2022/23 Undergraduate Programme Catalogue
BA Portuguese and Russian B
Programme code: | BA-PORT&RUSB | UCAS code: | RR5R |
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Duration: | 4 Years | Method of Attendance: | Full Time |
Programme manager: | Maria Garcia Florenciano | Contact address: | M.GarciaFlorenciano@leeds.ac.uk |
Total credits: 485
Entry requirements:
For entry requirements for this course please visit: Coursefinder
School/Unit responsible for the parenting of students and programme:
School of Languages, Cultures and Societies
Examination board through which the programme will be considered:
School of Languages, Cultures and Societies
Relevant QAA Subject Benchmark Groups:
Languages, Cultures and Societies:
https://www.qaa.ac.uk/docs/qaa/subject-benchmark-statements/sbs-languages-cultures-and-societies-15.pdf?sfvrsn=2098f781_12
Programme specification:
The programme will:
- enable students to work across more than one discipline by providing the flexibility to study three disciplines at level one;
- allow the study of two disciplines to the same depth as any single honours student but with less breadth in each discipline;
- provide a basis for further advanced study in either of the disciplines or in a cognate interdisciplinary area.
General
- The distinctiveness, appeal and strength of University of Leeds joint honours programmes lie in the unusual combination of depth, breadth and flexibility which they offer, as well as in the exceptional range of degree combinations available.
- They permit students to study two disciplines, in depth and to degree level while acquiring a broader range of skills than is typically possible within a single honours degree.
- They are emphatically joint honours programmes, rather than integrated programmes: students can therefore make the links they choose from the wide choice of optional modules available within each discipline. Within certain parameters, they thus effectively make connections and devise pathways according to their own preferences, rather than being faced with a prescribed combination of modules chosen for them by others.
- The students must acquire the flexibility of mind and variety of learning techniques needed to switch between the two disciplines.
- A further element of distinctiveness is the flexibility of the programme structure, which allows joint honours students to change direction more easily, and more radically, than single honours students.
- Many of these programmes also allow the opportunity to undertake a work placement, field work or study abroad.
Year1 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
In Level 1 students must study 120-125 credits. Students are required to take 60 credits in Portuguese and 60 credits in Russian.
Compulsory modules:
Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules:
SLAV1010 | Beginning Russian 1 Pre-requisite for: SLAV1020 | 20 credits | ||
SLAV1020 | Beginning Russian 2 Pre-requisite for: SLAV9001 | 20 credits | ||
SLAV1120 | What is Russia? An Introduction to Russian Studies | 20 credits | ||
SPPO1035 | Introduction to Brazil, Portugal and Portuguese Speaking Africa | 20 credits | ||
SPPO1080 | Portuguese Language for Beginners 1A | 20 credits | ||
SPPO1081 | Portuguese Language for Beginners 1B | 20 credits |
Students with prior knowledge of Portuguese may, subject to a placement test, study the more advanced language module SPPO1083 instead of SPP01080 and SPPO1081.
Optional modules:
Year2 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
Candidates will spend the second year of the programme in Russia.
Compulsory modules:
Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory module:
SLAV9001 | Russian Year Abroad | 120 credits |
Year3 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
In Level 2 students must study 120 credits. Students are required to take 45 credits in each of Portuguese and Russian, plus the Term Abroad, worth 30 credits, which will be spent in Portugal.
In order to be eligible for an honours degree, students must meet the normal Rules for Award by passing all modules which are designated to be passed for award or progression and by passing the required number of credits at each level as specified in the Curricular Regulations (at least 200 credits at level 2 or above, of which at least 100 should be at level 3).
The candidate will spend the third term in Portugal.
Compulsory modules:
Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules:
SLAV2102 | Core Russian Language 2 | 15 credits | ||
SPPO2091 | Portuguese Language Skills | 15 credits | ||
SPPO9002 | Spanish/Portuguese Term Abroad | 30 credits |
NB. Students who have completed SPPO1083 and have performed exceptionally well in that module, may, at the discretion of the programme manager, take MODL2001/5 Linguists into Schools and teach Portuguese in a local school, instead of taking SPPO2090/1.
The Term Abroad module SPPO9002 will not be available for students starting their programme from September 2023 onwards.
Optional modules:
Candidates will be required to study 30 credits from the following optional modules:
MODL2005 | Linguists into Schools | 15 credits | ||
SPPO2021 | Film and Literature in the Portuguese-speaking World | 15 credits | ||
SPPO2415 | Culture and Society in the Portuguese-Speaking World | 15 credits |
- Not all modules will be available every year.
Candidates will be required to study 30 credits from the following optional modules:
MODL2016 | Black Europe | 15 credits | ||
SLAV2104 | Applied Russian Language 2 | 15 credits | ||
SLAV2112 | The Sounds of Russian | 15 credits | ||
SLAV2125 | The Structures of Russian | 15 credits | ||
SLAV2410 | The Spaces of Russian Literature | 15 credits | ||
SLAV2435 | Gender and Sexuality in Russia | 15 credits |
- Not all modules will be available every year.
Year4 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
In Level 3 students must study 120 credits, which includes a 40-credit Final Year Project Module. Students are required to take a minimum of 40 credits in Portuguese and 60 credits in Russian: the Final Year Project module can be taken in - and count towards - either of their two subjects. Any remaining credits should be taken as optional modules in either of the named subjects, or as Discovery modules.
Compulsory modules:
Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules:
SLAV3101 | Core Russian Language 3 | 20 credits | ||
SPPO3110 | Advanced Portuguese Language | 20 credits |
Optional modules:
Candidates are required to study ONE of the following Final Year Project modules.
MODL3300 | Final Year Project: Dissertation | 40 credits | ||
MODL3340 | Final Year Project: Extended Translation | 40 credits | ||
MODL3350 | Final Year Project: Digital Documentary (Podcast) | 40 credits |
Candidates who have chosen to focus on the Russian side of their programme for their Final Year Project will be required to study at least 20 credits from the following modules:
MODL3800 | Linguists into Schools | 20 credits | ||
SPPO3701 | Urban Realities and Representations in the Portuguese Speaking World | 20 credits |
- Students wishing to choose MODL3800 as one of their Portuguese options must take a minimum of 60 credits in Portuguese in the final year including SPPO3110.
- Not all modules will be available every year.
Candidates who have chosen to focus on the Portuguese side of their programme for their Final Year Project will be required to study at least 40 credits from the following options:
SLAV3114 | Russian Advanced Translation | 20 credits | ||
SLAV3117 | The Sounds of Russian | 20 credits | ||
SLAV3120 | The Structures of Russian | 20 credits | ||
SLAV3411 | The Spaces of Russian Literature | 20 credits | ||
SLAV3430 | Gender and Sexuality in Russia | 20 credits |
Not all modules will be offered in each year.
The following modules can be taken in and count towards either Portuguese or Russian credits. Students may choose to study up to 40 credits from the modules below instead of SPPO/SLAV optional modules.
MODL3200 | Representing the Holocaust: Transgression and the Taboo | 20 credits | ||
MODL3410 | Contemporary World Literature | 20 credits | ||
MODL3600 | Material Cultures and Cultures of Consumption | 20 credits | ||
MODL3610 | Adventures of the Imagination: Crime and the Fantastic Across Continents | 20 credits | ||
MODL3620 | Decolonial Approaches | 20 credits | ||
MODL3630 | Social Movements across Cultures | 20 credits | ||
MODL3650 | Minoritised Languages, Dialects and Cultures from Past to Present | 20 credits |
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