Languages and Culture UG Handbook (Russian with East European Language)
Handbook for the Russian with East European Language BA.
Russian with an East European language
This structure covers those degrees for students taking Russian in conjunction with a SELCS (School of European Languages, Culture and Society) language (e.g. French and Russian, German and Russian, etc).
- 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.
30 credits compulsory in Russian language:
EITHER: (when Russian is ab initio):
SERS0001: Comprehension of Russian (Year 1A) (15 credits) and
SERS0002: Use of Russian (Year 1A) (15 credits)
OR: (when Russian is post A Level or equivalent):
SERS0003: Comprehension of Russian (Year 1) (15 credits)
SERS0005: Use of Russian (Year 1) (15 credits)
15 credits compulsory core Russian Culture module:
SERS0008: Russian Short Fiction from Romanticism to Postmodernism (15 credits)
45 credits from core culture modules:
SERS0010: The Making of Modern Russian Culture (15 credits)
SERS0012: Representations of Russia (15 credits)
SERS0014: Russian Cinema: History, Ideology, Society (15 credits)
30 credits compulsory in East European language
Either Level 1 (30 credits) or Level 2A (15 credits) plus Level 2B (15 credits)
30 credits compulsory in Russian language:
EITHER (when you took Russian at ab initio Year 1A level in the previous year):
SERS0016: Comprehension of Russian (Year 2A) (15 credits)
SERS0018: Use of Russian (Year 2A) (15 credits)
OR: (when you took Russian at Year 1 level in the previous year):
SERS0020: Comprehension of Russian (Year 2) (15 credits)
SERS0022: Use of Russian (Year 2) (15 credits)
Between 45 and 60 credits from core Russian Culture modules:
from Year 2 Literature/Culture options, for example:
SERS0027 - Russian Cinema Men and Women
SERS0029 - Chekhov The Quest for Freedom
SERS0031 - The Person Love and Utopia in Russian Thought
SERS0033 - Identities in Nineteenth- Century Russian Literature [R]
SERS0034 - The Petersburg 'Text' in Russian Literature and Culture: From Romanticism to Modernism
Between 0 and 15 credits from Interdepartmental modules:
Level 5 Interdepartmental module (codes beginning SEEE) - maximum of one
30 credits compulsory in East European Language
Either Level 2A (15 credits) plus Level 2B (15 credits)
Or Level 3A (15 credits) plus Level 3B (15 credits)
Your third year is spent abroad. 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 webpage.
Due to the ongoing invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation, UCL has ceased partnerships with Russia. SSEES has organised a number of alternative placements in countries where Russian is widely spoken.
- Daugavpils, Latvia
- Tallin, Estonia
- Astana, Kazakhstan
Students on a SSEES placement in Semester 1 should select SEES0138 and SEES0139
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.
SSEES Language and culture modules - 60 credits
30 credits compulsory in Russian language:
SERS0037: Comprehension of Russian (Year 4) (15 credits)
SERS0039: Use of Russian (Year 4) (15 credits)
60 credits from optional modules
EITHER: all 60 credits from Level 6 Russian Culture modules
OR: 45 credits from Level 6 Russian Culture modules and 15 credits from Level 5/6 modules with codes beginning SEEE
Optional modules may include a maximum of two modules from the list below:
SERS0037 Comprehension of Russian (Year 4)
SERS0106 - Reading and Discussion of Texts in Russian
SERS0107 - Writing, Editing and Blogging in Russian
30 credits com;ulsory in East European Language
Either Level 3A (15 credits) plus Level 3B (15 credits)
Or 30-credit Freestanding Dissertation