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Graduate modules available in UCL SSEES.
Please note: Not all modules run each academic year, and final confirmation of modules running will take place at the start of the academic year.
- Economics & Business Modules
The following modules are offered to students on the Economics & Business MA programmes. These are also available to all SSEES and UCL students who have the appropriate prerequisites*, which normally require students to have studied some introductory economics previously.
Policy ModulesSEES0115 - Economic Development and Policies
SEES0114 - International Macroeconomic Policy
SEES0109 - Public Choice - Private Interest
SEES0086 - Trade and FDI Policy with reference to Eastern Europe
SEES0155 Inequality Dynamics in Modern Capitalism (15 credits, Term 1)Business & Finance Modules
SEES0097 - Corporate Finance and Investment in Emerging Markets
SEES0098 - Financial Development
SEES0082 - Political Economy of International Business
SEES0113 - The Economics of Property Rights
Methodology ModulesSEES0083 - Quantitative Methods
SEES0095 - Advanced Quantitative Methods
Please note: Not all modules run each academic year, and final confirmation of modules running will take place at the start of the academic year.
*there are maximum student numbers set for each module
- History Modules
SEES0052 - Historical Methods and Approaches
SEES0053 - Metropolis: History of Berlin 1871-1990
SEES0055 - Religion in South-Eastern Europe: From the Age of Empires to Post-Communism (not running 2024-25)
SEES0056 - The Soviet Cultural Experiment I, 1917-1945
SEES0057 - The Soviet Cultural Experiment II, 1945-1991
SEES0058 - The Crisis Zone: Central Europe 1900-1990SEES0060 - Russian Monarchy: Court Ritual and Political Ideas, 1498-1917
SESS0072 - Comparative Consumer Regimes (not running 2024-25)
SEES0125 - Little Hitlers? Right Radicalism in Central and Eastern Europe, 1900-1945
SEES0148 - Searching for Sovereignty: A History of the Caucasus 1750-the Present (not running 2024-25)SEES0158 - The Soviet Union's Cold War
Methodology Modules
SEES0052 - Historical Methods and Approaches
Please note: Not all modules run each academic year, and final confirmation of modules running be advertised on this page with as much notice as possible before the start of the academic year.
- Literature & Culture Modules
SSEES offers a range of modules in literature and culture. These are offered to students across SSEES and UCL.
ANTH0056 - Anthropological Approaches to Eurasian Socialist and Post Soviet Societies
SEEE0014 - Contemporary Art and Politics of Eastern Europe and Russia
SEES0090 - Cities in Eastern EuropeSEES0145 - Gender and Sexuality in Modern Russian Culture
SEES0042 - Languages in Contact along the Danube: Intercultural Frictions and Flows
SEES0041 - Literatures of Rupture: Modernism in Russia and Eastern Europe
SEES0015 - The Jews in Polish Culture: Beyond Stereotypes
SEES0072 - Nabokov and Russian Émigré Literature (not running in 2024-25)
SEES0064 - Discourses of Empire and Identity: The Nineteenth-Century Novel in Russian
SEES0127 - The Reflecting Screen: Russian and Soviet Cinema in its Cultural Context, 1896 to the Present (Term 2 only) (not running in 2024-25)
SEES0149 - Language and social justice: ideologies, politics, and participation - (not running in 2024-25)
SEES0158 - The Soviet Union's Cold War
Methodology Modules
SEES0161 - Introduction to Hermeneutics: How to Read and Interpret Texts
SEES0047 - Literary and Cultural Theory
Please note: Not all modules run each academic year, and final confirmation of modules running will take place at the start of the academic year.
- Politics & Sociology Modules
SSEES offers a wide-range of modules in politics and sociology which can be broadly grouped into area-based, thematic and theory/methods-oriented modules.
