Central and East European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies

The IM in Central and East European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (CEERES) is a two-year master degree, delivered by the University of Glasgow (UoG), the University of Tartu (LU), and six universities located in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union: Jagiellonian University (UJ) in Krakow (Poland), Corvinus University (CUB) in Budapest (Hungary), the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (NaUKMA) in Kyiv (Ukraine), Lobachevsky State University (UNN) in Nizhni Novgorod (Russia), KIMEP University (KIMEP) in Almaty (Kazakhstan), and Ilya State University (ISU) in Tbilisi (Georgia). Students graduate with a multiple degree, awarded from UoG, UT and one of the six regional universities. There will be an opportunity to undertake a credit bearing work placement with a relevant organisation in Semester Three, to present students with practical experiences to complement their academic studies. Disciplines employed throughout the CEERES curriculum include Politics, IR, History, Sociology, Economics, and Geography: this is a truly multidisciplinary programme. CEERES is articulated around a rational journey of specialisation, in which the acquisition of familiarity with a regional language plays a particularly central role. The first semester at UT introduces issues, processes and methods that are pertinent to the programme. Through an introductory course taught collectively by staff members from the 8 universities, students are tasked to prepare a dissertation proposal that determines the supervisory team for the rest of the degree and the Year Two mobility. In the second semester, students move to UoG where they continue their language training and are introduced to further specialisation in one of three regional areas: Central and East European Studies, Russian Studies, and Eurasian Studies. The supervision process starts in earnest during Semester Two, while a non-credit bearing Summer School reinforces the curriculum’s commitment to methodological training. The programme’s Year Two is spent in the region that sits at the core of the CEERES curriculum. Through further coursework, placements, and dissertation research at UJ/CUB/NaUKMA/UNN/KIMEP/ISU, students increase their linguistic proficiency and enhance their research skills, while acquiring invaluable experiences of life, study, and work in Eastern Europe, Russia, and Eurasia. The programme’s fourth semester allows the student to write a dissertation at one of the six regional universities, concentrating on a chosen topic of their interest and supervised by a team of academics from the three awarding institutions. CEERES students do not need prior knowledge of regional developments, history, or languages. CEERES is relevant to people of all nationalities, especially to those students willing to deepen their understanding of regional processes, societies, and languages and employ such acquired knowledge in the public and private sectors, as well as in further education.