About the curriculum

The Structure (in 2020):

Compulsory modules: Methodology of cultural studies, Visual studies, Russian culture;

Variable modules (depending on primary areas of students’ research interests): Russian as foreign language, Fashion, Media, Cinema, Management of Cultural Projects.

The detailed list (from the https://www.rsuh.ru/education/culture/vshek/curriculum-2019.php; the changes are possible).

Core (for Russian-speaking students) courses (2019)

• History and Methodology of the Study of Culture
• Methodology of Research and Academic Culture
• Cultural Studies in the Modern World
• Modern Cultural Studies in Russia
• Methods of Teaching Cultural studies
• Mass Culture: Theories, Typology, Methods of Research
• History and Methodology of Socio-Cultural Knowledge
• The Seminar on Master dissertation
• Foreign Language
• Categories of Modern Socio-Cultural Studies
• Theory and Practice of Analysis of Literary Texts
• Modern Approaches to the Research of Media Culture
• Soviet Mass Culture and Genre Movie
• Theories and Practices of Visual Art in XX-XXI Centuries
• Key Cultural Categories in the History of Russia

Elective courses (2019)

• Russian as a foreign language (up to 30 credit points; since 2020)
• Studying and Teaching Cultural Studies in Russia
• Methodology of Socio-Cultural Studies
• History and Methodology of Socio-Cultural Knowledge
• Research Methods for Cultural Studies: Cultural Text Analysis
• Russian Visual Culture: From Medieval to Contemporary Art
• Visual Studies: Audio-Visual Practices in XX-XXI Centuries
• Cultural Management
• Fundraising in the Humanities
• History of Russian Literature