Russian Studies
We offer 4 years of Russian language studies and a wide range of courses in literature, culture, and area studies. You will be part of a close-knit and dynamic community with numerous co-curricular activities (Russian Tea, Slavic Club, trip to Boston Symphony).
Our students have gone on to first-rate law and graduate schools and won prestigious fellowships such as Fulbright, Truman, Rangel, and Critical Language Scholarships.
Why Study Russian?
A global language
Russian is spoken by more than 250 million people across the globe.
- Eastern Europe (Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova)
- Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan)
- Caucasus (Georgia, Armenia)
- Baltic States (Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia)
- Israel, where over 1 million Russian speakers live.
The US government has designated Russian a “critical language.” Learning Russian makes your resume stand out and opens doors to diverse careers, including Foreign Service/Department of State, cybersecurity, FBI, intelligence analyst, translator/interpreter, and many areas of academia.
Studying Russian gives you the key to understanding many of the world’s most renowned writers, musicians, artists, and directors who were born in the former Russian Empire, the former USSR, and in post-Soviet states: Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Babel, Nabokov, Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, Kandinsky, Chagall, Tarkovsky, Eisenstein.
