Compulsory course units include: Studying and researching Russia and eastern Europe; optional course units include: Soviet cinema and society; remembering the 2nd World War after the collapse of communism in eastern Europe; the politics of culture; Gulag: the labour camp experience in Soviet literature and culture; social and cultural upheaval in war and peace: Russia, 1890-1960; the EU as an international actor; Russian language I; translation and interpreting studies l and ll; Russian language ll.