RUSSIAN MA

[Andrew Jameson]

Dear Stephen,
This is how your posting comes out on my system.
Maybe you'd be better off using plain body text after all?
ATB
Andrew Jameson
Chair, Russian Committee, ALL
Languages and Professional Development
1 Brook Street, Lancaster LA1 1SL UK
Tel: 01524 32371  (+44 1524 32371)

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From: Stephen Hutchings <s.hutchings at SURREY.AC.UK>
To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU
Subject: RUSSIAN MA
Date: 06 April 2000 12:21

<bold><fontfamily><param>Stencil</param><bigger><bigger><bigger><bigger><bigger>1-Year
MA in Russian Studies



</bigger></bigger></bigger></bigger></bigger></fontfamily></bold><bigger><bigger><fontfamily><param>Times</param>The
School of Language and International Studies at Surrey University, UK,
is offering a new one-year MA in Russian Studies,.


</fontfamily><fontfamily><param>Stencil</param><bigger><bigger>WHAT IS
ON
OFFER</bigger></bigger></fontfamily><fontfamily><param>Times</param>:


* <bold>A one-year MA course</bold> from an institution rated top among
UK universities for its success in placing its graduates in employment
and situated 30 minutes from London in one of the most picturesque
corners of England.


* <bold>Two alternative tracks


</bold> <bold>Track A</bold>: for graduates with degree-level Russian
wishing to combine advanced level language study with the background
knowledge necessary to compete for job opportunities in commerce, the
media and the foreign service


        <bold>Track B</bold>: for humanities and social sciences graduates
without Russian wishing to acquire a specialised knowledge of Russian
society and politics, and a good working knowledge of the Russian
language which could be developed into a useful research tool


* <bold>Both Tracks available on a Part-time Basis


</bold>* <bold>A six-week period in St Petersburg</bold> spent taking
courses in Russian Politics, Economics and Society taught by academics
from St Petersburg University


* <bold>Core courses at Surrey</bold> in Postcommunist Russian Society,
and Film and the Mass Media, together with a range of options including
Ideology and Literature, National Identity and Ethnicity, Russian
Business Language, and The Changing Face of Eastern Europe


* <bold>Study of Theories of Translation</bold>, + Advanced Russian
language + specialised courses in Economic, Political, Legal and
Technical translation (Track A), or an intensive Beginners' course
reaching the level attained in the third year of a US Russian degree
program (Track B)


* <bold>An MA thesis</bold> written on a topic chosen by the student
and supervised by one of a number of scholars with international
reputations and the following research interests:


<italic>Professor Peter Barta (Cinema, Urban Studies, Women's issues,
Literature, Eastern Europe)

Dr Graham Roberts (Cinema, Modernist Literature, Business, Economics)

Professor Greville Corbett (Slavic Linguistics, Endangered Languages)

Dr Stephen Hutchings (Religion, the Mass Media, Russian Culture and
Thought)


</italic>* <bold>A special focus on visual media</bold> and the new
technologies, drawing on the Russian Section's Satellite TV facilities,
extensive video and film holdings and Russian Internet websites
available in a state-of-the-art computer workshop


</fontfamily><fontfamily><param>Stencil</param><bigger><bigger>WHAT
NEXT?


</bigger></bigger></fontfamily><fontfamily><param>Times</param>*
<bold>For further details</bold>, please contact Dr Stephen Hutchings,
School of Language and International Studies, University of Surrey,
Guildford GU2 5XH, UK

e-mail: S.Hutchings at surrey.ac.uk; fax: 01144 1483 876201; tel: 01144
1483 259952

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