Major Requirements – 66 Total Credits

Required Courses – Required 9 credits

  • RUSS 205: Russian in Cultural Contexts (6 credits)
  • RUSS 207: Russophone Studies in Central Asia: Intermediate Intensive Grammar (not offered 2025-26) (3 credits)
    OR RUSS 307: Russophone Studies in Central Asia: Advanced Intensive Grammar (not offered 2025-26) (3 credits)
    OR the equivalent (3 credits)

Russian Courses in English – Required 12 credits

Russian courses conducted in English numbered 150 or above.

Methods Course – Required 6 credits

  • CCST 245: Meaning and Power: Introduction to Analytical Approaches in the Humanities (Preferred)
    OR In consultation with their advisor, students may substitute a comparable methods course in a different field.

Upper-level Courses – Required 18 credits

Russian courses numbered 330 or above.

Elective Courses – Required 15 credits

  • CCST 233: The Art of Translation in the Age of the Machine
  • HIST 240: Tsars and Serfs, Cossacks and Revolutionaries: The Empire that was Russia
  • HIST 241: Russia through Wars and Revolutions
  • HIST 242: Communism, Cold War, Collapse: Russia Since Stalin (not offered 2025-26)
  • HIST 341: The Russian Revolution and its Global Legacies
  • RUSS 110: Russophone Studies in Central Asia: Intensive Beginning Russian (not offered 2025-26)
  • RUSS 204: Intermediate Russian
  • RUSS 207: Russophone Studies in Central Asia: Intermediate Intensive Grammar (not offered 2025-26)
  • RUSS 209: Russophone Studies in Central Asia: Intermediate Conversation (not offered 2025-26)
  • RUSS 228: Russophone Studies in Central Asia: Contemporary Kazakhstani Culture and Post-Colonial Identity (not offered 2025-26)
  • RUSS 237: Food in Russian and Ukrainian Culture (not offered 2025-26)
  • RUSS 239: The Warped Soul of Putin’s Russia
  • RUSS 244: The Rise of the Russian Novel (not offered 2025-26)
  • RUSS 266: The Brothers Karamazov (not offered 2025-26)
  • RUSS 267: War and Peace (not offered 2025-26)
  • RUSS 301: Tea and the News
  • RUSS 307: Russophone Studies in Central Asia: Advanced Intensive Grammar (not offered 2025-26)
  • RUSS 309: Russophone Studies in Central Asia: Advanced Practicum (not offered 2025-26)
  • RUSS 331: The Wonderful World of Russian Animation (not offered 2025-26)
  • RUSS 332: Chekhov in Film, Film in Chekhov (not offered 2025-26)
  • RUSS 342: Post-Soviet Film
  • RUSS 351: Chekhov Forever (not offered 2025-26)

Senior Integrative Exercise – Required 6 credits

  • RUSS 400: Integrative Exercise (6 credits)

Additional Departmental Notes

Courses 101, 102 and 103 do not count toward the major. IB or other pre-matriculation credits do not count toward the major.

Study Abroad: Participation in foreign study programs is highly recommended. Consult the “Off-Campus Studies” section of the catalog for a description of the Carleton program in Kazakhstan. Departmental approval of credit for participation in non-Carleton overseas programs should be sought before leaving campus.

Cultural Activities: A Language Associate who is a native speaker of Russian provides opportunities for conversation practice and assists students in organizing a variety of cultural activities, including biweekly lunch table, weekly tea, holiday celebrations, and special events.