DPT: Russian Studies and Classics (MA Hons) (UTRUSCL)

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

Year 1 Academic year: 2024/25, Starting in: September

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

Greek 1A

Greek 1B

Selected courses must be passed

Greek 1C

Greek 1D

Selected courses must be passed

Latin 1A

Latin 1B

Selected courses must be passed

Latin 1C

Latin 1D

Selected courses must be passed

The Greek World 1A: Greece in the Making

The Greek World 1B: Greece's New Horizons

The Roman World 1A: The Rise of Rome

The Roman World 1B: The Roman Empire

AND

Level 7 language courses cannot be taken for credits on this degree programme.

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 a pass at 50% or above at the first attempt in 40 credits of second-year Classics courses. If Latin or Greek is chosen, a pass at 50% or above at the first attempt in Greek 2A/Greek 2A ex-beginners and Greek 2B; or Latin 2A/Latin 2A ex-beginners and Latin 2B is required.
(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.

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

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

Students who choose Greek language must take Greek 2B and one of Greek 2A or Greek 2a Ex-Beginners

Selected courses must be passed 1st time at 50%

Greek 2A

Greek 2B

Greek 2a Ex-Beginners

Students who choose Latin language must take Latin 2B and one of Latin 2A or Latin 2a Ex-Beginners

Selected courses must be passed 1st time at 50%

Latin 2A

Latin 2B

Latin 2a Ex-Beginners

Selected courses must be passed 1st time at 50%

Ancient History 2b: Themes and Theories in Ancient History

Ancient History 2a: Past and Present in the Ancient World

The Transformation of the Roman World, ca. 300-800: Towards Byzantium and the Early Medieval West

Roman Art and Archaeology

Greek Art and Archaeology

Classical Literature 2: Greek and Roman Epic

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

Selected courses must be passed

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

During 3rd year, when permitted, at least 30 weeks must be spent in the relevant country and prescribed work completed in Classics 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. Classics YA work
6. Classics YA work
7. Classics Dissertation Preparation (same mark as 8) OR MEL Dissertation Preparation (see 8)
8. Classics Dissertation Completion 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. Classics options
11. Classics options
12. Classics options

Compulsory courses

Year Abroad Work for Degrees in Modern European Languages and Classics

Language acquisition through residence/study B

Year Abroad online language learning course - Russian

Course options

MEL dissertation preparation

Classics Dissertation (combined degree with MEL)Part 1: 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. 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. Classics YA work
6. Classics YA work
7. Classics Dissertation Preparation (same mark as 8) OR MEL Dissertation Preparation (see 8)
8. Classics Dissertation Completion 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. Classics options
11. Classics options
12. Classics options

Compulsory courses

Russian Studies 4 Honours Language Paper 1

Russian Studies 4 Honours Language Paper 2

Oral for Russian

Course options

The Great Russian Novel

The Post-Soviet Word, Image and Memory

The Russian Language Society from Proper use to Propaganda

Culture and Power under Stalin 1924-1953

Contemporary Russian Politics

AND

MEL dissertation completion

Classics Dissertation (combined degree with MEL)Part 2: completion

AND

Empresses and Others: Women of Imperial Rome

Ancient Superpowers: The Armies and Military Monuments of Rome and Persia

After Alexander

The Jewish Diaspora under the Roman Empire

Money, Men and Gods in Archaic and Classical Greece

The formation of the medieval Roman Empire, 602-867

Labour, Wealth, and Inequality: The Economy of the Classical Greek City-States

The Long Twelfth Century: Byzantium in the Era of the Crusades (1071-1204)

Seafaring and Society in the Ancient Greek World

Ammianus Marcellinus and the Roman Empire of the Fourth Century

Religion and War in Archaic and Classical Greece

Roman Egypt

The Rise and Fall of a Star: Julius Caesar in Politics and War

Romans Overseas

Honour in Ancient Greece

Greek History Seminar 1

Greek History Seminar 2

Bronze Age Civilisations of the Near East and Greece

The Hittites: The Archaeology of an Ancient Near Eastern Civilisation

The Archaeology and History of Egypt: the Second Intermediate Period until the end of the Late Period (1650-332 BC)

The Archaeology and History of Egypt: the Early Dynastic until the end of the Middle Kingdom (c. 3100-1650 BC)

Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs: The Basics and Beyond

The Archaeology of Iron Age Europe: Hillforts, Burials and Landscapes

Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs II: Texts and Contexts

Hellenistic Art

Inscribed Objects: Roman Coins and Latin Inscriptions

The Art and Archaeology of Sparta and Laconia

Archaeology, Politics, and the Making of the Modern Middle East

Greek Archaeology Seminar 1

Greek Archaeology Seminar 2

Constantinople: The History of a Medieval Megalopolis from Constantine the Great to Süleyman the Magnificent

Popular Culture in the Ancient World

Race and Ethnicity in the Roman World

Religion and the Gods in Classical Greek Culture

Mediterranean interactions in the Late Middle Ages: The Visual Culture of Byzantium, the Ottomans and the Italian penins

Women, Writing, Greece: From Sappho to Virginia Woolf and Beyond

Troy after the Fall

Stoic Philosophy at Rome

Plato's Republic in Translation

Greek and Roman Letters

Tiberius, the "Reluctant Princeps"

Classical Literature Seminar 1

Classical Literature Seminar 2

Classical Literature Seminar 3

Virtue, Contemplation, and Happiness: Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

Greek 1Ha

Greek 1HB

Greek 2Ha

Greek 2Hb

After Byzantium: An Intellectual History of the Greek world, 15th-19th c.

Latin 1Ha

Latin 1Hb

Latin 2Ha

Latin 2Hb

1. Latin Language (B) MUST be taken if Latin Language (A) was not completed in Year 3, unless exemption has been given by the Head of Classics.
2. Latin Language (B) cannot be taken if Latin Language (A) has already been studied in Year 3.

Latin Epic

Latin Satire

Latin Language (B)

Scottish Latin Literature

Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy

1. Greek Language (B) MUST be taken if Greek Language (A) was not completed in Year 3, unless exemption has been given by the Head of Classics.
2. Greek Language (B) cannot be taken if Greek Language (A) has already been studied in Year 3.

Greek Language (B)

Herodotus

Greek Pastoral Poetry

Plato's Republic

Greek Palaeography & Manuscript Culture

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Degree Programme Table: Russian Studies and Classics (MA Hons) (UTRUSCL)

Year 1 Academic year: 2024/25, Starting in: September

Course options

Russian language options - Year 1

Greek 1A and Greek 1B

Greek 1C and Greek 1D

Latin 1A and Latin 1B

Latin 1C and Latin 1D

Greek World and Roman World Courses

Level 7 and 8 courses in Schedules A-Q, T, W and Y

Year 2 Academic year: 2024/25, Starting in: August

Course options

Russian language options - Year 2

Russian Year 2 Literature and Culture Courses

Greek Language Year 2 Courses

Latin Language Year 2 Courses

Classics Year 2 Courses

Courses from School of LLC and PPLS Level(s) 8

Level 8 courses in Schedules A-Q, T, W and Y

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

Compulsory courses

Course options

MEL dissertation preparation

Classics Dissertation (combined degree with MEL)Part 1: preparation

Year 4 Academic year: 2024/25, Starting in: August

Compulsory courses

Course options

Russian Honours course options - Year 4

MEL dissertation completion

Classics Dissertation (combined degree with MEL)Part 2: completion

Ancient History, Classical Art/Archaeology, Classical Literature in Translation and Beginner Language courses

Latin Honours Courses Year 4

Greek Honours Courses Year 4