Russian (Major)

专业介绍

The Russian major aims to combine, in the best traditions of a liberal arts degree, practical language learning with the study of culture broadly understood. It provides extensive language training and demanding courses in literary history and analysis. Moreover, the Department firmly believes that serious language study offers broad intellectual benefits in and of itself. In the upper-level Russian language courses, it aims to develop linguistic self-consciousness and a basis for the study of linguistics proper. In literary studies many undergraduates take not only the required courses (both in translation and in Russian), but also elect more specialized courses such as “monograph” studies of Pushkin (RUSSIAN 461), Dostoevsky (RUSSIAN 462), Chekhov (RUSSIAN 463), and Tolstoy (RUSSIAN 464).

Russian is also an especially rewarding second major when combined with political science, history or another social-science discipline. Students who complete the intensive year-long language program in their first year are particularly well equipped to follow the dual-major path.