Language and Culture Handbook (BA Romanian and East European Studies)
Handbook for the BA degree in Romanian with East European Studies.
Romanian and East European Studies BA
- You must register for exactly 120 credits per year of study;
- You must have taken and passed 90 credits of Level 6 modules by the end of the final year;
- You are not permitted to take more than 150 credits of Level 4 modules over the course of your programme;
- The Year Abroad must be passed
- All language modules stated as “compulsory” in a given year are non-condonable and MUST be passed by the second attempt in order for a student to progress to the next year.
Please refer to the main module listings page here to check if a module is running or not.
Compulsory 30 credits in language:
EITHER: if you are a beginner or near beginner
• SEER0001 -Romanian Language Level 1 (30 credits)
OR: if you are at A Level standard or equivalent.
• SEER0005 -Romanian Language Level 2a: Comprehension (15 credits)
• SEER0007 -Romanian Language Level 2b: Production (15 credits)
Compulsory literature/culture modules - 30 credits
• SEEE0009 - War, Trauma and Memory (15 Credits)
• SEEE0013 - Literature and Memory (15 Credits)
Optional modules - 60 credits
To be selected from available Level 4 or 5 optional modules in SSEES or other UCL departments (some examples of SSEES modules are given below though this list is not exhaustive):
- SEEE0002 - How Words Work: Sounds and Sense (Inter-departmental) (15 credits)
- SEEE0003 - How Words Work- Meaning and Modularity (Inter-departmental) (15 credits)
- SEEE0004 - Vampires, Society and Culture: Transylvania and Beyond (Inter-departmental)
- SEEE0005 - Narratives of Exile (Inter-departmental)
- SEEE0006 - Tales of the Unexpected: the supernatural and fantastic in literature, 1800-1930 (Inter-departmental) (15 credits)
- SEEE0009 - War, Trauma and Memory in East European Cinema (Inter-departmental) (15 credits)
- SEEE0010 - Minority Languages of Russia: Cultural and Linguistic Diversity and Endangerment (Inter-departmental) (15 credits)
- SEEE0011 - Staging Europe (Inter-departmental) (15 credits)
- SEEE0015 - Between the Alps and the Adriatic: Modern Slovene Culture and Literature (15 credits)
- SEEE0016 - Regional and National Identities: History of Baltic Literature (15 credits)
- SEEE0017 - Old Church Slavonic and Comparative Slavonic Grammar as a Language Learning Strategy (15 credits)
- SEHI0003 - Frontiers of History (30 credits)
- SERS0010 - The Making of Modern Russian Culture (15 credits)
- SERS0012 - Representations of Russia (15 credits)
- SERS0014 - Russian Cinema: History, Ideology, Society (15 credits)
- SESS0013 - Understanding Society: Introduction to Social Theory (15 credits)
- SESS0014 - Understanding Society: Introduction to Political Sociology (15 credits)
- SESS0015 - Communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe (15 credits)
- SESS0016 - Understanding Politics: The Big Questions in Contemporary Europe (15 credits)
- SESS0017 - Understanding Politics II: How Politics Works (15 credits)
- SEEE0020 - Writing from the Other Europe (15 credits)
Any Level 4 or 5 module ELCS**** (delivered by the School of European Languages, Culture and Society (SELCS) (15 credits)
In your second year, you must choose a total of 120 credits.
Compulsory Modules
30 credits in Romanian language:
Choose Level 2a and 2b or Level 3a and 3b according to which level you have already taken in Year 1.
EITHER: if you took Level 1 in the previous year
• SEER0005 -Romanian Language Level 2a: Comprehension (15 credits)
• SEER0007 -Romanian Language Level 2b: Production (15 credits)
OR: if you took Level 2a and 2b in the previous year
• SEER0010 - Romanian Level 3a - Comprehension (15 credits)
• SEER0012 - Romanian Level 3a - Production (15 credits)
Compulsory literature/culture modules - 30 credits
• SEER0009 - Introduction to Romanian Literature (15 credits)
• SEEE0020 - Writing from the Other Europe (15 credits)
Optional Modules - 60 credits
60 credits from available optional modules at Level 5 in SSEES or other UCL departments.
Your third year is spent abroad on a Romanian language and culture placement, taking 120 credits. You will normally spend this year studying at a university, but alternatives, such as work placements, may be possible. Further details are contained in the Year Abroad Handbook. (See Current Students pages)
By the end of Year 4 you need to have taken a minimum of 90 credits in Level 6 modules over Years 2 and 4 together.
Compulsory Modules
EITHER: if you took Level 2a and 2b in Year 2
• SEER0010 - Romanian Level 3a - Comprehension (15 credits)
• SEER0012 - Romanian Level 3a - Production (15 credits)
OR: if you took Level 3a and 3b in Year 2
• SESS0053 Free Standing Dissertation (30 credits)
Compulsory literature/culture modules - 30 credits:
• SEEY0014: - Romanian Literature 3 (30 credits)
Optional Modules - 60 Credits
60 credits from available optional modules in SSEES or other UCL departments