Programme requirements (2019/2020) | Master of Arts (Honours) Modern Languages (Arabic and Russian) and International Relations (With Integrated Year Abroad)

Master of Arts (Honours) Modern Languages (Arabic and Russian) and International Relations (With Integrated Year Abroad)

MA (Hons) Arabic (Triple Honours with Year Abroad): First Year ARBARBTR1W_1920
	Code	Module name	Credits
		Arabic for Beginners 1	20	AND
		Arabic for Beginners 2	20
Further requirements Choose 120 credits in the academic year

MA (Hons) International Relations (Triple Honours with Year Abroad): First Year IRLIRLTR1W_1920
	Code	Module name	Credits
		Concepts in Global Politics	20	AND
		Foreign Policy and Diplomacy in Global Politics	20
Further requirements Choose 120 credits in the academic year

MA (Hons) Russian (Triple Honours with Year Abroad): First Year RSNRSNTR1W_1920
	Code	Module name	Credits
((		Elementary Russian Language 1	20		AND
		Elementary Russian Language 2	20	)	OR
(		Advanced Elementary Russian Language and Literature 1	20		AND
		Advanced Elementary Russian Language and Literature 2	20	))
Further requirements Choose 120 credits in the academic year

MA (Hons) Arabic (Triple Honours with Year Abroad): Second Year ARBARBTR2W_1920
		Code	Module name	Credits
	^		Intermediate Arabic 1	20	AND
	^		Intermediate Arabic 2	20
Further requirements Choose 120 credits in the academic year Choose a minimum of 80 Level 2000 credits Automatic entry to Honours requires pass and have an average grade 11 or better in modules marked ^

MA (Hons) International Relations (Triple Honours with Year Abroad): Second Year IRLIRLTR2W_1920
		Code	Module name	Credits
	*		Theoretical Approaches to International Relations	20	AND
	*		Studying International Relations	20
Further requirements Choose 120 credits in the academic year Choose a minimum of 80 Level 2000 credits Automatic entry to Honours requires pass at grade 11 or better required in modules marked *

MA (Hons) Russian (Triple Honours with Year Abroad): Second Year RSNRSNTR2W_1920
	Code	Module name	Credits
(		Intermediate Russian Language 1	20		AND
		Intermediate Russian Language 2	20	)	OR
(		Advanced Intermediate Russian Language 1	20		AND
		Advanced Intermediate Russian Language 2	20	)
Further requirements Choose 120 credits in the academic year Choose a minimum of 80 Level 2000 credits Automatic entry to Honours requires An average grade of 11 in all Russian modules taken

Entry to Honours

Students who meet the requirements specified above, and who meet all other programme requirements, will be given automatic entry into Honours programmes.

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MA Honours with Integrated Year Abroad

The general requirements are 540 credits over a period of normally five years (and not more than six years) or part-time equivalent, of which the final three years are an approved Honours programme of 300 credits, of which 60 credits are gained during the integrated year abroad, 90 credits are at 4000 or 5000 level and at least a further 120 credits at 3000 and/or 4000 or 5000 levels.

MA (Hons) Arabic (Triple Honours with Year Abroad): Year Abroad ARBARBTRYA_1920
	Code	Module name	Credits
	Hide list View list	Between 0 and 60 credits from Options for Year Abroad Study
		French Integrated Year Abroad	60
		German Integrated Year Abroad	60
		Italian Integrated Year Abroad	60
		Modern Languages Integrated Year Abroad	60
		Russian Integrated Year Abroad	60
		Semester of Study in Russia	60
		Spanish Integrated Year Abroad	60
	Note: - Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester - Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them For further details, see the entry for each individual module above
Further requirements select 60 credits in acadeimc year

MA (Hons) Russian (Triple Honours with Year Abroad): Year Abroad RSNRSNTRYA_1920
	Code	Module name	Credits
	Hide list View list	Between 0 and 60 credits from Options for Year Abroad Study
		French Integrated Year Abroad	60
		German Integrated Year Abroad	60
		Italian Integrated Year Abroad	60
		Modern Languages Integrated Year Abroad	60
		Russian Integrated Year Abroad	60
		Semester of Study in Russia	60
		Spanish Integrated Year Abroad	60
	Note: - Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester - Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them For further details, see the entry for each individual module above
Further requirements select 60 credits in acadeimc year

