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Master of Arts (Honours) Film Studies and Russian


MA (Hons) Film Studies (Joint Honours): First year
Code Module name Credits
Key Concepts in Film Studies 20 AND
Global Film History and Historiography 20 AND
Remaining credits from Level 1000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year

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) Film Studies (Joint Honours): Second year
Code Module name Credits
^ Film Theory 20 AND
^ Screen Cultures today: media and methods 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 and have an average grade 7 or better in modules marked ^
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 7 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

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) Film Studies (Joint Honours): Third year
Code Module name Credits
View list 60 credits from Module List: FM4100 - FM4899
Cinema and Politics 30
FM4106 War and Cinema 30
Cinema and Nation 30
FM4108 Cinema and Media in the Digital Age 30
Film and the Archive 30
FM4110 Images and Impact: The Uses of Film 30
Ecocinema: The Nature of Film 30
Film Genres 30
FM4115 Sensory Cinema 30
Stars 30
FM4117 Modernity and the Moving Image 30
FM4118 Film and Fashion 30
FM4119 Horror on screen 30
FM4120 Silent Cinema 30
Screen Comedy 30
FM4122 Watching the Detectives: Murder, Mystery and the Media 30
Artists' Film and Video 30
FM4124 Race and Representation 30
FM4125 Global Film Colour 30
Creativity in screen cultures: collaboration, labour and scholarship 30
FM4127 Animation 30
Television Form and Culture 30
Film Materiality 30
FM4202 The Cinema in Eastern Europe 30
FM4204 Asian Cinemas 30
FM4205 Cinema in Scotland 30
FM4206 Cinemas of India 30
FM4207 British Cinemas: Conventions, Subversions, and Outsiders 30
FM4208 City in Asian Cinema 30
FM4303 Documentary Cinema 30
FM4306 Feminist Film Studies 30
Film Sound 30
Joint Project (30cr) 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

With the permission of the Director of Teaching of Film Studies and the relevant Head of School a student may substitute 30 Level-4000 Film Studies credits for another subject.

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, RU4554 and ML3101 ) OR
Russian Poetry of the Golden Age 15
The Nineteenth-Century Russian Novel 15
Russian Modernist Fiction 1900 - 1940 15
A Special Russian Author of the Twentieth Century 15
Theatre and Performance in Twentieth-Century Russia 15
RU3044 Russia's Literary Easts 15
RU3046 Soviet Culture Under Stalin 15
Russian Integrated Year Abroad 60
Semester of Study in Russia 60
RU3110 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
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
Voices of the Russian Enlightenment 15
Modern Languages Integrated Year Abroad 60
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
( 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

For Joint Honours degrees where both subjects are in the School of Modern Languages, the minimum requirement in each subject is 90 credits and the maximum allowed in one subject is 150 credits.

For Joint Honours degrees involving another School the normal requirement is 120 credits in each subject.


MA (Hons) Film Studies (Joint Honours): Fourth year
Code Module name Credits
View list 60 credits from Module List: FM4000 - FM4899
Film Studies Dissertation 30
Cinema and Politics 30
FM4106 War and Cinema 30
Cinema and Nation 30
FM4108 Cinema and Media in the Digital Age 30
Film and the Archive 30
FM4110 Images and Impact: The Uses of Film 30
Ecocinema: The Nature of Film 30
Film Genres 30
FM4115 Sensory Cinema 30
Stars 30
FM4117 Modernity and the Moving Image 30
FM4118 Film and Fashion 30
FM4119 Horror on screen 30
FM4120 Silent Cinema 30
Screen Comedy 30
FM4122 Watching the Detectives: Murder, Mystery and the Media 30
Artists' Film and Video 30
FM4124 Race and Representation 30
FM4125 Global Film Colour 30
Creativity in screen cultures: collaboration, labour and scholarship 30
FM4127 Animation 30
Television Form and Culture 30
Film Materiality 30
FM4202 The Cinema in Eastern Europe 30
FM4204 Asian Cinemas 30
FM4205 Cinema in Scotland 30
FM4206 Cinemas of India 30
FM4207 British Cinemas: Conventions, Subversions, and Outsiders 30
FM4208 City in Asian Cinema 30
FM4303 Documentary Cinema 30
FM4306 Feminist Film Studies 30
Film Sound 30
Joint Dissertation (30cr) 30
Joint Project (30cr) 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

With the permission of the Director of Teaching of Film Studies and the relevant Head of School a student may substitute 30 Level-4000 Film Studies credits for another subject.

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
The Nineteenth-Century Russian Novel 15
Russian Modernist Fiction 1900 - 1940 15
A Special Russian Author of the Twentieth Century 15
Theatre and Performance in Twentieth-Century Russia 15
RU3044 Russia's Literary Easts 15
RU3046 Soviet Culture Under Stalin 15
Russian Integrated Year Abroad 60
Semester of Study in Russia 60
RU3110 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
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
Voices of the Russian Enlightenment 15
Dissertation on a Russian Topic 15
Long Dissertation on a Russian Topic 30
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

For Joint Honours degrees where both subjects are in the School of Modern Languages, the minimum requirement in each subject is 90 credits and the maximum allowed in one subject is 150 credits.

For Joint Honours degrees involving another School the normal requirement is 120 credits in each subject.


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¶³ÊÓÆµ School in the Learning Agreement (see ).