In their junior year students are encouraged to take the General Education course on Russia, which is taught in English. In addition, upper-level students meet in small groups once or twice a week to improve their spoken Russian through oral practice with a native speaker. Russian and East European Studies Program Description Russian and East European Studies is a multidisciplinary program offering students an introduction to many of the core fields of a liberal arts education through the lense of a particular example, namely, Russia. This is a residential eight-week summer program, at which students are required to speak only Russian. In addition to language study, the program offers lectures on culture, evening films, Russian choir, etc.
Financial aid is available.
All of our majors and minors are strongly encouraged to spend a summer or semester studying in Moscow or Petersburg. Courses are taught only in Russian, and include courses on conversation, composition, phonetics, culture, literature, as well as excursions to prominent historical sites. Financial aid is available. In recent years we have been fortunate to offer grants to most of our students desiring to study in Russia. Every year approximately thirty graduate students from Russia attend UNI, and twenty undergraduates join them every spring.