BA Russian and Politics (RUSU03) ML

2019 - 2020

For students whose initial registration was prior to the 2019-20 session

Year 1

This level is no longer running.

Year 2

Core These are a compulsory part of your degree: you cannot change them. units (20 credits)

A student will take

Semester 1
POL229 + Restricted to students studying Single/Dual Degrees in Politics..	Political Analysis: Research Design and Data Analysis	AUT SEM	20 credits

units to the value of twenty credits from one of the following

Approved These are on a restricted list of modules offered by your department(s). Normally you will need to select a minimum number of credits from the list. units (20 credits)

2Bi

Post A Level Russian stream

A student will take 20 credits from this group.

Semester 1
RUS205 ⇐P⇒Pre-requisites: RUS106 Is a pre-requisite for: RUS377 RUS397 (when the module is running)	Russian Language Skills (I) Course A	AUT SEM	10 credits
Semester 2
RUS206	Russian Language Skills (II) Course A	SPR SEM	10 credits

AND

Approved These are on a restricted list of modules offered by your department(s). Normally you will need to select a minimum number of credits from the list. units (20 credits)

2Bii

Non A Level Russian stream

A student will take 20 credits from this group.

Semester 1
RUS207 ⇐PPre-requisites: RUS104	Russian Language Skills (I) Course B	AUT SEM	10 credits
Semester 2
RUS208	Russian Language Skills (II) Course B	SPR SEM	10 credits

AND

Approved These are on a restricted list of modules offered by your department(s). Normally you will need to select a minimum number of credits from the list. units (40 credits)

A student will take 40 credits from this group.

Semester 1
POL2000 + Restricted to students studying Single or Dual Degrees in Politics..	The Left: Past, Present & Future	AUT SEM	20 credits
POL217	The Political Economy of Global Capitalism	AUT SEM	20 credits
POL223 + Restricted to students studying Single or Dual Degrees in Politics..	International Relations Theory	AUT SEM	20 credits
POL234 + Restricted to students studying Single/Dual degrees in Politics.	Political Theory in Practice	AUT SEM	20 credits
Semester 2
POL206 + Restricted to students studying Single or Dual Degrees in Politics..	The Politics and Government of the European Union	SPR SEM	20 credits
POL230 + Restricted to studentsstudying Single or Dual Degrees in Politics..	Contemporary Security Challenges	SPR SEM	20 credits
POL235 + Restricted to students studying Single/Dual Honours degrees in Politics..	Development	SPR SEM	20 credits
POL237 + Restricted to students studying Single or Dual Degrees in Politics..	Human Rights, Power and Politics	SPR SEM	20 credits
POL238 + Restricted to students studying Single or Dual Degrees in Politics..	Oppression and Resistance	SPR SEM	20 credits
POL239 + Restricted to students studying single or dual degrees in Politics..	Autocracies and Democracies	SPR SEM	20 credits

units to the value of forty credits from the following, not more than twenty credits being selected from one of 2Dii, 2Diii, 2Div or 2Dv

AND

Approved These are on a restricted list of modules offered by your department(s). Normally you will need to select a minimum number of credits from the list. units (20 credits)

2Di

A student will take a minimum of 20 and a maximum of 40 credits from this group.

Semester 1
RUS2013	Dostoevsky	AUT SEM	10 credits
RUS295	Contemporary Russian Society	AUT SEM	20 credits
Semester 2
MDL212 + EMPTY.	Soviet Culture in the Era of the Great Terror	SPR SEM	20 credits
RUS2015	Reading the Revolution	SPR SEM	10 credits
Full academic year
MDL2622 XCannot be taken with: RUS3622 + RUS104, RUS106 or equivalent. EMPTY.	The Structures of Russian	ACAD YR	20 credits

AND

Approved These are on a restricted list of modules offered by your department(s). Normally you will need to select a minimum number of credits from the list. units (20 credits)

2Dii

A student will take 20 credits from this group.

Semester 1
RUS223 + Not available to students who have taken RUS121.	Czech I	AUT SEM	10 credits
Semester 2
RUS224 + Not available to students who have taken RUS122.	Czech II	SPR SEM	10 credits

AND

Approved These are on a restricted list of modules offered by your department(s). Normally you will need to select a minimum number of credits from the list. units (20 credits)

2Diii

A student will take 20 credits from this group.

Semester 1
RUS3071 + RUS114 or RUS308.	Czech Intermediate I	AUT SEM	10 credits
Semester 2
RUS3072	Czech Intermediate II	SPR SEM	10 credits

AND

Approved These are on a restricted list of modules offered by your department(s). Normally you will need to select a minimum number of credits from the list. units (20 credits)

2Div

A student will take 20 credits from this group.

Semester 1
MLT257 CCo-requisites: MLT217 + Students must have - GCSE grade A, or CEF A2 equivalent learning experience in the language..	Polish Intermediate 1	AUT SEM	10 credits
Semester 2
MLT258 CCo-requisites: MLT217 + Pre-requisites - GCSE grade A*, AS level grade B/C, or CEF A2/B1 or equivalent learning experience in the language..	Polish Intermediate 2	SPR SEM	10 credits

AND

Approved These are on a restricted list of modules offered by your department(s). Normally you will need to select a minimum number of credits from the list. units (20 credits)

2Dv

A student will take 20 credits from this group.

