Modules

In year one, you will spend your time equally between Russian and Contemporary Chinese Studies. In Russian, in addition to a core module in the Russian language at the appropriate level, you take optional modules in Russian culture, politics, society and history. If you wish to, you have the option to begin study of the history and culture of South-East Europe. In year two your language studies will focus on preparing you for the year abroad. You will also take modules in culture, history, politics and society from a wide choice of modules in both Russian and Chinese Studies. If you wish to, you may begin learning Serbian/Croatian as a second Slavonic language. Subject to you meeting the relevant requirements you will spend your third academic year studying Russian at one of our partner universities or a language school. If you are taking Serbian/Croatian, you will be able to divide your time to cover the countries of both languages. While students are unable to travel to Russia, we are pursuing other options for language courses in neighbouring countries (e.g. Estonia and Latvia), and where Russian is used by a native speaking community. For Contemporary Chinese Studies, you have the opportunity to learn about Mandarin and Chinese culture by spending a semester at our campus in Ningbo. Your fourth year is spent back at Nottingham. You will develop your command of both languages and their use in increasingly sophisticated contexts, and study optional modules drawn from the areas of literature, history, politics, society, film and translation. You may also choose to write a dissertation.