MA Russian Studies

Normally an upper second-class Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline from a UK university or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard.

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Popular career paths for SSEES Language and Culture graduates include Policy and Government; Publishing, Journalism and Translation; Teaching; Academic Research; Performance and Creative Arts; Banking and Investment, and Charities and International Development. Some graduates advise the Russian, Polish, American, and other governments, and the European Commission.

Compulsory modules

• M.A. Dissertation
• SSEES MA Dissertation Preparation
• Literary and Cultural Theory
• Contemporary Art and Politics in Eastern Europe and Russia
• Historical Methods and Approaches
• The Soviet Cultural Experiment II, 1945-1991
• Russian Monarchy: Court Ritual and Political Ideas, 1498-1917
• Russian Politics
• Comparative Analysis in Social and Political Research
• The Reflecting Screen: Russian and Soviet Cinema in its Cultural Context, 1896 to the Present A
• Qualitative Methods
• Language and social justice: ideologies, politics, and participation
• The Soviet Unions Cold War
• Waterscapes, Wildlife and Wastelands: An Environmental History of Water in Central-Eastern Europe & Russia
• Political Culture
• Interdisciplinary Area Studies
• Literatures of Rupture: Modernism in Russia and Eastern Europe
• Crossroads of Culture: The Literatures of Ukraine from Crimea to the Shtetls
• Discourses of Empire and Identity: The Nineteenth-Century Novel in Russian
• Russian Foreign Policy
• New Language: Russian
• Intermediate Language: Russian
• Advanced Language: Russian
• Advanced Superior Language: Russian

Optional modules

• Literary and Cultural Theory
• Contemporary Art and Politics in Eastern Europe and Russia
• Historical Methods and Approaches
• The Soviet Cultural Experiment II, 1945-1991
• Russian Monarchy: Court Ritual and Political Ideas, 1498-1917
• Russian Politics
• Comparative Analysis in Social and Political Research
• The Reflecting Screen: Russian and Soviet Cinema in its Cultural Context, 1896 to the Present A
• Qualitative Methods
• Language and social justice: ideologies, politics, and participation
• The Soviet Unions Cold War
• Waterscapes, Wildlife and Wastelands: An Environmental History of Water in Central-Eastern Europe & Russia
• Political Culture
• Interdisciplinary Area Studies
• Literatures of Rupture: Modernism in Russia and Eastern Europe
• Crossroads of Culture: The Literatures of Ukraine from Crimea to the Shtetls
• Discourses of Empire and Identity: The Nineteenth-Century Novel in Russian
• Russian Foreign Policy
• New Language: Russian
• Intermediate Language: Russian
• Advanced Language: Russian
• Advanced Superior Language: Russian
• reasonable adjustments
• Student Support and Wellbeing Services
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