Russian
Required for the Russian Studies Major
- First-year Russian: 101, 102, 201 (or the equivalent)
- Second-year Russian: 211, 212, 250
- Two courses in literature
and culture, selected from the following:
- Russian 300: Russia's Golden Age: 19th-Century Literature in Translation
- Russian
305: Repression and Resistance in Soviet/Post-Soviet Literature in
Translation
- Russian 309: Brothers Karamazov and War and Peace
- Two courses in history and/or government, selected from the
following:
- History 315: Empire and Nation in Russian History
- History
320: Imperial Russia, 1800-1917
- History 325: The Soviet Union, 1917-1991
- Government 330: Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics
- One course that
allows students to understand Russia in a larger context, either by
studying the literature or history of a neighboring country or countries
or by placing Russia in a broader political and economic context as an
important participant in international affairs. This course is to be
selected from the following:
- University Course 240: Modern Literature of
Central Europe in Translation
- History 276: Spy vs. Spy: Espionage and the Cold War
- History 277: Eastern Europe in the 20th
Century
- History 435: Nazism and Stalinism in Comparative Perspective
- Government 140: International Studies
- Government 275: Global Economic
Relations
- Government 280: U.S. Foreign Policy
- Government 340:
International Politics
- Economics 200: Economic Development
- Alternatively, students with a primary interest in language could
complete an upper-level course based on Russian-language materials:
Russian 361, 362, or 363 or a tutorial focusing on some aspect(s) of
Russian culture or history.
- A senior-level independent study that
results in the completion of a substantial research paper. Students with
sufficiently advanced Russian language skills are encouraged to use some
Russian-language sources in conducting their research. Topics for this
capstone experience are to be derived from work done in one of the
following courses: Russian 300, 305, 330, 335; History 315, 320, 325;
Government 330. Other topics could be approved through consultation with
program faculty.
In addition to the requirements listed above, majors are encouraged to
further strengthen their Russian-language skills by studying in the
former Soviet Union and/or in an intensive summer language program
offered in the U.S.
Students with prior background in Russian who place
out of the first-year sequence are required to complete additional
language study for the major.
Required for the Russian Language and Literature Major
- First-year Russian: 101, 102, 201 (or the equivalent)
- Second-year Russian: 211, 212, 250
- Two courses in Russian
literature taught in translation, selected from the following:
- Russian
300: Russia's Golden Age: 19th-Century Literature in
Translation
- Russian 305: Repression and Resistance in Soviet/Post-Soviet
Literature in Translation
- Russian 309: Brothers Karamazov and War and Peace
- Two courses in Russian literature, taught in the original,
selected from the following:
- Russian 361: Survey of 19th- and
20th-Century Russian Prose
- Russian 362: Survey of 19th- and 20th-Century
Russian Poetry
- Russian 363: Survey of 19th- and 20th-Century Russian
Drama
- A senior-level independent study that results in the
completion of a substantial research paper. Students would be required
to analyze some work or works of Russian literature, to be read in the
original.
In addition to the requirements listed above, majors are strongly
encouraged to further strengthen their Russian-language skills by
studying in the former Soviet Union and/or in an intensive summer
language program offered in the U.S.
Students with prior background in
Russian who place out of the first-year sequence are required to
complete additional language study for the major.
Required for the Russian Minor
- First-year Russian: 101, 102, 201 (or the equivalent)
- Second-year Russian: 211, 212, 250
- Any two courses selected
from Russian 300, 305, 309, History 315, 320, 325; Government
330
- C average in the minor
