Programmes & Modules Handbook

B.A. Russian Studies and International Relations Full-time

Year: 3
2025/26 Session

The following must be taken:

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LH Russian Core VI - Language and Contexts	09 33730	10	Semester 1
LH Russian Core VII - Language and Contexts	09 33738	10	Semester 2

You are required to complete a Dissertation or Extended Essay in your Final year and depending on your programme you may be able to choose whether you write it in Russian Studies or in your other Department.

If in Russian Studies choose one of the following:

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LH Final Year Independent Study Module in Modern Languages Semester 1	09 33503	20	Semester 1
LH Final Year Independent Study Module in Modern Languages Semester 2	09 33505	20	Semester 2
LH Joint Honours Link Dissertation	09 27515	40	Full Term

POLSIS

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LH Dissertation	08 20905	40	Full Term

Independent Study Module:

Optional modules offered by the Department of Political Science and International Studies (POLSIS). The following is an indicative list:

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LH Contemporary International Political Economy	08 20911	20	Semester 1
LH Language, Culture and Communication: Digging into the text	09 32333	20	Semester 2
LH Topics in British Politics	08 20912	20	Semester 1

Options in POLSIS - Please ensure you are taking a total of 60 credits in POLSIS (i.e. If you are taking the POLSIS dissertation only choose 20 credits from those below:

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LH Contemporary International Political Economy	08 20911	20	Semester 1
LH Topics in British Politics	08 20912	20	Semester 1

Students follow additional Level H modules from Russian Studies to the relevant credit value for their respective programme, to a combined total of 120 credits. Depending on the number of credits students opt to take in each language, optional module choices may be restricted (please refer to the relevant language section in the BA Modern Languages handbook and language-specific module choice information).

Russian studies optional modules:

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LH Advanced Catalan Language A	09 33755	10	Semester 1
LH Advanced Catalan Language B	09 33757	10	Semester 2
LH Intermediate Catalan Language A	09 33753	10	Semester 1
LH Intermediate Catalan Language B	09 33754	10	Semester 2
LH Audio-Visual Translation Project: Russian to English	09 35144	20	Semester 2
LH Border Crossings: Word & Image in Twentieth- and Twenty-first-century Russian Culture	09 34929	20	Semester 2
LH Contemporary representations of the body: literature, theory and art	09 30770	20	Semester 2
LH Echoes of Colonialism and Imperialism Across Cultures	09 34935	20	Semester 1
LH From Text to Tech: Digital Approaches to Languages and Cultures	09 30754	20	Semester 1
LH Global Capitalism and Migration	08 27334	20	Semester 1
LH Language, Culture and Communication: Digging into the text	09 32333	20	Semester 2
LH Narratives of Conquest and Incomprehension	09 38836	20	Semester 1
LH Russian Core VII - Language and Contexts	09 33738	10	Semester 2
LH The Romance languages: structure, variation and change	09 34943	20	Semester 2
LH Thinking Otherwise: Decolonial Approaches to Contemporary Thought and Culture	09 34910	20	Semester 2

Students who have taken LI 37673 Sustainable Development: Climate, Culture, Society and Policy cannot take the LH version of this module.

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LH Sustainable Development: Climate, Culture, Society and Policy	09 38933	20	Semester 1