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Compulsory Modules

You will take 60 credits from Russian language and culture modules and 60 Credits from History modules

Compulsory Modules
30 credits in Russian language:

Either (when Russian is ab initio):
•ÌýÌý ÌýSERS0001 - Comprehension of Russian (Year 1A) (15 Credits) Ìý
•ÌýÌý ÌýSERS0002 - Use of Russian (Year 1A) (15 Credits)

Or (when Russian is post A Level):
•ÌýÌý ÌýSERS0003 - Comprehension of Russian (Year 1) (15 Credits)
•ÌýÌý ÌýSERS0004 - Use of Russian (Year 1) (15 Credits)

30 credits in Russian culture:
•ÌýÌý ÌýSERS0010 - The Making of Modern Russian Culture (15 Credits)

Optional Modules (15 credits) - choose one from the following:

•ÌýÌý ÌýSERS0008: Russian Short Fiction from Romanticism to Postmodernism (15 credits)

•ÌýÌý ÌýSERS0012: Representations of Russia (15 credits)

•ÌýÌý ÌýSERS0014: Russian Cinema: History, Ideology, Society (15 credits)

60 credits in History:
• Ìý EITHER: HIST0488 History of Russia 1598-1856
• Ìý OR: HIST0483 History of the Habsburg Monarchy 1700-1918

•ÌýÌý ÌýSEHI0003: Frontiers of History (30 credits)

Please refer to the main module listings page to check if a module is running or not - /ssees/undergraduate-module-listings

In your second year, you must choose a total of 120 credits, 60 credits from Russian language and culture modules and 60 Credits from History modules.

Russian Language and Culture (60 credits)

Compulsory Modules: 30 credits in Russian language:

Either:
•ÌýÌý ÌýSERS0016: Comprehension of Russian (Year 2A) (15 credits)
•ÌýÌý ÌýSERS0018: Use of Russian (Year 2A) (15 credits)
Or:
•ÌýÌý ÌýSERS0020: Comprehension of Russian (Year 2) (15 credits)
•ÌýÌý ÌýSERS0022: Use of Russian (Year 2) (15 credits)

Compulsory module: 15 credits in Russian culture:
One 15-credit module from Year 2 Literature/Culture options, for example:
SERS0025 - Russian Poetry from Pushkin to Brodsky (15 Credits)



SERS0033 - Identities in Nineteenth- Century Russian LiteratureÌý°Ú¸é±Õ
SERS0034 - The Petersburg 'Text' in Russian Literature and Culture: From Romanticism to Modernism

Optional Modules
15 credits in culture:

•ÌýÌý ÌýEither: from Level 5 Russian culture modules (may includeÌýSERS0034, if not already chosen)
•ÌýÌý ÌýOR:ÌýÌýfrom Level 5 modules with codes beginning SEEE

• View SSEES Modules

History (60 credits)

From selected Survey or Thematic History modules (60 credits). You may also take up to 15 credits in Level 6 Advanced Seminar modules - please consult the guidance supplied. A full list of modules can be found on the UCL History Website

Your third year is spent abroad at an institution in Russia, taking 120 credits. 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.Ìý

Please refer to the main module listings page to check if a module is running or not - /ssees/undergraduate-module-listings

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.

Russian language and culture (60 credits)

Compulsory Modules

15 credits in Russian language:
•ÌýÌý ÌýSERS0039: Use of Russian (Year 4) (15 credits)

Optional Modules

•ÌýÌýÌý either 45 credits from optional Level 6 Russian language/culture modules. (View SSEES modules)
•ÌýÌýÌý or 30 credits from optional Level 6 Russian language/culture modules and 15 credits from modules with codes beginning SEEE

Optional modules may include a maximum of one further module in Russian language from:

SERS0037: Comprehension of Russian (Year 4)
SERS0106: Reading and Discussion of Texts in RussianÌý
SERS0107: Writing Editing and Blogging in Russian

Other options may include:

SERS0031 - The Person, Love and Utopia in Russian Thought (15 credits)
SERS0043 - Russian Literature in Revolution: Experiments in Form 1917-53 [R] (15 credits)
SERS0079- Pushkin [R] (15 credits)
SERS0045 - Russian Cinema: Innovation and Experiment [R] (15 credits)
SERS0047 - Contemporary Russian Cinema (15 credits)
SERS0049 - Russian Poetry in the Silver Age [R] (15 credits)
SERS0051- Russian Literature from the Death of Stalin to the Present: Dissent & Discovery [R] (15 credits)
SEEE0012- Crossroads of Culture: Language and Identity in the Literatures of Ukraine from Crimea to the ShtetlsÌý (Inter-departmental) (15 credits)
SERS0108 - Saboteurs, Stakhanovites and Spies: Writing the Stalinist 1930s

History (60 credits)
History modules are delivered by the UCL HIstory Department. When choosing modules please make sure that you have at least 90 credits of Level 6 modules.

60 credits in History Modules
•ÌýÌý ÌýEither: a Special Subject module (comprising 30 credits of taught module and 30 credits dissertation)
•ÌýÌýÌý Or: a Special Subject module (comprising 30 credits of taught module only) and 30 credits SESS0053: Freestanding Dissertation on a History subject)ÌýÌýÌý
•ÌýÌýÌý Or: Two Advanced Seminar modules and SESS0053: Freestanding Dissertation on a History topic

• Please see the UCL History website for available modules

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