Modern Languages and History (Russian)

The list shown below represents typical modules/components studied on your chosen language pathway.

For information on typical modules for History, please check the course page.

These modules may change from time to time. Read more in our terms and conditions.

Year 1

(For students entering from September 2024 onwards)

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Compulsory Modules

Students will be required to study the following compulsory modules

Code	Title	Credits	Semester
HIST1000	Exploring History	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
MODL1070	World Histories	20	Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
SLAV1120	What is Russia? An Introduction to Russian Studies	20	Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)

Optional Modules

All students will be required to study at least ONE of the following modules:

Students entering with an A level/heritage knowledge in Russian or equivalent may take up to 40 credits from the following module:

Code	Title	Credits	Semester
HIST1060	Faith, Knowledge and Power, 1500-1750	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
HIST1065	Diverse Histories of Britain	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
HIST1310	The Medieval World in Ten Objects	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
HIST1320	Medieval Lives: Identities, Cultures and Beliefs	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
HIST1510	Global Empires	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
HIST1520	Global Decolonization	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
HIST1530	The Making of the Twentieth Century	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)

Students entering with A level Russian or equivalent will be required to study the following modules:

Code	Title	Credits	Semester	Pass for Progression
SLAV1101	Core Russian Language 1	20	Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)	PFP

Students entering with heritage knowledge of Russian language will be required to study the following modules:

Code	Title	Credits	Semester	Pass for Progression
SLAV1140	Russian Language for Heritage Speakers	20	Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)	PFP

Students with no prior knowledge of Russian will be required to study the following modules:

Code	Title	Credits	Semester	Pass for Progression
SLAV1010	Beginning Russian 1	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
SLAV1020	Beginning Russian 2	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)	PFP

Discovery Modules

Students taking SLAV1101 or SLAV1140 may take up to 20 credits of discovery modules

Year 2

(For students entering from September 2024 onwards)

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We are currently refreshing our courses to make sure students have the best possible experience. Full module details for years 3 and 4 are not yet available. Before you enter years 3 and 4 details of modules for those years will be provided.

Optional Modules

Students who took SLAV1101 or SLAV1020 in Level 1 will be required to study the following modules:

Code	Title	Credits	Semester	Pass for Progression
SLAV2101	Core Russian Language 2	20	Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)	PFP

Students who took SLAV1140 in Level 1 will be required to study the following modules:

Code	Title	Credits	Semester	Pass for Progression
SLAV2230	Applied Russian Language for Heritage Speakers	20		PFP

All students will be required to study a minimum of 20 credits and may take up to 40 credits from the following optional modules from the following baskets. Students who take SLAV2230 cannot take SLAV2103. (Baskets 2 and 3 are offered in alternate years).

Basket 1

Code	Title	Credits	Semester	Pass for Progression
SLAV2103	Applied Russian Language 2	20	Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)

Basket 2

Code	Title	Credits	Semester	Pass for Progression
SLAV2111	The Sounds of Russian	20	Not running in 202425
SLAV2411	The Spaces of Russian Literature	20	Not running in 202425

Basket 3

Code	Title	Credits	Semester	Pass for Progression
SLAV2120	The Structures of Russian	20	Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
SLAV2430	Gender and Sexuality in Russia	20	Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)

All students may study up to 20 credits from the following optional modules:

Code	Title	Credits	Semester
HIST2260	Digital Methods for History, Art and Literature	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
MODL2001	Linguists into Schools	20	Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MODL2015	Black Europe	20	Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MODL2070	Reception, Transmission and Translation: The Global Circulation of Literature	20	Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MODL2075	Global Environmental Humanities	20	Not running in 202425
MODL2250	Digital Communications Across Cultures	20	Not running in 202425

Students will be required to take a minimum of 20 credits and may take up a maximum of 40 credits from the following optional modules. Students may not take more than one option from each basket.

MEDIEVAL HISTORY OPTIONAL MODULES

Code	Title	Credits	Semester
HIST2030	The Crusades and the Crusader States in the 12th Century	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
HIST2045	Transformations of the Roman World	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
HIST2110	The Cult of Saints in Medieval Europe c.400-c.1500	20	Not running in 202425
HIST2112	Jewish Communities in Medieval Europe	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
HIST2170	Patient Voices: Medicine and Healthcare in the Middle Ages	20	Not running in 202425
MEDV2085	Medieval Narratives in the Modern World: Nationalism, Terrorism, Popular Culture	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)

EARLY MODERN HISTORY OPTIONAL MODULES

Code	Title	Credits	Semester
HIST2065	The Tudors: Princes, Politics, and Piety, 1485-1603	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
HIST2073	Most Christian Kings: France, 1515-1715	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
HIST2090	Sin in Spanish America, 1571-1700	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
HIST2135	Britain and the Industrial Revolution	20	Not running in 202425
HIST2315	Mughals, Merchants and Mercenaries: 'Company Raj' in India 1600-1857	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
HIST2434	The Global Caribbean, 1641-1848	20	Not running in 202425

MODERN HISTORY OPTIONAL MODULES
Modern basket 1

Code	Title	Credits	Semester
HIST2152	Spain, 1898-1936: Disaster, Reaction and Reform	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
HIST2310	Russia under the Romanovs, 1812-1917	20	Not running in 202425
HIST2360	Bass Culture in Modern Britain	20	Not running in 202425
HIST2432	Lost Colonists: Failure and the Family in Southern Africa, 1880-1939	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
HIST2442	Black Politics from Emancipation to Obama	20	Not running in 202425
HIST2595	Curiosities and Monstrosities: Stuff on Display in Britain, c. 1753-1851	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)

Modern Basket 2

Code	Title	Credits	Semester
HIST2077	Colonial Encounters: France and its Empire, 1830-1945	20	Not running in 202425
HIST2103	Later Victorian England: Politics, Society and Culture	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
HIST2320	The Lucky Country? The Social History of Australia in the Twentieth Century	20	Not running in 202425
HIST2353	America and the Sixties	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
HIST2435	The Popular Caribbean: A History	20	Not running in 202425
HIST2441	Race, Gender and Cultural Protest in the US since 1865	20	Not running in 202425

Discovery Modules

Students may choose to take 20 credits of discovery modules.

