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Master of Arts (Honours) Russian and Scottish History


MA (Hons) Russian (Joint Honours): First Year
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 )) AND
Remaining credits from Level 1000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year

MA (Hons) Scottish History (Joint Honours): First year
Code Module name Credits
Scotland and the English Empire 1070 - 1500 20 AND
( The Fall of Rome and the Origins of Europe (400-1000) 20 OR
The Early Modern Western World (c. 1450 - c. 1770) 20 OR
Themes in Late Modern History (c. 1776 - 2001) 20 ) AND
Remaining credits from Level 1000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year


MA (Hons) Russian (Joint Honours): Second Year
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 )) AND
Remaining credits from Levels 1000 and 2000 options

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
MA (Hons) Scottish History (Joint Honours): Second year
Code Module name Credits
* Scotland, Britain and Empire (c. 1500 - 2000) 20 AND
( * History as a Discipline: Development and Key Concepts 20 OR
* Medieval Europe (11th - 15th c.) 20 ) AND
Remaining credits from Levels 1000 and 2000 options

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 in the modules marked *

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

The general requirements are 480 credits over a period of normally four years (and not more than five years) or part-time equivalent, of which the final two years form an approved Honours programme of 240 credits, of which 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) Russian (Joint Honours): Third Year
Code Module name Credits
(( Advanced Russian Language 1 15 AND
Advanced Russian Language 2 15 AND
View list 30 credits from Module List: RU3021 - RU4195, ML3201 ) OR
Russian Poetry of the Golden Age 15
RU3022 The Nineteenth-Century Russian Novel 15
Russian Modernist Fiction 1900 - 1940 15
RU3030 A Special Russian Author of the Twentieth Century 15
RU3043 Theatre and Performance in Twentieth-Century Russia 15
RU3044 Russia's Literary Easts 15
Soviet Culture Under Stalin 15
Russian Integrated Year Abroad 60
Semester of Study in Russia 60
Advanced Russian Translation 2 15
Advanced Russian Language 1 15
Advanced Russian Language 2 15
Advanced Russian Language 3 15
Advanced Russian Oral Skills 0
Advanced Russian Language 4: Communication Skills 15
RU4130 Issues in Russian Cultural Memory 15
RU4131 Russian 'Village Prose': 1953 - 1980 15
Russian Children's Literature (1900 - 2015) 15
The Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature 15
Gender in Russian Literature and Culture 15
Russian Crime Fiction 15
RU4151 The City in Soviet and Russian Cinema 15
RU4152 Vladimir Nabokov 15
RU4153 Voices of the Russian Enlightenment 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

MA (Hons) Scottish History (Joint Honours): Third year
Code Module name Credits
View list 60 credits from Modules: ME3140-3159, ME3301-3389, MO3060-3079, MO3160-3179,MO3260-3279,MO3360-3379,MO3460-3479,MO3560-3579,MO3760-3779,
The Castle in Medieval Scotland (1100 - 1550) 30
ME3304 Age of Conquest: Edward I - Scotland and Wales (1239 - 1307) 30
ME3308 Adomnan and his World: Scotland and Ireland in the Dark Ages 30
ME3309 Medieval 91¹û¶³ÊÓƵ 30
ME3313 Early Irish Society (c. 600-800) 30
Times of trouble: civil conflicts in the later fifteenth century 30
ME3315 Scandinavians in the First Millennium 30
MO3063 Pirates and Privateers in Early Modern Scottish History 30
Crown and Nobility in early modern Scotland 30
MO3162 Early Modern Scotland in the age of British Unions (1603-1707) 30
Scotland and the Wider World 30
MO3165 North Britons: Patriotism and Identity in Scotland 1680 - 1830 30
MO3166 Debating Britain: Anglo-Scottish Unionism 1521 - 1707 30
MO3263 British Culture in the Eighteenth Century 30
MO3362 Highland Clearances: Reality and Myth 30
MO3363 Crime, Protest and Policing in Scotland (1780-1914) 30
MO3364 Hidden from History: Women in Scotland 30
Nationalism and Unionism in Modern Scotland 30
MO3461 Britain in the 1920s and 1930s: Aspects of everyday life 30
MO3561 Thatcherism, the 'new right', and the remaking of British politics, c. 1940 - 1997 30
The Power of Persuasion: Propaganda in Renaissance and Reformation Scotland 30
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

Choices should be made from different module ranges.

Not more than 90 Honours credits may be chosen from modules taught by any one member of staff.


