Programme Requirements for 2022/23 Session


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B.A. History and Russian Studies Full-time

Year: 4
2022/23 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

History Modules:

Or:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
Dissertation 09 23512 40 Full Term

Students may also take between 0 and 40 credits from the following providing their total history credits add up to no more than 80:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Joint Honours Dissertation (History) 09 23756 20 Full Term
LH Joint Honours Link Dissertation 09 27510 40 Full Term

Subject to the approval of the programme lead students may also include in their history total up to 40 credits of optional modules offered by departments other than History. Students may only take one dissertation module and their credit total must include at least one non-dissertation module. Students wishing to take 23512 would normally have been expected to take 24845 in Year 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
Final Year Independent Study Module in Modern Languages 09 25584 20 Full Term
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

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 Border Crossings: Word & Image in Twentieth- and Twenty-first-century Russian Culture 09 34929 20 Semester 2
LH Echoes of Colonialism and Imperialism Across Cultures 09 34935 20 Semester 2
LH Global Capitalism and Migration 08 27334 20 Semester 1
LH Thinking Otherwise: Decolonial Approaches to Contemporary Thought and Culture 09 34910 20 Semester 2