Additional subjects concern Russian language pedagogy, Russian film, Soviet literature, Pushkin, and the Russian historical novel. Current graduate students in the Slavic department have come from both private and public institutions from all parts of the United States and several have come from other countries, including Russia. At present, some 20 students are enrolled in graduate courses and about 9 more are writing their Ph.D. dissertations. University of Wisconsin Graduate Fellowships, teaching assistantships, and project or research assistantships which involve performing research work for a faculty member. Studies Fellowships are supported by the U.S. Department of Education.
Fellowships are highly competitive and are awarded on the basis of academic merit.
In recent years, our Ph.D. recipients have been very competitive in finding tenure-track positions in the Slavic or Russian departments of American universities. Admission Experience has shown that students who have spent at least a semester studying in Russia are best prepared to carry on graduate-level study in Russian. Students who are admitted with deficiencies, especially in the Russian language, are required to make up such deficiencies. Over the last four years the Slavic department has received from 40 to 80 applications for the graduate program and has been able to admit not more than five to eight each year. For admission to the graduate program, the Slavic department requires the equivalent of a B.A. degree in Russian and a GPA of at least 3.0 on a 4.0 scale.