Russian Minor (RUS)
The minor in Russian Studies is flexible and gives students the opportunity to select a particular area of emphasis. A student who successfully completes a minor in Russian attains a broadly based background in Russian culture; depending on which electives are chosen, the student also acquires a more specialized knowledge of language, literature, or cultural studies. The Department offers courses in Russian as well as in translation, and the Russian minor may be combined with work in other disciplines.
Russian minors have found employment in teaching, government service, foreign trade and banking, communications, translating, and interpreting. The expansion of East-West trade and the new business ventures in Russia seeking cooperation with Europe, Asia, and Africa offer creative career opportunities. Some Russian students have continued on to do graduate work in Russian or Slavic Studies at Yale, Harvard, Northwestern, Berkeley, and American University. Others have become certified as secondary school teachers. Science, social science, and pre-med minors have found the study of Russian to be particularly useful in their careers.
All courses offered for the minor must be passed with a letter grade of C or higher.
Completion of the minor requires at least 21 credits.
1. HUR 249 Russia Today
2. HUR 141, 142 Introduction to Russian Literature I, II
3. Twelve credits of 300- and 400-level RUS and HUR courses
A Russian concentration of 15 credits can also be created through the Multidisciplinary Studies Major. Students should consult with the program coordinator in planning a minor or a concentration in MTD.
Placement in Language Courses for Incoming Students
The prerequisites for each course indicate which language level the course is geared towards. As a rule of thumb, one year of high-school foreign-language study is considered the equivalent of one semester of study at the college level for non-native speakers. Heritage speakers, by contrast, are placed according to their relative mastery of both the spoken and written language. Students are advised to consult the coordinator of the Russian minor.
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