Undergraduate Program: Overview

Our program consists of:

A Russian concentration, providing at least four years of language training, and five courses in Russian literature (two taught in Russian); 

A growing number of courses on Russian and East European culture, aimed at the general student audience, and fulfilling graduation requirements;

Opportunities to complete the College language requirement in any of the following five languages: Russian, Czech, Polish, Bosnian-Serbo-Croatian and Ukrainian;

Expanding programs in Polish, Czech and Ukrainian, offering not only two or more years of language training, but also courses in literature and culture;

An intensive, year-long Russian language program, consisting of two eight-credit courses, taking the student through and beyond the regular first and second year courses in an accelerated-track immersion environment;

An honors concentration, in which especially gifted undergraduates gain graduate-level research and writing experience in the senior year.