MA (Hons) Arabic (Triple Honours with Year Abroad): Third Year ARBARBTR3W_1920
	Code	Module name	Credits
		Media Arabic 1	15	AND
		Media Arabic 2	15	AND
	Hide list View list	Between 0 and 60 credits from Module List: AR3411, AR3420 - AR3499, AR4421 - AR4422, AR4461 - AR4462
		Modern Arab Culture and Society	15
		Arabic Short Stories 1	15
		Arabic Short Stories 2	15
		Fannanat: Arab Women's Creativity in Modern Arab Culture	15
		Key Texts in Classical Arabic Literature and Culture 1	15
		Key Texts in Classical Arabic Literature and Culture 2	15
		Exile and Identity	15
		Palestinian Fiction	15
		Classical Arabic Poetry	15
		Classical Arabic Prose	15
	Note: - Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester - Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them For further details, see the entry for each individual module above
Further requirements Choose 120 credits in academic year

MA (Hons) International Relations (Triple Honours with Year Abroad): Third Year IRLIRLTR3W_1920
	Code	Module name	Credits
	Hide list View list	Between 30 and 60 credits from Module List : IR3000 - IR3999
		International Political Economy	30
		International Regimes and Organisations	30
	IR3007	Democracy and Democratisation	30
		International Terrorism	30
	IR3011	Ethics and World Politics	30
	IR3013	Modern Ideologies	30
		Case Studies in Conflict Analysis	30
		International Relations and International Law	30
		US Foreign Policy: The Dilemmas of Power	30
		The Politics of Africa	30
		International Security	30
	IR3026	Diplomacy and Conflict Intervention	30
	IR3027	American New World Orders of the Twentieth Century	30
	IR3028	Politics of China	30
	IR3029	The Logic of Irregular Warfare	30
		Human Rights in Theory and Practice	30
	IR3031	Globalisation and the War on Terrorism	30
	IR3032	Globalisation and its Disjunctures	30
	IR3033	Post-Conflict Transition in Sub-Saharan Africa	30
	IR3034	The Political Theory of War and Peace	30
	IR3035	Peace Processes and Violence	30
	IR3036	Public International Law and International Legal Theory	30
	IR3037	Central Asian Studies	30
	IR3038	Conflict Management, Settlement and Resolution	30
	IR3039	International Relations of the European Union	30
	IR3041	International Political Theory	30
	IR3042	Representations of Violent Conflict: Research Seminar	30
	IR3043	Approaches to Counter-Terrorism	30
		Pathways of European State Formation	30
		Violence in Deeply-Divided Societies	30
		Foreign Policy of Modern China	30
	IR3047	Arrested Development? The Politics of Postcolonialism	30
	IR3048	Peacekeeping and Humanitarian Intervention	30
		International History and International Relations	30
	IR3050	State, Power, Crime	30
	IR3051	International Relations Theory: From Fear to Queer	30
	IR3052	The Politics of Violence and Resistance in Latin America	30
	IR3053	Peacebuilding and Post-Conflict Transition in Latin America	30
		Mapping the Boundaries of Emerging and Evolving Securities	30
		International Relations and the Internet	30
		Political Leadership: Theories and History	30
		Armaments and International Relations	30
		Armed Forces, Societies and Governments: An International Perspective on Civil-Military Relations	30
	IR3059	Anglo-American Relations Since 1939: The Special Relationship?	30
		Rebellion and Revolution	30
	IR3061	International Political Theology: Christian Realism and Beyond	30
	IR3062	The United Nations since 1945	30
	IR3063	Organised Crime and Corruption	30
		Critical Terrorism Studies	30
		Refugees and International Relations	30
		Emotional Encounters: Diplomacy, Power and Persuasion in World Politics	30
	IR3067	The International Criminal Court in World Politics	30
		Christianity and World Politics	30
		Armed Conflict in Postcolonial Africa	30
		Realism in International Relations	30
	IR3072	New and emerging security threats in the Caucasus and Central Asia	30
		Dilemmas of International Order: Governing Conflict and Human Rights	30
	IR3074	International Relations of Energy and the Environment	30
		Leader Personality and Foreign Policy	30
		Political Economy of Trade and Investment	30
	IR3077	The Motives and Enablers of Terrorist Violence	30
		Hot Economics, Cold Politics? International Relations of Northeast Asia	30
	IR3101	Russian Politics and Foreign Policy after Communism	30
	IR3104	The International Relations of Post-Communist Central and Eastern Europe	30
	IR3111	Asian Security	30
		Gender and Generation	30
		Conflict in the Middle East	30
		Politics and State Formation in the Middle East	30
	IR3302	Democracy and Revolution in North Africa	30
		The Arab - Israeli Conflict	30
	IR3791
	Note: - Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester - Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them For further details, see the entry for each individual module above
Further requirements Choose 120 credits in academic year

