MA Russian at JNU Delhi Offline Course

Master of Arts (MA) in Russian is a full-time two-year postgraduate course and it is offered by the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

The Master’s Programme is spread over four semesters. During this period a student is required to earn 80 credits. While all language courses are compulsory, the students may exercise a choice between Literature and Translation and Interpretation courses offered by the Centre in the second year. Besides Russian grammar, the other courses offered are Phonetics, Lexicology, Morphology, Syntax, Introduction to Linguistics. There are specially designed courses in Translation for students pursuing a specialization in Literature and vice versa. The Translation stream comprises of courses on Translation of Newspapers, Business, Trade, and Commerce, Social Sciences, Science and Technology and Theory of Translation. The students are also trained in Consecutive and Simultaneous interpretation (Russian into English and vice versa). The Literature stream comprises of courses on Introduction to Literary trends, History of Literary criticism, Folklore and Ancient Russian Literature, Russian Literature of 17th – 20th Centuries and Theory of Literature. In the final semester, the students are required to write a Term paper which is meant to prepare them to carry out research work.