By the end of the course students will, depending on their chosen options:

1. have raised their knowledge of and skills in their first Slavonic language from good Honours to near-native standard;

2. have acquired sound basic skills (or have significantly improved their already existing skills) in the oral and written comprehension and production of a second Slavonic language;

3. have completed the study and acquired knowledge and insights into one or more area of Slavonic linguistics, literature or area studies;

4. have undertaken comparative studies in one or more of the above areas;

5. have successfully completed a a general arts and subject-specific programme of research training and acquired the necessary skills to start on a programme of advanced research;

6. have mastered the conventions of academic discourse;

7. have completed a small piece of independent research and have written up the results in a form which is acceptable to and would be useful to other academics working in the field.

Regulations
Students will take the following: 3 options (each worth 30 credits); the Faculty Research Training Course and subject-specific research training (c.30 credits); Dissertation (60 credits). Students will normally be required to take at least one option from Sections A and B and no more than one option from Section D. Students who do not intend to proceed to advanced research may substitute a fourth option for the research training elements. Students who complete the taught elements of the course (120 credits), but who do not write a dissertation will be eligible for the award of a diploma. All curricula must be approved by the Slavonic Studies Convener of post-graduate studies.

Options

Section A:

• Advanced (post-Honours) Czech language
  
• Advanced (post-Honours) Polish language
  
• Advanced (post-Honours) Russian language

Section B:

• Non-advanced (Beginners' or post-Beginners') Czech language
  

• Non-advanced (Beginners' or post-Beginners') Polish language
  

• Non-advanced (Beginners' or post-Beginners') Russian language

Section C:

• Comparative Slavonic Philology and Linguistics
  

• Czech, Polish, Russian Women's Writing (40 credits)
  

• Czech, Polish, Russian Drama
  

• The Mass Media of Communist and post-Communist Europe (Poland, Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic, Russia/USSR)
  

• The Cinema of Communist and post-Communist Europe (Poland, Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic, Russia/USSR)

Section D:

Options offered in other taught masters programmes [DCEES, SMLC courses]

Research Training
This will normally consist of 20 credits obtained from the Faculty Research Training Course and 10 credits obtained from subject-specific research training, though in appropriate circumstances other arrangements providing at least 30 credits of research training may be possible. The subject-specific research training will normally consist of a course on research materials and resources relevant to the proposed general area of research, supplemented as necessary by training in specific skills, such as Cyrillic paleography. Assessment will be by means of the production of a detailed research proposal accompanied by preliminary bibliography.

Dissertation
The Dissertation should be 15,000 words long. It is written in English on a topic to be approved by the Slavonic Studies Convener for post-Graduate Studies and should be submitted by 30 September. Alternatively, and with the approval of the Slavonic Studies Convener for post-Graduate Studies the Dissertation may be replaced by a Translation Project. This will consist of a translation, annotated as appropriate, of a text in a Slavonic language of c.10-15,000 words. The choice of text and the respective weighting of translation and annotation must be agreed by the Slavonic Studies Convener for post-Graduate Studies.