DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2018/2019
- ARCHIVE as at 1 September 2018

Before selecting your outside courses, please ensure you have met your Personal Tutor.

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 all required Russian second-year courses;
(3) Progression to Linguistics Honours requires:
(a) an *average* of 50% across all obligatory LEL2 courses, achieved on the first sitting,
(b) a minimum of 40% in each obligatory LEL2 course, achieved on the first or second sitting.

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.

During 3rd year: At least 30 weeks must be spent in a relevant country and prescribed work completed in Linguistics and the relevant language.

Final Assessment:

*This applies to students who will be studying abroad during 2018/19*

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. (Papers that for the purposes of degree classification acquire a weighting of 40 credits are, therefore, listed twice.)
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. LEL YA work
6. LEL YA work
7. LEL Dissertation Preparation (same mark as 8) OR MEL Year Abroad work OR MEL Dissertation Preparation (see 8)
8. LEL Dissertation Completion, MEL Long Essay OR 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. Russian Hons option course
10. LEL option 1
11. LEL option 2
12. LEL option 3

Final Assessment:

*This applies to students completing their degree during 2018/19*

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. (Papers that for the purposes of degree classification acquire a weighting of 40 credits are, therefore, listed twice.)
1. Russian Studies 4 Honours Language Paper 1.
2. Russian Studies 4 Honours Language Paper 1.
3. Russian Studies 4 Honours Language Paper 2.
4. Russian Studies Oral.
5. Year abroad work for MEL/LEL degrees.
6. Year abroad work for MEL/LEL degrees.
7. MEL Dissertation Preparation (same mark as 8) OR LEL Preparation Abroad OR MEL Year Abroad Assessment.
8. MEL Dissertation or Dissertation completion following study abroad (Language Sciences) OR MEL Long Essay.
9. Honours course option in Russian Studies.
10. Course in Language Sciences.
11. Course in Language Sciences.
12. Course in Language Sciences.