledge of different theoretical approaches, current debates and the nature of cross-disciplinary and interdisciplinary work in the fields of history, art history, languages and literature. Taught within the St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies (SAIMS), this programme is designed to be flexible enough to cater for students from different academic backgrounds and with different career plans, furnishing those who wish to go on to further research with the technical and interpretative skills needed for research degrees.


Programme Content: The degree draws on the long-established and recognised strengths in Mediaeval Studies available across the Faculty of Arts; teaching is provided by staff whose interests range from late antiquity to the fifteenth century and across the Mediaeval World, from the Middle East and the Mediterranean, to the British Isles and Scandinavia. It is centred on the core module, Approaches to Mediaeval Studies, taught by staff from the four participating disciplines – History, Art History, English and Modern Languages – which will examine a range of theoretical approaches and debates central to the study of the Middle Ages and introduce the students to different technical skills applied to a common body of sources. This module is complemented by training modules in palaeography and Latin or Greek, or another language. Students will also take either a discipline-specific module or a special topic module designed around their specific interests. Students who satisfactorily complete the taught element of the programme (Postgraduate Diploma) will be allowed to continue to the three-month, 15,000-word dissertation (MLitt) or to a 40,000-word dissertation over the next fifteen months (MPhil).


Middle Eastern History and Culture Programme Director: Dr Tim Greenwood (twg3@st-andrews.ac.uk) Aim of Programme: The opportunity to explore in depth a variety of topics relating to the history and culture of this crucially significant region of the world.


Programme Content: All students take the core module, Themes in Middle Eastern History and Politics, which addresses a series of key themes, concepts and questions. The course introduces students to methodological and analytical approaches, including Orientalism, as well as questions of nationalism and and a wide range of historical writing across the


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