MA (Hons) Russian (Triple Honours with Year Abroad): Third Year RSNRSNTR3W_1920
	Code	Module name	Credits
((		Advanced Russian Language 1	15		AND
		Advanced Russian Language 2	15		AND
	Hide list View list	Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List: RU3021 - RU4195, ML3201		)	OR
	RU3021	Russian Poetry of the Golden Age	15
	RU3022	The Nineteenth-Century Russian Novel	15
	RU3024	A Special Russian Author of the Nineteenth Century: Pushkin	15
	RU3025	Russian Fiction 1880 - 1917	15
	RU3026	Russian Modernist Fiction 1900 - 1940	15
	RU3027	Soviet Fiction 1917 - 1940	15
	RU3030	A Special Russian Author of the Twentieth Century	15
	RU3031	Russian 'Village Prose': 1953 - 1980	15
	RU3041	Early Nineteenth-Century Russian Intellectual History	15
	RU3042	Late Nineteenth-Century Russian Intellectual History	15
		Theatre and Performance in Twentieth-Century	15
	RU3044	Russia's Literary Easts	15
	RU3045	Russian 脡migr茅 Writing	15
	RU3046	Soviet Culture Under Stalin	15
		Russian Integrated Year Abroad	60
		Semester of Study in Russia	60
	RU3103	Summer Residential Project in Russia	15
	RU3105	Russian Integrated Year Abroad: Semester 1	30
	RU3106	Russian Integrated Year Abroad: Semester 2	30
	RU3110	Advanced Russian Translation 2	15
		Advanced Russian Language 1	15
		Advanced Russian Language 2	15
	RU4020	Directed Readings in Central and East European Languages 1	15
	RU4042	The Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature	15
		Advanced Russian Language 3	15
		Advanced Russian Oral Skills	0
		Advanced Russian Language 4: Communication Skills	15
	RU4106	Advanced Russian for Business	15
	RU4120	Directed Readings in Central and East European Languages 2	15
	RU4128	Soviet Literature 1940 - 1991	15
		Issues in Russian Cultural Memory	15
		Russian 'Village Prose': 1953 - 1980	15
	RU4132	Contemporary Russian Literature	15
	RU4133	Russian Children's Literature (1900 - 2015)	15
	RU4140	The Russian Silver Age: Art and Time	15
		The Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature	15
		Gender in Russian Literature and Culture	15
	RU4144	Russian Crime Fiction	15
	RU4150	History of Russian Cinema	15
	RU4151	The City in Soviet and Russian Cinema	15
	RU4152	Vladimir Nabokov	15
	RU4153	Voices of the Russian Enlightenment	15
	ML3201	Grammatical Rules and Lexical Exceptions	15
	Note: - Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester - Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them For further details, see the entry for each individual module above
(		Advanced Russian Language 1	15		AND
		Semester of Study in Russia	60	)	OR
(		Semester of Study in Russia	60		AND
		Advanced Russian Language 2	15	)) ))
Further requirements Choose 120 credits in academic year Students whose degree is all modern-language must take between 60 and 120 credits in Russian across Third and Fourth Year. Students whose degree has a non-modern language component must take between 60 and 90 credits in Russian across Third and Fourth Year.

