COURSEWORK
Completion of a minimum 32 hours of graduate course work as required by the Graduate College. At least 20 hours must be for courses in the department of Slavic Languages and Literatures.
Required courses must include:
- RUSS 501 – Russian for Graduate Students I
(in consultation with the graduate advisor may be replaced by another 500-level course) - RUSS 502 – Russian for Graduate Students II
(in consultation with the graduate advisor may be replaced by another 500-level course) - SLAV 576 – Methods in Slavic Grad Studies
- HIST 560 – Problems in Russian History or
HIST 551A – Problems in East European History or
REES 550 – Seminar in Russian and East European Studies or
IS 461 – Russian, East European, and Eurasian Bibliography & Research Methods,
or, another course approved by the DGS. - Two of four graduate-level survey courses on 19th & 20-21st century (RUSS 511, 512, 513, 514; may be taken out of chronological order), or equivalent 400- or 500-level thematic/author courses, as approved by the DGS. In the semesters when the surveys or similar courses are not available, an independent study with a faculty member may be arranged.
Students who plan to continue on to the Ph.D. are strongly encouraged to satisfy one of the two language requirements (a second Slavic-area language or a research language) at the M.A. level. These requirements can be fulfilled through coursework or a translation examination.