Year 3

(For students entering from September 2024 onwards)

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Compulsory Modules

Students will be required to study the following compulsory modules

Code	Title	Credits	Semester	Pass for Progression
MODL9500	LCS Year Abroad	120	Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)	PFP

Year 4

(For students entering from September 2024 onwards)

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Students are required to take a minimum of 60 credits in History and 40 credits in Russian. Overall, students must take 100 credits across their two subjects. All students must take 40 credits as a Final Year Project module, which can be taken in – and count towards - either of their two subjects.

We are currently refreshing our courses to make sure students have the best possible experience. Full module details for year 4 are not yet available. Before you enter year 4 full details of modules for that year will be provided.

Compulsory Modules

Students will be required to study the following compulsory module

Code	Title	Credits	Semester	Pass for Progression
SLAV3101	Core Russian Language 3	20	Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)	PFP

Optional Modules

Students will be required to study ONE of the following Final Year Project modules.

Code	Title	Credits	Semester	Pass for Progression
HIST3500	History Dissertation	40	Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)	PFP
MODL3300	Final Year Project: Dissertation	40	Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)	PFP
MODL3340	Final Year Project: Extended Translation	40	Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)	PFP
MODL3350	Final Year Project: Digital Documentary (Podcast)	40	Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)	PFP

Students will be required to study between 60-80 credits in History.
All students must take a Special Subject module in History.
If they take their dissertation in History, they will take 80 credits in History and 40 credits in Russian.

Students who take their Final Year Project in Russian must take at least one further option in History.
Students who take their dissertation in History, they will have no further space for History options beyond
the Special Subject

Students will be required to study 40 credits from the following Special Subject modules:

Code	Title	Credits	Semester
HIST3025	History of the Manuscript Book in the Digital Age	40	Not running in 202425
HIST3290	Popular Belief in the Medieval West 1000-c.1500	40	Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
HIST3440	The Photographic Age: Photography, Society and Culture in Britain, 1839-1945	40	Not running in 202425
HIST3550	Exploration, Conflict and Cultural Encounter in Early European Expansionism	40	Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
HIST3590	White Africans: Intimacy, Race and Power	40	Not running in 202425
HIST3760	A Revolutionary Century: Resistance, Reform, and Repression in Central America, 1900- present	40	Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)

Students can take up to 20 credits from the following optional modules.

Level 3 History options, Semester 1

Code	Title	Credits	Semester
HIST3453	The Body in Australian History, 1788-2007	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
HIST3723	Apartheid in South Africa: Origins, Impact and Legacy	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
HIST3726	In the Shadow of Franco: Terror and its Legacy in Spain, 1936-Present Day	20	Not running in 202425
MEDV3411	Medieval Women Mystics: Visionaries, Saints and Heretics	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)

Level 3 History options, Semester 2

Code	Title	Credits	Semester
HIST3100	Colonial Bodies: Life and Death in British India, 1757-1900	20	Not running in 202425
HIST3493	War, Regicide and Republic: England, 1642-1660	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
HIST3530	Mapping the Middle Ages: space and representation from the Pacific to the Atlantic	20	Not running in 202425
HIST3689	Order and Disorder in Early Modern France: Understanding the French Wars of Religion	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
HIST3724	Caribbean Identity, Society and Decolonisation	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
HIST3790	Gender and Slavery in Latin America, 1580-1888	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)

Cross Listed with INTERNATIONAL HISTORY AND POLITICS

Code	Title	Credits	Semester
HIST3251	Twentieth Century Southeast Asia: From Empire to Independence	20	Not running in 202425
HIST3710	Nazism, Stalinism and the Rise of the Total State	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
HIST3728	The Breaking of Contemporary Britain: Challenges from the Post-War Period	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
HIST3877	The World of Terror	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
HIST3880	'Parasites' and 'Cockroaches': Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide in the Modern World	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
HIST3999	Doomed to Failure? European Great Power Politics from Bismarck to the Outbreak of World War I	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)

Students will be required to study between 40-60 credits in Russian. The number of credits you have
available for options modules will depend whether you choose to take your Final Year Project in Russian
or your dissertation in History. If you take your Final Year Project in Russian you will take fewer optional modules in this subject.

Students will be required to study up to 20 credits from the following optional modules (EITHER Basket 1 or Basket 2):

Basket 1

Code	Title	Credits	Semester	Pass for Progression
SLAV3114	Russian Advanced Translation	20	Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)

Basket 2

Code	Title	Credits	Semester	Pass for Progression
SLAV3117	The Sounds of Russian	20	Not running in 202425
SLAV3411	The Spaces of Russian Literature	20	Not running in 202425

Basket 3

Code	Title	Credits	Semester	Pass for Progression
SLAV3120	The Structures of Russian	20	Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
SLAV3430	Gender and Sexuality in Russia	20	Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)

Discovery Modules

Students may choose to take 20 credits of discovery modules.