MA (Hons) Arabic (Triple Honours with Year Abroad): Fourth Year ARBARBTR4W_1920
	Code	Module name	Credits
		Advanced Arabic 1	15	AND
		Advanced Arabic 2	15	AND
	Hide list View list	Between 0 and 60 credits from Module List: AR4420 - AR4499, AR3411, AR3421 - AR3423, AR3461 - AR3462, AR4999, ML4794, ID4002
		Exile and Identity	15
		Palestinian Fiction	15
		Classical Arabic Poetry	15
		Classical Arabic Prose	15
		Modern Arab Culture and Society	15
		Arabic Short Stories 1	15
		Arabic Short Stories 2	15
		Key Texts in Classical Arabic Literature and Culture 1	15
		Key Texts in Classical Arabic Literature and Culture 2	15
		Dissertation in Arabic Studies	30
		Joint Dissertation (30cr)	30
	ML3201	Grammatical Rules and Lexical Exceptions	15
		Communication and Teaching in Arts and Humanities	15
		Fannanat: Arab Women's Creativity in Modern Arab Culture	15
	Note: - Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester - Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them For further details, see the entry for each individual module above
Further requirements Choose 120 credits in academic year Choose optional credits to give between 60 and 120 credits in Arabic over years 3 and 4. AR4999 and ML4794 cannot be selected together.

MA (Hons) International Relations (Triple Honours with Year Abroad): Fourth Year IRLIRLTR4W_1920
	Code	Module name	Credits
	Hide list View list	Between 30 and 60 credits from Module List: IR4000 - IR4999, ID4002
		Honours Dissertation in International Relations	60
		Communication in International Relations	15
	IR4501	International Politics of Nuclear Weapons	30
	IR4502	Conflict Management, Settlement and Resolution	30
	IR4504	The Language of Politics	30
	IR4506	Political Economy of the Modern Middle East	30
	IR4508	Religion and World Politics	30
	IR4509	World Order in the History of Political Thought	30
	IR4512	Britain and the World	30
	IR4514	Global Public Policy	30
		The International Relations of Sub-Saharan Africa	30
	IR4518	Ethics and the Use of Force	30
		Politics and Development in Southeast Asia	30
	IR4521	Representations of International Relations	30
	IR4522	Critical Approaches to International Security	30
		The Aftermath of the Wars: Liberal Dilemmas	30
	IR4525	Ethno-National Conflict in the Post-Communist Space	30
	IR4526	Terrorism, Radicalism and Extremism	30
	IR4527	International Relations of the European Union	30
	IR4528	Foreign Policy of Modern China	30
	IR4529	Force in the Modern World	30
	IR4530	Genocide	30
	IR4531	The Return of Great Power Politics	30
		The Cultural Politics of Human Rights	30
	IR4534	Terrorist Finance	30
	IR4535	Theories of Friendship, Solidarity and Peace	30
	IR4536	Warmongers and Peacemakers: Religious Actors and Conflict	30
		Identities, Belonging and Others	30
	IR4539	International Law and International Legal Theory	30
		The Changing Character of War	30
	IR4541	Dealing in Darkness: An Anatomy of Realism in International Relations	30
		Gender and Terrorism	30
		Activism and Resistance	30
		Wars and Peace in the Caucasus	30
	IR4545	Indian Foreign Policy	30
	IR4546	The Psychology of International Security	30
	IR4547	Shadows in the Global Political Economy	30
		Force and Statecraft	30
	IR4549	Theory, Critique and Ideology in International Relations	30
	IR4550	Art and War	30
	IR4551	Cosmopolitanism and Global Politics	30
	IR4552	The Politics of the Environment	30
		Europe, America and the Transatlantic	30
	IR4554	Global Aesthetics and Politics	30
		Music, Politics and International Relations	30
	IR4556	Politics and Time: Memory, Narrative and Mourning in Group Identity and Conflict	30
	IR4558	Non-Western International Relations	30
		Faith, Politics, and War: The Augustinian Tradition in IR	30
	IR4561	Security as Ethics: Rethinking the Global Polity	30
	IR4562	The Political Lives of Objects	30
		Rebels, Terrorists, Militias: The Comparative Analysis of Armed Groups	30
	IR4564	Strategic Studies	30
		Contemporary Political Theory: from revolution to recognition	30
		Comparative regionalism	30
		The International Criminal Court in World Politics	30
	IR4568	International Relations of Energy and the Environment	30
	IR4569	Geopolitics of Energy in the Caspian Region	30
		Everyday Life and Global Politics	30
		Conflict and intervention in world politics	30
		Economy of Anger: Marxism, Psychoanalysis and the Politics of Status	30
		Global Economic Governance: Visions and Realities	30
		Understanding Terrorism	30
		Queer IR, Queering Global Politics	30
		The Psychology of Motives in Foreign Policy Analysis	30
		Ideologies and Social Movements in the Middle East	30
		Political Order and Violence in the Middle East	30
		International Relations of the Middle East	30
	IR4603	Central Asia in International Politics	30
		Political Islam and International Relations	30
	IR4605	The Arab - Israeli Conflict	30
	IR4606	Propaganda, Persuasion and Information War in the Middle East	30
		Britain and Iraq 1914-2004	30
	IR4794	Joint Dissertation (30cr)	30
		Joint Dissertation (60cr)	60
		Communication and Teaching in Arts and Humanities	15
	Note: - Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester - Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them For further details, see the entry for each individual module above
Further requirements Choose 120 credits in academic year