SEES0080 - The Making of Modern Ukraine
SEES0081 - Causes, Consequences and Control: Corruption and Governance (Not running in 2024/25)
SEES0084 - Russian Foreign Policy
SEES0087 - Security, Identity, Polarity: The Contemporary Debates
SEES0088 - Ethnopolitical Conflict in Central and Eastern Europe (Not running in 2024/25)
SEES0089 - Nations, Identity and Power in Central and Eastern Europe
SEES0090 - Cities in Eastern Europe
SEES0091 - Informal Practices in Post-Communist Societies
SEES0096 - Interdisciplinary Area Studies
SEES0099 - Baltic Politics and Society
SEES0101 - Governance and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe
SEES0102 - Migration in the European Union
SEES0103 - Comparative Analysis in Social and Political Research
SEES0105 - Politics of South-Eastern Europe
SEES0106 - Introduction to Discourse Analysis
SEES0107 - Understanding and Analysing Data
SEES0108 - Post-Soviet Politics
SEES0111 - Sexuality and Society in Russia and Eastern Europe (Not running in 2024/25)
SEES0117 - Political Sociology
SEES0119 - Understanding "Transitional Justice": Crime, Punishment and Process
SEES0120 - Democracy and Authoritarianism in Post-communist Europe (Not running in 2024/25)
SEES0128 - Qualitative Methods
SEES0146 - International and Regional Politics of Eurasia (Not running in 2024/25)
SEES0147 - Modern Russia Patterns of Social and Cultural Complexity (Not running in 2024/25)
SEES0154 - Poland: Plural Perspective
SESS0074 - Undermining Democracy: Political Manipulation in Comparative Perspective
SESS0086 - Popular Culture and International Politics
SESS0094 - Governance in the Era of Global Complexity: Eurasia and Beyond
SESS0097 - Central Asian Politics and Society (Not running in 2024/25)
SESS0098 - European Union and its Eastern Neighbourhood (Not running in 2024/25)
SESS0099 - Belarus: History Politics and Society (Not running in 2024/25)
ANTH0056 - Anthropological Approaches to Eurasian Socialist and Post Soviet Societies
Methodology Modules
SEES0096 - Interdisciplinary Area Studies
SEES0103 - Comparative Analysis in Social and Political Research
SEES0106 - Introduction to Discourse Analysis
SEES0107 - Understanding and Analysing Data
SEES0128 - Qualitative Methods
Please note: Not all modules run each academic year, and final confirmation of modules running will take place at the start of the academic year.
- Language Modules
New Language
These modules aim to provide a competent reading knowledge and basic communicative skills in the language. Students who complete the course successfully will be able to assure both potential employers and academic supervisors that they possess the necessary foundation-level language skills to work with original texts and to enable them to undertake study and/or research in the countries where the language is spoken.
The modules are designed for beginners, i.e. for students who do not already speak or understand the language. They require intensive study and applicants must provide evidence of language learning ability.
Assessment is by written examination (75%) and oral examination (25%).
SEES0028 - New Language: Bulgarian
SEES0029 - New Language: Czech
SEES0038 - New Language: Estonian
SEES0030 - New Language: Finnish
SEES0031 - New Language: Hungarian
SEES0032 - New Language: Polish
SEES0033 - New Language: Romanian
SEES0066 - New Language: Russian
SEES0077 - International Masters: Foundation in Russian* (for IMESS students only)SEES0034 - New Language: Serbian and Croatian
SEES0036 - New Language: Slovene
SEES0037 - New Language: Ukrainian
Intermediate Language
These modules aim to develop a range of language skills primarily for the purposes of conducting research: to support master’s dissertation work, for PhD research and for use in other contexts where advanced reading skills, along with a range of further skills, are required.
By the end of the course the student will be well equipped to read written material for research purposes, and will also be able to talk and write about his/her research interests/topic, as well as having developed a more general competence across the range of productive and receptive skills.
Assessment is by written examination (70%) and oral examination (30%).
SEES0018 - Intermediate Language: Bulgarian
SEES0019 - Intermediate Language: Czech
SEES0043 - Intermediate Language: Estonian
SEES0020 - Intermediate Language: Finnish
SEES0021 - Intermediate Language: Hungarian
SEES0022 - Intermediate Language: Polish
SEES0023- Intermediate Language: Romanian
SEES0153 - Low Intermediate Language: Russian *
SEES0067 - Intermediate Language: Russian *
SEES0024 - Intermediate Language: Serbian and Croatian
SEES0026 - Intermediate Language: Slovene
SEES0027 - Intermediate Language: Ukrainian
Intermediate Plus Language
SEES0068 - Intermediate Plus: Russian *
Advanced Language
SEES0075 - Advanced: Russian *
SEES0076 - Advanced Superior: Russian *
*NOTE: Your level will be determined in a compulsory written entry test, conducted during Induction Week. You will need to consult the Induction Week timetable. The student numbers in the group are restricted and non-appearance at the test may result in non-admission to the course.
Please note: Not all modules run each academic year, and final confirmation of modules running will take place at the start of the academic year.
- Methodology Modules
Each MA programme in SSEES has prescribed or preferred methodology modules, however, students are able to select additional methodology modules from across SSEES.
SEES0095 - Advanced Quantitative Methods
SEES0103 - Comparative Analysis in Social and Political Research
SEES0052 - Historical Methods and Approaches
SEES0096 - Interdisciplinary Area Studies
SEES0106 - Introduction to Discourse Analysis
SEES0006 - Introduction to Hermeneutics: How to Read and Interpret Texts (not running 2020/21)
SEES0046 - Linguistic Methods (not running 2019/20)
SEES0047 - Literary and Cultural Theory
SEES0117 - Political Sociology
SEES0128 - Qualitative Methods
SEES0083 - Quantitative Methods
SEES0107 - Understanding and Analysing Data
Please note: Not all modules run each academic year, and final confirmation of modules running will take place at the start of the academic year.