Participants on the study abroad program will receive intensive Russian language training, including conversation, composition and grammar, with emphasis on everyday situations and use. Russian literature and area studies subjects will also be covered to facilitate the student's complete immersion into Russian culture and language, in addition to excursions and trips to museums and theaters in the city. Students may choose to spend 6 weeks over the summer or an academic semester in Saratov. Housing and meals are provided with a Russian family, but students may request to live in a private apartment. Transportation from Moscow to Saratov will be by overnight train, accompanied by a representative from the University.
All programs carry university credit.
I cannot fail but to recall a dinner speech given in the early 1990s at the Thomas Center at Duke University in English by Gennadiy I. Gerasimov, Gorbachev's advisor on foreign relations and one of his main spokesmen. This event is sponsored by the Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies. For more information, contact 962-7554. Led by David Griffiths, Professor of History, UNC-CH, the seminar will examine the Romanov dynasty as a whole and its individual rulers, and trace lines of continuity between the tsars and the Soviet kommissars. Topics will include Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great, Catherine the Great, Pugachev, the Arts, Nicholas I, Alexander II, Women, Nicholas II, and Stalin.