University of St Andrews

Centre for Russian, Soviet, Central and Eastern European Studies

Postgraduate programmes

April soap bubble parade, Moscow, (c) Daniel Oi

The Centre offers the following range of taught and research-based postgraduate programmes in Central and Eastern European Studies :

Graduate Diploma
A nine-month programme of taught courses only, beginning in September and concluding the following May.

MLitt
A one-year programme of taught courses and a dissertation of not more than 15,000 words.

MPhil
A two-year programme of taught courses in the first year and a dissertation of not more than 40,000 words completed during a second year of study.

PhD
Applications from suitably qualified candidates wishing to undertake a Ph.D. are also welcomed. This involves three years' full-time research and is examined by submission of a thesis of up to 80,000 words.

The postgraduate taught courses offered by the Centre are listed below.

For the Graduate Diploma, MLitt and MPhil programmes, three of the following courses are selected. Not more than two courses may be taken from any one subject area. Normally, two courses are taken in the first semester and one in the second. Please note than not all courses are available in any one year. For details of availability please see individual course pages. Applicants for our postgraduate programmes should contact the Centre via pghist@st-andrews.ac.uk.

Art History

  • AH5101 Readings in Art History or History of Photography

International Relations

  • IR5229 Conflict and Peace in Post-communist Eurasia
  • European State Formation
  • Identity and Collective Violence

Modern History

  • MO5402 The Soviet Union, 1917-1991
  • MO5503 Central and Eastern Europe since 1945
  • MO5602 Directed Reading in Modern History
  • MO5606 Perceptions of Central and Eastern Europe
  • MO5609 Directed Readings in Modern History 2
  • MO5610 Themes in Russian 19th- and 20th-Century Intellectual History

Russian

  • RU5001 Advanced Translation
  • RU5021 The Nineteenth-Century Russian Short Story
  • RU5023 The Russian Novel 1840-1880
  • RU5031 Russian Modernist Fiction 1895-1930
  • RU5035 Russian Writers of the 1920s
  • RU5037 Russian Acmeism
  • RU5039 Russian Fiction 1880-1940
  • RU5041 Detailed Study of a Russian Author or Period
  • RU5100 Readings in Central and East European Languages
  • RU5301 A Special Subject in Russian Culture
  • RU5901 Russian for Postgraduate Studies 1
  • RU5902 Russian for Postgraduate Studies 2
  • Russian Intellectual History (directed reading)
  • Pushkin (directed reading)

Theology

  • Directed Reading on Central and Eastern European Thought: Literature and Faith