Undergraduate Module Listings
UCL SSEES Undergraduate Modules
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Economics and Business
Level 4 Modules
SESS0007 - Introduction to Microeconomics
SESS0008 - Introduction to Macroeconomics
SESS0009 - Applied Game Theory for Economics and Business
SESS0010 - Contemporary Issues in International Business
SESS0080 - Mathematics for Economists - only for students on HPE programme
Level 5 & 6 Modules
SESS0023 - Applied Econometrics
SESS0111 - Basics of Financial Markets
SESS0112 - Climate Change, Institutions and Transition
SESS0036 - Economics of Innovation
SESS0042 - Economics of the Family
SESS0024 - Economic History and Ideas
SESS0019 - Emerging Market Economies: Economics of Transition
SESS0021 - European Macroeconomics
SESS0109 - European Public Policy
SESS0108 - Beyond GDP: measuring wellbeing, sustainability and fairness
SESS0084 - Industrial Dynamics: Theory and Empirical Applications
SESS0068 - International Macroeconomics
SESS0063 - International Trade
SESS0022 - New Venture Creation
SESS0026 - Political Economy of European Integration
SESS0087 - Qualitative Research Methods for Economics and Business
SESS0110 - Surveys: Theory and Practice for Social Sciences
SESS0041 - The Economics of Entrepreneurship
SESS0039 - Topics in Financial Management I
SESS0040 - Topics in Financial Management II
SESS0020 - Topics in Microeconomics
SESS0073 - Economics of Political Institutions
SESS0093 - Economic Psychology
History
Level 4 Modules
SEHI0003 - Frontiers of History
SEHI0002 - Modern Historiography (Year 2 HPE and Russian & History students only)
Level 5 Modules (History-track HPE and Russian & History students only)
HIST0470 - Crown Church and Estates in Central Europe 1500-1700
HIST0472 - Successors to the Habsburgs: East-Central Europe 1941-1945
HIST0474 - Poland and Lithuania Transformed 1569-1923
HIST0483 - History of the Habsburg Monarchy 1700-1918
HIST0488 - History of Russia 1598-1856
HIST0490 - History of Modern Germany 1815-1990
HIST0644 - The Rise and Fall of Yugoslavia
HIST0676 - A Global History of Socialist Ideas 1800-1980
HIST0721 - History of the Soviet Union
Level 6 Modules (History-track HPE and Russian & History students only)
HIST0004 - Between Politics and Culture: German Ideas 1890-1970
HIST0024 - Broadcasting Modernity: A Global History of Radio and Television in the Twentieth Century
HIST0494 - Fascism and Authoritarianism in Eastern Europe 1918-1945
HIST0497 - The Balkans from Empires to Nation-States
HIST0498 - The Age of Extremes in the Balkans
HIST0500 - Society and Politics in Late Imperial Russia
HIST0766 - Russia and the World Since 1905
HIST0854 - Home, Exile and Displacement in Twentieth Century Central Europe
HIST0481 - Monarchs and the Enlightenment in Russia and Central Europe (Special Subject)
HIST0640 - Life Writing: Memory and Identity in Twentieth Century Europe (Special Subject)
HIST0781 - Ivan the Terrible and the Russian Monarchy in the Sixteenth Century (Special Subject)
HIST0856 - Made in the USSR: The Social Lives of Soviet Things (Special Subject)
HIST0909 - UCL History Undergraduate Dissertation
Politics and Sociology
Level 4 Modules (Available to Politics and Sociology, and HPE students.)
SESS0013 - Understanding Society: Introduction to Social Theory
SESS0014 - Understanding Society: Introduction to Political Sociology
SESS0015 - Communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe
SESS0016 - Understanding Politics I: The Big Questions in Contemporary Europe
SESS0017 - Understanding Politics II: How Politics Works
SESS0018 - Communist Societies 1945-1989
SESS0082 - Introduction to International Relations: Concepts and Ideas
SESS0083 - Introduction to International Relations: Themes and Issues - (Not running in 2025/26)
SESS0101 - Introduction to Interdisciplinary Studies - (Not running in 2025/26)
SESS0107 - Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology
Level 5 & 6 Modules
ANTH0056 - Anthropological Approaches to Eurasian Socialist and Post Soviet Societies
BASC0011- Migration and Health
SEES0090 - Cities in Eastern Europe - (Not running in 2025/26)
SEES0159 - Law, Politics and Society in Eastern Europe - (Not running in 2025/26)
SESS0002 - Governance and Corruption
SESS0004 - The Making of Modern Ukraine
SESS0005 - Baltic Politics and Society