MA (Hons) Russian (Joint Honours): Fourth Year
Code Module name Credits
Advanced Russian Language 3 15 AND
Advanced Russian Language 4: Communication Skills 15 AND
View list 30 credits from Module List: RU3021-RU4199, ML3201, ML4794, ID4002
Russian Poetry of the Golden Age 15
RU3022 The Nineteenth-Century Russian Novel 15
Russian Modernist Fiction 1900 - 1940 15
RU3030 A Special Russian Author of the Twentieth Century 15
RU3043 Theatre and Performance in Twentieth-Century Russia 15
RU3044 Russia's Literary Easts 15
Soviet Culture Under Stalin 15
Russian Integrated Year Abroad 60
Semester of Study in Russia 60
Advanced Russian Translation 2 15
Advanced Russian Language 1 15
Advanced Russian Language 2 15
Advanced Russian Language 3 15
Advanced Russian Oral Skills 0
Advanced Russian Language 4: Communication Skills 15
RU4130 Issues in Russian Cultural Memory 15
RU4131 Russian 'Village Prose': 1953 - 1980 15
Russian Children's Literature (1900 - 2015) 15
The Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature 15
Gender in Russian Literature and Culture 15
Russian Crime Fiction 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
Joint Dissertation (30cr) 30
ID4002 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

MA (Hons) Scottish History (Joint Honours): Fourth year
Code Module name Credits
View list 60 credits from Module List: ME4750-ME4789, MO4801 - MO4849 OR
ME4750 Conflict and Cohabitation: Northern Britain c.550 – 750 60
Robert Bruce and Edward II: Kings, Nobles and Communities in the British Isles (1306 – 1346) 60
ME4756 Historia Brittonum: Inventing the Past in Ninth-Century Wales 60
Monks and Nuns, Saints and Nobles: Germany in the High Middle Ages 60
MO4805 The Scottish Enlightenment 60
Britain and the Thirty Years' War (1618 - 1648) 60
Mary, Queen of Scots, France, England and Ireland 60
Class or Nation? Radical Politics in Twentieth Century Scotland 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
( View list Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List: HI4794, HI4997 - HI4999 AND
Joint Dissertation (30cr) 30
Recording the Past 30
Honours Project in History 30
Honours Dissertation in History 30
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
View list Between 0 and 30 credits from Modules: ME3140-3159, ME3301-3389, MO3060-3079, MO3160-3179,MO3260-3279,MO3360-3379,MO3460-3479,MO3560-3579,MO3760-3779, AND
The Castle in Medieval Scotland (1100 - 1550) 30
ME3304 Age of Conquest: Edward I - Scotland and Wales (1239 - 1307) 30
ME3308 Adomnan and his World: Scotland and Ireland in the Dark Ages 30
ME3309 Medieval 91¹û¶³ÊÓƵ 30
ME3313 Early Irish Society (c. 600-800) 30
Times of trouble: civil conflicts in the later fifteenth century 30
ME3315 Scandinavians in the First Millennium 30
MO3063 Pirates and Privateers in Early Modern Scottish History 30
Crown and Nobility in early modern Scotland 30
MO3162 Early Modern Scotland in the age of British Unions (1603-1707) 30
Scotland and the Wider World 30
MO3165 North Britons: Patriotism and Identity in Scotland 1680 - 1830 30
MO3166 Debating Britain: Anglo-Scottish Unionism 1521 - 1707 30
MO3263 British Culture in the Eighteenth Century 30
MO3362 Highland Clearances: Reality and Myth 30
MO3363 Crime, Protest and Policing in Scotland (1780-1914) 30
MO3364 Hidden from History: Women in Scotland 30
Nationalism and Unionism in Modern Scotland 30
MO3461 Britain in the 1920s and 1930s: Aspects of everyday life 30
MO3561 Thatcherism, the 'new right', and the remaking of British politics, c. 1940 - 1997 30
The Power of Persuasion: Propaganda in Renaissance and Reformation Scotland 30
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
View list Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List: ID4002, HI4101 and HI4996 )
ID4002 Communication and Teaching in Arts and Humanities 15
HI4101 Communication in History 15
Presenting the Past 30
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 must select 60 credits History credits.
With the permission of the Director of Teaching 30 credits in Fourth Year may be replaced by ID4002 and HI4101.
HI4999 requires the permission of the Chair of the Degree Committee.

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 91¹û¶³ÊÓƵ School in the Learning Agreement (see ).