MA (Hons) Russian (Triple Honours with Year Abroad): Fourth Year RSNRSNTR4W_1920
	Code	Module name	Credits
		Advanced Russian Language 3	15	AND
	Hide list View list	Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List: RU3021-RU4199, ML3201, ML4794, ID4002
	RU3021	Russian Poetry of the Golden Age	15
	RU3022	The Nineteenth-Century Russian Novel	15
	RU3024	A Special Russian Author of the Nineteenth Century: Pushkin	15
	RU3025	Russian Fiction 1880 - 1917	15
	RU3026	Russian Modernist Fiction 1900 - 1940	15
	RU3027	Soviet Fiction 1917 - 1940	15
	RU3030	A Special Russian Author of the Twentieth Century	15
	RU3031	Russian 'Village Prose': 1953 - 1980	15
	RU3041	Early Nineteenth-Century Russian Intellectual History	15
	RU3042	Late Nineteenth-Century Russian Intellectual History	15
		Theatre and Performance in Twentieth-Century	15
	RU3044	Russia's Literary Easts	15
	RU3045	Russian 脡migr茅 Writing	15
	RU3046	Soviet Culture Under Stalin	15
		Russian Integrated Year Abroad	60
		Semester of Study in Russia	60
	RU3103	Summer Residential Project in Russia	15
	RU3105	Russian Integrated Year Abroad: Semester 1	30
	RU3106	Russian Integrated Year Abroad: Semester 2	30
	RU3110	Advanced Russian Translation 2	15
		Advanced Russian Language 1	15
		Advanced Russian Language 2	15
	RU4020	Directed Readings in Central and East European Languages 1	15
	RU4042	The Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature	15
		Advanced Russian Language 3	15
		Advanced Russian Oral Skills	0
		Advanced Russian Language 4: Communication Skills	15
	RU4106	Advanced Russian for Business	15
	RU4120	Directed Readings in Central and East European Languages 2	15
	RU4128	Soviet Literature 1940 - 1991	15
		Issues in Russian Cultural Memory	15
		Russian 'Village Prose': 1953 - 1980	15
	RU4132	Contemporary Russian Literature	15
	RU4133	Russian Children's Literature (1900 - 2015)	15
	RU4140	The Russian Silver Age: Art and Time	15
		The Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature	15
		Gender in Russian Literature and Culture	15
	RU4144	Russian Crime Fiction	15
	RU4150	History of Russian Cinema	15
	RU4151	The City in Soviet and Russian Cinema	15
	RU4152	Vladimir Nabokov	15
	RU4153	Voices of the Russian Enlightenment	15
		Dissertation on a Russian Topic	15
		Long Dissertation on a Russian Topic	30
	ML3201	Grammatical Rules and Lexical Exceptions	15
		Joint Dissertation (30cr)	30
		Communication and Teaching in Arts and Humanities	15
		Utopia/Dystopia in Russian Literature and Culture	15
	Note: - Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester - Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them For further details, see the entry for each individual module above
Further requirements Choose 120 credits in academic year Students whose degree is all modern-language must take between 60 and 120 credits in Russian across Third and Fourth Year. Students whose degree has a non-modern language component must take between 60 and 90 credits in Russian across Third and Fourth Year.

Study abroad

In the case of students who spend part of the Honours programme on a recognised Study Abroad scheme, the Programme Requirements will be amended to take into account overseas courses which are approved by the relevant 91果冻视频 School in the Learning Agreement (see ).

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