Russian and linguistics ba (hons)

Queen Mary University of London
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  • It was a really positive experience to be. I must say that QM is an amazing university to be. The lecturers are great and very much supportive. Apart from academics it also have great research work, writing, finance and councelling services. Facilities are all well equipped and all what a student can ask for.
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Description

  • Type

    Postgraduate

  • Location

    London

  • Duration

    4 Years

Teaching
Teaching and learning
You'll receive approximately 10 to 16 hours of weekly contact time, 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 research diaries, poster presentations, class tests and exams. In your final year, you’ll carry out a research project based on real-world data and applying cutting-edge theory, which will bring together everything you have learned.
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
a phonetics laboratory, equipped with a soundproof recording studio
subscriptions to foreign newspapers and journals
language clubs and social activities, including film screenings, discussion groups and debates
Ling Lunch talks and 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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5.0
  • It was a really positive experience to be. I must say that QM is an amazing university to be. The lecturers are great and very much supportive. Apart from academics it also have great research work, writing, finance and councelling services. Facilities are all well equipped and all what a student can ask for.
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5.0
03/03/2019
About the course: It was a really positive experience to be. I must say that QM is an amazing university to be. The lecturers are great and very much supportive. Apart from academics it also have great research work, writing, finance and councelling services. Facilities are all well equipped and all what a student can ask for.
Would you recommend this course?: Yes
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Subjects

  • English
  • Teaching
  • Russian Language

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 Compulsory

  • Critical Thinking and Writing for Modern Foreign Languages
  • Foundations of Linguistics
  • 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)
Choose one from
  • English in Use
  • Introduction to English Syntax
  • Introduction to Phonology
  • Language Acquisition
  • Language in the UK
  • Languages of the World
  • Sounds of English

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Year 2 Compulsory

  • Russian language module (streamed according to entry level)
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 19th century
Choose up to four from
  • Aspects of Meaning
  • Describing Prosody
  • Explaining Grammatical Structure
  • Historical Linguistics
  • History of English
  • Language and Ethnicity
  • Language and Mind
  • Language and the Media
  • Linguistic Typology and Grammatical Theory
  • Sociolinguistic Variation and Change

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
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 four from
  • Bilingualism and Multilingualism
  • Formal Semantics
  • Philosophy of Language
  • Structures of Spoken English
  • Syntactic Theory
  • Unfamiliar Languages

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Year abroad

You could 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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