Students enrolling in the program who have previously studied Russian will be give placement tests the day after arrival to determine their level and proper placement in the Russian School program.
Classes meet four hours per day, five days per week.
Daily work outside of class, including assignments in the audio and computer language labs, usually requires five to eight hours each day. Middlebury College awards four units of undergraduate academic credit for successful completion of each of the following nine-week courses of study. One unit is equivalent to three semester hours of credit. Introductory Russian Evans-Romaine and Staff Students in this class generally have had very little or no previous classroom instruction in Russian. Students completing this course can typically initiate, sustain, and close a conversation, getting into and out of a simple situation requiring communication with speakers of Russian who know no English.