Russian, Central & East European Studies (MSc)
Programme structure
You will take two core courses and two optional courses. A 12,000-15,000 word dissertation should be submitted in September.
Compulsory Core Courses
- State and Society under Communism in Russia, Central and Eastern Europe
- Language (Czech, Estonian, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, Slovak or Ukrainian)
Optional courses from the following
- 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.
Students can take part in the Collaborative Masters Dissertation: This allows students to gain work experience while providing much needed research support to public and third sector organisations.