SESS0006 - Understanding and Analysing Data
SESS0027 - The History of European Political Ideas
SESS0029 - Politics and Society in Central and Eastern Europe
SESS0030 - Russian Politics and Society
SESS0031 - Concepts of Security - (Not running in 2025/26)
SESS0033 - Comparative Political Analysis - (not offered to students on Economics programme)
SESS0034 - Researching Politics and Society
SESS0035 - Post-Soviet Politics and Society
SESS0044 - Soviet and Russian Foreign Policy - (Not running in 2025/26)
SESS0046 - European Security - (Not running in 2025/26)
SESS0048 - Central and East European Migrants in the UK
SESS0050 - The Crisis of 1989 and the New Global Revolutions
SESS0051 - Social Change in Central and Eastern Europe
SESS0052 - Parties and Elections in a Global Perspective
SESS0061 - Democracy and Democratisation
SESS0062 - Politics and Societies of Southeast Europe
SESS0074 - Undermining Democracy: Political Manipulation in Comparative Perspective
SESS0076 - The International Politics of Sexuality - (Not running in 2025/26)
SESS0081 - International and Regional Politics of Eurasia - (Not running in 2025/26)
SESS0085 - Migration and Society - Eastern Europe and Beyond - (Not running in 2025/26)
SESS0090 Soviet and Russian strategy in the Middle East
SESS0091 - The Roma: History, Society, Culture and Politics in Eastern Europe
SESS0092 - Revolutions and Society: Revolution in the Modern World: 1600-2021
SESS0094 - Governance in the Era of Global Complexity: Eurasia and Beyond
SESS0097 - Central Asian Politics and Society
SESS0098 - European Union and its Eastern Neighbourhood
SESS0099 - Belarus: History Politics and Society - (Not running in 2025/26)
SESS0102 - Foreign Policy Analysis in Action
SESS0103 - Soviet Foreign Policy and the Cold War
SESS0104 - Russian Foreign Policy
SESS0105 - The Modern Rural World in Eastern Europe
SESS0106 – Romania and Moldova
Literature and Culture - Central/East/South-East Europe and Russia
Level 4 Modules (First Year Russian)
SERS0008 - Russian Short Fiction from Romanticism to Postmodernism
SERS0010 - The Making of Modern Russian Culture
SERS0012 - Representations of Russia
SERS0014 - Russian and Soviet Cinema: History, Ideology, Society
Level 4 Modules (East European)
SEEE0013 - Literature and Memory
Interdepartmental modules - please note level
SEEE0002 - How Words Work: Sounds and Sense, Linguistics and Verbal Art (Inter-departmental) - Level 5 (not running 25-26)
SEEE0003 - How Words Work - Meaning and Modularity (Inter-departmental) - Level 5 (not running 25-26)
SEEE0004 - Vampires, Society and Culture: Transylvania and Beyond (Inter-departmental)- Level 5 (not running 25-26)
SEEE0005 - Narratives of Exile (Inter-departmental) - Level 5
SEEE0009 - War, Trauma and Memory in East European Cinema (Inter-departmental) - Level 5
SEEE0010 - Minority Languages of Russia: Cultural and Linguistic Diversity and Endangerment (Inter-departmental) - Level 5 (not running 2025-26)
SEEE0011 - Staging Europe (Inter-departmental) - Level 5 (not running 2025-26)
SEEE0013 - Literature and Memory (Inter-departmental) - Level 4
SEEE0014 - Contemporary Art and Politics of Russia and Eastern Europe (Inter-departmental) - Level 6
SEEE0015 - Between the Alps and the Adriatic: Modern Slovene Culture and Literature - Level 5
SEEE0017 - Old Church Slavonic and Comparative Slavonic Grammar as a Language Learning Strategy - Level 5 - (not running 2025-26)
SEEE0018 - Translation: Theory and Practice - Level 6 (not running 2025-26)
SEEE0019 - Contemporary Performance and Activism in Europe - Level 5 (not running 2025-26)
SEEE0020 - Writing from the Other Europe - Level 5
SEEE0021 - Perspectives on Nonbinary, Gender-inclusive and Genderqueer Language - Level 6 and Level 7
SEES0149 - Language and Social Justice: Ideologies, Politics and Participation - Level 5 and Level 7 -
Level 5 Modules (Russian) -
Modules with an [R] require the ability to read Russian
SERS0025 - Russian Poetry from Pushkin to Brodsky [R]
SERS0027 - Russian and Soviet Cinema: Gender, Sexuality and Biopolitics
SERS0029 - Chekhov: The Quest for Freedom [R] (not running 2025/26)
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 [R] (not running 2025/26)
Level 5 Modules (Year 2 East European)
The modules below will run when required by the programme.
