/College of Arts and Sciences
Department of Languages and Cultural Studies

Russian Studies

 

Program Overview

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 Russian minor may be combined with work in other disciplines.

Requirements for the Minor

All courses offered for the minor must be passed with a letter grade of C or higher.

Completion of the minor requires at least 18 credits, and 9 of the 18 credits must be at the 300 level or above.

All Russian minors must take at least 6 credits of Russian language (RUS) courses. Students without background in the Russian language will take RUS 111 (Elementary Russian I) and RUS 112 (Elementary Russian II) or RUS 101 (Intensive Elementary Russian). Those with previous Russian language study, including heritage speakers, must take 6 credits of Russian language courses above the 100-level. Please consult the Program Coordinator for appropriate placement.

  • Two HUR courses
  • Two additional courses can be selected from either HUR or RUS courses not applied toward Language Study. One relevant course from another department (GLI, HIS, HUE, LIN) may be applied as an elective with permission of the Program Coordinator

Placement in Language Courses for Incoming Students

The prerequisites for each course indicate which skill 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 Program Coordinator for appropriate placement. 

Contact

Dr. Anna Geisherik, Program Coordinator