REEI is a federally funded national resource center for Russian and East European area studies. It offers an undergraduate minor program designed to give students a comprehensive inter-disciplinary coverage of the Russian, East European, and Eurasian areas through course work available in 15 IU departments and six professional schools. The undergraduate minor is awarded in conjunction with the B.A. degree. REEI also offers a wide range of extracurricular events such as guest lectures, film showings, workshops, and cultural events. The department also runs the nationally recognized Summer Workshop in Slavic and East European Languages.
Students can complete an entire year of language instruction in the eight-week intensive session.
The workshop includes both grammar and conversation course work, as well as cultural activities in the evenings. Many courses are taught by native instructors. Courses taught include Russian, Polish, Czech, Serbian and Croatian, and, when funded, other languages of Eastern Europe and Central Asia.