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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
Please refer to the main module listings page to check if a module is running or not - https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/undergraduate-module-listings
- Year One
30 credits compulsory Russian language modules:
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 in East European language
Either Level 1 (30 credits) or Level 2A (15 credits) plus Level 2B (15 credits)
- Year Two
30 credits compulsory Russian language modules:
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 ModernismBetween 0 and 15 credits from Interdepartmental modules:
Level 5 Interdepartmental module (codes beginning SEEE) - maximum of oneEast European Language- 30 credits
Either Level 2A (15 credits) plus Level 2B (15 credits)
Or Level 3A (15 credits) plus Level 3B (15 credits)- Year Abroad
Your third year is spent in Russia. 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.
Students on a SSEES placement in Semester 1 should select SEES0138 and SEES0139
- Year Four
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 Russian language module:
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 RussianEast European Language- 30 credits
Either Level 3A (15 credits) plus Level 3B (15 credits)
Or 30-credit Freestanding Dissertation