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Master of Arts (Honours) Russian with Geography (With Integrated Year Abroad)


MA (Hons) 'with' Geography Degrees (with Year Abroad): First year
Code Module name Credits
Welcome to the Anthropocene: Society, Population, Environment 20 AND
A World in Crisis? 20 AND
Remaining credits from Level 1000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year

MA (Hons) Russian 'with' Degrees (with Year Abroad): 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) 'with' Geography Degrees (with Year Abroad): Second year
Code Module name Credits
* Geographies of Global Change 30 AND
* (Re)constructing environments, people and places 30 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 and have an average grade 11 or better in modules marked *
MA (Hons) Russian 'with' Degrees (with Year Abroad): 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
Intermediate Russian Literature and Culture 1 10 AND
Intermediate Russian Literature and Culture 2 10 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

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) Russian 'with' Degrees (with Year Abroad): Year Abroad
Code Module name Credits
View list Between 0 and 60 credits from Options for Year Abroad Study
Arabic Integrated Year Abroad 60
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) 'with' Geography Degrees (with Year Abroad): Third year
Code Module name Credits
View list Between 0 and 60 credits from Module List: GG3100, GG3321 - GG3302
GG3100 Quaternary Science: Principles and Practice 20
Geographies of Identity and Power 20
HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa 20
Colonial and Postcolonial Geographies 20
GG3229 Environmental Management in Scotland 20
GG3234 Migration and Transnationalism 20
Political and Cultural Geographies of the Border 20
GG3238 Development: voice, power and identity in global times 20
European Population Trends 20
Ice and climate 20
Quaternary Palaeoecology 20
GG3242 Geographies of the Life Course 20
Climate and Weather Systems 20
GG3263 Glaciers and Glaciation 20
GG3264 Oceans and Climate 20
Coastal Processes 20
GG3272 Biogeography and the Earth System 20
GG3273 Scrutinising Segregation: Geographies of Diversity and Inequality 20
GG3274 Socio-Ecological Systems 20
GG3275 Geomorphology: Landscapes, Landforms and Earth Surface Processes 20
Volcanic ash: dispersal, impacts and applications 20
Special Topic for Joint or Major Honours in Geography (Junior Honours) 10
Special Topic for Honours in Geography (Senior Honours) 10
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 from 3 modules in range GG3221-GG3289 across Year 3 and 4.
MA (Hons) Russian 'with' Degrees (with Year Abroad): Third Year
Code Module name Credits
(( Advanced Russian Language 1 15 AND
Advanced Russian Language 2 15 AND
View list Between 15 and 60 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 AND
View list 15 credits from Module List: RU3021 - RU4195 ) 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
( RU3005 Advanced Russian Translation 1
Not running in 2021-2022
15 AND
Advanced Russian Translation 2 15 AND
View list Between 15 and 60 credits from Module List: RU3021 - RU4195, ML3201 ))
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

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year

Students must take 180 credits in Russian across Third and Fourth Year.

MA (Hons) 'with' Geography Degrees (with Year Abroad): Fourth year
Code Module name Credits
View list Between 0 and 60 credits from Module List: GG3100, GG3321 - GG3302
GG3100 Quaternary Science: Principles and Practice 20
Geographies of Identity and Power 20
HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa 20
Colonial and Postcolonial Geographies 20
GG3229 Environmental Management in Scotland 20
GG3234 Migration and Transnationalism 20
Political and Cultural Geographies of the Border 20
GG3238 Development: voice, power and identity in global times 20
European Population Trends 20
Ice and climate 20
Quaternary Palaeoecology 20
GG3242 Geographies of the Life Course 20
Climate and Weather Systems 20
GG3263 Glaciers and Glaciation 20
GG3264 Oceans and Climate 20
Coastal Processes 20
GG3272 Biogeography and the Earth System 20
GG3273 Scrutinising Segregation: Geographies of Diversity and Inequality 20
GG3274 Socio-Ecological Systems 20
GG3275 Geomorphology: Landscapes, Landforms and Earth Surface Processes 20
Volcanic ash: dispersal, impacts and applications 20
Special Topic for Joint or Major Honours in Geography (Junior Honours) 10
Special Topic for Honours in Geography (Senior Honours) 10
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 from 3 modules in range GG3221-GG3289 across Year 3 and 4.
MA (Hons) Russian 'with' Degrees (with Year Abroad): Fourth Year
Code Module name Credits
Advanced Russian Language 3 15 AND
Advanced Russian Language 4: Communication Skills 15 AND
( Long Dissertation on a Russian Topic 30 OR
Joint Dissertation (30cr) 30 ) AND
View list Credits from Module List: RU3021 - RU4195, ML3201
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

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year

Students must take 180 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 91¹û¶³ÊÓƵ School in the Learning Agreement (see ).