Full academic year
MDL206	Prague at the Crossroads of East and West	ACAD YR	20 credits

Year 3

Before proceeding to the final year a student will spend one session in Russia or in a Russian speaking environment, in attendance as a full-time student at a university or other approved institution, or gaining appropriate academic or professional experience, the arrangements being subject to the approval of the Head of School.

Core These are a compulsory part of your degree: you cannot change them. units (80 credits)

In respect of attendance for which no grades will be awarded

A student will take

Semester 1
RUS3900 P⇒Is a pre-requisite for: RUS3100 (when the module is running)	Russian and Slavonic Studies Year Abroad	AUT SEM	40 credits
Semester 2
RUS3901 P⇒Is a pre-requisite for: RUS3100 (when the module is running)	Russian and Slavonic Studies Year Abroad	SPR SEM	40 credits

Core These are a compulsory part of your degree: you cannot change them. units (40 credits)

A student will take

Semester 1
MDL306 + SLC students only.	SLC Year Abroad	AUT SEM	20 credits
Semester 2
MDL307 + SLC students only.	SLC Year Abroad	SPR SEM	20 credits

Grades awarded in respect of units listed at 3B above will carry the same weight as grades awarded at Level 2.

Year 4

Approved These are on a restricted list of modules offered by your department(s). Normally you will need to select a minimum number of credits from the list. units (20 credits)

A student will take 20 credits from this group.

Semester 1
RUS380	Advanced Russian Through Literary Texts	AUT SEM	10 credits
Semester 2
RUS389 + Places on this module are limited.	Applied Russian Language Skills	SPR SEM	10 credits

units to the value of sixty credits from the following

AND

Approved These are on a restricted list of modules offered by your department(s). Normally you will need to select a minimum number of credits from the list. units (20 credits)

4Bi

A student will take a minimum of 20 and a maximum of 40 credits from this group.

Semester 1
POL3001	The Political Economy of Africa	AUT SEM	20 credits
POL3005 P⇒Is a pre-requisite for: POL3006 (when the module is running) + Restricted to students studying single and dual honours Politics degrees..	Civilisation, Empire and Hegemony	AUT SEM	20 credits
POL3026 + Restricted to students studying Single or Dual Degrees in Politics..	War, Peace and Justice	AUT SEM	20 credits
POL3028 + Restricted to students studying Single or Dual Degrees in Politics..	Political Ecology: Power, Nature and Society	AUT SEM	20 credits
POL3030 + Restricted to students studying a single or dual honours degree in Politics..	Marx and Contemporary Marxism	AUT SEM	20 credits
POL3032 + Restricted to students studying Single or Dual Degrees in Politics..	Anti-Politics and Democratic Crisis	AUT SEM	20 credits
POL3033 + Restricted to students studying Single/Dual Honours degrees in Politics..	Legitimate and Illegitimate Violence	AUT SEM	20 credits
POL3034 + Restricted to students studying a single or dual honours degree in Politics..	Narcopolitics	AUT SEM	20 credits
POL3035 + Restricted to students studying Single/Dual Honours degrees in Politics..	Justice in World Politics	AUT SEM	20 credits
POL3043 + Restricted to students studying Single or Dual Degrees in Politics..	The Politics of Security	AUT SEM	20 credits
POL3046 + Restricted to students studying Single or Dual Degrees in Politics..	Corporations in Global Politics: Possibilities, Tensions, and Ambiguities	AUT SEM	20 credits
POL3119 P⇒Is a pre-requisite for: POL3120 (when the module is running) + Restricted to students studying Single/Dual Degrees in Politics..	Party Politics: Competition, Strategies & Campaigns	AUT SEM	20 credits
POL3129 P⇒Is a pre-requisite for: POL3130 (when the module is running)	Parliamentary Studies	AUT SEM	20 credits
POL3137 P⇒Is a pre-requisite for: POL3138 (when the module is running)	Peacekeeping, State-building and International Intervention	AUT SEM	20 credits
POL3139 P⇒Is a pre-requisite for: POL3140 (when the module is running) + Restricted to students studying Single or Dual Degrees in Politics..	Pandemics and Panics: Health, Security and Global Politics	AUT SEM	20 credits
POL3151 + Restricted to students studying Single or Dual Degrees in Politics..	Animals, Ethics and Politics	AUT SEM	20 credits
POL3161 + Restricted to students studying single and dual honours Politics degrees..	Political Theory in An Age of Total War	AUT SEM	20 credits
Semester 2
POL3019 + Restricted to students studying Single or Dual Degrees in Politics..	Terrorism, Violence and the State	SPR SEM	20 credits
POL3031 + Restricted to students studying a single or dual honours degree in Politics..	The Making of the Modern Middle East	SPR SEM	20 credits
POL3042 + Restricted to students studying Single or Dual Degrees in Politics..	The Political Economy of Social Policy	SPR SEM	20 credits
POL3044 + Restricted to students studying a single or dual honours degree in Politics..	Hunger in the Global North	SPR SEM	20 credits
POL3045 + Restricted to students studying Single or Dual Degrees in Politics..	Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict	SPR SEM	20 credits
POL3109 + Restricted to students studying Single and Dual degrees in Politics..	Britain and the European Union	SPR SEM	20 credits
POL3123 + Restricted to students studying Single/Dual Degrees in Politics..	Liberalism and its Critics	SPR SEM	20 credits
POL3153 + Restricted to students studying Single or Dual Degrees in Politics..	Sex, Race and Death: Feminist Perspectives on War, Violence and (In)Security	SPR SEM	20 credits
POL3155	German Politics: Domestic Contestation and Global Impact	SPR SEM	20 credits
POL348 + Restricted to students studying Single or Dual Degrees in Politics..	Framing Politics? Economic Ideas as Political Weapons	SPR SEM	20 credits

