Russian Studies Requirements and Recommendations

The Major

I. Lower Division Course Requirements

1. Intermediate Language Proficiency (Russian 202 or equivalent)
   
2. RUSS 260 ( Russia Today: Introduction to Russian Studies)
   
3. One of the following:
   
   
   • RUSS L255 (WoSt L255) (Women in Russia)
   • RUSS 261 (Russian Literature in Translation I)
   • RUSS 262 (Russian Literature in Translation II)
   • RUSS 263 (Russian Culture and Civilization)
   • RUSS 264 (Soviet Life and Culture)
   • RUSS G268 (Russian Short Masterpieces)

II. Upper Division Course Requirements

Communication Skills Component (Speaking, Understanding, Reading, Translting Russian). All Russian studies majors must take:

• Russian 303 (Communicating in Russian)
• Russian 321 (Reading and Translating Russian)
• Russian 322 (Readings in Russian Literature)
  

  The following courses, to be given occasionally, may replace other Communication Skills courses in fulfilling this requirement:
  Russian 306 (Business Russian)
  Russian 411 (Advanced Russian)

  
  

  Specialty Areas Component:

  
  Subject to the approval of their Russian studies major advisor, students choose their remaining upper division requirements around their individual intellectual and academic interests and professional goals by selecting any three courses from any two of the specialty areas listed here:
  

  History courses:
  Hist 323 (Russian History I)
  Hist 324 (Russian History II)
  Hist 349 (AmSt L349) (Cold War: Rise and Fall)
  

  Russian literature courses (Readings in Russian):
  Russ 341 (Nineteenth Century Russian Poetry)
  Russ 359 (Twentieth Century Russian Poetry)
  Russ 481-482 (Special Topics)
  

  Political science courses:
  PolSci 361 (The Politics of Eastern Europe)
  PolSci 363 (Politics and Society in Present-day Russia)
  PolSci 430 (Russia and Other Soviet Successor States)