SEEC0009 - Introduction to Czech Literature
SEEF0009 - Introduction to Finnish Society and Culture
SEEH0026 - Introduction to Hungarian Literature
SEEP0009 - Introduction to Polish Literature
SEEP0016 - Contemporary Polish Cinema
SEER0009 - Introduction to Romanian Literature
SEEY0010 - Introduction to Serbian and Croatian Literature
SEEU0017 - Ukrainian Culture and Text A
SEEU0027 - Ukrainian Culture and Text B
Level 6 Modules (Russian) -
Modules with an [R] require the ability to read Russian
SERS0031 - The Person, Love and Utopia in Russian Thought
SERS0043 - Soviet Literature in Revolution: Experiments with Fictional Forms 1917-53 [R]
SERS0079 - Pushkin [R]
SERS0045 - Russian and Soviet Cinema: Innovation and Experiment
SERS0047 - Contemporary Russian Cinema
SERS0049 - Russian Poetry in the Silver Age [R] (not running 2025/26)
SERS0051 - Late-Soviet and Post-Soviet Literature and Culture [R]
SERS0106 - Reading and Discussion of Texts in Russian - Level 6
SERS0107 - Writing, Editing and Blogging in Russian - Level 6
SERS0108 - Saboteurs, Stakhanovites and Spies: Writing the Stalinist 1930s (not running 2025/26)
SERS0109 - Consecutive Interpreting and Sight Translation - Level 6
Level 6 Modules (East European)
SEEC0014 Czech and Slovak Literature
SEEF0015 - Advanced Finnish Society and Culture
SEEH0013 - Hungarian Literature 3
SEEP0014 - Polish Literature 3
SEER0014 - Romanian Literature 3
SEEY0015 - Serbian and Croatian Literature 3 (not running 2025/26)
SESS0004 - The Making of Modern Ukraine
ANTH0056 - Anthropological Approaches to Eurasian Socialist and Post Soviet Societies (not running 2025/26)
SEES0090 - Cities in Eastern Europe
SEES0137 SSEES Research Project (Half) - 15-credit Dissertation
SESS0053 Freestanding Dissertation - 30-credit Dissertation
[R] - requires ability to read Russian
Language Modules - Specialist core modules for Language Degrees
Russian
Year 1
SERS0001 - Comprehension of Russian (Year 1A) - Ab initio track - Level 4
SERS0002 - Use of Russian (Year 1A) - Ab initio track - Level 4
SERS0003- Comprehension of Russian (Year 1) - Post A-Level track - Level 4
SERS0005 - Use of Russian (Year 1) - Post A-Level track - Level 4
Year 2
SERS0016 - Comprehension of Russian (Year 2A) - Ab initio track - Level 5
SERS0018 - Use of Russian (Year 2A) - Ab initio track - Level 5
SERS0020 - Comprehension of Russian (Year 2) - Post A-Level track - Level 5
SERS0022 - Use of Russian (Year 2) - Post A-Level track - Level 5
Year 4
SERS0037 - Comprehension of Russian (Year 4) - Level 6
SERS0039 - Use of Russian (Year 4) - Level 6
Language Modules - Specialist core modules for Language Degrees
East European Languages and Culture
Czech
SEEC0001 - Czech Language Level 1
SEEC0005 - Czech Language Level 2a - Comprehension
SEEC0007 - Czech Language Level 2b - Production
SEEC0010 - Czech Language Level 3a- Comprehension
SEEC0012 - Czech Language Level 3b - Production
Finnish
SEEF0001 - Finnish Language Level 1
SEEF0005 - Finnish Language Level 2a - Comprehension
SEEF0007 - Finnish Language Level 2b - Production
SEEF0011 - Finnish Language Level 3a - Comprehension
SEEF0013 - Finnish Language Level 3b - Production
Hungarian
SEEH0001 - Hungarian Language Level 1
SEEH0006 - Hungarian Language Level 2a Comprehension
SEEH0016 - Hungarian Language Level 2b - Production
SEEH0024 - Hungarian Language Level 3a Comprehension
SEEH0011 - Hungarian Language Level 3b - Production
Polish
SEEP0001 - Polish Language Level 1
SEEP0005 - Polish Language Level 2a - Comprehension
SEEP0007 - Polish Language Level 2b - Production
SEEP0010 - Polish Language Level 3a - Comprehension
SEEP0012 - Polish Language Level 3b - Production
Romanian
SEER0001 - Romanian Language Level 1
SEER0005 - Romanian Language Level 2a - Comprehension
SEER0007 - Romanian Language Level 2b - Production
SEER0010 - Romanian Language Level 3a - Comprehension
SEER0012 - Romanian Language Level 3b - Production
Serbian/Croatian
SEEY0001 - Serbian/Croatian Language Level 1
SEEY0006 - Serbian and Croatian Language Level 2a - Comprehension
SEEY0008 - Serbian and Croatian Language Level 2b - Production
SEEY0011 - Serbian and Croatian Language Level 3a - Comprehension
SEEY0013 - Serbian and Croatian Language Level 3b - Production
Ukrainian
SEEU0001 - Ukrainian Language Level 1
SEEU0007 - Ukrainian Language Level 2a- Comprehension
SEEU0009 - Ukrainian Language Level 2b - Production
SEEU0011 - Ukrainian Language Level 3a - Comprehension
SEEU0012 - Ukrainian Language Level 3b - Production
Language Modules - Off Track modules open to all UCL students
SSEES offers a range of 15 credit modules which can be taken by students across UCL. These can also be taken to fulfil the UCL Modern Foreign Language requirement. The run for a whole academic year.
Level A
SEEF0026 Finnish A
SEEU0019 Ukrainian A
Level B
SEEF0021 Finnish B
SEEY0020 Serbian/Croatian B
SEEV0002 Slovene B
Level C
SEEY0003 Serbian/Croatian C
SEEV0003 Slovene C
Level D
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