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Compulsory and Elective Modules for the Bulgarian and East European Studies BA. All students must take 120 credits in each year of study.
Year One
Compulsory Courses
30 credits in Language:
SEEB0001 -Bulgarian Language Level (30 credits) OR
30 credits from:
SEEE0013 - Literature and Memory (15 credits)
SEEE0009 - War, Trauma and Memory in East European Cinema (15 credits)
60 credits from optional courses in SSEES or other UCL departments.
Options might include:
SEEE0004 - Vampires, Society and Culture: Transylvania and Beyond (ELCS)
SEEE0007 - Languages in Contact along the Danube: Intercultural Frictions and Flows (ELCS)
SEEE0002 - How Words Work: Sounds and Sense
SEEE0003 - How Words Work: Meaning and Modularity
SEEE0005 - Narratives of Exile
SEEE0006 - Tales of the unexpected: the supernatural and fantastic in literature, 1800-1930
SEEE0008 - Stories of Change, Formal Experiments and New Waves* (ELCS)
SEHI0003 - Frontiers of History
SESS0016 - Understanding Politics: The Big Questions in Contemporary Europe
SESS0017 - Understanding Politics II: How Politics Works
SESS0013 - Understanding Society: Introduction to Social Theory
SESS0014 - Understanding Society: Introduction to Political Sociology
SESS0015 - Communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe
Any course beginning ELCS
Year Two
Compulsory Courses
30 credits of Language:
Either
SEEB0005/SEEB0007 -Bulgarian Language Level 2a: Comprehension and Language Level 2b: Production OR
30 credits compulsory culture courses:
SEEE0020 - Writing from the Other Europe
SEEB0009 - Introduction to Bulgarian Literature and Culture
Options (60 credits):
60 credits from available optional courses in SSEES or other UCL departments
Year Three (Abroad)
Students will be required to study at an overseas institution, taking 4 course units. Further details are contained in the Year Abroad Handbook.
Year Four
Compulsory Courses
Either
SEZZ4901 Free Standing Dissertation (30 credits)
30 credits compulsory module:
SEEB0009 - Bulgarian Literature
Options:60 credits from available optional courses in SSEES or other UCL departments