University of St Andrews

This course examines the European Union (EU) from a variety of perspectives derived from major theories/concepts of international relations and comparative politics. It considers the EU as a key reference point in the foreign/security/defense policies of EU member states, as a major center of gravity in Europe's regional neighborhood, and as an important global actor. The course also considers the EU's relations with competing actors, particularly the U.S., NATO, Russia, and China, as well as its role as a model for other experiments in regional integration.

This course enables students to improve their creative prose writing skills, both fiction and creative non-fiction. The emphasis is on practice rather than text-based study. Students explore story structure, sense of place, character and point of view as well as techniques for approaching the personal essay. Through writing exercises and other written stimulus, the workshop element of the course will allow students to experiment with different forms and techniques as well as developing original ideas and material. Students also gain experience of evaluation and the ability to effectively critique the work of their peers. 

This course provides students with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to critically evaluate how an ecosystem is managed, through rigorously adopting methods from ecological sciences to develop an understanding of ecosystem health and environmental change, and interdisciplinary approaches to explore the multiple dimensions and trade-offs emerging from human-environment interactions. Through a mixture of case studies and real-life examples, students consider the challenges of and solutions for maintaining and supporting healthy ecosystems.

This course introduces early medieval medical history. It looks at the ways in which medical knowledge developed in relation to changing culture and politics ca. 500-1000. It begins with the crisis of the sixth century, when climate change, pandemic, political instability, and new ideals about education led to a divergence between Greek and Latin medical traditions. This is sometimes described as a "dark age" of ignorance and superstition, but students look at the growing evidence of widespread interest in medical books and rational understandings of disease.