Russian and comparative literature ba (hons)

Queen Mary University of London
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Description

  • Type

    Postgraduate

  • Location

    London

  • Duration

    4 Years

Teaching
Teaching and learning
You’ll receive 10 to 15 hours of weekly contact time per module, in the form of lectures, seminars and language classes.
You'll spend up to five hours per week in language classes – in small groups of no more than 20 for classroom or language lab teaching, and no more than 10 for oral and aural work.
For every hour spent in class, you’ll complete a further two to three hours of independent study.
Assessment
Assessment typically includes a combination of coursework and exams, or coursework only, oral and aural exams, final-year dissertation, independent projects and creative journals.
Resources and facilities
The School offers excellent on-campus resources to aid your studies, including:
the Queen Mary library
the Multimedia Language Resource Centre, equipped with digital labs and resource rooms, teacher and student workstations, interactive whiteboards, and software for viewing live international satellite TV broadcasts
language clubs and social activities, including film screenings, discussion groups and debates
subscriptions to foreign newspapers and journals
guest speaker seminars, which allow you to hear from academics, researchers and experts from institutions in Europe and North America.
Learn another language
If you’re interested in learning another language, you can sign up for a course at Queen Mary’s Language Centre, where you can choose from Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), French, German, Japanese or Spanish.

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67-69 Lincoln'S Inn Fields, WC2A 3JB

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Subjects

  • Writing
  • Teaching
  • Russian Language
  • Translation
  • Options
  • Art
  • Comparative Literature

Course programme

Structure

The Russian language modules you take will depend on your entry level. We offer separate classes for beginner, post-GCSE, post-A-level and native speakers.

  • Year 1
  • Year 2
  • Year 3
  • Year 4

Year 1

  • Critical Thinking and Writing for Modern Foreign Languages
  • Introduction to Comparison
  • Introduction to Literature: Texts and Contexts
  • Reading Contemporary Russia (for beginner or post-GCSE entrants only)
  • Russian Culture and Society (for beginner or post-GCSE entrants) OR Foundations of Russian Studies (for post-A-level or native speakers)
  • Russian language module (streamed according to entry level)
  • The Scene of Learning
  • Understanding Culture

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Year 2 Compulsory

  • Russian language module (streamed according to entry level)
  • The Scene of Reading
Choose up to three from
  • Colonial Literatures, Post-Colonial Perspectives
  • Experiments in contemporary Women’s Writing
  • Fairy Tales in the Modern World
  • Homeward Bound: From the Odyssey to O Brother Where Art Thou?
  • Madness, Past and Present
  • Migration through Photography
  • On the Subject of Sex I: Sappho to Stonewall
  • Out of Place: Literature and Dislocation
  • Why Belgium? Identities, Cultures, Narratives
Choose one or two from
  • Modern Russian Literature I: Revolution
  • Russian Film: Memory and History
  • Russian Novel: Self and Society
  • Short Stories and Important People: The Nineteenth Century

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Year 3

  • Year abroad

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Year 4 Compulsory

  • Russian language module (streamed according to entry level)
  • The Scene of Writing
Choose one or two from
  • Contemporary Russian Film
  • Modern Russian Literature II: Beyond the Monolith
  • Russian Novel: Countryside and Nation
  • Russian Novel: Dysfunctional Families
  • Russian Syntax
Choose up to three from
  • Comparative Literature Research Project
  • Comparative Modernisms: the Case of China and India
  • Constellations: Online Anthology Group Project
  • Faust in Legend, Literature and the Arts
  • Grand Tours: 19th century Adventure Stories for Young Readers and their 20th century Afterlives
  • Lost in Translation?
  • On the Subject of Sex II: Queen to Queer
  • Poetry and Poetics of Resistance
  • Touch and Read: The Five Senses in Literary Modernism

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Year abroad

You can choose to go to a university in Moscow, St Petersburg, Yaroslavl, Tver, Petrozavodsk, Kazan or our Erasmus partner Daugavpils University in a Russian-speaking part of Latvia. Our exchange programmes are with major state universities as well as with smaller-scale private schools.

Find out more about study abroad opportunities at Queen Mary.

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