DPT: Russian Studies and English Literature (MA Hons) (UTRUSEL)

Jump to: Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4

Year 1 Academic year: 2026/27, Starting in: September

Students should aim to divide the number of credits they take in each academic year evenly between Semester 1 and Semester 2

Compulsory courses

Literary Studies 1A

Must be passed

Literary Studies 1B

Must be passed

Course options

Selected courses must be passed

Russian Studies 1A

Selected courses must be passed

Russian Studies 1B

AND

Challenge Courses are designed to bring together students from different degree programmes to explore the complex issues facing the world today through interdisciplinary collaboration and creative thinking.
Working with each other and expert academics, students will gain new perspectives and develop important life skills highly valued by employers, such as teamwork, problem-solving and adaptability.

Our Changing World

Sustainability and Social Responsibility (UG)

Wicked problems: Reason and Rhetoric

Understanding decolonisation in a globalised world

Sustainable Development Goals: History, Progress and Beyond 2030

Living in the Anthropocene

Understanding Gender in the Contemporary World

Healthy Eating for People and Planet

Year 2 Academic year: 2026/27, Starting in: August

Entry into Honours:
(1) Students must pass courses to the required value of 240 credits in the first two years.
(2) Students must achieve 50% or more at first attempt in Russian Language 2A or 2B, as appropriate, AND in the selected Russian Literature and Culture course.
(3) All courses (including outside subjects) must be passed before embarking on the year abroad, an outside course passed at Resit in August will be acceptable.

Compulsory courses

Literary Studies 2A: English Literature in the World, 1380-1788

Must be passed

Literary Studies 2B: English Literature in the World, post-1789

Must be passed

Course options

Selected courses must be passed 1st time at 50%

Russian Language 2B

Russian Language 2A

AND

Selected courses must be passed 1st time at 50%

Transnational Russian Culture

The Golden Age of Russian Literature

Utopia and Dystopia in 20th-century Russian Literature

AND

Politics and Institutions of Contemporary France is only available to students who have passed French 1A or French 1B.
Nordic Languages 2 is available to students who have taken a Scandinavian Studies language in Year 1.
For LEL2 courses students must have passed: Linguistics and English Language 1 or A Brief Introduction to Language.

Selected courses must be passed

Introduction to Gaelic Language and Culture

Introductory Gaelic (Post-Beginners)

Gender and Visual Representations

Introduction to European Cinema

Languages Beyond University

Crime and Detection in Literature

Cultural Responses to War

The Coming of Age Narrative

Dynamics of Language and Power

Migration, Diaspora, Exile: The Politics of Representation

Gender and Culture

Politics and Institutions of Contemporary France A

Dutch for Beginners

Basque Language for beginners

Catalan Language 1

Catalan Culture and Society 2: From 1975 to the Present

Catalan Culture and Society 1: From 1900 to 1975

Basque, vasco, euskaldun: the survival and reinvention of a pre-Indo-European language and culture in Western Europe.

Transnational Russian Culture

The Golden Age of Russian Literature

Scandinavian Civilisation A: Vikings, Sagas and the Road to Enlightenment

Scandinavian Civilisation B: From National Romanticism to the Nordic Model

Modern Icelandic Language 1b

Modern Icelandic Language 1a

Nordic Languages 2

LEL2B: Phonetic Analysis and Empirical Methods

LEL2C: English in Time and Space

LEL2D: Cross-linguistic Variation: Limits and Theories

LEL2E: Structure and History of European Languages

Introduction to Ukrainian Language and Cultures

Selected courses must be passed

Year 3 Academic year: 2026/27, Starting in: August

During 3rd year, when permitted, at least 30 weeks must be spent in a relevant country and prescribed work completed in English Literature and the relevant language in an approved establishment. During sessions when this is not permitted students will be offered an alternative means of engagement.

Final Assessment:

One unit of assessment is allocated to every 20 credits and constitutes one 20-credit paper. The following are the twelve 20-credit papers on which the classification of the degree is based.

1. Russian Language Paper 1 (10 credits from Language acquisition and 10 from Y4 LP1 course)
2. Russian Language Paper 2 (10 credits from Language acquisition and 10 from Y4 LP2 course)
3. Oral for Russian (taught and assessed in Y4)
4. Russian Online Language Course for Year Abroad Students
5. English Literature YA work
6. English Literature YA work (same mark as 5)
7. MEL Dissertation Preparation (see 8)
8. MEL Dissertation Completion (Papers 7 & 8 are a combined grade 10% from preparation and 90% from final dissertation preparation. Credits cannot be awarded for Dissertation preparation unless the full 2 year course is completed.)
9. Selected English Literature Reading Theory course
10. English Literature option course
11. Russian, English Literature, or LLC Common Course option
12. English Literature option course (or Russian, or LLC Common Course option, if not already chosen under 11.)

Compulsory courses

English Literature Long Essay (Modern European Languages)

Language acquisition through residence/study B

Year Abroad online language learning course - Russian

MEL dissertation preparation

Year 4 Academic year: 2026/27, Starting in: August

Final Assessment:

One unit of assessment is allocated to every 20 credits and constitutes one 20-credit paper. The following are the twelve 20-credit papers on which the classification of the degree is based.

1. Russian Language Paper 1 (10 credits from Language acquisition and 10 from Y4 LP1 course)
2. Russian Language Paper 2 (10 credits from Language acquisition and 10 from Y4 LP2 course)
3. Oral for Russian (taught and assessed in Y4)
4. Russian Online Language Course for Year Abroad Students
5. English Literature YA work
6. English Literature YA work (same mark as 5)
7. MEL Dissertation Preparation (see 8)
8. MEL Dissertation Completion (Papers 7 & 8 are a combined grade 10% from preparation and 90% from final dissertation preparation. Credits cannot be awarded for Dissertation preparation unless the full 2 year course is completed.)
9. Selected English Literature Reading Theory course
10. English Literature option course
11. Russian, English Literature, or LLC Common Course option
12. English Literature option course (or Russian, or LLC Common Course option, if not already chosen under 11.)