On the Wesleyan campus, students can live in the Russian House and organize events with the collaboration of native speakers. In addition, students of Russian will want to spend a period of study in the former Soviet Union and are encouraged to spend a summer, a semester, or a full year there. Study programs are available in the provinces for those who do not want to study in Moscow or St. Petersburg, and there are summer programs in which students can work in Russian orphanages and summer camps. Students interested in East European studies who are not studying Russian are encouraged to attend programs in the Czech Republic, Hungary, or Poland. The Department of Classical Studies offers courses in Greek and Latin languages and literatures at all levels, as well as a broad range of classical civilization courses in art and archeology, social and political history, religion, literature, or some combination of these that require no knowledge of Greek or Latin.
All courses are open to majors and non-majors.
Students interested in classical studies are encouraged to spend a semester at the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome, in which Wesleyan is a consortial partner, or through the College Year in Athens in Greece. An in-depth understanding of the ancient world is excellent preparation for an intercultural experience in the contemporary Mediterranean, and the art and architecture of the classical world can surely be best appreciated in its own environment. There, you experience a traditional society coming to terms and coping with modernization and development. It is a Western as well as an Eastern culture.