AND

Approved These are on a restricted list of modules offered by your department(s). Normally you will need to select a minimum number of credits from the list. units (20 credits)

4Bii

A student will take a minimum of 20 and a maximum of 40 credits from this group.

Semester 2
POL3040 CCo-requisites: POL3041 + Restricted to students studying Single/Dual Honours degrees in Politics..	Research Project 1	SPR SEM	20 credits
Full academic year
POL3039 + Restricted to students studying a single or dual honours degree in Politics..	Dissertation in Politics	ACAD YR	40 credits
POL3103 + Restricted to students studying Single or Dual Degrees in Politics..	Dissertation (Work Related)	ACAD YR	40 credits
POL3104 + Satisfactory completion of POL229. Restricted to students studying dual/single honours degrees in Politics..	Dissertation in Political Analysis	ACAD YR	40 credits

units to the value of forty credits from the following, not more than twenty credits being selected from one of 4Cii, 4Ciii, 4Civ or 4Cv

AND

Approved These are on a restricted list of modules offered by your department(s). Normally you will need to select a minimum number of credits from the list. units (20 credits)

4Ci

A student will take a minimum of 20 and a maximum of 40 credits from this group.

Semester 1
RUS3013	Dostoevsky	AUT SEM	10 credits
RUS395	Contemporary Russian Society	AUT SEM	20 credits
Semester 2
RUS3015	Reading the Revolution	SPR SEM	10 credits
RUS368	Soviet Culture in the Era of the Great Terror	SPR SEM	20 credits
Full academic year
RUS3622 XCannot be taken with: MDL2622 + Familiarity with Cyrillic, and knowledge of Russian beyond beginner level.	The Structures of Russian	ACAD YR	20 credits

AND

Approved These are on a restricted list of modules offered by your department(s). Normally you will need to select a minimum number of credits from the list. units (20 credits)

4Cii

A student will take 20 credits from this group.

Semester 1
RUS3071 + RUS114 or RUS308.	Czech Intermediate I	AUT SEM	10 credits
Semester 2
RUS3072	Czech Intermediate II	SPR SEM	10 credits

AND

Approved These are on a restricted list of modules offered by your department(s). Normally you will need to select a minimum number of credits from the list. units (20 credits)

4Ciii

A student will take 20 credits from this group.

Semester 1
MLT257 CCo-requisites: MLT217 + Students must have - GCSE grade A, or CEF A2 equivalent learning experience in the language..	Polish Intermediate 1	AUT SEM	10 credits
Semester 2
MLT258 CCo-requisites: MLT217 + Pre-requisites - GCSE grade A*, AS level grade B/C, or CEF A2/B1 or equivalent learning experience in the language..	Polish Intermediate 2	SPR SEM	10 credits

AND

Approved These are on a restricted list of modules offered by your department(s). Normally you will need to select a minimum number of credits from the list. units (20 credits)

4Civ

A student will take 20 credits from this group.

Semester 1
MLT307 + Student should have A level grade A-C, or CEF B1+ equivalent learning experience in the language..	Polish Advanced 1	AUT SEM	10 credits
Semester 2
MLT308 + Students should have A level grade A, or CEF B1+/B2- equivalent learning experience in the language..	Polish Advanced 2	SPR SEM	10 credits

AND

Approved These are on a restricted list of modules offered by your department(s). Normally you will need to select a minimum number of credits from the list. units

4Cv

A student will take up to 20 credits from this group.

Semester 1
MDL301	Social Approaches to Multilingualism	AUT SEM	20 credits
Full academic year
MDL304	Dissertation	ACAD YR	20 credits
MDL305	Learning and Teaching Foreign Languages	ACAD YR	20 credits

⇐P	-	This module has pre-requisite(s).
P⇒	-	This module is a pre-requisite for other modules.
C	-	This module has co-requisite(s).
X	-	Some modules cannot be studied in combination with this module.
+	-	Additional information about requirements for studying this module.

Please note that the regulations displayed on this page reflect provision in 2019/20 and may not reflect study undertaken in other academic sessions. To see regulations that applied in another academic session, please return to the Programme Regulations Finder home screen and select the appropriate session.