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Messages & Announcements Thank you for your interest in our program. For messages from our language and literature faculty, please click here. |
Course Descriptions We offer a wide variety of courses spanning all the levels of Russian language instruction, as well as courses on literature, culture, and film. Other Slavic languages are occasionally offered as well. For all course descriptions, click here. |
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Faculty Our Russian faculty include experts in linguistics, classical Russian literature, and poetry. For a complete list of all full and part-time Russian faculty, please click here. |
Majors & Minors We offer a B.A. and a minor in Russian Language and Literature. For all information on degree plans, prerequisites, and CCAS requirements, please click here. |
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Placement and Credit Do you need to take our placement exam? Did you take an AP or similar exam in Russian? For our department's policies on credit by exam, please click here. |
Grad Student Exams Are you an M.A or Ph.D. student in the Columbian College or the Elliott School? For more information on exams in RGSLL languages, please click here. |
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Study Abroad GW offers a number of study abroad opportunities to Russia and other countries of the former Soviet Union. For a list of these programs, as well as our policies on study abroad course approvals, please click here. |
Russian Links Interested in learning more about Russian language and culture? Click here for a list of useful links. |
Russian and Slavic Languages and Literatures at GW
The Russian Language and Literature program is part of the Department of Romance, German, and Slavic Languages and Literatures. The program offers a major, minor, and handles language requirements for the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences and the Elliott School of International Affairs.
Currently we offer four years of Russian language instruction. We also offer Ukrainian every other year with funding from a Petrach Foundation grant.
So what can one do with a degree in Russian Language and Literature? Here is just a sample of what some of our recent graduates have done:
- Sarah Rhodin(2006) (now harvard ’09) interned at the New York Times Moscow bureau in 2008.
- Greg Salomon (2006) is a development expert at TESOL International (Russia market)
- Becky Stakun (2006) works in a firm that supplies the Justice and State Departments with interpreters.
- Carrie Diffenderfer (2005) completed the prestigious ACRT/NCEP program to reach the ACTFL Superior level in Russian. She is at the National Endowment for Democracy.
- Chloe Feinberg (2005) is at the Center for International Science and Technology Advancement and manages international collaborative biological research projects primarily in the former Soviet Union.
- Michelle Bienia (2003) now works for the Department of Defense.
- John McDonough (2003) went to work for Study Group, a New York-based organization that places foreign students in U.S. institutions and from there to the London School of Economics — with proficiency is Russian, Spanish, and Chinese.
- Bryce Bittner (2002) now works for a Washington, DC law firm with Russian-language contacts.
- Rebecca Jumper (2001) is a program officer for the National Endowment for Democracy Program, Assistant for the New Independent States in Washington.
- Michael Flores (2001) is a consular officer in the U.S. Embassy in Moscow.
- Leah Misbin (2000) served as a Peace Corps worker in Uglich, Yaroslavskaya oblast, Russia.
