Choose from two major tracks, Russian Studies or Russian Language and Literature.
Community Connections
Sharing meals and conversations with native Russian speakers in the Appleton area helps build your conversational confidence.
The Chandler Senior Experience
The Russian department’s Senior Experience is the culmination of your work in the major.
Recent Senior Experiences include:
- Evolving to Save Ourselves: The Evolution of the Noosphere and Our Ability to Implement Change
- Black Holes and Misunderstandings: A Biographic Analysis of Rachmaninoff's All Night Vigil
- Opening up a Dark Corner of the Russian Canon: Kazakh Poetry and the Expanding Russophone Literary World
Russian Outcomes
Build off professional experiences and interdisciplinary education gained in the Russian program to pursue advanced study, educate others, or explore life in a Russian-speaking area.
On Any Given Day...
...discover an array of opportunities that await you at Lawrence University.
Unbagging First-Year Studies
Martyn Smith, director of First-Year Studies, unbags the 10 works being used in First-Year Studies during the 2021-2022 academic year.
Russian Folktale: Maidens, Witches, and Spirits of the Russian Folk Tradition (in English)
This course introduces students to the magical world of Russian folktales and mythology. A wide selection of folktales will be interpreted through a range of critical approaches (e.g., structuralism, psychoanalysis, and feminism). Folktale adaptations in literature, film, music, and the arts will provide students with an appreciation of the continuing cultural significance of folk belief and folktales in Russia.