A foreign language assistant works with the students individually, and holds tutoring sessions with each class. The students and assistant introduce one another to their cultural differences and similarities. When there is no language assistant in the Russian area, the exchange student who comes in the Fall semester fulfills that role. A new perspective is added to the classroom as we often have TIUA students and city auditors attending and participating.
Most students take a foreign language to fulfill the Bachelor of Arts requirement.
The students who continue to study the language beyond the BA requirement go on to complete a Russian Minor, a Major in International Studies - Russian area, or petition for a Russian Major. Due to the small class size and comfortable atmosphere, we keeptrack of one another, and celebrate the variety of careers that students have chosen. Russian Minors and Majors, and International Studies Majors have shown that their language study played a key role in their professional lives. We have alumni working in Crimea, Kiev, London, Moscow, Odessa, Tokyo and in Khabarovsk, in the Russian Far East. Stateside, they work or are in graduate programs in Boston, Chicago, Monterey CA, Nebraska, New York, Portland OR, San Francisco and Seattle.