Program with a Concentration in Russian 

Students who intend to do the International Business Program with a major in Economics and an area concentration in Russian Studies should select courses from the following list, subdivided into language courses (I) and non-language electives (II):

 

 

 

 

 

I .Second Year Russian required, i.e., both RUS 221 and RUS 222; plus two courses from the remainder of the list:

RUS 221 and RUS 222	Intermediate Russian I & II
RUS 224	Reading Russian
RUS 263	Spoken Russian
RUS 324	Topics (Business Russian)

II. Non-Language Electives, four courses chosen from the following list, of which at least one must be from History and one from Political Science.

HIST 241	Russian History to the 19th Century
HIST 242	Modern Russia
ML 225	Russian Culture: Icons to Fabergé
ML 301	Twentieth-Century Russian Culture
POLS 351	Government and Politics of Russia and the CIS
POLS 374	Foreign Policies of the USSR, Russia, and the CIS
POLS 450	Topics [Relevant topics on politics of the former Soviet Union]
RUS 300	Russian Culture: From Icons to Fabergé

[Other courses, on-campus or on approved off-campus programs, may be substituted for any of the above courses with the approval of the Russian Studies Committee.]

Students are urged to start Russian language study as soon as possible, ideally in the first semester of the freshman year, in order to reach the required level of proficiency for the International Business Program, as well as to have time for the internship and the elective courses required by the Program. Students should note that Russian is taught sequentially, autumn to spring semester, each year. It is not possible to start the language mid-year.

Ordinarily, none of the non-language elective courses are taken by first year students, but HIST 241, HIST 242, POLS 351, and POLS 374 may be open to a first-year student with an appropriate background on the approval of the course instructor.