Russian, Central & East European Studies (Erasmus Mundus International Masters)

Programme structure

Year 1

You will take two core courses and two optional courses, at the University of Glasgow.

Compulsory core courses

• State and Society under Communism in Russia, Central and Eastern Europe
• Language (Czech, Estonian, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, Slovak)

Optional courses

• Changing State and Society in Central Europe
• Developments in Czech Society since 1989
• Economic Transformation in Central East Europe
• Gender and Identity in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia
• Globalisation and the New Security Agenda in Central and Eastern Europe
• Society, environment and the concept of sustainable development in post-Soviet Russia
• Statehood and Nationality in Central and Eastern Europe
• Stalin and Stalinism
• A maximum of one outside option from a cognate subject within the School of Social and Political Sciences or from a cognate School in the College of Arts or College of Social Sciences.

Note: This course list is indicative only. Some courses might not be available every year.

Year 2: study abroad & dissertation

In semester 1 you will attend lectures/seminars at an international partner university and may choose your study programme from a wide range of options. Relevant language options to a maximum of 6 ECTS may also be selected. Note that some of the partner universities require you to take some compulsory courses. Students must complete a minimum of 30 ECTS during this semester.

In semester 2 you will complete a 20,000-25,000 word dissertation. Dissertation research training is offered in Year 1. Note that the for the double degree programme the dissertation is submitted at the international partner university.

The study programmes available at each of the international partner universities may be found by clicking on the relevant links below.

For further information on the study programmes available at each of the international partner universities:

Erasmus Mundus Double Degree Partners

• Corvinus University, Budapest, Hungary - Institute of Political Science
• Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland - Centre for European Studies
• University of Tartu, Estonia - Centre for Baltic Studies
• University of Turku, Finland - Baltic Sea Region Studies
• The Kazakhstan Institute of Management, Economics and Strategic Research (KIMEP), Almaty, Kazakhstan - Department of International Relations and Regional Studies

Exchange Partners

• Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy (ADA), Baku, Azerbaijan (single degree)
• Lobachevsky State University of Nizhni Novgorod, Russia (single degree)