In addition, a number of distinguished scholars are invited from Russia, each for a one-month period, to participate in seminars and supervisions. We are improving resources still further. Our MA consists of four modules. Satire and Humour, Responses to Repression, and New Horizons in Art. By agreement with the supervisor, students may choose a topic for their dissertation which falls partly outside the specific remit of any of the three modules or may reflect the syllabus of more than one module.
Teaching is carried out in seminars and, in the case of the dissertation by supervision.
Part-time students will be required to take the language module in their first year and to attend refresher classes in language in their second year. Students should have a good first degree in which Russian formed at least half of the course. There are three components in which teaching and assessment take place. Translation Translation from Russian to English is taught with a wide range of texts, poetic, journalistic, business, colloquial, with a view to developing the students' abilities in English as much as in Russian. Students will participate in a collective translation project which will be considered for publication by our in-house press, The Garnett Press Writing and Editing.