Around 150 million people in the world speak Russian. It is the official language of four countries, is widely understood throughout Eastern Europe, and in the last thirty years has seen transnational mobility on an unprecedented scale.

This programme offers you the opportunity to study Russian in its cultural context while exploring how language works.

Russian Studies and Linguistics make an excellent joint honours choice by combining the study of:

a modern language in its cultural context
the expression and creation of meaning
Linguistics courses of particular relevance to language students cover:

the speech sounds of the world's languages
variation in the languages of the world
the structure and history of world languages