DPT: Russian Studies and Spanish (MA Hons) (UTMLRSP)

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

Year 1 Academic year: 2024/25, 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

There are no compulsory courses in this year of this programme.

Course options

Selected courses must be passed

Russian Studies 1B

Russian Studies 1A

AND

Selected courses must be passed

Spanish 1A

Spanish 1B

AND

Year 2 Academic year: 2024/25, 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) Students must achieve 50% or more at first attempt in Spanish Language 2 AND in Literatures and Cultures of the Spanish-Speaking World 2.
(4) 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

Spanish Language 2

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

Literatures and Cultures of the Spanish-Speaking World 2

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

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: Diversity and Historical Developments is available to students who have taken a Scandinavian Studies language in Year 1.
Communicating across the Scandinavian Languages 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

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

Culture and Society in the Catalan World

Basque Language for beginners

Catalan Language 1

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

Nordic Languages: Diversity and Historical Developments

Communicating across the Scandinavian Languages

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

AND

Selected courses must be passed

Year 3 Academic year: 2024/25, Starting in: August

During 3rd year, when permitted, at least 30 weeks of approved residence must be spent in the relevant countries. The minimum period of residence in the country of either of the languages will be eight consecutive weeks. 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. Spanish Language Paper 1 (10 credits from Language acquisition and 10 from Y4 LP1 course)
3. Oral for Russian (taught and assessed in Y4)
4. Oral for Spanish (taught and assessed in Y4)
5. Russian Online Language Course for Year Abroad Students
6. Spanish Online Language Course for Year Abroad Students
7. MEL Year Abroad Work (ECTS ELCC10002 or MEL Dissertation Preparation - see 8)
8. MEL Long Essay OR MEL Dissertation Completion (Papers 7 & 8 are a combined grade 10% from preparation and 90% from final dissertation; credits cannot be awarded for Dissertation preparation unless the full 2 year course is completed)
9. Russian Hons option
10. Spanish Hons option
11. Russian or Spanish Hons option
12. Russian or Spanish Hons option or LLC-wide Hons option (but note that for Papers 9 to 12 no more than 40 credits can be taken in either language)

Compulsory courses

Language Acquisition through residence/study

Year Abroad online language learning course - Russian

Year Abroad online language learning course - Spanish

Course options

Modern European Languages Year Abroad Assessment

MEL dissertation preparation

Year 4 Academic year: 2024/25, 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. Spanish Language Paper 1 (10 credits from Language acquisition and 10 from Y4 LP1 course)
3. Oral for Russian (taught and assessed in Y4)
4. Oral for Spanish (taught and assessed in Y4)
5. Russian Online Language Course for Year Abroad Students
6. Spanish Online Language Course for Year Abroad Students
7. MEL Year Abroad Work (ECTS ELCC10002 or MEL Dissertation Preparation - see 8)
8. MEL Long Essay OR MEL Dissertation Completion (Papers 7 & 8 are a combined grade 10% from preparation and 90% from final dissertation; credits cannot be awarded for Dissertation preparation unless the full 2 year course is completed)
9. Russian Hons option
10. Spanish Hons option
11. Russian or Spanish Hons option
12. Russian or Spanish Hons option or LLC-wide Hons option (but note that for Papers 9 to 12 no more than 40 credits can be taken in either language)