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. Our students benefit by their contacts with these exchange students. In addition, a professor from a Russian university joins our faculty every year to teach upper-level courses in Russian. Students with a GPA of 3.5 in their Russian courses and a 3.0 overall are eligible for membership in the National Slavic Honor Society.