Students who have completed or placed out of the language sequence and participated in the Moscow and Beyond program (or other off-campus Russian program) will find themselves very close to having completed a minor.
Minor Requirements
Minor Requirements – 36 Total Credits
Required Course – Required 6 credits
- RUSS 205: Russian in Cultural Contexts
Upper Level Courses – Required 12 credits
Russian courses numbered 330 or above.
Elective Courses – Required 18 credits
18 elective credits may be chosen from among:
- CCST 245: Meaning and Power: Introduction to Analytical Approaches in the Humanities
- 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 (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: Beyond Beef Stroganoff: Food in Russian 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
- other offerings in the Russian section
Additional Departmental Notes
Courses 101, 102 and 103 do not count toward the minor. IB or other pre-matriculation credits do not count toward the major.