Russian and politics ba (hons)

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
• 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)
• Thinking Politically: Introduction to concepts, theories and ideologies

Choose from

• Introduction to International Relations
• Political Analysis

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Year 2 Compulsory

• Modern Political Thought 1
• 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 three from

• Accountability and Complexity in British Government
• Colonialism, Capitalism and Development
• Comparative European Politics I - Context and Institutional Development
• Comparative European Politics II - Issues and Performance
• European Integration
• International Relations Theory
• Modern Political Thought 2
• Modernity: Theories of State, Economy and Society
• Political Research
• Politics of International Law
• Power and Legitimacy in British Politics
• Power in Global Governance
• Researching Everyday Politics
• The International Politics of Security
• The International Politics of the Developing World
• US Politics
• War in World Politics

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

• Modern Languages Research Project
• Russian Novel: Countryside and Nation
• Russian Novel: Dysfunctional Families
• Russian Syntax

Choose up to four from

• Africa and International Politics
• American Politics, Carceral State and Social Movements
• British Economic and Social Policy Since 1945 – Ideas, Interests and Institutions
• British Economic and Social Policy Since 1945 – Independent Research
• Contemporary Russian Film
• Contemporary Russian Politics
• Doing International Politics
• Gender and Politics
• Globalisation: Issues and Debates
• Global Politics of Health and Disease
• Justice in a Global City
• Latin American Politics
• Modern Russian Literature II: Beyond the Monolith
• Nationalism and Ethnicity in International Relations
• Parliamentary Studies
• Parliamentary Studies (Internship)
• Politics of South Asia
• Politics of South Asia – Independent Research
• Political Violence and Liberal Modernity
• Populism: A Global Perspective
• Populism in 21st Century Europe
• Race and Racism in World Politics
• Race and Racism in World Politics: Independent Research
• Radical Politics
• Radical Politics Today – Independent Research
• The Politics of the Post-Colonial Middle East
• US Foreign Policy
• Utopia and Dystopia: Political, Economic and Literary Dreamworlds
• Utopia and Dystopia: Political, Economic and Literary Dreamworlds: Independent Research

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Year abroad

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